Jaco's not an influence...

[JimK]

...Danny Bonaduce-clone here!
BTW, I was checking out some of The Monkees' cds lately(the special on VH-1 kinda piqued my interest)...Tork did play some bass(also guitar, keys, HARPSICHORD?, etc); a couple of the other guys who played(not Joe Osborn...more like Chip Douglas)really had that McCartney-esque tone & "tuba bass" vibe goin' on. Believe it or not, pretty good stuff(really!).

[Brad Johnson]

Chip Douglas... you mean Ernie and Robbie's brother was a bassplayer?

[Munjibunga]

Jaco's certainly no influence on me. How can Jeff Berlin say that any fretless player is a Jaco clone? I can't play ANYTHING like Jaco.

[JimK]

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Chip Douglas... you mean Ernie and Robbie's brother was a bassplayer?
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Brad-
LOL...I was thinking the same thing!
Reading the liner notes to HEADQUARTERS, Chip Douglas was the bassist with The Turtles
when Nesmith approached him about producing The Monkees. Douglas, Jack London, Joe Osborn, Tork, & a couple others played bass for The Monkees.

Since we're waayy off in tangents-ville, can anyone LINK Peter Tork to Jaco in FOUR moves?(like the 6 Degrees Of Kevin Bacon).

[MM]

I'll play. Peter Tork played with Steven Stills who played with Joni Mitchell who played with Jaco. What do I win?

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Ciao
Mike

[Brad Johnson]

Our weekly "Get a Life" award
(I'm no longer eligible)

[JimK]

Damn, MM that was quick!
Can you cite the albums Stills/Tork & Stills/Mitchell played on? I ask 'cause this "game" was played at a certain Jazz site & a serious Monkees' fan had Stills & Tork living together as his first step...& he didn't even go with the Joni connection.

Anyway, here was mine-
1)Tork & Jim Gordon(MEET THE MONKEES)
2)Gordon & Eric Clapton(LAYLA-Derek & The Dominoes)
3)Clapton & Steve Ferrone(JOURNEYMAN)
4)Ferrone & Jaco(LIVE IN NYC...one of those cds, I forget the exact one).

[MM]

As far as I know there isn't a Stills/Tork recording. They played together in New York in the early '60's (according to Tork in a interview I saw recently). Stills and Joni Mitchell played together in a concert film I saw a couple months ago, "Celebration at Big Sur".

Does that count?

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Ciao
Mike