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Bass Tone That First Blew You Away

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The first time I really remember thinking to myself, "OMG I want THAT tone!" was when I saw Ric Fierabracci play with Yanni on his Acropolis video. The video footage is tough to come by on YouTube but here's the audio from the CD of the song with an abridged version of his solo.

 
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MCF said:
For me, it was Chris on the Yes album. I was already a fan from Time and a Word, where his tone and style were great, but still developing. He and producer Eddie Offord realy locked it in on Starship Trooper and the rest is history. If I'm not mistaken, Offord was also a big influence on Greg Lake's sound.
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This, Chuck Rainey with Steely Dan on Black Cow, and Geddy Lee on YYZ. HM to Nathan East with Clapton and John McVie for making realize how good a bass play can make the rest of the band sound. The more I learn, the more I appreciate the non-soloing bass players.
 
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42 and Six-Tool
Death Blooms-Mudvayne
Speed Demon-Michael Jackson
Thembi-Pharoah Sanders
Under the Bridge-Red Hot Chilli Peppers
It Takes a Pebble and Fanfare For the Common Man-ELP
God of Thunder and Detroit Rock City-Kiss
I forget which songs, so I'm just going to drop the name of the bassist, who is none other than Jaco Pastorius.
Amazing Grace- Victor Wooten
Omnipresent Perception- Beyond Creation
Under a Glass Moon-Dream Theater
Nothing Is Everything-Death
Andy Irvine's Warwick Dolphin Pro II demo (harmonics + tremolo equals drool)
Urban Epidemic- DJ Britt
Blue Turk-Alice Cooper
 
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jamro217 said:
Gerald Johnson on Steve Miller's The Joker album. Saw them on one of those late night concert shows (The Midnight Special, In Concert or Don Kirschner's Rock Concert, forget which one) and the Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma bass solo included the Popeye the Sailorman theme. I never really paid attention to the bass before, but I was floored by that.
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I still remember that performance! He was sitting & playing (his ass off) left-handed on a right handed P-bass, right?
 
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pbass2 said:
Toss up between "Roundabout" and "Black Dog", on my parent's Ford Torino wagon am radio.
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For years around these parts, I have always talked about the state of Pop radio from back in the day...my parents only had AM radios in their cars (until '73). The coolest & most eclectic things came out of those tiny car speakers.
:)
 
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SirMjac28 said:
Louis Johnson "Strawberry Letter 23" nobody even knew what to call what he did with the bass on that album before that I just played bass part time because Sir Paul did.
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Before that particular Brothers Johnson album (& I already had a couple of their other things pre-Right On Time)-
...I bought Stanley Clarke's self-titled album on a lark (I had just started lurking in the Jazz section of the record stores...Clarke looked just too cool on the cover, etc).
Anyway, "Lopsy Lu".
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JimK said:
Before that particular Brothers Johnson album (& I already had a couple of their other things pre-Right On Time)-
...I bought Stanley Clarke's self-titled album on a lark (I had just started lurking in the Jazz section of the record stores...Clarke looked just too cool on the cover, etc).
Anyway, "Lopsy Lu".
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Assume that you mean this?
....Love it!.....(except for the keyboard tone...lol....).....
 
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1stnamebassist said:
Wow, now that you mention it I used to think the bass was incredible on that album. I remember going to Boston with the youth group from my Church to see that also. Very impressive. I've seen so many varient's of it now including a dinner theatre thing in Ft Myers many years ago. I was just getting into the bass when that came out. Another song I heard about a year ago that I hadn't heard for many years was Melanie's Lay down (candles in the rain). Don't remember where I was when I heard it, but I downloaded the next day because the bass was really impressive.
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The bassist on JCS was Alan Spenner...he also played with Cocker in the Grease Band (nice Woodstock footage is out there).
IIRC, Spenner also did a stint with Roxy Music.

"Candles In The Rain"-
Is this Herbie Flowers?
If so, he is one creative cat.
Crazy stuff on "Rock On" (David Essex), "Space Oddity" (Bowie), & "Jump Into The Fire" (Nilsson).
 
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JimK said:
The bassist on JCS was Alan Spenner...he also played with Cocker in the Grease Band (nice Woodstock footage is out there).
IIRC, Spenner also did a stint with Roxy Music.

"Candles In The Rain"-
Is this Herbie Flowers?
If so, he is one creative cat.
Crazy stuff on "Rock On" (David Essex), "Space Oddity" (Bowie), & "Jump Into The Fire" (Nilsson).
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Blimey!...forgot about "Rock On".....As you say...."Crazy stuff".....Love it...:thumbsup:
 

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