I had no idea that was Leland. Totally dig Lisa's whole thing, and that bass track is PERFECT IMO!
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Leland Sklar: any recommendations?
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I had no idea that was Leland. Totally dig Lisa's whole thing, and that bass track is PERFECT IMO!
Vanessa Carlton - A thousand miles
We play that song in our cover band... simple but tasty line with some nice fills.
Sounds like a first take to me though, because his playing is really inconsistent (not in terms of tone or timing, but stuff like fills, dead notes etc... it sounds like he dropped the dead notes he used in the first verse later on, dunno if that was intentional or if he thought it sounded better without them)
We play that song in our cover band... simple but tasty line with some nice fills.
Sounds like a first take to me though, because his playing is really inconsistent (not in terms of tone or timing, but stuff like fills, dead notes etc... it sounds like he dropped the dead notes he used in the first verse later on, dunno if that was intentional or if he thought it sounded better without them)
There are some James Taylor live DVD's out there with Sklar and Kunkle holding down the bottom. It looks so easy when you watch him, and he's lays down some incredible bass lines.
And somebody alreadly mentioned The Section, definitely check them out if you can find them. They actually released three albums, I've been lucky enough to track down two of them on vinyl. I guess fusion is the best way to describe it, but some of the cuts on the "Fork It Over" album serve up healthy portions of funk too.
Sklar also throws down a solo bass track on the "Forward Motion" album
I picked up Forward Motion somewhat recently on disc-
http://www.amazon.com/Forward-Motio...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264511991&sr=8-1
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Leland plays most of the bass tracks on her HELLO LISA album too. Tasty... Unfortunately this ARTEMIS record release was marred by collaborating player/producer, turncoat Dweezil Zappa's support of Ms Loeb. This resulted in featuring inferior singing and songwriting that should have gone to males (whose names I will not mention to save them further embarrassment), simply because of their lack of mammalian protuberances!
Sham, shame, Leland and Dweezil... : \
Toto's "falling in between live" double album and dvd gives a good exemple of Mr Sklar's qualities...it's funny to see how Lee plays the lines and the tunes originally played by another great bassist, Mike Porcaro...
Another great ones are "Rush Street" by Richard Marx (Sklar plays on one tune, but amazing performance), "Ever Changing Times" by Steve Lukather the live dvd Phil Collins did some time ago (don't remember the title...) and of course "Spectrum" by Billy Cobham...
Another great ones are "Rush Street" by Richard Marx (Sklar plays on one tune, but amazing performance), "Ever Changing Times" by Steve Lukather the live dvd Phil Collins did some time ago (don't remember the title...) and of course "Spectrum" by Billy Cobham...
Yes indeed. Charvel body, '62 P bass neck shaved down to Jazz bass dimensions, early EMG P PUPs reversed, BA bridge.
John
Another Glaub/Sklar thing I always get confused over is Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby".
Maybe Glaub played the line but Sklar was in the video?
Lee would probably say there is only one Frankenbass.
Note I really don't know him.
Is there any interview anywhere?
There were at least two Leland Sklar Signature models based on it. One by Valley Arts (John Caruthers) who put the original one together, and a later one by Gibson. I don't know what became of them.
John
John
Listening to it right now. Wow, Lee had 5 days to learn the set... and it was not a 5-song set, that's 23 and they are pretty complex songs too.
...and the main thing it's that he doesn't just play Mike's lines, but he adds his own personalty to the music he's playing while,at the same time, he fits for the song...that's really the style of a great musician..
They reprised it on Letterman last week. Unfortunately Sklar gets no screen time until the last two seconds of end credits. Will Lee steps back on percussion.
I normally have students listen to Suzy Bogguss Aces
Biggest reason is to shake them of the necessity of flash and understand a non geeddy/flea/claypool role .. I'll have them play Lee's timing with a shaker... freaks them out how tough a an "easy" tune is
Helps them understand deliberate and tasteful note placement (ahnd how tough it is to play slow and in time)... it's a great intorduction into what perfect pitch is (Suzy has it)
We then discusss spectrum and activity planning ... then shock them with all the hard hitting bands he's played with
Biggest reason is to shake them of the necessity of flash and understand a non geeddy/flea/claypool role .. I'll have them play Lee's timing with a shaker... freaks them out how tough a an "easy" tune is
Helps them understand deliberate and tasteful note placement (ahnd how tough it is to play slow and in time)... it's a great intorduction into what perfect pitch is (Suzy has it)
We then discusss spectrum and activity planning ... then shock them with all the hard hitting bands he's played with
