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Yeah, I will be skipping amateur night on the roads for sure.I got my can of ginger ale ready to bring in the New Year.
Probably be asleep before all the stupidity here.
They'll all wake me up and i'll be yelling, get off my fire-escape.
started last night’s set with my P into the Asdown into the 2 x 12s…..sounded great…come time for the second set, I just strapped on the Greco with no tweak to the EQ (silly me) and it was like WHOA!! didn’t know these speakers had excursions like that! back off the bass control! quick!
Mel Schacher... yup. His basswork on American Band is something. Duck too. Less familiar with the other 2, apart from Peter Cetera's amazing voice.
Myself, I tend to be drawn to rock bassists/vocalists, JJ being an exception among them. Guys like Geddy Lee, Michael Anthony, Paul McCartney, CF Turner (BTO) and also Breen LeBoeuf, a Franco-Ontarian that moved to Montreal in the 70s and to hold the low-end for the band Offenbach, a band who mostly did french-language hard-rock, with an occasionnal english outing. He wasn't the main singer in that band (Keyboardist Gerry Boulet was, as well as BL) and they were never well-known outside the french-canadian market, but these guys rocked it as solid as it came and Breen even backed Celine Dion at one point later in his career, that's how good a singer he is. I'm nowhere these guys of course and simply associating myself with such a lot could be considered blasphemy, but I work hard at providing both solid bass and decent backvocals in the current band (Journey, Loverboy, BonJovi et al covers) and the occasional main vox in other projects, so these guys are what I'm shooting at. Lifelong process.
Breen sings this one lead (english)
Someone on the Line - YouTube
As well as this one (french)
Offenbach - L'ultime - 11 - Rock De V'lours - YouTube
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No BFD. There are so many that we heard over the years that we liked-or didn't-and attempted to emulate.
hell of a nice guy too….so humble and down to earth..Oui, Alain Cusson de Uzeb.
This guy, like his 2 Uzeb cohorts, are legends in our little province and inspired a lot of young kids to pick the bass up 'cause it could do more thant duh duh-duh * duh-duh duh. Me, I'm good with the duh part
Yeah. No NYE gig so no go out. Oh. Currently 80F and sunny.
briefly at 2019 NAMM….chill..
will you be including the last episode of Obi-Wan and Rogue One in there?
Similarly I grew up listening to James Jamerson, Carol Kaye, Duck Dunn et al without knowing who they were, but recognizing how cool those bass lines were. It’s not until the last decade or so that I got many opportunities to play any of that music. I’m in a Motown/R&B band now and it’s so much fun!Growing up in the late 60s/early 70s, my parents had a few records and a large portion of those records were Motown, with some Beatles, which is what my Mom listened to. I was exposed early at music that moved and remember playing air drums on the couch to that music, 'cause I was gonna be that fantastic drumner, see? Fast forward to 2008 and I start playing bass and get into understanding where those sounds came from and who'n'what makes'em. Then I start hanging out here and get those answers and one of those answers was James Jamerson and I finally understand he was the guy that made the music move when I listened to those records as an 8-10 y.o. and also read about the Jamerson/McCartney connection. I don't play Motown (or Beatles) stuff with the current band, but I regard JJ as being the one that made me notice the bass as an instrument, even if it took me 35 years to figure it out.
