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Tal Wilkenfeld, who's like her?

#81
king_biscuit said:
Same with Rhonda! Jeff obviously has a thing for pretty girls :)

Tal and Rhonda are both competent players that can handle the gig, I don't see any issue here.
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No kidding. There seems to be this idea on some people's parts that only the most virtuosic bassists should be getting certain gigs - gigs that don't require virtuosity on the bass. In most settings, bass "virtuosity" is irrelevant. The bass playing needs to work - needs to feel good - and the player has to be responsible and nice to be around.
 
#82
bass12 said:
No kidding. There seems to be this idea on some people's parts that only the most virtuosic bassists should be getting certain gigs - gigs that don't require virtuosity on the bass. In most settings, bass "virtuosity" is irrelevant. The bass playing needs to work - needs to feel good - and the player has to be responsible and nice to be around.
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This. And players who deliver the goods will work far more than the "innovators" and "bass heros" ever will.
 
#85
joe vegas said:
With that, are you surely so certain that some little T&A "tighty-tops sans brassiere" factor wasn't at all thought into the marketing package? I'm NOT talking "playing chops" here, I'm talking strictly PR buzz. You've been around long enough to have seen that "the legendary upper horn" is what half the TBers on Tal threads mention!! (some in sorta-code, some directly) And of course it's not a BAD thing. But let's not be so NPR-PC that we have to pretend that the "bra-less mammary in the tighty-top draped o'er the portside bow" is strictly ergonomics!
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I don't think there was any thought in it at all. She always wear's her bass like that.
But lets say is was some marketing thing, whoever it was must of been fired because a few months later at the ronnie scotts gig she was wearing two shirts and probably two bras so it wouldn't happen again ;)






And if Tal Wilkenfeld looked exactly like Rosie O'Donnell, I wonder if... well, never mind.
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we'll never know :)
 
#95
Joe Nerve said:
I had the incredible (for me anyhow) experience of hearing Tal, before she was known, at NAMM the year everyone else also noticed her. For anyone who's never been to NAMM, imagine a guitar center, X 1000, with thousands of people wanking away and checking out gear. Only they're not 14 year old wanna-bes. They're mostly successful, incredibly talented players. The kind of players that make you want to throw your gear out the window, and go home and cry. :)

Anyhow, after a couple of days of this you become immune to it...

I was looking at something at a booth, and around the corner (out of my line of vision) was someone wanking away on a bass, but it sounded freaking awesome. Soulful, tunerful, musical.... awesome enough that I had to see who was playing. Sorry for the stereotype, but I pictured an old fat black dude, and I can't tell you how freakin surprised I was to see this little girl. She was drawing a small crowd of others that were equally amazed. 6 months later she was popping up all over the place.

I'm putting this out there because if I didn't have that experience I might think that Tal's success came mostly from the fact that she's a cute kid. That girl is one of the greatest players I ever heard, period. Her cuteness is just a small part of the package. It helps, I'm sure, but I'm equally sure she'd be just as succesful regardless of the package she came in. :)
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Great story!
 
#98
JimK said:
Lee had come to NYC (1971) to audition/replace Chuck Rainey in Dreams (a pre-Brecker Brothers ensemble with Billy Cobham).
Around '73, Lee is doing a "Spectrum" demo with Cobham, John Aebercrombie, & Jan Hammer. Lee sez he assume that meant he would be playing on the album.
So...Lee happens to go by the studio & he hears some familiar stuff goin' down...it is tracks from Spectrum with Sklar, Hammer & Tommy Bolin.
Lee asks Cobham & gets this-
"Billy later told me that my sound was not happening..."
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Total thread digression here, but:
Does anybody else find that story incredibly ironic, given all the butthurt whining that Billy Cobham made when he didn't get hired for the 1980s edition Mahavishnu tour?

Man, talk about What Goes 'Round Comes 'Round.
 
#99
Roscoe East said:
Total thread digression here, but:
Does anybody else find that story incredibly ironic, given all the butthurt whining that Billy Cobham made when he didn't get hired for the 1980s edition Mahavishnu tour?

Man, talk about What Goes 'Round Comes 'Round.
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How so?

Cobham said that Lee's sound wasn't happening. And it seems like Will may have realized that at some point.
 

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