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Pino and the RARHOF....

#47
Randy Newton said:
he's a session bassist allright and proly one of the most versatile of em but he aint a number one hit player and once again, he hasn't had as many major contributions to so many musical styles.
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I'm not going to get into a argument over this but Doug has played on his share of hits. And contributed songwriting as well as producer skills to many recordings. His contributions to many major musical styles is well documented. And he even has a career as a band leader as well as a solo artist.


Before Darryl Jones became the bassist for the Rolling Stones. Doug was asked by Mick Jagger to fill the bass chair but turned it down.

And Doug is considered by many in the industry as the architect of hip hop bass.
 
#51
JAUQO III-X said:
Randy a musician playing on a number one hit does not constitute some type of greatness over a musician who hasn't.

Sideman work is just that. 90% of the time no one involved in the making of a particular song even knows it will become a hit.
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i knew someone'd say that; ok then, for instance why is it him and not someone else who plays on Cee Lo's **** You?
 
#56
Randy Newton said:
i knew someone'd say that; ok then, for instance why is it him and not someone else who plays on Cee Lo's **** You?
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There's three electric bass players and one acoustic bass player credited on that cd. Do you know for a fact that Pino is playing bass on that track?


And it really doesn't matter because, it's a single released from that particular CD. What will you say when they release another single from the same CD and Pino's not on it?

Would you then feel that they dissed Pino?


Sounds to me like you woke up very recently and discovered Pino not knowing or wanting to believe that there was bass in r&B and hip hop before there was Pino.

And playing nice bass lines and then calling it hip hop isn't rocket science
 
#60
Pino's a great player who has had a nice run and has benefited from being in the right place at the right time with several different artist over the last several years. I found what he was doing during the Paul young era more interesting in the sense that he was playing with a lyrical feel on pop tunes on fretless,something Jaco had done with Joni Mitchell years before.He hooked up with D'Angelo because D'Angelo liked what he did with Paul young but by that point he was playing less fretless (I read a interview that he didn't want to become typecast) He met John Mayer through Questlove who he met working on Voodoo with D'Angelo which hooked him up into a whole other scene with the Neo-soul thing.

You can go to Okayplayer.com and read what Questlove say's about Pino and get somewhat of a timeline of their relationship but my point is Pino has had a nice run of going from situation to situation but not because he is doing anything amazing or innovative,in fact it's the opposite,he blends in to a variety of situations.

I love TB as a community but I will never understand why instead of people just saying "I enjoy and admire player X" they feel the need to say "player X will never be as good or successful as Player Y "
 

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