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Tina Weymouth
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Smooth_bass88
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- Oct 31, 2006
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- have been on nationally released albums, charting on the Billboard 200
Good bass player. Gender is IRRELEVANT
Tina played staccato and tight riffs. Deep in the pocket and interesting lines . Always wore that great eyeliner too. Hats off to Tina! (then and now).
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I love how to some, Tina can't be compared to other great bassists who have come up with funky, iconic bass lines that have helped define not only her own genre, but also continues to have second and third lives in sampled hip hop. Instead, she gets compared to players like Kim Deal, who is a strict 8th note picked downstroke player who barely even considers herself a bass player. What exactly do these two players have in common again?
Good memories. The Heads were my favourite band from about 79-86. I always liked her staccato style and tend to favour that myself. I think I like their song Wild,Wild life the best.
Hey, come on. Don't give Kim too much credit for Josephine a way better bass player than Kim Deal ever was. And I love Kim Deal. But she's no Josephine.
They both play bass & I like their work. I should have known a technique snob would come along.
Way to miss the point. Tina and Kim don't play alike, they don't sound alike, they don't do much of anything alike. The only reason they get compared is because they're women. At least if you had compared Kim Deal and Kim Gordon, I can see the point.
Tina is in my top 10 favorites ever, fo sho. Not just her playing but her tone as well. So great.
Tina brings it! 
And that Hofner Club bass that she plays in the Stop Making Sense video just seems to fit her perfectly!
And that Hofner Club bass that she plays in the Stop Making Sense video just seems to fit her perfectly!
Worth sharing. I love Bass lines. They seem to have a lot of bounce to them.
Oh, good God.....I actually clicked on this link in fear....thinking it was another R.I.P. thread. I had to do a Google search to make sure she was still alive. So many greats have left us recently. Reprise, not repose !
Gotta give some big ups for Tracy Wormworth, since we're talking awesome female bassists...
Nice clip. I heard Crosseyed and Painless when I was starting out as a player. I learned from that song that a really great bass tone and groove doesn't have to be fancy-Dan'd to impress. It's locked in throughout and my foot never stops waggling.
Posting because I'd never listened to the Talking Heads. I like both versions of the bassline, mainly because both versions are played very differently by all of the band members. It's definitely not the way that I would have played it and it's not necessarily my style, but I've come to realize that that's what makes all musicians unique. She definitely has a specific voice on the instrument, which I appreciate, and I think it fits well in the context of the music they made. (Listening to her makes me really want to re-examine my note duration again - it's something I like to pay attention to, but my current bandmates want me to fill the sonic space with legato notes.) Might have to check out more of the Talking Heads.
Sidenote, really liking The Waitresses. Had never heard of them, but I think I might check them out just for the hell of it. I can't see it being an everyday easy listening thing but I think it'd be fun to branch out and give them a listen.
Sidenote, really liking The Waitresses. Had never heard of them, but I think I might check them out just for the hell of it. I can't see it being an everyday easy listening thing but I think it'd be fun to branch out and give them a listen.
