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01-31-2006, 07:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Iron River, Mich | | | Nate Phillips- Bass used on Pleasure's "Glide"
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Hey Jive-Streeter's,
Question. I'm almost 100% sure the tone of the Bass on 70's funk band Pleasure's hit "Glide" is a Jazz bass. Maybe someone out there can tell me fo' sho'! Great tune, great tone, kinda like Slaves' hit "Slide", talk about some funk!!
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01-31-2006, 07:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | He may have played a Jazz but I saw them live back in 1980 when Glide was a hit and he brought down the house playing a Stingray. I don't currently have a copy of Pleasure's greatest hits or "Future Now" so I can only go by memory. |
01-31-2006, 07:32 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Never seen them live but it doesn't sound like a jazz to me! But it could be the way it was recorded and eq'd. I don't hear that jazz 'growl' on that tune. |
01-31-2006, 08:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese He may have played a Jazz but I saw them live back in 1980 when Glide was a hit and he brought down the house playing a Stingray. I don't currently have a copy of Pleasure's greatest hits or "Future Now" so I can only go by memory. | I was told that he played a 'Ray.
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02-02-2006, 03:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Racine,Wi | | | Saw him live when glide came out, he had a white sting ray with a white pickguard that sounded incredible
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03-08-2010, 03:44 PM
| | | | Glide is definitely a jazz bass but a lot of Pleasures other tunes are recorded with a Stingray. He also used a Ray on Ronnie Laws Every Generation album for some cuts. Those old Stingrays just sounded so much better. I had one and traded it for a Pedulla because I wanted to try a 5 string. Could kick myself now, lol. |
03-08-2010, 03:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sweden | | | Yes, itīs a Jazz Bass, strunged with Rotosound strings. There was an artikel in Bass Player a couple of years ago about this bassline. |
03-08-2010, 03:56 PM
| | | | Lately he's been playing a Bossa bass. Saw him with Jeff Lorber. |
03-08-2010, 04:00 PM
| | | | P.S., love your My Funky Valentine Martin. Funky as hell brother. |
03-08-2010, 06:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | I'm pretty sure Nate played a Jazz bass and I beileve that he said said so in Bass Player Magazine a year or two ago.
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03-08-2010, 06:54 PM
| | | | He played a Jazz bass of course but you can't miss the distinctive sound of a stingray. He kind of alternated between the 2 on the 2 pleasure albums I have. Then on the Dazz band hit let it whip I think he had moved on to a Musicman Sabre and it sounds monstrous. Edit. I've been informed it was Michael Wiley on Let it whip. Thanks Jauqo.
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03-08-2010, 06:58 PM
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03-08-2010, 07:12 PM
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Endorsing artist:see profile/Current Setup | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: CHICAGO,IL. | | | Nate is a friend of mine and he did in fact play a Jazz bass on the track Glide. And he is not the bassist on the Dazz band track Let It Whip. The bassist pn that track was the late Michael Wiley.
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03-08-2010, 07:27 PM
| | | | I know he played a Jazz on glide. I'm talking about the rest of the record wasn't all jazz. What bass did Wiley play on the Dazz track Let it whip? It almost sounds like an Alembic when he slaps the octaves on the break but someone told me it was a Sabre.
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03-08-2010, 07:31 PM
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Originally Posted by deanb1043  I know he played a Jazz on glide. I'm talking about the rest of the record wasn't all jazz. What bass did Wiley play on the Dazz track Let it whip? It almost sounds like an Alembis when he slaps the octaves on the break but someone told me it was a Sabre. | Michael Wiley played a MM StingRay or Sabre.
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03-08-2010, 07:51 PM
| | | | Sorry to hear a talented brother is gone. May he rest in peace. |
03-10-2010, 05:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: San Diego | | | I knew it was a Jazz when I first heard it. sounds like he had one of those opamp preamps in his bass. either that or the bass track was enhanced during the mixdown |
03-10-2010, 06:32 PM
| | | | It doesn't really sound like a jazz with a preamp in it.Just a good older jazz bass. I like his stingray on the Give it up album on cuts like sending my love, the title cut and stone love which he plays slightly muted. On take it to the streets I can't tell if it's a jazz with the neck pickup favored or a precision bass? |
02-19-2012, 10:37 PM
| | | | If Im not mistaken Pleasure never had a Greatest Hits Lp. They had the one Album with two hits on hit, one being Glide and the other being a song called Joyous. As for the base, it could very well have been Fender Jazz but the strings used I dont think were your typical Jazz strings, the bass lines had to much pop to them, he was playing Octaves. |
02-19-2012, 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by mrfun53 If Im not mistaken Pleasure never had a Greatest Hits Lp. They had the one Album with two hits on hit, one being Glide and the other being a song called Joyous. As for the base, it could very well have been Fender Jazz but the strings used I dont think were your typical Jazz strings, the bass lines had to much pop to them, he was playing Octaves. | There were a few Pleasure "greatest hits" albums, one of which was this: Pleasure (4) - Straight Ahead - The Best Of Pleasure Volume 1 (Vinyl, LP) at Discogs | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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