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Mark White of The Spin Doctors
- Thread starter LiquidMidnight
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if anybody has the spin doctor CD "you gotta believe in something" you'll see my email address on there
[email protected]
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mark white
[email protected]
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mark white
I can't remember what bass I used on that tune but I think it was either my black jazz bass or the pink one. I bet I was using the JACO pickup for that.
By the way that bassline was a warm up exercise to help me with my upbeats and syncopation. I can't even remember how it became cleopatra's cat
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mark white
By the way that bassline was a warm up exercise to help me with my upbeats and syncopation. I can't even remember how it became cleopatra's cat
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mark white
hey pat
When I make up bass lines I totally use the "Force", I only try to make it groove and fun to play. I also make sure I can play them with my fingers one day and with my thumb the next, this way I don't get burned out playing the same tunes night after night.
Right now i'm back playing with the spins. I also have a solo CD . it's mostly stuff i wrote when I first started playing bass. The first bass I had was an epiphone short scale bass with really flat and extra beyond the dead, strings. Because of those dead strings I wrote lots of easy sounding stuff. So, since I had a lot of time off, I decided to listen to some old tapes and turn that stuff into
songs.
With the spins I like to use Eden and SWR.
When i 'm doing gigs with other people and I don't have to be as loud as a jet plane I use a EBS GORM combo thingy with 300 watts.
because I'm a freak when it comes to the way my basses are set up, I just can't play any kind of bass. I have to have all my basses set like my original epiphone bass. (how sad) and believe me it's a total pain.. With my Musicman basses, I have the neck lowered until the dots are just above the body and then I have a another pick guard made as thick as a pancake, then I try to get the strings as low as possible. The main thing that I need on my basses is for the space between the strings and the pick guard to be wide enough so that only the tips of my fingers can fit.
The main two guys that totally influenced me were Mark Adams from Slave and Bernard Edward's from chic. These two guys were the masters of what I call the "flashy groove" Then there's p-funk, Earth Wind & Fire, Jaco, Stanley Clarke, Kim Clarke, Louis Johnson and all the local cats from around the way.
During one of our tours we shared the stage with bela fleck, and after the show I hunted Vic down and asked him to show me everything he could before our tour bus took off. That one hour changed my playing forever. I was already doing the double thumb thingy. but Vic had taking the plucking part to another level. I was in a total rut at that point and now i had something to do. I was working on that stuff all day and night for two years. Thanks to Vic for being a cool dude.
well thats pretty much everything
take care
mark white
When I make up bass lines I totally use the "Force", I only try to make it groove and fun to play. I also make sure I can play them with my fingers one day and with my thumb the next, this way I don't get burned out playing the same tunes night after night.
Right now i'm back playing with the spins. I also have a solo CD . it's mostly stuff i wrote when I first started playing bass. The first bass I had was an epiphone short scale bass with really flat and extra beyond the dead, strings. Because of those dead strings I wrote lots of easy sounding stuff. So, since I had a lot of time off, I decided to listen to some old tapes and turn that stuff into
songs.
With the spins I like to use Eden and SWR.
When i 'm doing gigs with other people and I don't have to be as loud as a jet plane I use a EBS GORM combo thingy with 300 watts.
because I'm a freak when it comes to the way my basses are set up, I just can't play any kind of bass. I have to have all my basses set like my original epiphone bass. (how sad) and believe me it's a total pain.. With my Musicman basses, I have the neck lowered until the dots are just above the body and then I have a another pick guard made as thick as a pancake, then I try to get the strings as low as possible. The main thing that I need on my basses is for the space between the strings and the pick guard to be wide enough so that only the tips of my fingers can fit.
The main two guys that totally influenced me were Mark Adams from Slave and Bernard Edward's from chic. These two guys were the masters of what I call the "flashy groove" Then there's p-funk, Earth Wind & Fire, Jaco, Stanley Clarke, Kim Clarke, Louis Johnson and all the local cats from around the way.
During one of our tours we shared the stage with bela fleck, and after the show I hunted Vic down and asked him to show me everything he could before our tour bus took off. That one hour changed my playing forever. I was already doing the double thumb thingy. but Vic had taking the plucking part to another level. I was in a total rut at that point and now i had something to do. I was working on that stuff all day and night for two years. Thanks to Vic for being a cool dude.
well thats pretty much everything
take care
mark white
WOW!
Is that really Mark White?
I`ve always thought the Spin Doctors made some
great music.Your basslines are golden Mr. Mark.
I`m ashamed to admit I did`nt even know your name before this thread.....but I have always
enjoyed your work with the dr.s I`ll have to check out your solo stuff too.
Usul
Is that really Mark White?
I`ve always thought the Spin Doctors made some
great music.Your basslines are golden Mr. Mark.
I`m ashamed to admit I did`nt even know your name before this thread.....but I have always
enjoyed your work with the dr.s I`ll have to check out your solo stuff too.
Usul
Hey, Mark. Great to see you posting here.
I remember seeing you in a couple of ads for Treker basses (I hope I'm remembering this correctly).
Have you owned or played a Treker? WHat were your impressions?
I just bought a Treker Prostar 5 string today.
I remember seeing you in a couple of ads for Treker basses (I hope I'm remembering this correctly).
Have you owned or played a Treker? WHat were your impressions?
I just bought a Treker Prostar 5 string today.
I had a six string Treker made for me but since i'm such a freak with the whole setting up of the basses, i couldn't play it all. I did everything I could think of to get that thing to work for me, but nothing work. I think it's still at the drummers house
take care
mark white
take care
mark white
Would you mind if I asked what was it about the bass that didn't work fir you?
I saw it on Treker's website. It looks nice enough.
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I saw it on Treker's website. It looks nice enough.
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I remember the action being to high and the neck didn't feel right. But what really made the whole bass a pain was that bottom horn, instead of fitting over your leg, it dug right into it. ouch! I could only play that bass for about ten minutes and then it was on to something else. It does look nice. I'm not a big fan of more then four strings, but I do have two MTD six strings which are really great.
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mark white
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mark white
hey Mark!
welcome to talkbass!
first: i LOOOOOOVE your work on "Homebelly Groove Live"... for some strange reason i just cant remove that cd of my player! really!
second: which would you consider your "best" performance on a studio recording (with Spin Doctors or anywhere else)
welcome to talkbass!
first: i LOOOOOOVE your work on "Homebelly Groove Live"... for some strange reason i just cant remove that cd of my player! really!
second: which would you consider your "best" performance on a studio recording (with Spin Doctors or anywhere else)
I think my best stuff is on homebelly, and that's because I totally forgot we were making a live album. I play better live (i think ) then in the studio.
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mark
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mark
Hey Mark
first of all check my profile in "Influences"; second thank you for the bass' line in "Cleopatra's Cat", it was a eye opener for me.
Hope to hear you again very soon!!!
first of all check my profile in "Influences"; second thank you for the bass' line in "Cleopatra's Cat", it was a eye opener for me.
Hope to hear you again very soon!!!
