wombatboter

I started playing bass because of Mrs Vanderbilt and especially this...when I heard the part from 2'32" (and the funky bit after it) I knew I wanted to be a bass-player. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsHlANsMSK0

There are discussions who played this (even people who think this is keyboard but I doubt that) but I always thought it was Dean Garcia on a Wal bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEBU9lTnqpI

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1422305525' post='2671008'] There's a clip on youtube of a dutch guy doing something very similar. I can't find it though. [/quote] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNJkDrj0bTw"]http://www.youtube....h?v=dNJkDrj0bTw[/url]

Great cd, actually had this cd (my first one) before I owned a cd-player !

Once they told me to listen to that "essential" Voodoo -album with Pino Palladino..listened to it three times and then I gave up, totally not my thing, tastes differ how much I love Pino. If it's more like that, I'd rather pass

Great to hear ...never liked Joe English, the drummer at that time who played on the Wings over America-tour. His style of playing just didn't blend with Paul's bass lines or the music as a whole...always thought Chris Whitten (if I spell it correctly) was the "best" drummer Wings ever had (I regret to say but even Laboriel doesn't convince me either)

We had jam-sessions with some of the best hornplayers in Belgium and they all ended in this sort of "On the one" P-funk which went on for ages. I sometimes got the feeling all I was allowed to play was every cliché in the house or D on the one with an octaver beneath it... I know it's supposed to be dance music but I'm just looking for something else, perhaps a song ...I just feel uncomfortable when it comes out too "easily" when you perform. I miss a certain kind of depth in P-funk, perhaps it's too much "fun" for me. Listening to something like "Fantasy" by EWF gave me a lot more an urge to dance...

Watched the documentary and really liked the start of funk with people like James Brown but after a while I had the impression every song sounded the same and that it was more about groove than songwriting...The more I saw the more I started to associate it with a certain laziness, take a catchy beat, shout "funky" a couple of times while staying on the same rootnote for hours, I found it boring. I did a couple of P funk gigs and strangely enough I didn't feel free at all as a bass player. Holding down the groove turned out to be playing "the one" for hours and hours until every freedom was gone. As soon as you wanted to develop something you weren't "funky" anymore and "didn't get "it"'. I thought it was a blessing when disco showed up : harmonically far more intresting and better compositions. That it developped again in hiphop was unfortunate for me : again that priority to a groove instead of a song. I've always been a fan of songs and compositions, that's why I was never fond of that Parliament, Funkadelic stuff. I prefer Chic, EWF, Stevie Wonder. If I have to choose between "The things we do for love" by 10CC or "Funk my brain and dance" (I just made that up but it's probably in E and goes on for fifteen minutes) I know what I like

Living for the city-Stevie Wonder

Bought a Sterling bass..thanks for everything !

Years ago Pino Palladino played four nights in a row at clubs around here in Belgium and I went to see him play every night The last night after the gig he sat next to me and said "you must be a bassplayer..." Talked to him for half an hour, great guy

Again 'm not expecting an Edwards clone but I missed the spirit and his groove regardless if it's Barnes or not....saw some gigs and his timing was sloppy and too much treble in his sound....didn't sound as smooth to my ears. Put someone like Paul Turner in that chair for instance, also not Edwards but more in the spirit.

Sorry but never liked Barnes..I'm not expecting an Edwards clone but all the class those bass lines used to have is now hard to find. Stereotype fills with a way too aggressive bass sound, his timing too sloppy every now and then, very cliché slapstyle and he asks for too much attention. Edwards remains in a totally different league...

The body language of Tony Banks was very clear :-)

Great playing but as time goes by I have learned to appreciate that one note in the "perfect" place a bit more..."why didn't I come up with that ??" (like Pino can for instance)

Got this one in exchange for a Ken Smith and really pleased with it...yew and from 88 if I'm correct. [url=http://s162.photobucket.com/user/wombatboter/media/P1020486_zps7454f0f9.jpg.html][/url] [url=http://s162.photobucket.com/user/wombatboter/media/P1020494_zpsfb6eb3e6.jpg.html][/url]

Thx for the info !

So far no one said anything about Giblin : fretless or not ? Which gear, just a bit curious.....

True, but it wouldn't hurt if you could find some kind of compromise.... but all due respect to her for being a true artist with her own choices.

Perhaps she got tired of playing the old songs live....