Recent content by Gurí from Argentina

Mentioned Squire's surprising use of harmonics. But did someone rememeber that, excluding early slappers he was one o the first, if not the first bass player to use fretting as part of the sound?

Completely agree with you. He changed the sound, the place and the function of the instrument. On the stage Squire played like if everything he did was simple, easy, natural. And singed while playing those bass lines... He also brougt the harmonics to the bass sound and melody...

I' ve seen Tina Weimouth with MANY different basses. With Talking Heads and with the glorious Tom Tom Club. But she seemed to prefer, at least in the early days, Steinberger's L, old graphite neck and body, that weighted a tonelade, a green gray Jazz Bass and Music Man. In an old...

I mean an incredible new ACUSTIC version of Wordy rapp..

Tina is more than a bass player. She is an outstanding musician. A solid rock bass in Talking Heads, but specially a person decades ahead her time with Tom Tom Club, the group she formed with his husband, former percusionist of Talking heads. If you hear the Tom Tom Club' s song Wordy...