Zappa bassist, mid-70s?

[funkcicle]

I was watching an rerun of Saturday Night Live this morning on which Frank Zappa was the musical guest. One of the numbers (in which Jim Belushi played a samurai saxman) featured some very prominent bass stuff. The bassist was a young guy, lots of hair, and was playing a fretless Fender P-Bass. He played the hell out of it, too! I'm pretty ure the tune was "Lagoon". Episode originally aired in 1976, Candace Bergen was the host.


So, anybody know who this bassist was? Can you tell me anything about him? tia


Anthony

 

[bassjamn]

Possibly Patrick O'hearn? Before he became a new age musician.

Indigo is one of my favorite cd's real spooky.

 

[Passinwind]

It was O'Hearn, here's the full band info from the show: Invalid Link Removed

Roy Estrada and Tom Fowler would be two other bassists from FZ's bands during that era that you ought to check out, if you haven't

 

[JimK]

Check out O'Hearn(w/ his fretless P-bass) AND Terry Bozzio on the Baby Snakes DVD.

Damn, I just picked up SNL's 25 Years Of Music set...5 DVDs & the powers-to-be didn't include this FZ bit?!
...the Spice Girls & Sinead made the cut & Zappa didn't?!

 

[JimK]

Originally posted by funkcicle
So, anybody know who this bassist was? Can you tell me anything about him?

...and check out O'Hearn during his Missing Persons' stint(e.g. "Give" from Rhyme & Reason).

 

[Da_Niet]

Originally posted by funkcicle
I was watching an rerun of Saturday Night Live this morning on which Frank Zappa was the musical guest. One of the numbers (in which Jim Belushi played a samurai saxman) featured some very prominent bass stuff. The bassist was a young guy, lots of hair, and was playing a fretless Fender P-Bass. He played the hell out of it, too! I'm pretty ure the tune was "Lagoon". Episode originally aired in 1976, Candace Bergen was the host.


So, anybody know who this bassist was? Can you tell me anything about him? tia


Anthony

You probably meant Jim's older brother, John Belushi, doing the samurai saxman bit, right?

 

[funkcicle]

Originally posted by Da_Niet
You probably meant Jim's older brother, John Belushi, doing the samurai saxman bit, right?

Yep, my mistake! I guess I just gave away my vintage, eh? (although through most of my youth I DID model my looks after a young Dan Aykroyd!)

Thank for all your help, you guys just gave me something to fill my time with for the next few weeks!


Anthony

 

[hieronymous]

My personal favorite Zappa bassist from the '70s is erroneous. His playing on "Waka Jawaka" and "The Grand Wazoo" is great.

I looked him up on the web, and found this page:
http://www.united-mutations.com/e/erroneous.htm