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10-25-2011, 09:27 AM
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Music Radar is celebrating Queen bass player John Deacon this week. Follow the link for the info. Bass Legends: Queen's John Deacon | MusicRadar.com
Such an underrated bass player and even though he is retired he is still an inspiration to me and was the reason I picked up the bass in the first place.
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10-25-2011, 09:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Dallas FtWorth Texas | | | I'm a fan too. I try and emulate the simplicity he has in several lines.
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10-25-2011, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Fort Wayne, IN | | | One of my all time favorites. I wish we played more Queen. I do enjoy playing "Tie Your Mother Down." Most cover bands play it wrong. There's a subtle ingenuity in that bassline. I'm very proud to have discovered it.
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10-25-2011, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Deaky he is still an inspiration to me and was the reason I picked up the bass in the first place. | Me too.
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10-25-2011, 10:27 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Fredonia, NY | | | One of my all time favs... In my mind, only second to jack casady
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10-25-2011, 10:28 AM
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11-10-2011, 04:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Germany | | Ever heard an isolated Deacon bass track? Check this out! (klick on "participate") |
11-10-2011, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Fort Wayne, IN | | | We do "Tie Your Mother Down." Nobody ever gets that the bassline imitates the rhythm guitar in this town! They all play a droning A. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo...
I play A to C: Doo doo DOO doo-doo, doo doo DOO doo-doo.
I am so proud of my doo-doo.
Maybe I should've had kids after all.
But anyway, Deacon's bass parts all have this sensibility to them, and they always grow and mature as the piece goes on.
I love that guy.
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11-10-2011, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by mellowinman
I play A to C: Doo doo DOO doo-doo, doo doo DOO doo-doo.
I am so proud of my doo-doo.
Maybe I should've had kids after all.
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11-10-2011, 06:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Greenville, South Carolina | | | I love Deacon and agree he's underrated. His iconic basslines all seem to be relatively simple ("Another One Bites the Dust", "Under Pressure"), but his lines in "Killer Queen" and "You're My Best Friend" are both deliciously complex and subtle at the same time. He should be required listening for all bass players. Actually, Queen should be required listening for everybody at some point in their life (I contend to this day that Mercury was the best singer/front man ever)! |
11-10-2011, 07:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Fort Wayne, IN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gasman I love Deacon and agree he's underrated. His iconic basslines all seem to be relatively simple ("Another One Bites the Dust", "Under Pressure"), but his lines in "Killer Queen" and "You're My Best Friend" are both deliciously complex and subtle at the same time. He should be required listening for all bass players. Actually, Queen should be required listening for everybody at some point in their life (I contend to this day that Mercury was the best singer/front man ever)! | You are 100% correct on that last point.
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11-10-2011, 08:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Southern New Jersey | | | Another Deacon fan here... Thanks for the link.
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11-10-2011, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by mellowinman You are 100% correct on that last point. | I'm gonna have to +1 this...
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11-11-2011, 11:48 AM
| | | | Totally agree about Mercury as singer, and probably on front man. Deacon is a quiet monster lurking in the closet. Not so noticeable, but always lurking. Listened to Classic Queen and Greatest Hits earlier this week to and from work, and Deacon was amazing me. May has always been one of my favorite guitarists, just impeccable tone and note selection. Queen is so vastly underrated. |
11-11-2011, 12:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | We play "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" in my cover band. It's one of the high points of my night. |
11-11-2011, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by jaywa We play "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" in my cover band. It's one of the high points of my night. | We play it too. Fun song to play and always a crowd pleaser.
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11-11-2011, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Energy Ever heard an isolated Deacon bass track? Check this out! (klick on "participate") | These are always amazing to listen to. That track is so tube-driven and almost rough soloed, and it sounds so incredibly tight in the mix.
Anyway, the guy was/is an incredible musician.
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11-11-2011, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Gasman (I contend to this day that Mercury was the best singer/front man ever)! | You know, when you think about it, in terms of "all-purpose yards" (to coin a football term), who has done it better? The guy wrote, arranged, sang, played an instrument or two, and provided the flamboyance in studio and on stage to live up to the band's moniker. A huge feat in popular music that few have achieved.
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11-11-2011, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by electracoyote These are always amazing to listen to. That track is so tube-driven and almost rough soloed, and it sounds so incredibly tight in the mix. | That was awesome. A P-bass with flats, a pick, and a tube board pushed into the red. That's it, and it's all right there.
You can tell by listening he is definitely digging into it too. I had always assumed he played with a pretty light touch but that iso track tells me otherwise.
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11-11-2011, 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted by jaywa We play "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" in my cover band. It's one of the high points of my night. | When I first started playing some bass in this band, this was one of the songs I would play. I could barely play bass, but this song made me sound like a virtuoso. It just has a great feel to it, and all great riffs.
It was the high point of my night for sure. Sadly, my wife stopped wanting to do it, and she was singing the lead vocal. I had enough trouble playing and singing backing vocals on this one; I can't see doing Freddie's lead vocal and playing that bass line.
Playing this song improved my bass playing drastically, in a very short time. (note: I was already a guitar player, keyboard player and singer, so the rhythms came naturally; all I needed was to learn the actual notes. I'm not saying my technique was good, but I did pull it off)
The little "de-bum-bum-bum" that carries the change into the second verse alone is just pure pleasure to the fingers and ears.
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