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06-25-2009, 06:46 PM
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06-25-2009, 07:00 PM
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Louis Johnson, all the way.
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06-25-2009, 07:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Québec | | | IMO, all the bass players & synth bass players that worked with MJ .....absolutely KILLED. |
06-25-2009, 07:05 PM
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06-25-2009, 08:29 PM
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06-25-2009, 08:43 PM
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Felder - "I want you back" started it all!
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06-25-2009, 09:50 PM
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That said Louis Johnson was at his peak on Off the Wall, but Bobby Watson's Rock With You was the coolest bassline ever associated with Michael Jackson. 
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06-25-2009, 09:59 PM
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06-25-2009, 10:01 PM
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Worth a mention - guitarist Steve Lukather played bass on "Beat It".
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06-25-2009, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by JTE  Wilton Felder, if for nothing other than "I Want You Back".
jte | beat me to it..those grooves lay it down, for sure. |
06-25-2009, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Prof.Dr.Metz Chuck Rainey- Dancing Machine, Enjoy yourself. | Can't argue with that!
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06-25-2009, 10:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | I love Rainey, But I still consider Felder's line on "I want you back" one of the best pop lines of all times. If it was best Steely Dan lines I'd vote for Rainey. 
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06-26-2009, 07:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sioux Falls, SD | | | It would be easier to answer if you could actually hear bass (as opposed to synth) on his records. Especially on Thriller and afterwards, very difficult to tell how much bass was played by a human and how much was sequenced synthogarbage.
I always loved the feel of "Rock With You"... and you could hear it was a real bass. So, whoever played that line gets my vote. |
06-26-2009, 07:51 AM
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06-26-2009, 08:09 AM
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Even if it's not true, that's what I want to believe.
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06-26-2009, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by RHFusillo Tito played bass on everything.
Even if it's not true, that's what I want to believe. | You know what's funny is, just a couple nights ago (before MJ died) I was watching cable and a clip came on of "ABC" and the Jackson boys were holding their instruments and I think on that clip it actually was Tito playing bass live because it wasn't very good. I mean he was hitting all the right notes but the feel wasn't that locked-in. On that clip he was playing a SWEET early 70s sunburst Jazz with all the bling (on the bass not on Tito). And wearing about a 3-foot 'fro. |
06-26-2009, 08:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | I understand thatwhile Felder played the line on "I Want You Back", the line was written out. He said (in the article that accompanied the transcription in Bass Player years ago) that the chart was writte out, and that as a sax player, he was immediately drawn to the chromatic nature of it. But he's the one who played it with panache and conviction, and the tone of his SCP (a Telecaster with flatwounds) is such a GREAT sound that I strung up my Sting with GHS Precision Flats just to play along with that record. Still my favorite MJ bassist, at least for what they did with Jackson. But Louis Johnson comes close with his contributions on "Thriller" especially "Billy Jean".
Watching the plethora of news reports last night, it's really sad the the media focused so much on MJ's weirdness rather than the music. I guess he is like the Elvis of another generation- he became a paradoy of himself, and the music is just wallpaper to too many folks.
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06-26-2009, 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by jaywa You know what's funny is, just a couple nights ago (before MJ died) I was watching cable and a clip came on of "ABC" and the Jackson boys were holding their instruments and I think on that clip it actually was Tito playing bass live because it wasn't very good. I mean he was hitting all the right notes but the feel wasn't that locked-in. On that clip he was playing a SWEET early 70s sunburst Jazz with all the bling (on the bass not on Tito). And wearing about a 3-foot 'fro. | Tito? Or Jermaine? I don't recall Tito playing bass. He was the guitar playing brother! |
06-26-2009, 09:08 AM
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Originally Posted by DWBass Tito? Or Jermaine? I don't recall Tito playing bass. He was the guitar playing brother! |
Right, Jermaine always held the bass (first a Gibson EB-3, then a Fender Jazz, not sure if he was still in the Jackson 5 when he got his Alembic). Tito held the guitar, usually a Gibson ES-335.
No idea whether either of them actually played those instruments on Jackson 5 tracks.
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and Louis Johnson gets my vote for the OP's question. Although George Duke and/or Greg Philinganes (sp?) deserve props for some nasty minimoog basslines. |
06-26-2009, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Hoover Right, Jermaine always held the bass (first a Gibson EB-3, then a Fender Jazz, not sure if he was still in the Jackson 5 when he got his Alembic). Tito held the guitar, usually a Gibson ES-335.
No idea whether either of them actually played those instruments on Jackson 5 tracks.
| I'm dead certain the Jackson boys did not play their instruments on the tracks that made it to the radio. However on the live clip I saw, one of the Jackson boys was almost certainly playing it himself. It might have been "American Bandstand" although the track was definitely live and I thought "American Bandstand" had always only used lip-sync. Maybe that long ago "American Bandstand" was still actually live.
In the same show, from what looked like the same venue, was a live performance of the Four Seasons "1963" and it was really bad. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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