Recent content by alcockell

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    Evita

    If you're still sans copy - it's on Google Play..
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    StumpTalkbass--Who played on Mama Mia!

    Mike Tretow on the mixing desk as well - of course!.
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    ABBA

    Umm - when Rutger Gunnarsson is a bassist loads cite as an influence?
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    ABBA

    Who's watching The Joy of ABBA on BBC4 at the mo?
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    ABBA

    Rihanna? Good pitch?! have you HEARD her live? When she's knocked out of the park by an X Factor contestant...
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    ABBA

    Channel 5 in the Uk are airing an ABBA @ 40 night. at 11pm, they're airing the Voulez-Vous tour Wembley date from 1979.
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    A forgotten bass genius: Rutger Gunnarsson

    Goes without saying that if there was ever a plan to get a film version of Chess going - they need to get the old gang back in the studio...
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    Nice Basses in Dreamgirls

    I liked the little throwaway lines on the news reports as well (George Martin expressing interest in working with the Dreams, matching a potential Supremes/Beatles collaboration in real life) - where in an alternate UK, the label (Rainbow) would have been distributed through EMI (matching the...
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    Double Bass Hairspray

    How did the published score compare to the film? or did the OP go with stuff fromt he film?
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    Southern rock bands with a funky feel

    BBC4 doccos on tonight - loads of stuff on Southern Rock...
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    Ian Dury's "Wake Up and Make Love With Me"??

    Someone was after a link? Here you go. YouTube - ‪Ian Dury - Wake up and make love with me‬‏ If you have a We7 subscription - I'm sure their back catalogue is up there...
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    The book for RENT the musical

    I'll cover you is slapped - kind of a loping feel..
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    Beatles remastered

    Listening now... MUCH nicer than the mixdown on the Blue album..
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    Evita

    No laughter here - it's back from when ALW wrote good stuff. He seems to not do so well when he gets onto operatic material. Full cast and crew? [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]
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    Little Shop of Horrors... and other shows

    I was meaning ot ask (I don't play myself - although I do video and sometimes sound at my local church).. doesn't Evita have a little bit of slapping somewhere in the score? I'm thinking early on under "the city can be paradise/For those who have the cash..."? My dad played bass when he was...