I meant Jamerson himself was unique. Despite having the same P-bass and flatwounds as everyone else, he managed to do something else. It does seem quite similar at first, but Jamerson's sound had something thats hard to describe.heath_the_great said:
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Bassist with most UNIQUE tone
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not really, i listen back now and well, doesnt seem unique to me, granted he was a great man, but basic toneSonorous said:
I like Mike Gordon's ultra cleany bouncy tone that he gets with his modulus. And on some songs (Down with Disease), or the end of You Enjoy Myself, he switches to that some kind of flanger fed Meatball tone that is just rubbery liquid wah. When I hear it, I picture drops of jelly squeezing through a small hole!
Jamerson did have a unique tone,his tone sounded a little different from regular p-basses with flatwounds,Listen to the beginning of uptight(everything is alright)Stevie wonder and Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart by The Supremes, at the beginning of those songs you can really hear that Jamerson tone.heath_the_great said:
Simon Gallup - The Cure.
The combination of his thunderbird, Ric, Schecter and uber-precise pick playing lands him quite a unique-sounding bass tone. I saw them live outside of Chicago last year and Simon's tone was so clean that you could hear EXACTLY what he was playing. I mean, most tones that I've heard have some leeway when it comes to player precision. If he would've messed up, we would've heard it, but he was so tight it was unbelievable. And for as long as that set was (like 3 hours), that's quite impressive.
-Sam
The combination of his thunderbird, Ric, Schecter and uber-precise pick playing lands him quite a unique-sounding bass tone. I saw them live outside of Chicago last year and Simon's tone was so clean that you could hear EXACTLY what he was playing. I mean, most tones that I've heard have some leeway when it comes to player precision. If he would've messed up, we would've heard it, but he was so tight it was unbelievable. And for as long as that set was (like 3 hours), that's quite impressive.
-Sam
Ya know, I have been thinking about this, and here are my top 5 uniquely voiced bass players:
1- Stan
2- Chris Squire
3- Jaco
4- Rocco Prestia
5- Squarepusher
I could pick any of those guys out of a crowded band setting!
Also, as for Jamerson... his tone was a muddy flatwound P-bass. I am not saying he wasn't a great player, but i could easily mistake him with anyone from that era... even Carol Kaye
1- Stan
2- Chris Squire
3- Jaco
4- Rocco Prestia
5- Squarepusher
I could pick any of those guys out of a crowded band setting!
Also, as for Jamerson... his tone was a muddy flatwound P-bass. I am not saying he wasn't a great player, but i could easily mistake him with anyone from that era... even Carol Kaye
hateater said:
He is a mad-skillz player, but I don't know about his tone. Doesn't he just play a farty p-bass-sounding guitar? At least on the couple of albums that I've heard.
Chris Wolfenstolme from Muse. He has such a strange tone. I haven't heard anything like it in other music
Jeff Berlin on those Bruford records. this fat midrange almost growl at times. The more recent solo albums have a completey diferent bass sound which is rather indistinctive. Not the playing of course.
Ralph Armstrongs distortion on Jean-Luc-Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean. Simply amazing and a real lot of fun to listen to.
JPJ's sound on Led Zeppilen 2. Priceless.
geez I am showing my age and fusion obsessiveness!
Ralph Armstrongs distortion on Jean-Luc-Ponty's Enigmatic Ocean. Simply amazing and a real lot of fun to listen to.
JPJ's sound on Led Zeppilen 2. Priceless.
geez I am showing my age and fusion obsessiveness!
