Loved Wilton..........
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Your bass line on "Your Smiling Face"
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I discovered the playing of the great Leland Sklar from listening to JT.
What an honor to have you here Leland!
When you were in Nashville on the Troubadour Tour I got to high five you as you went to the stage. I was star struck!
I'm hoping budget allows me to snag some tix for the Toto show at the Ryman in a few days.
What an honor to have you here Leland!
When you were in Nashville on the Troubadour Tour I got to high five you as you went to the stage. I was star struck!
I'm hoping budget allows me to snag some tix for the Toto show at the Ryman in a few days.
Amazing a cameraman actually showed the bass player and was cognizant of a cool thing said player was doing....must have been preplanned..........90% of the videos you see with major players, it seems the camera angles are designed to not have the bass player included..I've always found that odd.
Yes, we are usually the poor relation in the back of the stage.
haha,,I've even watched videos of concerts, where the bass player was 3 feet back and a foot or two to the side of the lead singer, and somehow the cameraperson set it up (it's all in the lens) so the bassist was just out of the frame nearly all the time...Clever camera work, but what the hell?
Very late addition to this thread, and I hope you're still reading it Mr. Sklar. First let me echo the words of thanks for your participation in the thread. And I love the bass part on that song, one of my favorites ever. I have a question: The tone of the bass on the recording is really nice. Sort of nasal. Do you remember how you might have gotten that tone? Was it just the bass into a mic'd amp, or was there alot of processing of the bass signal? Do you remember the type of pickups on the bass and the amp used, etc.? I've been trying to get that tone and I haven't been successful. THanks!! JP
Wish I could be of help but that was a long time ago. The bass was a one off photo type built by Yamaha based on a P-bass. Val Garay was the engineer ands not sure what he used as far as DI/Amp etc.
Hi Lee,
I have much appreciated your work and place you in the "top 5" of my all time electric bassists including James Jamerson, Jim Fielder, Paul McCartney and Andy Cinchon. Doug Stegmeyer, Dee Murray and Bobby Babbit are favs as well and the list has no particular order of importance but the criteria is constant; tone, melody and quality. Thanks again I'm guessing that was the Yamaha you referred to earlier? I'm sure your string preference is here somewhere but are those Round Wounds on that instrument? I picked up a Yamaha 5 string (my first) to learn the instrument; trying to teach this 66 year old dog some new tricks. I re-strung with DR Hi Beams. Different. Loved the posted vid from '88, miss those padded shoulder jackets!
Almost always use rounds. GHS Super Steels in .40 .58 .80 1.02
I just joined the site, so please excuse the lateness of my reply...
This made me literally LOL.
A bass instructor I had for a while was in LA recording an album in the early 80s, and Hadley Hockensmith and Bill Maxwell were involved. My instructor was a pretty aggressive player, and during a break in the session he wandered into the studio, picked up Hadley's bass, and started pounding on some groove. Hadley walked over to the board, hit the talkback and said "Are you getting down with your bad self?".
Thank you so much for your insight. You're my favorite.
Fantastic recording. And of course the bass track steals the show. It sounds a lot like a Gallien-Krueger eq to me. It just sits so well in the mix & it's executed to well.
Good one! I had to learn this bassline when I was attending Musicians Institute. You are absolutely correct. There's a little bit of everything in this song. Very well put
JT Corenflos and I used to listen to that track over and over at his place when we first moved to Nashville. The connection between you and the drummer oozes out of that track.
John
John
