• TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
    Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
    Join free Log in
    Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.

more Reggae bass player names needed:

#27
DrumsAndBass said:
Now I need to look up all these names. That's good. Steel Pulse has a bass player now, I think it's Amlak T. I don't know how to spell his name but the boys' got groove.
Click to expand...

Do you happen to mean Amlak Tafari. Here he is with Don Carlos and he's having a "solo" spot in that song. He seems to groove the pocket deeper an' deeper, though I don't know if 'groove' and 'pocket' are relevant words within reggae.

 
#29
Sounbwoy said:
Groove and Pocket are indeed relevant. It's music. What would make you think it might not be?
Click to expand...

People understand those concepts of 'groove' and 'in the pocket' very differently. I must be one of the most narrow-minded persons I know, so I try to explain my point of view.
To me 'in the pocket' is the tightness of this:



Even tighter. I was near to shout "in da pocket" when listening it, though in reggae there must always be perfect drum/bass synchronization as a norm.
 
#32
OnTheOneBaby said:
People understand those concepts of 'groove' and 'in the pocket' very differently. I must be one of the most narrow-minded persons I know, so I try to explain my point of view.
To me 'in the pocket' is the tightness of this:



Even tighter. I was near to shout "in da pocket" when listening it, though in reggae there must always be perfect drum/bass synchronization as a norm.
Click to expand...


I hear you and your examples are excellent. My comment was not intended to say that you're narrow-minded either. Now, with that out of the way, all I'll say that as far back as I can remember, being the in pocket meant that it was Groovy AND in the Pocket; you were locked in, but that doesn't mean that you're playing with metronomical (!!) precision BUT you aren't so far off that you're throwing everyone else off and THEN, NOT being groovy.
Also, having played reggae for quite a long time now, I can say that there doesn't always have to be bass/drum synchronization as you say. Listen to some of Family Man's playing and you should see/hear that many times he's slightly behind the beat. Fams' playing is pocket AND Groovy. There is room to experiment AS LONG as you don't throw anyone else off. My two cents!
 
#33
Sounbwoy said:
I hear you and your examples are excellent. My comment was not intended to say that you're narrow-minded either. Now, with that out of the way, all I'll say that as far back as I can remember, being the in pocket meant that it was Groovy AND in the Pocket; you were locked in, but that doesn't mean that you're playing with metronomical (!!) precision BUT you aren't so far off that you're throwing everyone else off and THEN, NOT being groovy. !
Click to expand...

You've got quite a fine definition of pocket playing. With that synchro thing I tried to mean the same as you, you can be far off but all the players must be on the basic pulse.
Which reminds me a Culture concert in the 90's, where in some pieces not only the band but also the whole audience was locked on the same pulse. That was quite awesome as you can imagine.

Sounbwoy said:
Also, having played reggae for quite a long time now, I can say that there doesn't always have to be bass/drum synchronization as you say. Listen to some of Family Man's playing and you should see/hear that many times he's slightly behind the beat. Fams' playing is pocket AND Groovy. There is room to experiment AS LONG as you don't throw anyone else off. My two cents!
Click to expand...

Ashton Barrett is a great bass player. I may not be so keen on his playing with Marley, because it was more like backing a singer /songwriter.
I'd like to present what he did at early seventies and at early eighties in other context.

With Augustus Pablo.
 

Latest posts

Top Bottom
Back