Thunderbird Club

[ectoflanger]

The '80s saw a lot of interesting bass work - I consider the '80s as the decade of bass up front.

Didn't know that one although I am familiar with his Camphor album which has a song called "Red Deer". My favorite off that actually has little to no bass on it- a song called "Answered Prayers"

But yes there was some great stuff in the 80's particularly fretless work in pop songs-

But they weren't necessarily fast and technical- like Dan K. Brown's work on The Fixx's Walkabout album- I tell it had me GAS'ing for the one bass that got away- the Wal MK II fretless 5-

 

[GonePlaid]

There are still cabins available for the outlaw country cruise Little Steven is hosting. I will not be going.

Me too neither. I did my last cruise in '67.

 

[ectoflanger]

This a fun one to learn and play along with-

 

[GonePlaid]

Surf and turf Friday

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Turf, yes; surf, no.

 

[BuddhaFingas]

Considering black tape wounds for the fretless build... since I used up my EBCFs on the new 'bird.
Got to be kinder to the rosewood, but I've no clue how they would sound.

Anyone got good experiences to share?

 

[GonePlaid]

This is my favorite Bowie period (yes, more than Ziggy etc) because I loved his band/musicians then including Gayle Ann Dorsey on bass and Earl Slick on guitar. No pomp, no theatrics - just solid ensemble playing all around. I bet he loved it too as it was stripped down to musicianship.

Never got into Bowie(ducks the various projectiles).

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

a little "Tricolore" action.....

 

[GonePlaid]

Considering black tape wounds for the fretless build... since I used up my EBCFs on the new 'bird.
Got to be kinder to the rosewood, but I've no clue how they would sound.

Anyone got good experiences to share?

I have tape wounds on my Ibanez AGB 200 which I use in situations where I need(ed) to sound more UB-y. They sound great.

 

[JIO]

Never got into Bowie(ducks the various projectiles).

That's ok Mike... plenty of others have.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

This a fun one to learn and play along with-

sweet....that one can be pretty accurately faked with a pick if you don't have the pizzicato stamina..... not so the case with "Paradise" with the way it jumps strings imho....

 

[BuddhaFingas]

I have tape wounds on my Ibanez AGB 200 which I use in situations where I need(ed) to sound more UB-y. They sound great.

What brand etc?

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

They’re a little different in Argentina. Ask Chuck.

staying out of this one...... didn't really need a pic of that hideous bass and surroundings.....

 

[JIO]

sweet....that one can be pretty accurately faked with a pick if you don't have the pizzicato stamina..... not so the case with "Paradise" with the way it jumps strings imho....

I copped it pretty quickly with a pick - very repetitive, but I pride myself on holding such in time w/the drummer... if there's anything I do well, it's keeping in time. I love playing with drummers who are at that level.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

I copped it pretty quickly with a pick - very repetitive, but I pride myself on holding such in time w/the drummer... if there's anything I do well, it's keeping in time. I love playing with drummers who are at that level.

clip pls..

 

[PhR75]

No need to apologize - I liked it from the first bar. Love the percussion groove and atmospheric soundscape. Reminds me a bit of Ozric Tentacles which I hope you'll take as a compliment.

Why, sure! Thanks! Great band and now that you mention it there is some similarities indeed even 'though I didn't think of them at all when I put that together.

It also brought back some memories. Ozric Tentacles performed here in the early 2000's at the Imatra Big Band Festival...and I couldn't go since I had a gig of my own. At least I got to see Gong the previous year.

 

[PhR75]

Recent discussions call to mind Eberhard Weber, electiric upright bassist whom I first discovered through his work on Kate Bush's Mother Stands for Comfort.
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Love his work. "Yellow Fields" is such a perfect autumn album (especially if it rains). And Rainer Bruninghaus' "Freigeweight" works when it's starting to get below zero (celcius). Weber alumni but the album has no bassist!
Listened to a lot of Terje Rypdal lately, the autumn is great time of the year for that. "Waves" and "Rypdal Vitous DeJohnette" especially.

I hope this doesn't sound or appear as pretentious but this track of mine was pretty much influenced by the sounds of those 70's Rypdal albums. Even the title is a lift off of "Over Birkerot".

 

[GonePlaid]

What brand etc?

IIRC D'Addario medium scale. They've been on it a looong time.

 

[Stealth57]

Blast off Saturday.

 

[GonePlaid]

Truth be told, my mind is always looking for a challenge, and as such as soon as it perceives something as routine it starts to focus on the next challenge. In other words, I personally would find it incredibly difficult to nail this song if I didn’t completely focus on the repetitive riff. As our Queen said, I’d seriously have to fight off the urge to not wander to HVAC problems or other non related thoughts. Chuck is right, it’s much harder to pull off perfectly than one would think.
I haven’t ever tried to play that Sade song but a song that I have played that has similar challenges for me is Time is Tight. Duck gets my respect for making something that sounds so simple look so simple as well, I’d be laser focused on my left hand and the drummer the entire time.

Speaking of "Time Is Tight", this was our band playing it on a gig. We didn't have a keyboard. One of our guitarists was using an EHX B9 organ simulator.

 

[MCF]

Truth be told, my mind is always looking for a challenge, and as such as soon as it perceives something as routine it starts to focus on the next challenge. In other words, I personally would find it incredibly difficult to nail this song if I didn’t completely focus on the repetitive riff. As our Queen said, I’d seriously have to fight off the urge to not wander to HVAC problems or other non related thoughts. Chuck is right, it’s much harder to pull off perfectly than one would think.
I haven’t ever tried to play that Sade song but a song that I have played that has similar challenges for me is Time is Tight. Duck gets my respect for making something that sounds so simple look so simple as well, I’d be laser focused on my left hand and the drummer the entire time.

Yeah. Take a song like Don’t Get Me Wrong. Super simple. But really easy to mess up the timing.

Time is Tight is one of my warmups. A simple song, but it took awhile to get committed to muscle memory.

Another simple song: