Great ebass playing

[difalcojr]

Well, lots of chords in early and later Beatles music, then, you are both right. :) They also brought so many different orchestra instruments into their music, even animal noises, anything. So versatile, musical. Here's another group of that time, great bass player too, John Entwistle. The Who had a great lead singer, musicians.

 

[Hornbein]

Well, lots of chords in early and later Beatles music, then, you are both right. :) They also brought so many different orchestra instruments into their music, even animal noises, anything. So versatile, musical. Here's another group of that time, great bass player too, John Entwistle. The Who had a great lead singer, musicians.

The Beatles certainly popularized fancy multitracking arrangements with all kinds of instruments. Karlheinz Stockhausen started that, adopted by Frank Zappa for Absolutely Free. Then there was this.

The chance meeting between the two bands happened on 21st of March in 1967 — coincidentally, the two bands were both working on their respective albums in Abbey Roads Studios in London; Pink Floyd was working on their debut, Piper at The Gates of Dawn, while The Beatles were recording what many consider one of the best albums ever made, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Some say that the Pinks did it first, some say the opposite, but they both came out with albums like that.

I didn't see the big deal about John Entwistle until I heard his live stuff. He's quite restrained in the studio recordings.

 

[Hornbein]

The ebass player I like most is MISA of Bandmaid. For a pro she has ordinary skill but that doesn't matter to me. I say that the role of the ebass player isn't skill, it's to make the band sound good. MISA has terrific drive and the thunderous tone that I like, lots of treble and bass. It would be very difficult to replace her.

Ensemble play interests me a lot more than solos. It's largely a matter of luck : you put some people together and either the magic is there or it isn't. As said Jimmy Page, "Led Zeppelin was a freak of luck. It wouldn't happen again for a million years." No one has more of the magic than Bandmaid. They have had ten pretty lean years, I'm sure this kept them together. They all knew that this was the best fit they could ever have, that it would never come again, and they didn't want to stop.

MISA is a busy bass player but here she uncharacteristically starts out playing only the roots of the chords. I say an ebass player should be able to play nothing but roots and still sound great. Could Jaco do that?

 

[pinball1970]

R.I.P Mani, fellow Manc, unassuming guy.

 

[pinball1970]

Some context with the Stone Roses. Pop music in 1988 was horrible 1980s formulaic garbage. Dance, boy bands and production line Stock, Aikin and Pete Waterman. The worst period of pop music ever, these guys came along and we're a band again. When I first heard them, I thought they had a nice enough groove and it was a step in the right direction back to real music.
Anyway, the only bass player I have met and had a beer with on the list.