I'd like to add that those old disco bands were (at least) 9 pieces; there was no 'looping' of bass parts, and no 'autotune' for Donna's voice.
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RIP Donna Summer - The bassists thread...
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Dave King here. I played the bass (and created the bass line) on Donna's first hit - 20 million copies sold worldwide "Love To Love You Baby". The reason I just found this post was, yesterday I did an interview for a documentary film, for the European TV station ARTE, on Donna Summer's career. The song was on the US charts for 14 weeks, 12/20/75 and reached number 2. The documentary will be broadcasted here in Europe in August 2013. www.youtube.com/funkman53
Dave, Thanks for the update... I've read and seen Donna talk about how reluctant she was when releasing this single. She stated that she felt the moans and groans were against her personal beliefs, but Giorgio Moroder really pushed for its release. I wonder what it was like to work with him???
Anyway, I look forward to seeing your documentary!
Miss Donna. One of the bands I was in before it crashed and burned was planning on doing She Works Hard for the Money with the lyrics slightly rewritten to reference bar keeps and waitstaff. Interesting bass line to learn! I know some of the studio versions were done with synth bass, but most live versions use bass guitar...
Hey Dave thanks for posting, I loved Donna's work, I was a kid at the time but even then she had me memorized, lol. On another note,what an iconic bassline, thanks.
We've done Love to Love you Baby, Hot Stuff & Bad Girls for years.
Growing up here in Tasmania, we didn't get a lotta soul, funk etc on our radio, but thanks to Disco, I was gratefully exposed to wonderful, big funk bands regularly.
Many years were spent sitting in my room playing along with EVERYTHING that was played on the AM radio (no fm here then) - when I probly SHOULD'VE been doing my school homework
Donna Summer, Hues Corp. Bee Gees etc widened my music boundaries to the funky side of things.
From there, as I matured, Parliament, James Brown, Kool & the Gang then Sly & Robbie with Grace Jones.
This all gave me a terrific ear too, amongst other things.
Thanks to all those involved with making all that great music:thumbup:
Growing up here in Tasmania, we didn't get a lotta soul, funk etc on our radio, but thanks to Disco, I was gratefully exposed to wonderful, big funk bands regularly.
Many years were spent sitting in my room playing along with EVERYTHING that was played on the AM radio (no fm here then) - when I probly SHOULD'VE been doing my school homework
Donna Summer, Hues Corp. Bee Gees etc widened my music boundaries to the funky side of things.
From there, as I matured, Parliament, James Brown, Kool & the Gang then Sly & Robbie with Grace Jones.
This all gave me a terrific ear too, amongst other things.
Thanks to all those involved with making all that great music:thumbup:
Wikipedia lists only two bassists for the album: Gary Unwin – bass, Les Hurdle - bass...
So, if Les would like to chime in here, that would help for you.
Sorry to resurrect this thread but...
I have just been Googling around looking for info on the Bassists that played on Donna Summer recordings and the late, great, Scott Edwards name appeared and was credited on a couple of tracks.
There is no mention on this thread about him (well, there is now).
I have just been Googling around looking for info on the Bassists that played on Donna Summer recordings and the late, great, Scott Edwards name appeared and was credited on a couple of tracks.
There is no mention on this thread about him (well, there is now).
