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Marcus Miller clone alert!!

#6
His version of "Portrait of Tracy" is killer. It is kind of smooth jazz sounding, but it is really a fresh take with him playing in the upper register instead of using the harmonics and it really freshens up an old standard.:)
 
#8
Chris2112 said:
He's pretty damn good. Easily on par with Marcus, imo.
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As you said IYO,he's good but when I hear guy's who have a heavy primary influence I always like to hear them take their playing somewhere else. dwbass mentioned peter muller and my thing about him is this;EVERYTHING he does is heavily Marcus sounding,from his playing to his writing to his production.If you are familar with marcus's body of work you will basically hear everything peter does or has done so far.
 
#12
IMO what he's playing doesn't sound like Marcus very much at all, it's more about his tone. Oh and how he holds his hands over the bass. Not much else!

He honestly just sounds like a smooth jazz bass player with an ash j bass with 70's pickup spacing... There are a TON of these guys around. As Marcus is one of the fathers of the "smooth jazz bass tone" there are naturally going to be "clones"

I guarantee if he was playing an MTD there would be no issue!
 
#13
I have a Atelier Z like that and it has the 60s spacing.The Tomohito Aoiki Model.I'm having it changed this week.I like the 70s spacing better.
Anyway there is too much distortion and compression in his tone to remind me of Marcus and there is something too "in your face" about his style.Not relaxed and sexy like Marcus.
Like a really good bass student of Marcus.I like him and don't want to put him down.In a few years he'll have it together and then he'll really be worth checking out.
Peter Muller is a different story.He sounds more like Marcus but his compositions are really strong and easily on par with the best there is out there in the Bassworld.
 
#14
If this is the result of cloning, I'm all against stem cell research, then, because thse clones are all defective. . . LOL


The guy's alright, but light-years behind Marcus. And his timing sucks - plays nervously ahead of the beat all the time (just like me...)


I agree that Peter Muller is much better all around.
 
#15
Come on guys, we all know there is only ONE Marcus Miller!! I was merely pointing out the similarities by using the word clone incorrectly I suppose! But it's obvious he greatly influenced. His bass is a Jazz with a neck pickup cover and he holds his thumb like Marcus. As for copping Marcus' sound, I've only heard Peter Muller and Oskar Cartaya (the latin version of Marcus) come the closest.
 
#19
すばらしい！
Thanks for sharing that, DWB. Hino-san is a really great player. Its obvious that he is influenced by Marcus Miller. If he can take that influence and use it to find his own voice, he will be a very memorable player.
 

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