Ronnie Wood on bass and guitar, on this Faces era solo album with Rod Stewart. First heard him playing bass for Jeff Beck. (Now guitarist for The Rolling Stones, in case ya don't know).
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Blown away by the bass tone
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Lots of great examples here.
This one hadn't been mentioned yet.
Randy Jackson (yes, THAT Randy Jackson).
Bass solo at 2:27
Channel 38 in Boston used this theme for a movie night intro back in the 80s, and when I finally found the whole tune I was just blown away by the groove and the playing.
This one hadn't been mentioned yet.
Randy Jackson (yes, THAT Randy Jackson).
Bass solo at 2:27
Channel 38 in Boston used this theme for a movie night intro back in the 80s, and when I finally found the whole tune I was just blown away by the groove and the playing.
Haven't scoured this whole thread so forgive if I repeat someone else's post.
Two albums that stand out for me:
On fretted: Kansas:Song for America.
Dave Hope's tone is immaculate. I can't say enough about it. Plus I love the title track here. It just glows.
On fretless: Brand X- Unorthodox Behavior. This is Percy Jones at his finest. I love his "loopy" tone. Just can't quite cop it as yet, but still trying!
Two albums that stand out for me:
On fretted: Kansas:Song for America.
Dave Hope's tone is immaculate. I can't say enough about it. Plus I love the title track here. It just glows.
On fretless: Brand X- Unorthodox Behavior. This is Percy Jones at his finest. I love his "loopy" tone. Just can't quite cop it as yet, but still trying!
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Hah! And there was me clicking on your album covers, @roccobass, in eager anticipation of being linked to the music...
Thy will has been done, my Lords! Hasten back to yon previous post to rejoice on thy just reward!
Oops. Didn't read far enough! Lol!Ah thanks for sorting, listening to them both right now!
That is some killer music thank you for sharing that - not just the awesome bass line work, it is old school proper musicianship!
I remember listening to the Fresh Cream LP when it launched. I was listening to Jacks bass lines and my mind was drawing all these cool geometric patterns... yes I had some organic help with that!
I'm always amazed at how great Greg Christian sounds on this:
Rick Danko "Across the Great Divide", great punchy attack but still fat and warm and round. About the closest to an 'all things to all men' tone as I've ever heard.
I know I'm bumping an old thread but I just got "The Band" on CD the other day and wow, I always thought of them as a live-focused act but that's a great sounding record. Kind of reminds me of the time a former boss was playing Ian Dury at work so I stopped off and bought the "Jukebox Dury" compilation on my way home. I said to my boss about Norman Watt-Roy the next day "I knew he was good but I didn't realise he was that f-ing good!"
I know I'm bumping an old thread but I just got "The Band" on CD the other day and wow, I always thought of them as a live-focused act but that's a great sounding record. Kind of reminds me of the time a former boss was playing Ian Dury at work so I stopped off and bought the "Jukebox Dury" compilation on my way home. I said to my boss about Norman Watt-Roy the next day "I knew he was good but I didn't realise he was that f-ing good!"
Ben Shepherd. That fat, dirty, nasty sound. Unf.
Did a search here. Looks like this chestnut was overlooked. The bassist is Dan Birney. This song always got me going. I learned it just for grins! The tone is immaculate!
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He'd been a guitarist for a while before Beck...
In fact he joined Beck as second guitarist, but they couldn't find a suitable bass player, so he moved to that(did pretty good, I'd say).
Yep, I am aware of that. He's one of my favorite guitarists. His brother Art was in a band called the ArtWoods with Jon Lord, (just before he formed Deep Purple w/ Ritchie Blackmore). The Jeff Beck Group is where I first heard Cozy Powell. There were an amazing number of stellar musicians who played together, or were related, in a small space & time who went on to become the most famous rock musicians of all time. When you start tracing them to one another, it's like 'the six degrees of ...whoever'.
The first Gov't Mule album. I saw that tour and it totally turned my head around as to what rock bass should sound like.
Not necessarily the bass but the feel of the entire track sounded very dangerous to me... "I Can See For Miles"
