Old Man Riva

Always loved this as an intro, great fun to play along to also... Tom Hamilton is a tasty player often overlooked.. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion http://youtu.be/ymbNKQWYKRM

Here are three that can get overlooked but are well worth having a listen to... all lovely in their own unique way, IMHO. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qpNKq2cZBI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qpNKq2cZBI[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hqyfOSXYQc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hqyfOSXYQc[/url]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1449687166' post='2926016'] Max Bennett plays bass on 'Song for Sharon'. [/quote] ...and what a marvellous job he does too. (always had it down as a fretted P-bass).. And then back to Wilton Felder on Don't Interrupt the Sorrow.

[quote name='Cato' timestamp='1449528845' post='2924471'] I recently discovered Herbie Hancock. The stuff he did with his Headhunters band is fantastic, it's very funky and has some great electric baselines, although it's rarely,if ever the lead instrument. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAlejqkd-gg [/quote] An album well worth getting hold of is the Fat Albert Rotunda LP. From 1969 it was originally written as the music to a Bill Cosby TV show. Funky, jazzy, cool and groovy it tends to get overlooked when HH's output gets discussed. Fat Mama is ace..

David Bowie - Time [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQSZR3NSqm8"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQSZR3NSqm8[/url]

The opening track on Talk Talk's Sprit of Eden album is The Rainbow... Gets me every time.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZnXg0vNs0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZnXg0vNs0[/url]

Weather Report tour shirt bought at a Brum Odeon gig in 1978. Faded grey/black fleck with black collar and sleeves with a silhouette of the four band members on the back of the shirt. It's a medium and needless to say I have absolutely no chance of being able to wear it due to the, erm, adding of a few lbs over the years..

There's a good Bowie feature in the latest Mojo (interview with Tony Visconti and also members of Bowie's studio band - Maria Schneider Orchestra) along with a review of the Black Star album..

[quote name='ironside1966' timestamp='1448401992' post='2915208'] [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PmQ3dFQvs"]https://www.youtube....h?v=e-PmQ3dFQvs[/url] Anything from Stump, a great band and a very inventive bass player. I think the bass player is on Bass chat, so respect [/quote] God, I'd forgotten about Stump. They were often on the The Tube, as I recall. Yeah, good/interesting bass player - did a flamenco finger-picking type thing. Here's another (often) forgotten 80s band with a good bass player.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZjbI55_gk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BZjbI55_gk[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp21F4fimkc"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp21F4fimkc[/url]

Seen a few of the bands mentioned on here (!) but of the bands I could have seen but didn't Prince's Parade tour in 1986 and Jeff Buckley at Shepherd's Bush in 1995 are the two I wished I'd gone to.

[quote name='JellyKnees' timestamp='1331558242' post='1574689'] Ah the 80s...it all started so promisingly and ended up with Deacon Blue...never mind. One of my faves from the mid 80's... if you can get past the syn drums, it still sounds great to my ears. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu0LL-M5gxM&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL094ABECF15457526[/media] [/quote] Love that album - Pat Thrall's OTT 80s guitar playing is fantastic. Was a big fan of this lot at the time... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4Ce-8z8Gw[/media]

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1448187318' post='2913460'] I went to see Tricky performing Maxinquaye in Bristol a couple of years back. I should have known it wasn't going to be great as Tricky has zero interest in that album and doesn't like playing in Bristol. When the stage doors opened the smell of weed was over powering, and I was about 40' away. All his hangers-on crammed themselves at the side of the stage and proceeded to piss about. Every now and again Tricky would wander over and join in, even if it meant missing whole verses out. The backing band were pretty awesome and when Tricky was into it, it was fantastic. He'd rearrange the song on the fly, signalling to the band to either slow things down or speed things up. But Tricky got so bored with the whole thing he decided to get some of the crowd on stage to dance about for a whole song and then he got his nephew to improvise some awful rap for another song while he disappeared for a smoke. Oh, and a couple of times Martina Topley-Bird [font=sans-serif][color=#252525]got so fed up she'd walk off stage and would have to be persuaded to come back [/color][/font] [/quote] I think it's fair to say that Tricky can be distinctly, erm, a bit hit and miss when it comes to gigs/live performance!

The bass line on the Manifesto track itself is great. Really clever/nice stuff - assuming from previous comments this is Alan Spenner? The first two Roxy albums do it for me (Graham Simpson, on both, I think) and there's a cheeky little bass homage to Day Tripper in Re-Make/Re-Model off their debut album... which Ferry then 'covered'/reinterpreted on his Let's Stick Together album which in turn features John Gustafson delivering a killer bass performance.

He can pretty much do what he wants for me, given his output between 1969 and 1983, so I'll always approach any new song of his wanting to like it. I think this is brilliant and I absolutely love it. Spent most of the morning with Mrs Riva trying to work out what it's all about - fundamentalism? one's own mortality? the state of popular culture? - and haven't a clue. He's nearly 70 and he's still managing to challenge the listener and get people thinking. I'm not sure I can think of any other artist who manages to do that. Genius Jones.

