Double Bass Wichita Lineman - Alan Pasqua Trio

[Don Kasper]

Let me see if I understand what just happened here:
Alan Pasqua/Jimmy Webb/Reg Wilson/Joe Farrell/Glen Campbell/Beach Boys/Homer Simpson/Kenny Rogers/Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings...

Godd**n Internet!
Thanks.

 

[Tom Lane]

Let me see if I understand what just happened here:
Alan Pasqua/Jimmy Webb/Reg Wilson/Joe Farrell/Glen Campbell/Beach Boys/Homer Simpson/Kenny Rogers/Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings...

Godd**n Internet!
Thanks.

Good point, we forgot Jimi, Bill Evans, and Kenny G. No forum discussion is complete until they're mentioned. Oh, and Hitler.

 

[Michael Karn]

Ok, i'll bring it back to the neighborhood of the original post and say that Darek Oles is a seriously bad motherf@#*er. He's on a great Bennie Maupin record called Penumbra, no chordal instrument (just reeds, bass, drums and percussion) so Darek is completely exposed and he sounds just beautiful. Big thumbs up for him

 

[gerry grable]

Good point, we forgot Jimi, Bill Evans, and Kenny G. No forum discussion is complete until they're mentioned. Oh, and Hitler.

Guilty But we should be used to this. . . Everybody talks during a bass solo.

 

[pnchad]

That's funny

But, yeah we're really in an age of pedestrian song writing

 

[Tom Lane]

That's funny

But, yeah we're really in an age of pedestrian song writing

You may be right, but I've been lucky enough to come across some originals that I'd put in the same league as Horace Silver or Jobim, two of my favorite composers, but all of the tunes were written by folks with little air-time.

 

[pnchad]

Yep - they're out there but no exposure

At this point the publics ears have been so dumbed down a 9th chord is exotic

40 yrs ago the 'country' guys were pretty sophisticated - now the Nashville song writing machine is crudely sophomoric - high production values & great playing but nothing challenging

 

[Jake deVilliers]

That's funny

But, yeah we're really in an age of pedestrian song writing

Yeah.

"And I need you more than want you, and I want you for all time." Jimmy Webb knew how to get the girls.

 

[jthisdell]

And somehow that line turns it into an absolutely beautiful love song and suddenly it is not about the utility company any more. And it never really was. Brilliant. Today's songwriters can't touch it and today's producers don't want anything with a melody.

 

[jthisdell]

Ok, i'll bring it back to the neighborhood of the original post ...

You saved this from going metal. Thanks,

 

[Sam Sherry]

Don, we listened to Pasqua at our last rehearsal and played your chart last night.

You KNOW it's a hit when the House Manager comes up immediately and says, "What was that song???"

Thanks for highlighting it and thanks twice for posting the chart.

 

[MattyBass]

I have literally listened to track 100 times, since this thread was started, such a great version!