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11-08-2010, 01:47 PM
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11-08-2010, 01:50 PM
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11-08-2010, 04:46 PM
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03-27-2011, 09:00 AM
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03-27-2011, 03:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | Thanks so much for posting this, DW! I'm a huge Leon Sylvers fan, and it is a pleasure to hear about what a master he was in the studio. 
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03-27-2011, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by DWBass | Awwww...thanks for sharing this clip. They had me rollin. LOL
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03-27-2011, 10:09 PM
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03-27-2011, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese Thanks so much for posting this, DW! I'm a huge Leon Sylvers fan, and it is a pleasure to hear about what a master he was in the studio. | +11111 Same here. 
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03-28-2011, 05:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Basseroni | Wait a minute.....how old are you?  You have great taste in music for someone was probably a baby when this stuff came out! |
03-28-2011, 05:49 AM
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03-28-2011, 07:01 AM
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03-28-2011, 07:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | | All those links are classics..Does anyone know if it was Leon Sylvers who did the fretless line on the Whispers "never miss your water (til the well runs dry) ?
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03-28-2011, 07:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London, Ontario | | | Awesome bassist - great links.
In fact, driving in to work this morning, I was listening to some old school and There It Is came on- great bassline, and I was wondering about what bass he might have used. Didn't sound to me like a Jazz, but had a nice thickness with growl - P bass with a pick eh? Good to know....
J
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03-28-2011, 08:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Clark Dark All those links are classics..Does anyone know if it was Leon Sylvers who did the fretless line on the Whispers "never miss your water (til the well runs dry) ? | It's You Never Miss Your Water ('till The Well Runs Dry). That song was on an album that came out in 1977. Before Leon Sylvers started producing them. I used to have the album but no longer have it so I can't check the credits. I've read somewhere that it is Melvin Coleman. Doing some more research says that Don Cornelius wrote the song.
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03-28-2011, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Jamie_Funk Awesome bassist - great links.
In fact, driving in to work this morning, I was listening to some old school and There It Is came on- great bassline, and I was wondering about what bass he might have used. Didn't sound to me like a Jazz, but had a nice thickness with growl - P bass with a pick eh? Good to know....
J | Leon was well known for playing a Rickenbacker bass. He played fingerstyle and with a pick. |
03-28-2011, 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Jamie_Funk Awesome bassist - great links.
In fact, driving in to work this morning, I was listening to some old school and There It Is came on- great bassline, and I was wondering about what bass he might have used. Didn't sound to me like a Jazz, but had a nice thickness with growl - P bass with a pick eh? Good to know....
J | His main bass was a Rickenbacker 4001 with flatwounds with the mutes turned up. He also used a Music Man Sabre sometimes. I'm sure he had some Fenders also.
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03-28-2011, 09:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London, Ontario | | | Thanks DW and Dr - at the end of the day, I'll try to cop a bit of his tone on "There It Is" doing what I always do - using the bass I have and my hands.
Killer bass player. Damn.
J
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03-28-2011, 10:23 AM
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03-28-2011, 03:11 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar Amplification, Dunlop/MXR | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Southern California | | @DW..I'm hip to all of the Dynasty tunes and of course the Whispers' tune you posted. Yeah, I was around 7 or 8 when those tunes came out.
So a Rickenbacker huh? I stand corrected again. I saw him playing that Ric on a Dynasty video. I want to say it was I've Just Begun to Love You.
While growing up I kept my ears glued to the radio and ever took a tape recorder to record my favorite tunes from the car radio. Ghetto? Yes, but I wanted access to certain songs at all times by any means necessary. Lol
I had forgot about that Reel to Reel tune but yes. I remember that and I want a copy of it.
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Dynasty - Adventures in the Land of Music
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