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I’ve heard they make quite good balloons?

Mike Watson, who played on Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, Mama Mia, The Winner Takes It All, and Super Trooper, and a few others, is British. Very much a unknown too - even more than Rutger!

Just remembered one: Betty Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. I thought she was singing “She’s got better days besides”.

Hmm, never considered it might be a phaser. The ones I’ve used created more of a subtle wah effect. The internet tells me the bass player was Harry Kakoulli.

This came on the wireless today and for the first time I really had a proper listen to the bass, and specifically the tone in the verses. A bit tricky to separate the bass and keys, but it sounds like a thick, chewy chorus effect on the bass to me? Any ideas? Anyway, whatever it is, it sounds good!

This turned up today…

Agreed!

This was really big at my school in the mid 80s, with the 6th formers putting on a show and then hiring out the theatre in the town for a short run. I was a bit young but sort of absorbed it via osmosis through my older sister. Anyway, I rediscovered it at my daughter’s Xmas show where they danced to Shake Your Tail Feather (something to do with turkeys I think) My ears pricked up at the lovely bass work, and I’ve been listening to it again and I’m loving Duck Dunn’s lines! Ended up ordering Aidan Hampton’s excellent transcription of the sound track: https://playbasslines.sellfy.store/embed/checkout/product/xxknxj/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fplaybasslines.sellfy.store%2Fembed%2Fcategory%2Febooks%2F%3Fpage%3D2 Anyone luck enough to have played this in a show? Some great stuff here 👇

Came across this the other day. I’d not really noticed it in the song before. But it does sound like a mistake to me…. Seems I might be in the minority according to this video!

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As a kid, I had no idea that Bill Wither’s was singing ‘Lovely Day’ over and over in the chorus. I thought it was “Dur-diddy”. And in Golden Brown I thought “Through my mind she runs” was actually a mysterious phrase “Through my mansheeran’s”.

That is a stunning performance! Great vocals, and the drum solo’s fantastic! By one Gaylord Birch no less!

This guys ebooks are superb. Super accurate and looks like he has some done some transcription work for players like Lee Sklar. I buy the pdf and send them off to an online printer place that wire binds them. http://aidanhampson.co.uk/bass-songbooks

How cool a program is this eh?! Especially for those just starting out. Almost impossible to imagine something like this being made today, sadly.

Bernard Edwards and Nile Rogers covering the Bee Gees, pre-Chic, as the Big Apple Band.

What happened to the Lincoln biscuit?

And me. Followed by Whitesnake 87 and then New Jersey. Then GNR, Metallica, Slayer. Now it’s a bit of anything.

I hear this and have visions of the BBC Holiday program with Cliff Michelmore and his combover. (And the gratuitous boobs shot in the opening titles!) ….

Get yourself this; absolutely spot on transcriptions: https://playbasslines.sellfy.store/p/abba-for-bass/

Phil Jones Bighead (HA-1) Mobile Bass Amp. Absolutely brilliant. There’s a mk 2 which is a bit fancier but I couldn’t be happier with the cheaper version. Plug my iPhone in, headphones and bass. Couldn’t be happier. Fantastic sound quality. https://philjonesbass.net/cms/index.php/product-ha-1/

Distortion and flanger?

I let out a quiet, internal “whoop” when he got to the bit about the bass in the chorus being the star part (along with the vocal harmonies). It’d always caught my ear and it’s such a simple but effective line that gives loads of character to the tune - it could have been so much more mundane.

Gotta love Rick. He is absolutely spot on about the quality of the bass in the chorus:

Very good point. Early era fretless Pino was/is very distinctive…. er, well, apart from when it’s Dave Paton!

I would have also said Pino until I found out that it wasn’t him who played fretless on Elton John’s Nikita, but David Paton. Could’ve sworn it was Pino!