Chuck Rainey...just jaw dropping

[JimK]

I am a big fan of Steely Dan but like most folks, I like some tunes more than others.

These tracks ...

* Kid Charlemagne
* Green Earrings
* The Fez
* Glamour Profession

... are some of my favorites and go into a heading that I think of as "Steely Dan Funk."

I should have known that Mr. Rainey was a common denominator!

"Glamour Profession" is Anthony Jackson.

 

[JimK]

The book that I'm doing of(with Chucks blessing)Transcribed Bass lines will have a minimum of 50 bass lines with other features as well.

...you must let me know the second this is available!

 

[Gorgula]

I just watched his "Fusion Bass" video yesterday. This was the first time I had ever seen someone play down and up with the index finger on the right hand. It makes sense, but that would take some time to get used to. Do any of you guys use this technique?

 

[JAUQO III-X]

...you must let me know the second this is available!

Jim at this point I have about 25 bass lines Transcribed and with my schedule being what it is I am working on getting the other ones on my list finished.The book is covering a very vast range of his illustrious career and a few other features that I will just save for the book

And for lack of a better word Chuck is really geeked about me doing this book.

Jim,is there a bass line from Chuck that you would like to see in the Book?

 

[pocket_groover]

I just watched his "Fusion Bass" video yesterday. This was the first time I had ever seen someone play down and up with the index finger on the right hand. It makes sense, but that would take some time to get used to. Do any of you guys use this technique?

He talked about this in an interview in Bass Player by Will Lee:

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I do this sometimes as well when my fingers get tired. For me, it comes from playing the guitar with a pick. For the bass, just leave the pick and the thumb out.

 

[JimK]

Jim,is there a bass line from Chuck that you would like to see in the Book?

J-
I have seen pretty decent transcriptions to "Peg" & "Kid Charlemagne"...there's this part in "The Fez" that's been driving me nuts for awhile.
"Your Gold Teeth, Part 2" would be cool...I suppose "Josie" & "Don't Take Me Alive" are no-brainers, huh?

Flack/Hathaway's "Where Is The Love" would be nice, too.

Have you heard/remember "What Good Is A Song" from Quincy Jones' I Heard That?
It's OOP, of course...& I think I already have it pretty much down.
If interested in re-visiting that tune & album, let me know.

 

[IotaNet]

"Glamour Profession" is Anthony Jackson.

I just went and checked the liner notes in the LP eek:!)

I stand corrected sir, Anthony Jackson it is!

 

[tZer]

Every time I hear "Peg" I make a mental note to go directly home and learn that line! That is one of the coolest basslines going! Then I get home and promptly forget to learn it... Curse this A.D.D...

Thanks for reminding me yet again of a song I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO LEARN!

 

[Gorgula]

He talked about this in an interview in Bass Player by Will Lee:

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I do this sometimes as well when my fingers get tired. For me, it comes from playing the guitar with a pick. For the bass, just leave the pick and the thumb out.

Hey Pocket,

Thanks for that link!

 

[JimK]

Every time I hear "Peg" I make a mental note to go directly home and learn that line! That is one of the coolest basslines going! Then I get home and promptly forget to learn it... Curse this A.D.D...

Thanks for reminding me yet again of a song I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO LEARN!

This book has a very decent transcription to "Peg"-
"25 Essential Rock Bass Classics" (Bass Recorded Versions) at www.halleonard.com

 

[JimK]

Jim,is there a bass line from Chuck that you would like to see in the Book?

J-
"Sanford & Son" would be nice, too.

 

[JAUQO III-X]

J-
"Sanford & Son" would be nice, too.

I got that one

 

[pocket_groover]

Hey Pocket,

Thanks for that link!

You're welcome! They left out the transcription of "Until You Come Back", though. The hard copy has it. I think I still have that issue in my Bass Player collection.

 

[tZer]

This book has a very decent transcription to "Peg"-
"25 Essential Rock Bass Classics" (Bass Recorded Versions) at www.halleonard.com

Thanks! And I was about to ask for a transcription until I remembered posting elsewhere how I don't use transcriptions cuz I am so good at picking up on things by ear! LOL

I can be so full of myself sometimes... :scowl:

 

[JimK]

Actually, I thought I could play "Peg" until I saw the transcription...whew!

Then there was the time Coltrane was given a transcription to one of his own solos; the transcriber wanted Coltrane to play it in order to check the accuracy. Coltrane played about 2 bars & said, "It's too hard".
...or sumthin like that.

 

[JimK]

I got that one

Cool...I'm gonna try to send you a little package, maybe tomorrow.

 

[Lo.]

I got that one

Ooh, nice one! I'd love to see how you nailed that - maybe it's my copy of the track but all the notes are not easy to hear. It's a rare example of 2 basses going at it together. I take it Chuck overdubbed the 2nd line?

I like the little Jamerson-style solo in the middle of course. Heh.

Pop those flatwounds.

 

[tZer]

Well, if anyone wants to offer up a transcription to "Peg" and "Sanford and Son"... My wife will be putting my equipment out by the curb (figure of speech... my wife is no brute) if I spend another penny on my addiction!

JAUQO III-X!!!!

...uh... ahem...

 

[JAUQO III-X]

Well, if anyone wants to offer up a transcription to "Peg" and "Sanford and Son"... My wife will be putting my equipment out by the curb (figure of speech... my wife is no brute) if I spend another penny on my addiction!

JAUQO III-X!!!!

...uh... ahem...

They will be in the Book

 

[mikeswals]

I spoke with Chuck today and this is what he had to say on his P Bass and a little Fender production history.


his '57' P bass came with a rose wood finger board and he never replaced it. Fender has has changed operations managers quite a few times over the years and my observations have concluded that they in general could very easily be either uninformed or confused about the vintage basses.

Up until 1956 or 7 all Fender basses had no finger board strip of any wood on the neck at all - the '56' and '57' models were the first to have a finger board and it was rose wood.

I have seen plenty of pics with Chuck holding that P and keeps calling it a "57". It's a wide-known fact around the entire world with real neck stamps as proof, rosewood boards did not exist on fender basses until mid-59.
JAUQO, I hate to say it, but I really think he's a little off in his timeline. No one else has ever been able to prove a rosewood board on any other 57. I know he has no reason to diassemble the bass just to show the dates for us peons, and I remember reading the Precision was just a regular 'ol bass hanging in a music store, and the store owner claimed it was supposedly there "for a while" before Chuck bought it.