Great ebass playing

[Hornbein]

Hated the song, the look and the name of the band. It was the 80s.
However, that bass...

The ebass player is the star but there is something funny going on. I hear an octave divider sometimes and not others, but he is isn't controlling it. It's probably prerecorded and being synced to. Well I don't care about things like that.

How about THIS?

 

[Hornbein]

That is a heartbreaking song to me. It was my ex's favourite and i thought it was ok at the the time.
I did not really get it till years after, the words cut you to the bone.

A great song if you ask me. And if you want a mournful sound you can't beat fretless ebass. The bassett hound of instruments.

 

[pinball1970]

Written by Chris Squire. The bass line is just on the beat nothing fancy but choice of notes and sounds again.

Simply beautiful.

 

[pinball1970]

I'm pretty impressed that I have not put teentown on yet.

33 posts not one upvote? What am I doing wrong dude?

 

[difalcojr]

does that help? :) I think sometimes stuff on forums just gets missed, by me at least, even when reading around the forums, like this thread. Lot to listen to, thanks.

 

[Ken Fabian]

Glad Pinball put up some Yes. Not to everyone's taste but they've been a favorite of mine.

The late Chris Squire is my all time favorite bass player - as often as not playing it as a 'lead' instrument as a rhythm one; in his hands that distinction broke down. He took it places and gave it sounds like no-one else but most of all played with depth of musicality as well as virtuosity that still amazes me. When I heard that someone else stepped in when he was ill and could actually play it the way Chris did I was doubtful... I suppose that's a bass player worth paying attention to in their own right (Billy Sherwood - multi-instrumentalist and exceptional on all of them).

There are Yes songs that never grow old, that I find more nuance in every time I listen.

Unfortunately people who make videos of live performances seem to think the lead vocalist and lead guitarist are all that everyone wants to see... despite them being at Yes concerts where it should be obvious how fundamental to their music Squire's bass was. Quite a few songs where Jon Anderson provides vocal accompaniment to Squire's bass as much as the other way round.

Vale Chris Squire.

 

[Hornbein]

I'm pretty impressed that I have not put teentown on yet.

Too obvious. As far as solos go he was unbeatable, though Jeff Berlin has his moments in a very different way.

 

[Hornbein]

Here's Bobby Colomby of Blood Sweat And Tears on what it was like to work with pre-insanity Jaco.



Eddie van Halen was also like that. You just can't compete with such people.

Jaco's trio with Bireli Lagrene is fantastic. But J was already crazy by then so it didn't get far.

 

[difalcojr]

Written by Chris Squire. The bass line is just on the beat nothing fancy but choice of notes and sounds again.

Simply beautiful.

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Question: Which 2 or 3 Yes albums would one of you recommend to someone who only knew Yes from the U.S. hit song "...good people turn their heads and look away,... I'm on my way"? That song. Think that was on the Close to the Edge album. I really liked that song but only ever really heard that one song from Yes until now.

 

[robphy]

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I am in the US and got this message, as you did.

 

[Hornbein]

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Question: Which 2 or 3 Yes albums would one of you recommend to someone who only knew Yes from the U.S. hit song "...good people turn their heads and look away,... I'm on my way"? That song. Think that was on the Close to the Edge album. I really liked that song but only ever really heard that one song from Yes until now.

The Yes Album
Fragile
Close To The Edge

though I admit I haven't heard any of their later efforts. I didn't even know they existed.

I can't think of any other case where a group with so much originality had so much popular success.

 

[pinball1970]

I am in the US and got this message, as you did.

I'll post good links to you guys tomo

 

[sbrothy]

Sorry for my knowledge gap but what does the e in ebass refer to?

 

[sbrothy]

Sorry, electronic I’m guessing. Just got confused cause it usually refers to something internetty…

 

[difalcojr]

I can't think of any other case where a group with so much originality had so much popular success.

Thank you for suggesting those Yes albums. Not sure why I missed so much Yes, but lots of good listening to look forward to.
How about the Beatles? The obvious. Yes, Yes' musicality, I guess I might call it, also reminds me of the Byrds and Kinks back then for originality and harmonies.

 

[pinball1970]

Thank you for suggesting those Yes albums. Not sure why I missed so much Yes, but lots of good listening to look forward to.
How about the Beatles? The obvious. Yes, Yes' musicality, I guess I might call it, also reminds me of the Byrds and Kinks back then for originality and harmonies.

Revolver was the start of the Beatles for me.

