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08-02-2007, 09:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | Reed Mathis
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I discovered Reed Mathis after reading the favorite bass sound thread and wow. This guy is an amazing player. There is a whole show of theirs on youtube and he switches from Acoustic bass guitar to electric bass to a cello strapped on like a guitar. He uses effects on all of them and is great. He grooves and he plays excellent melodic runs. Ive never heard about him to much but he definetly is one of the best modern bassists. |
08-02-2007, 09:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Dallas, TX. | | Reed is awesome. Go to http://www.archive.org/browse.php?co...data%2Fcreator and check out some Steve Kimock AND FRIENDS shows from last year, or JFJO (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey) live stuff as well.
He is also a really nice guy, say hi if you ever see them live. |
08-02-2007, 10:06 AM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | yep, Reed is definitly great--I really like his work with kimock as well as JFJO, and he is also in the everyone orchestra as well  |
08-02-2007, 12:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | Anybody know about his strings on his Jazz bass? He can get a real bright sound but he also has a very woody....almost upright like tone sometimes. |
08-02-2007, 02:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota | | | That stuff he does with the Wahmmy pedal/Wah pedal combination is just disgusting.
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08-02-2007, 03:00 PM
| | | | I discovered the JFJO on archive.org and Reed warped my fragile little mind. I prefer when he holds down the low end to his Whammy/Wah stuff, but he's the reason I even considered a Whammy.
He used to have a song posted to his myspace page - a duet with Rodney Holmes (also of the Steve Kimock band) - it was the first time they ever played together and they just go absolutely insane. He took it down, I asked about it, and he reposted it for me (set to allow downloads) for another couple of days. It stays on my Ipod at all times. Very very nice guy.
oh - if you can, check out some of the Mingus tunes that JFJO does (particular "Boogie Stop Shuffle" - live on Archive.org but not on any albums, and "Fables of Faubus" on the album "The Sameness of Difference").
But as I said in the Favorite Tone thread, my true love is their 2000 album "Self is Gone" - it's been in constant rotation in my car CD player for almost two years now.
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04-06-2008, 04:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lincoln, Massachusetts | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassist15  Anybody know about his strings on his Jazz bass? He can get a real bright sound but he also has a very woody....almost upright like tone sometimes. | I'm bumping this up to see if anyone knows the answer to this question. There is a live show from Yoshi's on Comcast Digital Cable at the moment, and Reed Mathis does get his fretted Fender Jazz to sound almost like an upright, partially by palm muting and playing with his thumb. But I'm wondering if he uses flats. Does anyone know?
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06-17-2009, 05:57 AM
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06-17-2009, 09:12 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oklahoma City, OK | | I was curious to know if he was still in JFJO. If you go to their myspace page ( http://www.myspace.com/jacobfredjazzodyssey) it lists another guy as the upright player. |
06-17-2009, 10:06 AM
| | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | Reed recently left JFJO to play with the jamband "Tea Leaf Green" http://www.myspace.com/tealeafgreen
I, for one, am not terribly psyched about it, but i suppose you gotta do what you gotta do |
06-18-2009, 02:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: San Diego | | | Mathis strings
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Originally Posted by bassist15 Anybody know about his strings on his Jazz bass? He can get a real bright sound but he also has a very woody....almost upright like tone sometimes. | He has used Rotosound swing bass 66's for close to 15 years. Gets a pretty old school tone out of them. Amazing player-does it all really. He's one of my current faves. Never seems to play a bad idea-always hip choices. |
06-18-2009, 02:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: San Diego | | | BTW he left JFJO in January. |
06-18-2009, 06:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by superbassman2000 Reed recently left JFJO to play with the jamband "Tea Leaf Green" http://www.myspace.com/tealeafgreen
I, for one, am not terribly psyched about it, but i suppose you gotta do what you gotta do | Agreed. From edgy and cerebral with JFJO to blah with a 2nd tier jamband. I JFJO isn't the same either...Brian's the only one left from my fave lineup: the trio w/ Jason Smart, Reed and Brian. Jason probably my favorite drummer. |
06-18-2009, 11:36 PM
| | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gribuski Agreed. From edgy and cerebral with JFJO to blah with a 2nd tier jamband. I JFJO isn't the same either...Brian's the only one left from my fave lineup: the trio w/ Jason Smart, Reed and Brian. Jason probably my favorite drummer. | agreed--the smart years were my favorite for JFJO--to me i heard a lot of new musical ground being covered. Although i suppose that can get old after a while--a nice little jam band is always a good palette cleanser after some deep music... | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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