Barry White's Bassist?

[Dr. Cheese]

Max Bennet also played with the Crusaders. Wilton was the bassist on a lot material before the mid 70's, the two great albums, Chain Reaction and Southern Comfort, Wilton played bass on.

I stand (actually I'm sitting) corrected.

 

[mixtapelove]

Lisa Simpson

 

[nolaguy]

Anyone know who played bass on Barry White's 1974 hit "You're the first, the last, my everything"?

Thanks

According to Jay Graydon's website-

http://www.jaygraydon.com/jaystxt.htm
I will tell you about one that flashed into my head. It was a Barry White session in the mid 70's. Ed Green on drums, Wilton Felder on bass, Sunny Burke on piano and 5 guitar players. I think the guitar players were Dean Parks, David T Walker, Wah Wah Watson, Ray Parker and myself.

What was special is that even though Gene Page wrote the charts, Barry would come up to each player and sing the part to play. He would sing to Ed the high hat and kick part. Then would sing Wilton the bass line. Barry would sing a 2 bar pattern to each guitar player consisting of syncopated single notes. Sometimes the lick would like to be played in 3rds.

When going into the control room to listen to the first rough playback, the guitar parts worked incredibly well together and was R&B genius! Barry has the gift to come up with fresh parts for every song. Most musical!

On some of the songs, Barry would tell Wah Wah to play his thing along with David T but the other guys would get these little parts assign to them and love it!

The only drag is that these parts would get buried in the mix since Barry's records had strings and horns for days which did not allow the space for these parts to be heard. If you took them away, you would notice something was gone so they had a purpose.

I wish I had a cassette of these tracks! They were the best R&B guitar parts of the era! *

 

[hands5]

According to Jay Graydon's website-

http://www.jaygraydon.com/jaystxt.htm
I will tell you about one that flashed into my head. It was a Barry White session in the mid 70's. Ed Green on drums, Wilton Felder on bass, Sunny Burke on piano and 5 guitar players. I think the guitar players were Dean Parks, David T Walker, Wah Wah Watson, Ray Parker and myself.

What was special is that even though Gene Page wrote the charts, Barry would come up to each player and sing the part to play. He would sing to Ed the high hat and kick part. Then would sing Wilton the bass line. Barry would sing a 2 bar pattern to each guitar player consisting of syncopated single notes. Sometimes the lick would like to be played in 3rds.

When going into the control room to listen to the first rough playback, the guitar parts worked incredibly well together and was R&B genius! Barry has the gift to come up with fresh parts for every song. Most musical!

On some of the songs, Barry would tell Wah Wah to play his thing along with David T but the other guys would get these little parts assign to them and love it!

The only drag is that these parts would get buried in the mix since Barry's records had strings and horns for days which did not allow the space for these parts to be heard. If you took them away, you would notice something was gone so they had a purpose.

I wish I had a cassette of these tracks! They were the best R&B guitar parts of the era! *

Seriously a 'sick guitarist..MAN !

 

[nolaguy]

Actually, Wilton Felder played bass on many Crusaders' albums- Crusaders1, 2nd Crusade, Pass the plate, Old Socks New Shoes, Chain Reaction, Southern Comfort and Street life all feature him as the primary or only bassist.

 

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Anyone know who played bass on Barry White's 1974 hit "You're the first, the last, my everything"?

Thanks

Willie Seastrunk

 

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I moved back to San Francisco in 1983 and by the next year I hooked up with this funk band I would walk to Rehearsal with my bass guitar in a case, and I come around this corner, where there’s a few older guys hanging out, no one would pay me no attention except this one guy, he would ask me was I caring a Bass Guitar and I said yes I’m on my way to rehearsal, he would ask me. Can I play the songs that he ask, I said yes, and he told me that he played Bass, I said pretty cool. He said one day I’m gonna show you my stuff and I said OK and I will see him every day and I will go to rehearsal. He told me his name was Willie so one day he came and got me and he showed me all his equipment that he has he laid in my lap very first music man stingray I’ve ever seen (after that I’ve been wanting one ever since) I play left-handed and upside down, but I still was impressed with the feel of it. He let me jam on it. And then he played a little bit. He said he played for someone famous he said before I show you I’m going to prove to you then he came out with his royalty stubs from his checks. He told me he played for Barry White, his name was Willie Seastrunk

 

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