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02-26-2010, 06:32 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Oh...Verdine....what happened to you, man??
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Is this the same guy us funksters idolized?!?! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay2MsRj_AgY |
02-26-2010, 06:36 AM
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Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | Verdine hasn't "played" bass in a while. Serious rust factor happening there.
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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02-26-2010, 07:02 AM
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I just keep listening to the old records....and remembering him THAT way.
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02-26-2010, 07:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | | Who knows, maybe he just didn't feel inspired that day, in that situation. I went to an EW&F concert a couple of years ago and he sounded great. |
02-26-2010, 07:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim Nazium  Who knows, maybe he just didn't feel inspired that day, in that situation. I went to an EW&F concert a couple of years ago and he sounded great. | Are you sure? Technically, he did sound great I guess. I talked to him at the Temple Bar in Santa Monica about 6 years ago, and he said that he records the live show in advance, and pantomimes (his words) it during performances, because he's also the choreographer. If you look at some of the concert dvd's, you'll hear a G string snap while Verdine is grooving on the E string. BTW, he's not the only one in the band that does that.
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There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
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02-26-2010, 07:15 AM
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02-26-2010, 07:32 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Carvin,Modulus, Hotwire & Conklin Basses, Eden Amps | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Nashville,TN | | | It's a NAMM Show, he's just playing a bass in a booth. This is not a performance. That was an epic Fail on Fender's part to post this. |
02-26-2010, 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Roy Vogt It's a NAMM Show, he's just playing a bass in a booth. This is not a performance. That was an epic Fail on Fender's part to post this. | Perzactly. |
02-26-2010, 08:03 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: san antonio/austin | | it sounds like hes trying to grooove along with the music in the background....but i can be wrong  |
02-26-2010, 08:08 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | I think it was pretty poorly recorded. He was playing the bassline to "Let's Groove."
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02-26-2010, 08:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: NY | | It's really a shame videos like this get posted. He looks like he's just checking out a bass....then all of a sudden it's becomes a perfomance in some peoples eyes and they may not like what they hear. So then this 57 seconds of a persons life is supposed to sum up their playng.
It works the other way around too. Someone sounds incredible for 60 seconds. And that's it...done. In reality they're not really good.  |
02-26-2010, 08:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Roy Vogt It's a NAMM Show, he's just playing a bass in a booth. This is not a performance. That was an epic Fail on Fender's part to post this. | EXACTLY!! |
02-26-2010, 08:39 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Deep It's really a shame videos like this get posted. He looks like he's just checking out a bass....then all of a sudden it's becomes a perfomance in some peoples eyes and they may not like what they hear. So then this 57 seconds of a persons life is supposed to sum up their playng.
It works the other way around too. Someone sounds incredible for 60 seconds. And that's it...done. In reality they're not really good. | I hear you but he's still a shell of what he once was! |
02-26-2010, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by DWBass I hear you but he's still a shell of what he once was! | I wouldn't know. I have not seen him play live in years and years. Well, we always have those great albums lol. |
02-26-2010, 09:14 AM
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02-26-2010, 09:18 AM
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Originally Posted by pacojas |  |
02-26-2010, 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Qvist He's more of a performer than a bassist | Yeah, look at the 1:36 mark. 
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02-26-2010, 09:29 AM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | One shall not judge a musician based on crappy cellphone vids with horrible sound. |
02-26-2010, 09:32 AM
| | |  Verdine the player!!!
I know what you mean about his playing now a days,back in the 70s and 80s nobody could Groove like him and the pocket goes without saying,but now a days he seem like dancing is more important than playing the bass oh what would I give to see the old Verdine and that White Fender Jazz,New is not always better.. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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