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03-03-2008, 05:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Weird thing is, I'm not a gigantic Eddie fan either, though I appreciate what he can do. Really cool guy, too, very nice when I talked to him once.
My friend Michael Buono took Eddie hiking once one the day of a gig. Eddie apparently was in "jazz condition" (i.e., not so good) and the hike involved some fairly strenuous climbing somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Eddie was suffering, and let Mike know about it. He dug it when they reached their destination, however, and he played his a$$ off that evening. But to this day, Mike refers to himself as "The Guy That Almost Killed Eddie Gomez".
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03-03-2008, 08:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Cedar Falls Iowa | | | Thank you Marcus
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson  pffftttttt..... post some clips if you're going down that road. | Ouch! But it had to be done.....dblbass was begging for it. JS |
03-03-2008, 08:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Canada | | | As I said I was joking, but enjoy the affirmation by all means. |
10-05-2008, 09:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Gomezing it.
I'm not sure who came up with it, possibly Mr. Fuqua? But we used to call that heavy pizz vibrato or kinda sliding around the tonal center that Eddie USED to do, Gomezing it. Eddie is a friend of mine and has bought me more than one shot of vodka with a Heineken chaser. (which didn't help my addicton to alcohol one bit ) Thanks alot Eddie! 
The era most of you guys are talking about is that time, as one of you mention, when amps were first being used and the direct to the board through your amp was king in the studios. This made it so much easier on the sound guys and sort of gave us some long awaited power over loud drummers and horn players. Unfortunately, it also exposed our intonation and made the basses sound way too loud in the mix.
I was a victim of this tasteless, egotistical practice more than once. For example on the Sampler here, the Dick Hindman Trio cuts are hard for me to listen to.
Eddie Gomez is a virtuoso bassist in every sense of the word.
Scotts intonation wasn't perfect, but at least his work wasn't in your face, and actually he had that thing of making it be just another color! We've all heard Miles do the same.
Ron Carter's stuff with Miles was brilliant, but with the advent of the DB PU, for me, it became overbearing. The piccolo bass recordings, for me, are unlistenable as alot of the bass stuff is. I hear no beauty in it...only struggle.
I often wonder why his good judgement didn't prevent him from stopping the release of some of this material.
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10-05-2008, 09:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Denver, Co. | | | Buono
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Originally Posted by Marcus Johnson .
My friend Michael Buono took Eddie hiking once one the day of a gig. | Marcus, please give Mike a hug for me...thanks.
( Wonderful drummer who can be heard with my own self, totally unamplified, on the album: Jazz+ Latin=Cal Tjader.) As Mr. Fuqua would say: Shameless Self Promotion.
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10-05-2008, 12:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Marcus, please give Mike a hug for me...thanks.
( Wonderful drummer who can be heard with my own self, totally unamplified, on the album: Jazz+ Latin=Cal Tjader.) As Mr. Fuqua would say: Shameless Self Promotion. | Will do... he's now part owner of a club here, and they feature a lot of live music throughout the week. They just had Larry Goldings on B3 a couple of weeks ago. |
10-05-2008, 12:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Princeville, Kauai | | | Gomezing
Thanks Paul,
For providing perspective, history, insight and humor. I would much rather listen to what you have to say about Eddie's playing than someone
who has never been in "tested in a top notch professional environment"
Love him or hate him he is a great player and has contributed to an amazing body of work. Like you said, that's how records were made in the 70's & maybe part of the 80's.
Loved the Gomezing comment!
Guess I just wish people who have done very little would at least be a bit more circumspect in their judgements, think of the amazing amount of effort & talent it takes to play at the 1st call jazz level & stop saying things that will irritate inflame others
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11-02-2008, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Puerto Rico | | | Mr. Gomez in P.R.
Mr. dperrot, I dont know if to this day you found contact with Mr. Gómez.
At this moment he's been teaching as artist in residence at the Conservatorio de Música of his hometown Puerto Rico. If you contact the Jazz Dept. at the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico they might help you out finding him.
Visit their site at www.cmpr.edu for more info.
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11-02-2008, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Maui | | | Wow.... how cool would it be to study with Eddie in Puerto Rico?! |
11-02-2008, 03:25 PM
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No kidding!! "And then after siesta we'll look at different approaches to...." |
11-02-2008, 03:56 PM
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11-02-2008, 05:18 PM
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11-03-2008, 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton Ron Carter's stuff with Miles was brilliant, but with the advent of the DB PU, for me, it became overbearing. The piccolo bass recordings, for me, are unlistenable as alot of the bass stuff is. I hear no beauty in it...only struggle.
I often wonder why his good judgement didn't prevent him from stopping the release of some of this material. | true, true... haha |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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