No mention yet of Sir Julian...
Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes. I saw this band a couple of times - what a showman...
Julian Cope of Teardrop Explodes. I saw this band a couple of times - what a showman...
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New Wave / Punk forebears...
- Thread starter Muddslide
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I have not read every post, so that may be redundant (sorry..), but there are quite a few postpunk bassists whom i believe are real good songwriters and/or bassists :
- Larry Cassidy of Section 25 (Their earliest stuff ''Always Now'' & ''The Key Of Dreams'' has great basslines, where as ''From The Hip'' from 1984 is much more pre-Acid House/electro).
- Jez Kerr of A Certain Ratio (Solid postpunk band with lots of funk from Factory Records, still going strong!)
-Craig Adams of The Sisters Of Mercy (The very earliest stuff (1980-1983 - ''Some Sisters Wander By Mistake'' album and era) sounds to me anyway much more postpunk than goth. They always championed Suicide, The Stooges, Motorhead and Leonard Cohen more than anything else and defined themselves as rock and roll more than any other genres of music...)
..................and probably a lot more talented bass players i do not know about, who either played postpunk in late 70's/early 80's.........or who play postpunk in the 2000's and beyond !
- Larry Cassidy of Section 25 (Their earliest stuff ''Always Now'' & ''The Key Of Dreams'' has great basslines, where as ''From The Hip'' from 1984 is much more pre-Acid House/electro).
- Jez Kerr of A Certain Ratio (Solid postpunk band with lots of funk from Factory Records, still going strong!)
-Craig Adams of The Sisters Of Mercy (The very earliest stuff (1980-1983 - ''Some Sisters Wander By Mistake'' album and era) sounds to me anyway much more postpunk than goth. They always championed Suicide, The Stooges, Motorhead and Leonard Cohen more than anything else and defined themselves as rock and roll more than any other genres of music...)
..................and probably a lot more talented bass players i do not know about, who either played postpunk in late 70's/early 80's.........or who play postpunk in the 2000's and beyond !
Excellent band and a very cool bass player. Thanks for the memories...
I saw The Fixx a couple of weeks ago. Fantastic show. Real pros who know how to bring it. Cy's voice is stronger than ever and he and guitarist Jamie have huge stage presence. Dan K. Brown with his headless bass stood motionless next to the drum kit as expected lol.
I saw Mercyland play in someone’s living room sometime around ~1988. David Barbe was playing a blue Ric.
I think so? Can't remember for sure. They played Deeper and Deeper which was really cool. They extended it a bit and let Jamie rock out on the guitar and make it heavier.
THE DAMNED who were the original British punk band turned 'new wave' in their later years and then also had some really good bass lines; I used to believe it had always been Captain Sensible playing bass for them, but he's actually switched to guitar by that time, and they had several different bassists then also, like this fella called Paul Gray:
Earlier, Gray made his mark with this band(and on this classic song)...
...as well as on Johnny Thunders’ iconic first solo album...
Also spending some time in UFO.
Then there’s Mr. Kilmister’s guest shot with The Damned...
https://youtu.be/TknY89kECq0
Thank you for sharing those songs, Michedelic! I hadn't heard that original of 'Do Anything...' before, only the version by Manfred Mann's Earth Band! Really liking the Hot Rod's version!
Good to see ACR getting some love! Don Johnson (ACR drummer) is also pretty handy on bass.
Eric's Alumni (Eric's was a club in Liverpool, and bizarrely, just across the road from the Cavern, made famous by another Liverpool band).
Paul Gray is playing for The Damned again on their latest album "Evil Spirits" & touring with them. Great player.
They played my hometown in March '83. Dave Vanian made it his business to wander around the town all afternoon looking like Count Dracula. Quite a sight. The gig was excellent, but no Sensible, of course.
Johnny Marr gets a lot of love and rightfully so, but the Smiths would have been a very different band without Andy Rourke. Whoever wrote those lines he did a really good job playing them.
I love Gary “Mani” Moufield’s playing on the 1989 Stone Roses debut. Such great simple hooks. I can only imagine what it must be like to play bass with Reni. One of my favorite rock drummers of all time.
Tina Weymoth has been mentioned many times in this thread I see. Good. She is awesome.
I love Gary “Mani” Moufield’s playing on the 1989 Stone Roses debut. Such great simple hooks. I can only imagine what it must be like to play bass with Reni. One of my favorite rock drummers of all time.
Tina Weymoth has been mentioned many times in this thread I see. Good. She is awesome.
That Stone Roses album is one of my desert island discs. When my brother-in-law and I hang out we'll play some Stone Roses, him on guitar, me on bass. Love the drumming on the album too ("She Bangs the Drums" and "I Am the Resurrection" especially).
I've mentioned Paul Gardiner (Gary Numan/Tubeway Army) before in other threads, but he needs a mention here also, IMHO.
...and from the same gig with the inimitable "Nash The Slash" on electric violin...
...and from the same gig with the inimitable "Nash The Slash" on electric violin...
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