1. "Taxman" (George Harrison) Harrison 2:36

2. "Eleanor Rigby" McCartney 2:11

3. "I'm Only Sleeping" Lennon 3:02

4. "Love You To" (Harrison) Harrison 3:00

5. "Here, There and Everywhere" McCartney 2:29

6. "Yellow Submarine" Starr 2:40

7. "She Said She Said" Lennon 2:39

Total length: 18:33

Side two

No. Title Lead vocals Length

1. "Good Day Sunshine" McCartney 2:08

2. "And Your Bird Can Sing" Lennon 2:02

3. "For No One" McCartney 2:03

4. "Doctor Robert" Lennon 2:14

5. "I Want to Tell You" (Harrison) Harrison 2:30

6. "Got to Get You into My Life" McCartney 2:31

7. "Tomorrow Never Knows" Lennon 3:00

 

[pinball1970]

Sorry for my knowledge gap but what does the e in ebass refer to?

yes as opposed to double bass

 

[difalcojr]

Every song on Revolver is great, proven by a million covers. Guess that's a requirement of a great album, every song great or very close. Beatles #1 rock/pop group of all time. So far, anyway.

Here's a heavy bass. Jack Casady.

 

[Hornbein]

How about the Beatles?

My faves are Meet The Beatles, Help! and A Hard Day's Night. Then some individual things like She Said She Said.

The early Beatles has more complicated chords than anything coming out today. In their later days they went for simplicity. It sells.

 

[Hornbein]

I always liked this guys tone. I thought he used some unusual sort of ebass but nope, the same thing everyone else uses. Have no idea how he did it.

 

[pinball1970]

My faves are Meet The Beatles, Help! and A Hard Day's Night. Then some individual things like She Said She Said.

The early Beatles has more complicated chords than anything coming out today. In their later days they went for simplicity. It sells.

What? Are you crazy dude?? It twas t'other way round!

Your comment confused me so much I fell into Old Lancashire dialect!

 

[pinball1970]

Thank you for suggesting those Yes albums. Not sure why I missed so much Yes, but lots of good listening to look forward to.
How about the Beatles? The obvious. Yes, Yes' musicality, I guess I might call it, also reminds me of the Byrds and Kinks back then for originality and harmonies.

Start with "Time and a word."

 

[difalcojr]

Thank you, I'll check that album out too.
And between those groups of early Beatles albums both of you liked were songs like "Baby's in black" and "I'm a loser" and, shortly after, the super creative Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour albums. Even after breaking up, so much of their own material was excellent too.

 

[pinball1970]

Thank you, I'll check that album out too.
And between those groups of early Beatles albums both of you liked were songs like "Baby's in black" and "I'm a loser" and, shortly after, the super creative Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour albums. Even after breaking up, so much of their own material was excellent too.

If you start from the beginning you can feel them grow, its crazy how fast that happens.
"Love me do" sets the stall out in terms of who they are. That harmony is not simple and the harmonica, arrangement, just great.
When Macca had that part on his own he was so scared, the "love me do-oo."
They sounded great though, young lads.

 

[Hornbein]

What? Are you crazy dude?? It twas t'other way round!

Your comment confused me so much I fell into Old Lancashire dialect!

When I Saw Her Standing There ends with a ninth chord, something that soon disappeared from popular music. The chord that opens A Hard Day's Night is famous for its complexity. The intro to I Want To Hold Your Hand is the cleverest thing, pretending that the two beat is the one so that the true one is a surprise. It remains unique to this day. From Me To You has fifteen different chords including an augmented chord.

While Get Back has four chords with that key phrase repeated 23 times. But I don't blame them. They had learned that simplicity sells.

 

[difalcojr]

 

[Ken Fabian]

I've had a recent resurgence of appreciation for Yes and just bought a package of 5 cd's covering the period after I'd lost track of their releases. Was listening to them as this topic came up.

For all that I like Yes musically, a lot, I've never been as impressed by their lyrics - close to the edge... of meaning something profound but a bit too woo for an older me and yet largely irrelevant to that liking. Vocal accompaniment to rock symphonies? The vocal harmonies they used were often atmospheric and used to great effect and Jon Anderson's vocal style was pivotal.

My favorite songs, looking back to the music that drew me to them, were often the ones with standout bass - Close to the Edge, Long Distance Runaround, Heart of the Sunrise to name a few.

 

[Hornbein]

Huh, early Jon Anderson is one of the very few lyricists that I like. I go for abstraction. Nowadays his stuff is too literal for me. It's like a New Age personal improvement lecture.

 

[Hornbein]

Can't beat Daria Zaritskaya. It's almost scary.

 

[pinball1970]

From Me To You has fifteen different chords including an augmented chord

Is "Because" simple? "Fixing a hole?" How many chords does, "I am the walrus have?" "Penny lane" "you never give me your money" "Black bird" "Martha my dear?" That has to be a different thread