Saw this on Facebook, not sure how recent it is but I know Dave has been playing some bass guitar again. I read he had a custom Tobias made, wonder if this P is his? Seen some miles on the road!
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Double Bass Dave Holland commits heresy
- Thread starter brianrost
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I was once at Mike Tobias' shop when Dave Holland came in with an acoustic or semi-hollow bass guitar that he wanted Mike to do some work on. I think that particular bass might have been made by Mike but I'm not sure.
Don't post the picture! Now all the kids will think it's ok!
The 3rd Holland brother Holland-Dozier-Holland don't talk about...
ICMUS! (I Crack Myself Up Sometimes!)
ICMUS! (I Crack Myself Up Sometimes!)
My recollection from an interview with Bobby Vega many years ago is that he got one of Michael Tobias' first two acoustic basses, and Dave Holland got the other. (I think one was 34" scale and the other 35"...)
Seeing as how Dave was in the delivery room during the birth of fusion, the judges will allow it.
His 2021 album Another Land had quite a few tunes on electric bass. I was almost a little wary, but I liked the sound and approach he went for, a darker tone than I'd expected though it had a hint of clear highs that made me think modern active bass rather than P-bass.
Heresy? Didn't the guy play a p-bass with Miles around the B1tches Brew era?
I only knew Dave as an electric player in the early 80s when I started playing... He was the groovemaster for Miles
Again? He always plays EB. When I saw him with Zakir it was one on the stand even though there was no need at any point.
Now if Swallow starts playing the DB again...
Now if Swallow starts playing the DB again...
He played electric with Miles, late 60s to 1970 before Michael Henderson. Jack DeJohnette, Wayne still in the band, Chick Corea. like this
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Oh, Bollocks...I've dropped me bloody plectrum, Sco!
This was one of my early introductions to Dave on electric. Recorded in 1972. I still have the vinyl.
A few years earlier, the movie Bob, Carol, Ted and Alice had come out.
This P Bass groove is more like Bob, Carol, James and Dave.
I think there are moments where the sidemen are wondering why the tune needed to go on for more than 4 or 5 minutes.
That Miles band in the clip that BassBrass posted must have been loud, because it sounds like Jack is murdering the kit and he's just keeping up.
Now I see the heresy... he's thinking about using his third finger below the octave. 
