Remembering Chris Squire

...if not more so!  Admirers of Mssr. Squire's technique include Geddy Lee, Stanley Clarke, Tony Levin, and countless others (myself included).  

If anyone watched the "Master Class" videos, it would be hard to not see why Chris was such a good player and musician.

I liked, specially, the one about his warm up ... and he played one of his parts, I think it was the opening from CTTE, and then asked if that wasn't a good warmup ... which pretty much tells you, it's not about the scales, or the 10,000 times/practice that makes it ... it's your internal feel for the music and how to make it better and more attractive, up to and including it's own sound.

Seeing him talk about fiddling with the strings, is a master class that no one else can do, because they don't have the back up inventory to show how they used it, and it wasn't just for 5 seconds either ... sometimes a heck of a lot more.

Musicianship is an interesting topic and leave it to an original to make it even better. Chris Squire belongs in a class by himself, as very few "bass players" have the right attitude and touch to help music come alive in some way or another. Too many bass players are too worried about their "rhythm" duties and then the tiresome beat and timing. ... you can tell that stuff really bothered Chris and then some ... he used that to create even more!