Jim Fielder

GM60466 · #1 01-02-2009, 05:30 AM

I spent part of the afternoon listening to the first Blood Sweat and Tears LP Child is Father to Man.
Jim Fielder's bass playing has stood up for the past 40 years. If you have a chance, listen to Just One Smile or Something Going on
Bass with huge balls

G

jmccain · #2 02-04-2009, 01:13 PM

I just listened to it twice while driving today. I wore that album out as a kid and sort of ended up playing like him.

The Owl · #3 02-04-2009, 01:15 PM

Just got the second BS & T album, and Jim's playing on that too is pretty danged amazing! Melody and serious low end ooomph!

lonote · #4 02-04-2009, 01:54 PM

He's a GREAT player.

JTE · #5 02-04-2009, 02:51 PM

He pops up in a few places doing great stuff too. I saw him live with Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary. This was around 1975 or so. And he's the bassist on Buffalo Springfield's "Everydays" from "Second Time Around". He took Bruce Palmer's place when Palmer had legal issues and went back to Canada. Fielder said he got into the band, started making good money, bought a house based on that income, and then got fired when Bruce came back.

One of my favorite Fielder recordings is Chris Hillman's first solo album "Slippin' Away". It's got Fielder, Hillman, Leland Sklar, and Duck Dunn all playing bass on it.

jte

JimK · #6 02-04-2009, 03:27 PM

Jim Fielder would be one of my favourites, too.
All of the BS&T albums with him are worth having...I'm still chipping away at the last couple.

Question: IIRC, Wiki sez Fielder was on Zappa & The Mothers' 2nd album, Absolutely Free. Apparently Fielder did the album & split...and was not credited in the album's liners. True?

GM60466 · #7 02-04-2009, 03:35 PM

True!
He did a lot of recording in the '70s where he is not publicly credited. He recorded with the Doors and Miles Davis during the Brew sessions

GM

JimK · #8 02-04-2009, 03:52 PM

Oh...and since Bass Player finally got around to doin' a cover feature on Peter Cetera-
Shouldn't Fielder be next?
I mean, c'mon...

GM60466 · #9 02-04-2009, 04:13 PM

Pigs will fly before that happens.

G

So Low Bass · #10 03-05-2009, 05:27 AM

He is a GREAT player. I saw him with BS&T in 1971 in Buffalo's 18,000 seat hockey arena. I sat in the 12th row on the floor. The sound... HIS sound in particular... was perfect!! As I was watching him play, I saw smoke coming out the back of his Guild head and thought to myself "CRUDD! This is the end of a great night". No problem though... the roadies simply replaced the head with a backup Guild and the concert... I say concert, not show... continued.

markjazzbassist · #11 03-05-2009, 09:45 AM

great player, i've always loved his stuff with blood sweat and tears.

MR PC · #12 03-05-2009, 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GM60466

True!
He did a lot of recording in the '70s where he is not publicly credited. He recorded with the Doors and Miles Davis during the Brew sessions

GM

Where did you get this information? Please show or detail your source. I'm not sure you are correct, please tell me if I'm wrong.

It was Harvey Brooks who did those sessions with the Doors and Miles Davis according to my trivia memory.

Hasn't Jim Fielder been playing bass for Neil Sedaka since the '70's? That's a great gig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fielder

funkboy5 · #13 03-05-2009, 02:54 PM

Jim Fielder is one of many unsung bass heroes. One issue of BP has the music for "You make me so very happy" here's the text.

http://www.bassplayer.com/article/bl...s/jun-06/20666

Jim Carr · #14 03-05-2009, 03:20 PM

I am "so very happy" to see a thread about one of my heros. It primes the pump of youthful memories...

Decades ago, when I was a college Freshman in Boston, I remember a very ill-tempered x-girlfriend once briefly dated a former bandmate, Jon, who had just switched from guitar to bass. I had praised Ron Wood's live bass work with the Jeff Beck Group, to said young lady during an evening of Sin, based on Beck's "Truth" era concerts (heard live at the Boston Tea Party)

Month's later I ran into her on a Boston street. With spiteful glee she quipped, "Oh, I heard from Jon that Jim Fielder is a million times better bass player than Ron Wood." She was no longer dating him, but thought that this was an important issue between him and me. I said, "My dear, you can't get a fight out of this, because I introduced Jon to Jim Fielder's playing." She frowned and stalked away down Huntington Ave., never to be seen again.

I still adore Fielder and Wood, and miss Jon.

funkboy5 · #15 03-05-2009, 03:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jim Carr

I am "so very happy" to see a thread about one of my heros. It primes the pump of youthful memories...

Decades ago, when I was a college Freshman in Boston, I remember a very ill-tempered x-girlfriend once briefly dated a former bandmate, Jon, who had just switched from guitar to bass. I had praised Ron Wood's live bass work with the Jeff Beck Group, to said young lady during an evening of Sin, based on Beck's "Truth" era concerts (heard live at the Boston Tea Party)

Month's later I ran into her on a Boston street. With spiteful glee she quipped, "Oh, I heard from Jon that Jim Fielder is a million times better bass player than Ron Wood." She was no longer dating him, but thought that this was an important issue between him and me. I said, "My dear, you can't get a fight out of this, because I introduced Jon to Jim Fielder's playing." She frowned and stalked away down Huntington Ave., never to be seen again.

I still adore Fielder and Wood, and miss Jon.

Great story....

JimK · #16 03-05-2009, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MR PC

It was Harvey Brooks who did those sessions with the Doors and Miles Davis according to my trivia memory.

I agree with that.
I did poick up Zappa's 2nd album, Absolutely Free, because I had read Fielder was on it.
So, the cd comes & Fielder's name is not listed...and I'm bummed. Then someone here(IIRC) tells me he played on that album, left right afterwards, &, for whatever reason, was not in the liner notes.

**Thor** · #17 03-05-2009, 04:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GM60466

True!
He did a lot of recording in the '70s where he is not publicly credited. He recorded with the Doors and Miles Davis during the Brew sessions

GM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MR PC

Where did you get this information? Please show or detail your source. I'm not sure you are correct, please tell me if I'm wrong.

It was Harvey Brooks who did those sessions with the Doors and Miles Davis according to my trivia memory.

Hasn't Jim Fielder been playing bass for Neil Sedaka since the '70's? That's a great gig.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fielder

I don't know about the Doors, but Miles and Harvey Brooks on
Bitches Brew sounds right.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Harvey+Brooks

Soft Parade is listed as well as Bitches Brew.

The Bass Player Article on Jim Fielder
makes no mention of anything other than BS&T and Sedaka.
He has had the Sedaka seat since 77 it looks like. That article
dates to June 2006.

RobJ · #18 03-05-2009, 05:30 PM

Loved Fielder with BS&T. My first concert ever was BS&T at Cobo in Detroit on my 15th birthday, courtesy of my oldest sister. I wore those early albums out (those and my sister's Motown and Tamla albums).