I've heard of walking bass, but this is ridiculous!

Jimmy Smith = awesome. Don't forget Jimmy McGriff (we are rehearsing one of his tunes - "All About My Girl") and my all-time favourite CT - Chester Thompson. CT was awesome in the early Tower of Power days, trading off parts with Rocco sometimes.

Our KB player has a great Kurtzweil instrument that even has 8 of the stop sliders when it emulates a Hammond B3, but no pedals of course. So I get to be the foot pedals!!

 

The guy from the Doors had that little one-octave keyboard above his regular organ that he played the bass parts on. I forgot his name, but he was amazing, also on his regular organ.

 

Those cats are the greatest, I've looked for a P-Bass that has the tone of the pedals for a long time....

Ever heard Dr. Lonnie Smith (The Turbanator)? I was listening to this album I picked up, "Drives" (GET IT!!!) and one of the tunes on it is his version of the cover "Spinning Wheel"... Oh my gosh, the funkiest non-bassist organ jams... EVER!


Oh yeah Larry Goldins and Neal Evans (Soulive) ain't too shabby either....he he he

 

I saw the Horny Horns(maceo,fred,peewee) play in 92 at a little place in boston called Johny D's. So I get in there and I'm lookin at the stage set up and there's no bass rig and Im all upset. Well the band came out and jump into Got to Getcha and Il tell you there was BASS! Big round Just a hint of chrunch on the front B3 BASS.

Larry Golding's Lows where so nasty that night,it made me big fan of the tone of the hammond! If they ever come up with a pedal/ midi sampler thing that could make my bass sould like that Id buy it in a heartbeat!


AJ

 

Yo AJ,

That tones that Larry gets... is what I want from a P-Bass for my funk, Nawlins and even blues gigs... Hard to replicate.


BTW Johnny D's is in Somerville, MA (Davis Sq. 'the Paris of the '90's).... I've gigged at JD's when I was living up in them northern parts....

 

j-raj what up


Yah I nkow I was givving the user friendly version of the location. I love Johny D's Ive played there many time and they have allways treated me well.

I was looking at you site( I Have to build one of those) You went to Zoomass Huh? Did you study bass there (double bass?) every time I resieve a bill from Berklee I think about going there. When did you go there mabye we know some of the same people.

That Tone would be it! I think its going to come from some sampler midi thing someday once someone get hip to the task


AJ

 

AJ,

Before we hijack this thread (cause you know... I'm a talker)... I'll PM you...

back to the killer tone discussion

yeah man, If they could bottle that tone, sh!t! I'd buy it!!... Spray all it over the place, like techno- loving BU student on 'lansdowne st.'(you have to know what I mean).....

on a serious note

I actually might know someone that could help in that dept, if we could get it sampled at a high bit-rate... there are some fierce B3 players here in ATL (Kevin Thomas, Ike Stubblefield, Rich Ianucci, Kofi Burbridge, Dan Seifert...tons!!)... I could rent their time and record/sample them... plug it in to a V-bass... what do you think? Would it work?

Get Line 6 interested.


thoughts?

 

Jimmy Smith is fantastic. is he really still alive?

 

The Ultimate Ninja(tm) at playing bass lines with his feet while going absolutely bat**** on the keys is Chester Thompson of Tower of Power fame. Check out "Squib Cakes" or his solo on the Live & In Living Color version of "Knock Yourself Out". Uh... wow. Of course, Lenny Pickett's solo on that version of Knock Yourself Out is a veritable textbook on how to play tenor sax. Simply amazing.

 

Dave Finnegan did some pretty cool stuff as well. He plays "bass" on Jimi's "Crosstown Traffic".

 

Squib Cakes is a funky tune, CT keeps it driving with the bass pedals in that tune...


I'm not sure about 'textbook' on Lenny Picket's solo...

I really would mind to have his gig with SNL now...

 

My favorite non-bass bassist - Stevie Wonder. Not walking on pedals, mind you, buy damn! He's so funky you got to spell it with an 'O'! Fonky!!