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Timothy Schmit

#42
It is a rock show. It looks cool. Does a jazz bass sound that different from a P bass or gibson in an arena. No. But it looks cool. Geddy only used a few basses on tour for most of his career. On their final tour he changed basses every song. Did they honestly sound that different. No. But they looked cool.
 
#43
Joebone said:
It's all about testing for attention to detail - like the "No brown M&Ms" rider in Van Halen contracts of a certain vintage..
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That rider detail was reportedly a safety thing - there are a lot of dangerous things in a tour rig, and they buried the no brown M&M's request in the details of electrical specs or whatever. If they saw brown M&M's, they would know that the subcontractors hadn't read the contracts carefully, and as a result, they'd look closely to make sure things were safe.
 
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K-man said:
It is a rock show. It looks cool. Does a jazz bass sound that different from a P bass or gibson in an arena. No. But it looks cool. Geddy only used a few basses on tour for most of his career. On their final tour he changed basses every song. Did they honestly sound that different. No. But they looked cool.
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On later tours, Rush played some of their earlier stuff in E flat tuning, some in D, and some in standard tuning - mostly to not overtax Geddy's voice. Some of the guitar and bass switching may have been due to that.
 
#50
Andy Mopley said:
during a show I just saw, he changed almost to a different bass for every song the Eagles played..what's the deal with that??
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So I will be the first to ask,"What were the basses he used?"..I can only assume that from what I know and what I have seen, we are talking a Fender Jazz or two, a Fender P, a Ric and the Carvin...
 
#52
onamission said:
To this day, for some odd reason, I have never considered him a Bass player. He's a great vocalist though. Randy Miesner was always THE bass player for the Eagles to me.
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I bought the first three Poco albums, which allowed me to compare the playing of Schmidt with Meisner. Schmidt's stuff was so nearly generic that almost any bass player could come up with it. Meisner's? By no means! For the time, on songs like "Consequently, So Long" and "Just in Case it Happens, Yes Indeed," he's showing some serious chops.
 
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micguy said:
That rider detail was reportedly a safety thing - there are a lot of dangerous things in a tour rig, and they buried the no brown M&M's request in the details of electrical specs or whatever. If they saw brown M&M's, they would know that the subcontractors hadn't read the contracts carefully, and as a result, they'd look closely to make sure things were safe.
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Yup!
 
#57
I saw drummer Steve Jordan playing with John Mayer in L.A. some years ago at an intimate show and he must've had 15 or so snare drums lined up near him and he changed nearly every song. But I'm suspecting he was ramping up for the tour and figuring out what worked best. There were some major differences of course between snare sounds, probably due to the venue being a smaller room.
 
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sailri said:
Actually they went into the Hall of Fame in ’98 so that’s 21 years right there. He joined 42 years ago. 1977. Time flies
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I wonder if it's strange for him to have been in the band for 42 years and yet only be on the last 2 of their 7 studio albums. I'd guess that's why a bunch of people still think of Meisner first.
 

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