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John Taylor - Duran Duran

#41
Have seen him..

I sincerely believe this was a golden period of electric bass... the syth equipment wasn't good enough to do everything..the guys had to synch with a machine gun drum machine etc.

If you like JT.. there are tons and tons of very solid players from the same era.

If anyone wants a suggestion of a concept album format within this genre.. PM me you can buy a rerealse of it on CD for about $5 shipped.. the guys all went on to do studio work for film scores..

T.
 
#43
SharkB8 said:
I'm not here to say that either JT or Hugh actually had "sharks" play their parts for them in the studio, but I can personally attest to this occurring. Being in the "scene" in the 80's in LA, I (and many others) were brought in to "play blind" on a lot of things (usually with WB), and never knew which project it was for. Just a track to play to (no vox). I did this many times on guitar, and was nicknamed by a guy from Australia (who also filled this role) as "_ _ ark the Shark".
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Actually McDonald was Such's shark, it's a pretty well known but not official piece of information.
 
#44
NickInMesa said:
I always thought Duran Duran was a chick band part of that mediocre New Wave era which gave us a lot of crap, but the more I listen to them lately, the more I realize the Taylors (not related, as everyone knows) were a really good trio of musicians.

His bass lines were pretty darn smart and efficient.
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Both of these statements are true, IMO.
 
#52
Just listening once again to the rio album during my work out,then went home and searched on youtube for guys playing it. It's so darn fast! And the technique is so cool! It's one thing to figure it out and practice it up to speed, it's quite another to come up with it. I don't quite know when i realized that duranx2 was respectable music, probably not during the 80s when all those neopop bands were uncool. Come to think of it
my wife probably turned me on to them not knowing just how cool the bass was.
 
#58
How about bands that don't really score with bassists that do? REM with that whiny thing they do never did it for me. But Mike Mills does. More than most bands the bass part is arranged so it blongs with the other parts of the song.
 
#59
stingray56funk said:
I've read and heard that Bernard Edwards played most of the intricate bass parts on Duran Duran recordings. When Bernard died he left his prized Stingray to John Taylor. I would say that Bernard Edwards had the largest influence upon John Taylor and that they grew to be good friends.
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NickInMesa said:
The story is repeated about different bands, where a shark is hired to lay down a complicated bass line or a very challenging guitar solo.
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There was a documentary on television about a year ago in which Taylor stated that some of the playing on Duran Duran albums was not his. He went so far as to say that many of the bass tracks contained so many overdubs that it took him a long time to figure out what he should play live.
 

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