What Pino Lines Would you Study/Transcribe?

[WG Plum]

Enjoying this album so far.

Excellent!

 

[ProbablyTooLoud]

All of Voodoo blows my mind.
Plus this live version of Chicken Grease:

 

[halcyo]

Just a bit too far behind for my tastes - almost sounds like it was offset in the box rather than played that way. To my ears I think it sounds much better and cuts a much deeper groove when it tightens up towards the end

Nah, that super deep groove is where all the sex is in the song. That band is making passionate love on that thing.

I love his playing on that album. But man do you need a good drummer for what he does there. I play with one guy solid enough that I can get away with moving around in the pocket pretty dramatically. That's super fun. A lot of the other drummers I play with end up trying to follow me around and the whole groove just falls apart.f

Oh yea. A good drummer buddy I came up with, who is a big r&b “keep that beat” kinda player- we would play little Feel Games, where we would see how far we could push or pull or lay back on a groove before it started to fall apart or sound bad. It was our little bit of improv fun that probably really strengthened our groove muscles over the years. We’d do it heavy over some reggae feels too.

That’s Raphael Saadiq on bass for “How does it Feel” not Pino.

I kept thinking it might be but then Ive had people correct me and say it was Pino. I wish album credits were way more officially documented!

 

[SteveCS]

Nah, that super deep groove is where all the sex is in the song. That band is making passionate love on that thing
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Hmmm, from what I saw that was a total 'one-man show' as far as 'passionate love' is concerned. The only sex in there is the type that gets your name on a list.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Nah, that super deep groove is where all the sex is in the song. That band is making passionate love on that thing.

Oh yea. A good drummer buddy I came up with, who is a big r&b “keep that beat” kinda player- we would play little Feel Games, where we would see how far we could push or pull or lay back on a groove before it started to fall apart or sound bad. It was our little bit of improv fun that probably really strengthened our groove muscles over the years. We’d do it heavy over some reggae feels too.

I kept thinking it might be but then Ive had people correct me and say it was Pino. I wish album credits were way more officially documented!

Buy the record the week it comes out

 

[BigBadBen67]

Tears for fears badmans song. No question. About 1:30 in it gets going.




Manu Katche playing drums is equally killing. So much so I got into Manu’s solo album. I’m not sure it is a great album but the playing sure is.

I've always loved that album. IMHO TFF, even the newer stuff, gets a bad rap. I think that's probably because people don't know what to do with it. They were produced as a brooding-but-still-pop 80s band. But I think they exist in more of a prog-rock/fusion space.

 

[two fingers]

If you can play D’Angelo’s “How Does It Feel” as laid back (it’s SOOOO behind the beat!!!) and tasty as the record version then you are a bad bad man and can probably play anything.

I love my drummer. It took us MONTHS to get to tue point that he could completely ignore me on funk/soul stuff. I told him if he needs to lock in with anyone, do it with guitar or keys. Basically, I'll "get there when I get there". I literally think to myself "You can't make me play on the beat. I'm a grown @$$ man. You can't tell me what to do." That's my (albeit contrived) "attitude" when I play stuff like that. Pino is one of the best. I'm sure he doesn't need to "coach himself"" like I do. He just flows. But I sure can fake it!

 

[BigBadBen67]

Thanks again for all the replies. This has been a great thread. I'll be going through all of this.

And fun to learn it was Pino on a few tunes I never realized with him! There are a lot of players I try to pull from as I craft my own thing. But at the end of the day I don't think there's anyone who rivals Pino for melodic beauty.

Well, ok. Paul McCartney does. But that puts Pino in pretty damn good company.