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Some Lee Sklar for you

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I bought the DVD of those guys then of course PBS ran the concert on the recent pledge drive. It's great to see those guys back together again!
 
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I have to say that I thought that JT's voice was off a bit too, but let's be fair it was in the morning so we can cut them both some slack. I did wonder if Lee would have broken out his Frankenbass, but he is now pretty much Mr Dingwall and he makes me want one.
 
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Ezbass said:
I have to say that I thought that JT's voice was off a bit too, but let's be fair it was in the morning so we can cut them both some slack. I did wonder if Lee would have broken out his Frankenbass, but he is now pretty much Mr Dingwall and he makes me want one.
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He uses the double P-pickup Franken bass on the DVD.:bassist:
 
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Saw Lee in concert with JT and Carol King in Boston last night(awesome concert with everyone in fine voice).

Lee used his Dingwall the entire time. I noticed his EA cab was mic'ed (I'm sure he was using the DI as well). He was HUGE in the mix.
 
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I saw JT and Carol King in Philly the last week and it was surprisingly very good! Vocals were beautiful and Lee Sklar is one of the most tasteful and supporting bassists ever to live. Blue dingwall, great note choice and manages to cover some ground without making himself the center of attention. NOICE!
 
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kobass said:
Lee used his Dingwall the entire time. I noticed his EA cab was mic'ed (I'm sure he was using the DI as well). He was HUGE in the mix.
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This music has so much space in it. There's a lot of musical information, but everything breathes. Everything isn't competing with everything else. So much music today sounds like a shouting match, where every element is yelling at the same time. I can sometimes respect how, like a puzzle, modern mixes interlock so tightly, but it's mostly suffocating after a while. This is refreshing.
 
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Red Four said:
This music has so much space in it. There's a lot of musical information, but everything breathes. Everything isn't competing with everything else... ...This is refreshing.
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In one of the interviews I once saw with Lee, he was asked what he missed the most about the "good ol' days" of working in the studio back in the 70's. He talked about how the whole process of working on a project used to be so organic as to "let the music breathe naturally" as everyone interacted so freely with one another to make it all work together. Today's studios, according to Lee's sentiment, have become way too "mechanical" (or "metronomical") in the sense everyone is under so much pressure to "get in, get it done and get out".
 
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