Double Bass Gary Peacock info?

[Jeff Bonny]

his seat is metal framed stool with a pipe foot-rest
all around the bottom...cushion seat...no back.

No cup holder on it?

 

[Ed Fuqua]

I don't know who's stranger, Mr. Fuqua or Mr. Johnson.

It's gotta be Marcus, he's named after a body part....

 

[Paul New]

Mr. Peacock was performing on a bass that appeared to have strings ...

Yes! I totally knew that! Basses with strings are completely bad-ass.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

I concur.

 

[M Ramsey]

Whitney Spears, maybe.

REVIEW ADDENDUM: Mr. Peacock was performing on a bass that appeared to have strings and was indeed using an amplifier of some sort. Mr. Bley appearred to be pressing buutons on a large, oblongish black box while Mr. Motian insisted on striking several graduated cylinders with pieces of wood.

Yes! I totally knew that! Basses with strings are completely bad-ass.

I agree wholeheartedly! The stringless basses just suffer for volume and tone as well!

 

[Jeff Bonny]

I agree wholeheartedly! The stringless basses just suffer for volume and tone as well!

Peacock's tone sucks anyway an if wasn't so damn loud maybe Elvis Costello wouldn't have refused to play with him at Carnegie Hall last Yom Kippur.... oh, sorry wrong thread.....

 

[cmmcm]

I saw Keith Jarrett's Trio in concert in Montreal on 01 Jul...it was amazing...and yes, Keith scorned the audience...
I noticed Gary had something that his end peg rested on that looked like a simple piece of wood...only it was long and narrow...anybody know what he uses?...I saw a pic of it in the "Out of Towners" cd...

 

[bruce malcolm]

i saw him @ birdland in last august, & wondered the same.
it looks like a wood template that he uses to maintain the same distance & placement of his bass so it's the same gig to gig. i believe he places the endpin into a cutout in the template, so it stays put.

gary really stresses the "physical" aspect & for him to create something that maintains consistency in his physical set-up
doesn't surprise me.

 

[cmmcm]

i saw him @ birdland in last august, & wondered the same.
it looks like a wood template that he uses to maintain the same distance & placement of his bass so it's the same gig to gig. i believe he places the endpin into a cutout in the template, so it stays put.

gary really stresses the "physical" aspect & for him to create something that maintains consistency in his physical set-up
doesn't surprise me.

That is what I figured, but I was suprised at the shape of it as it looked to be only probably about 4 inches wide and about a foot and a half long...but hey, it works for him!

 

[bruce malcolm]

i picked up "my foolish heart", the double live cd from
montreux in 2001. gary's solo on the title song is pretty
cool...dig his ascending lines, which contrasts to what
keith was doing. plus great takes of "four", "green dolphin st"
& 3 or 4 ragtime tunes.
keith mentions a ballad gary was "unfamiliar with,yet his
solo is worth waiting for". hell all garys solos are that good,
so unfamiliar? i'm still wonderin what ballad he's talkin about.
and again, ECM doesn't get gary's live sound...a little too thin
and buzzy...compared to his (& ECM's) studio sound.
still...a pretty good cd with plenty of fresh bass to check out.

 

[bruce malcolm]

jarrett, peacock & dejohnette at njpac, 2-2-08.

 

[Nils Ö]

Peacock's tone sucks anyway an if wasn't so damn loud maybe Elvis Costello wouldn't have refused to play with him at Carnegie Hall last Yom Kippur.... oh, sorry wrong thread.....

I just read through parts of that thread, I didn't know about it until now. Very entertaining! I totally understand Mr. Peacocks stance.

As for his tone, there are some older records with Paul Bley and others where some of the tracks were made before the arrival of steel strings (at least on Mr. Peacocks bass) and some just after. To me, hearing them is understanding why most players never went back to gut strings. Yes, some of the material recorded in the 1970:s and 1980:s does not sound exactly great, but I think that must be blamed on the engineers, not on the bassists (at least not Gary Peacock).

 

[bruce malcolm]

i agree nils...gary's live sound in large & small venues
is full & round...not the thin buzzy sound i hear, (or
sometimes dont hear) on the live ECM cd's. yet they
get it right on his studio stuff. pretty frustrating ECM
hasnt figured it out after 20+ years of recording gary live.

 

[bruce malcolm]

ed fuqua...when you reviewed garys birdland gig,
and the 70's amp sound he was getting that nite,
you also mentioned you love the sound gary gets on
alot of his records. what specific cd's / records are
you referring to...cause if i dont have them already,
i want to get them. thanks ed.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

Thanks for the head's up, I haven't checked in here in a while.
The two I've been spending the most time with are TETHERED MOON PLAYS KURT WEILL and TETHERED MOON REMEMBERING TOSCA.

 

[bruce malcolm]

i believe both tethered moons were done in the studio,
which may explain why you dig his / that sound. i need
to get these "tm" cd's.

here's 2 more studio ventures where gary sounds great.
"amaryllis" w/ pianist marilyn crispell, gary & motian.
"nothing ever was anyway"...same cats as above, doing
annette peacock comp's.

 

[bruce malcolm]

gary peacock trio @ birdland,
wed march 19 to sat march 23,
with pianist marc copeland &
drummer bill stewart.

i anticipate the fire alarm system
is now working correctly.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

here's 2 more studio ventures where gary sounds great.
"amaryllis" w/ pianist marilyn crispell, gary & motian.
"nothing ever was anyway"...same cats as above, doing
annette peacock comp's.

Jeff has both of those, so I may borrow them.

 

[Ed Fuqua]

gary peacock trio @ birdland,
wed march 19 to sat march 23,
with pianist marc copeland &
drummer bill stewart.

I think this is the same trio (there may have been a different drummer) that had a steady thing at Cleopatra's needle (of all places!) during the early 90s....

 

[1smileymn]

Spiritual Unity....his sound is freakin' huge!!!!!!!!!!