Yeah, we just disagree on that one...
I think he was comfortable in whatever role he filled. This clip isn't a traditional bassist role. And I think this easily compares to Jaco's ensemble work. Except much funkier IMO.
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Verdine White on a Peavey and really playing!
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Yeah, we just disagree on that one...
I think he was comfortable in whatever role he filled. This clip isn't a traditional bassist role. And I think this easily compares to Jaco's ensemble work. Except much funkier IMO.
Yeah, we just disagree on that one...
I think he was comfortable in whatever role he filled. This clip isn't a traditional bassist role. And I think this easily compares to Jaco's ensemble work. Except much funkier IMO.
Brad, if two folks agree on everything, only one of them is thinking.
I think we agree that Alphonso Johnson is a great bassist, to a degree, unfairly overshadowed by his successor in Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with disagreeing or that your opinion is any less valid than mine. We just disagree. As far as being overshadowed, two very different personalities likely factors into that.
He is pretty cool.
I could never understand this weird fascination with not watching the neck? It has been my experience that the very finest guitar and bass players keep their eye on the neck. They're hard playing musicians who rarely, if ever, make mistakes during complicated, sophisticated passages and phrases. That...is what makes them professionals.
Those who don't pay attention to what they're doing, or have a faux cavalier attitude are usually the ones to make far too many mistakes. They tend to miss a fret or string more often than they should.
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with disagreeing or that your opinion is any less valid than mine. We just disagree. As far as being overshadowed, two very different personalities likely factors into that.
I know the disagreement is good natured.
I guess the fundamental keys to this are a musician who plays one instrument and the fact that the notes don't move on the neck. There's a video of Victor Bailey playing a Coltrane solo and he rarely looked at the neck. Didn't seem to be hitting many clams though.
I've seen that video. Playing that solo note for note is awesome any way Bailey could do it! I think Verdine is just seen as suspect, and folks look for any reason to suggest he is not legitimate. I would also note that Verdine is important to EWF as a vocalist. I can forgive him looking at the neck.
He modded that Telecaster Bass by the TTWOTW record. I watched the movie a few years ago and got this screen shot of the mods. EB mudbucker in the old Fender pickup location and a Jazz pickup in back. Check out the tape holding the cover on. And that thumb!! No wonder "Shining Star" had that deep Funky tone.
That's interesting. I know the first Telecaster basses were single coil Precision reproductions. I think around 1969 or 1971, Fender got rid of the single coil and put a humbucker in the EB0 position.
Dude is a fine player and puts on a great show, but those arms are plucked chicken wings!
I wouldn't mind being that small again.
I wouldn't mind being that small again.
When I was ten I had bigger guns than that, however, Verdine is a musician, not a bodybuilder.
When I was ten I had bigger guns than that, however, Verdine is a musician, not a bodybuilder.
I guess. Here's my outlook: I think it would be much easier to get guns than drop 100 lbs. But that's just me.
I was 180 lbs. when I was his age.
Brad, judging from your pictures, you wouldn't be as thin as Verdibe even with stage four cancer. You are just too muscular to look like him. I'm a classic mesomorph: I put on muscle easily, but it comes with fat. I have a difficult losing weight while maintaining muscle.
I have no idea what pictures you're looking at
. Before I got married at 27 I was 6'2" and 180 lb. Not skinny, not muscular. Pretty average. My younger rbother was built like Verdine. Now neither of us is close. My point was that I'd rather be even 150 lbs. lighter than I am now. It's an uphill battle.
I have no idea what pictures you're looking at
My point was that I'd rather be even 150 lbs. lighter than I am now. It's an uphill battle.
Verdine in video is more 120-150, depending on how tall he is. 6'2" 180 sounds like an NBA point guard or an NFL wide receiver back in 1980.
