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New Bears CD EUREKA

#3
WOW! Best effort yet!

Bob, your basses sounds incredible. Your lines seem to have reached a new level of maturity.

I'm nearing the end of my first listen through and I cannot wait to start it over :bassist:

I love Adrian's flavor in this... but it doesn't sound like an "Adrian Belew" record. Definitely a well rounded recording, I can hear each of you as strong as the others.

Once again... The bass is HUGE Bob! I cannot wait to try to figure these tunes out. "We Never Close" may take a while :eek: My hands cramped up 1/2 way through listening to it :D
 
#4
James Hart said:
WOW! Best effort yet!

Bob, your basses sounds incredible. Your lines seem to have reached a new level of maturity.

I'm nearing the end of my first listen through and I cannot wait to start it over :bassist:

I love Adrian's flavor in this... but it doesn't sound like an "Adrian Belew" record. Definitely a well rounded recording, I can hear each of you as strong as the others.

Once again... The bass is HUGE Bob! I cannot wait to try to figure these tunes out. "We Never Close" may take a while :eek: My hands cramped up 1/2 way through listening to it :D
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Thanks much, amigo. We Never Close is on my fender fretless. :bassist:
 
#6
James Hart said:
I hear a lot of fretless... I hear the electric upright too.

Can you run down the tracks an what basses you've played?

(I'm almost through my second listening... this is good stuff!)
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My pleasure -

Zelda - fretted fender and bowed upright
Veneer - fender fretless
On - " "
Troubled Beauty- Englehart upright
Normal - rick 4001
We Never Close - fender fretless
Think - fretted fender
Keep Your Own Counsel - rick 4001
Idiot in the Sky - fender fretless
Doodle - Clevinger EUB
Comin 'round the Mountain - fender fretless

It's all DI except for the upright.
 
#13
James Hart said:
So how did you record that? I just bought one and I'd love to be able to get that good of a tone recorded out of it.
(assuming I could make it sound THAT good acoustically)

That is a tasty little solo you do at the end of the tune.
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That was just a big condensor mike (Rhode or AKG, I can't remember) near the f hole a little south of the bridge. That track started life as a demo that Chris recorded up here - we wound up keeping the bass from it.


Thanks very much for listening, guys. :D
 
#15
Freaky Fender said:
Way to give me a heart attack. I had no idea you were actually with the band.

When you say DI, you mean directly into the board, or did you use a DI box? What kind? Come oooooon we need more details here! (Oh, the tracks sound excellent)
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I'm not sure what kind of DI it was - I've never been able to tell much difference as long as it's not a POS. Sadly, our engineer (Ken Latchney) who did the tracking passed away last summer (heart attack). He was running the bass through a nice tube pre with a touch of compression, but nothing heroic. My fender jazz special basses are are stock except the fretless has barts on it. Ken had cut Tony Levin, Les Claypool & Trey Gunn - & he always told me it has a lot more to do with the player than anything he did.
 
#16
nysbob said:
I'm not sure what kind of DI it was - I've never been able to tell much difference as long as it's not a POS. Sadly, our engineer (Ken Latchney) who did the tracking passed away last summer (heart attack). He was running the bass through a nice tube pre with a touch of compression, but nothing heroic. My fender jazz special basses are are stock except the fretless has barts on it. Ken had cut Tony Levin, Les Claypool & Trey Gunn - & he always told me it has a lot more to do with the player than anything he did.
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Whats up fellow barts-in-a-jazz-bass buddy?

I heard about Ken Latchney (My father and I are pretty big fans of Adrian and everything he's had his hands in [Zappa, Crimson, The Bears] and we were pretty depressed by the news... ) and didn't know he was working on the album. I understand the thought process behind the DI though. It's just that as long as it wasn't a Behringer or anything, but it's Ken Latchney, so I shall shut my mouth and dare not question his greatness anymore.
 
#17
This record is really Ken's last baby. I was pretty torn up when he passed - I only saw him when we were working together, but we were pretty tight...we'd hang back at hotel & such. He was a good friend and a great talent behind the board. My wife Laura loved him too. It's going to be really strange not having him with us on these dates.
 
#19
keb said:
Wow, good stuff! Definitely on my shopping list. Thanks for the music, Bob. The earlier Bears records were an inspiration to me way back when.
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Thanks! We approached this record a little differently...it was less constricting on me for sure. We'd basically hear the tunes a couple times (demoed or played be the writer) and then go have it - so it's pretty immediate and fresh sounding as a result. There are some textural overdubs, but we really tried make it sound like something done live.
 

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