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Great bassplayer too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8px0fO_es5A

The solo on "Everybody wants to rule the world" Tears for Fears

My first single here in Belgium...."Ballroom Blitz", just fantastic... just like so many of their hits

Tried it twice but lost patience.....think it's better to be a keyboardplayer than a bassplayer when starting to play it. The amount of time you need to invest doesn't go into your bassplaying also..

Great and smooth transaction, thanks again !

Used to be a huge fan but like someone else has said : his solo's start to be very predictable (that hasty slur across the neck at the end of the solo, the "ambulance", the theme from "Twilight Zone", etc...)

Get well, Norm (from a fan in Belgium)

[quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1498509900' post='3325172'] I always find it a little silly that people come here and slag off 'x y z' - having regard to the fact that the target of their moans has just delivered a killer set at one of the worlds better regarded gigs - tell me, how was your audition at the Frog & Armpit? [/quote] If you can't have an opinion without being famous what is bass.chat for ? To be clear : I was annoyed by the playing of Barnes but the reason why I watched the entire set was that I liked the sound of his bass (not his playing). I can sometimes listen to shows without liking the music but only because of the bass sound.

Years ago Rodgers was in a Belgian tv show and he didn't have a bass player with him....he tried out a local bass player but he didn't satisfy so he performed only with his guitar and the two singers. I didn't miss a thing...

Paul Turner would be the ideal man for this sort of gig...and I'm not being chauvinistic, I'm Belgian :-)

I'm a huge fan of slap and Chic but what Jerry Barnes does is just too much...Chic is all about cool grooves and the sparse lick every now and then and Barnes is all about show off and overplaying. Bernard's tone was a huge part of the Chic sound and that sort of treble didn't fit the smoothness of their music. I thought Barnes was horrible, slapping too much, slides in every song and making it a sort of slap contest what Chic is not about imo. The worst thing is that though his slap sound was great his timing wasn't....everytime he went solo his fills were sloppy. A bunch of slap cliches (octaves anyone ?) and I just got tired of it...my foot went crazy during the Barry Gibb set, it stopped during Chic. The presenters were raving about Barnes which proves that when you do something loud and many times people get impressed... I don't see what Rodgers sees in him after the pure class of Edwards