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Posted: July 31 2012 at 00:35
Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond from Jethro Tull rarely, if ever, is mentioned in these forums! I saw him with TAAB and Minstrel tours, his skills and performance energy are nearly unmatched!
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Posted: October 27 2012 at 01:40
f**k - only five ?? Here goes my choice for today.........
Helmutt Hattler
Pekka Pohjola
Jack Casady
Mariusz Duda
Mont Campbell
This will probably change later on........and that will probably change after that................oh, special mention goes to Pete Cetera - check out some of those earlier CHICAGO albums (esp. 5 and 7) - he's surprisingly excellent and quite versatile too !!
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Posted: October 27 2012 at 02:20
Ambient Hurricanes wrote:
Horizons wrote:
I mean hes good, Foxtrot's first few songs are great - same with Selling England, but not enough to complete with Geddy, Squire, etc.
Some people might prefer him to the others you mentioned in the same way they prefer Banks to Emerson or Wakeman; he wasn't flashy, but he was an excellent player and complemented the music very well. I don't know that he would be in my top 5, but when I hear Get 'Em Out By Friday I can't help but be amazed that he's basically playing counterpoint, which is something you hardly ever hear a bass player do (or anyone in rock music, for that matter).
Agreed - what an AMAZING bass-line - even Watcher Of The Skies, especially towards the end. He is up there for sure. What happened to him in the 80's ?? .... Same goes for Greg Lake - some amazing bass from him early on.........his playing on the Tarkus suite is quite superb. Same goes for John Wetton. They obviously have the skill, but opt to 'serve the song' instead (which isn't a bad thing, of course) but a little, just a little self indulgence every now and then can be a good thing too. Squire and Lee never fizzled out.............and Myung - well, as many have stated, you just can hear him well enough. That's my 'beef' with DT, I just can't stand the mix. Give me Liquid Tension Experiment any day (at least you can hear Levin basses.....).
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Posted: April 02 2013 at 00:16
With all respect, I can't understand why folks consider McCartney as a top bass player - he plays 'for the song', but so does Geddy.................they both played Rickys, I know whose tone I prefer................
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Posted: April 02 2013 at 09:24
Tom Ozric wrote:
With all respect, I can't understand why folks consider McCartney as a top bass player - he plays 'for the song', but so does Geddy.................they both played Rickys, I know whose tone I prefer................
For me, Macca get's the recognition because he was the first bassist to step out from the role of just thump-thump-thumping the tonic note in the background. Give Sgt Peppers a critical listen and notice how the bass parts are melodic and mixed way up front with the guitar and vocal parts. Then compare that to the bass parts of other 1967 songs...the only other rock bassist I can think of that was doing anything else revolutionary at that time was Jack Bruce. Between the two of them, they moved bass from the anonymous shadows to center stage and laid the groundwork for the other "Lead Bass" players to come (Squire, Geddy, etc). Until then, you never really heard the bass and that might be because the bass just wasn't doing anything very interesting.
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