The Who circa 1981 on the Face Dances tour at Brum NEC. Massive Who fan at the time (still am) and watched a disinterested Pete Townsend barely go through the motions, the 'wrong' drummer in Kenney Jones struggle to emulate Keith Moon and John Entwistle overplay his way through the gig whilst being way too loud. The only one to come out of it with any credit was Daltrey - he was superb, but not enough to drag the others along with him. A massive disappointment.

[quote name='blamelouis' timestamp='1446376745' post='2898830'] Check out his work with Joni Mitchell he really was the Yeboah of bass .[/quote] From a Leeds point of view wouldn't he be the Duncan McKenzie of bass? - touched by genius but wholly unfulfilled. [quote name='roceci' timestamp='1446220833' post='2897890'] Jaco was undoubtedly a great musician with regards to playing, performing & composing. Sometimes he thrills me, sometimes he bores me.[/quote] That's it for me too. I was lucky enough to see him twice with Weather Report and it was one of the most inspiring things as a teenager, music-wise. As I got older and got into other things he'd done I found that there was more of his stuff that didn't do anything for me than did. And I know this will sound irrational (and it's obviously not his fault) but the one thing thing that has detracted from his legacy for me are the clones he spawned - completely cheesed off with seeing players throwing in harmonics for harmonics' sake and playing near the bridge with the bridge p/up on the Jazz honking like a demented duck, with little to no empathy for the music they are supposedly contributing to. It's great to be inspired by someone/thing but to rip it off completely isn't what he'd have wanted his legacy to be, I reckon.

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1445972244' post='2895845']I get the feeling that he could be in any band and he would just play whatever was right for that band.[/quote] Beautifully put, and (for me) probably the best compliment that can be paid to a player/musician. And as others have said, he just seems like a really good guy..

I'm a relative latecomer to the joys of Mr Vega, only really made aware of him over the past couple of years. Absolutely love what he does and could watch/listen to him all day. He also does some of his good stuff on the MXR pedal videos. One of my favourite players..

I think 'the lads' from FGTH get a bad press in terms of their musical ability. I heard one of their original demos back in the day and they could play perfectly well. Also saw them live at the NEC on the 'Liverpool' tour and they were excellent. Peter John Vettese (a keyboard player of some note) was on the tour and he rated them as musicians. If you scour YouTube the various 'early Frankie' and 'Blockhead Frankie' demos are there to be heard/compared. It was very much of its time but I reckon Trevor Horn/ZTT/Paul Morley did an incredible job with FGTH; from the music to the marketing to the mystique. One of the more interesting bands of the 80s for me..

[quote name='fatback' timestamp='1445624354' post='2892976']Snake Charmer, anyone?[/quote] With Jah Wobble and The Edge? I'd put the Snake Charmer EP down as a lost classic. Lent it to someone just after it came out in the 80s and never got it back - don't think it was ever released on CD so now I'm stuffed. Featured The Edge doing something different/interesting on guitar, away from what he was doing with U2 at the time. If Bowie rhythm sections are being mentioned (and rightly so) it'd be criminal not to include the Spiders' Trevor Bolder and Woody Woodmansey. So much to choose from but, for me, the Aladdin Sane album is the one. Funk, soul, rock 'n' roll... Here's a taster.. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf0fmqWS-kI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf0fmqWS-kI[/url]

[quote name='kevvo66' timestamp='1443915114' post='2878731'] Going back to when we all started playing bet you 90% of us lusted after fender basses ,right I'm off to lust over a white p bass! [/quote] That's me. When I was about fifteen I used to get the train from Cov to Brum on a Saturday morning primarily to stare at a Fender P-bass that hung from the wall in Woodroffe's music store! Black with a rosewood neck. Took me years to finally own a Fender (started off with an Avon Jazz bass copy) and once I owned a proper Fender I never really wanted anything else..

I'm sure I once read that Bob Babbitt's line on Inner City Blues was a composite of a few takes and there are times when two basses are in the mix - I've listened to it countless times and still can't make my mind up. Either way it's a wonderful line and beautifully played. I always liked this tone..sounds like an old Thunderbird, or could be a Rick? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ylqx1zAgg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ylqx1zAgg[/url]

Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy (nice Hendrix/Third Stone From the Sun motif to boot) Jasper Carrott - Funky Moped (most bought it for the Magic Roundabout b-side) Great shout above for Benny Hill and Ernie.. and rare to see a video/film on Top of the Pops at the time. And a great shout also for Lieutenant Pigeon (being a Cov Kid one of the abiding memories of the time was seeing them on Top of the Pops and one of the band wearing a City away top - green and black stripes - in an era when grown men never wore football tops, other than to play football. Brian Johnson/Geordie did similar with a Newcastle top on TOTP a year later).

Black Sabbath - Sabotage. Not a fan of Sabbath/heavy metal at all but the album just blows me away every time. It never seems to get a mention when their work is discussed, which is a shame as it's such a diverse and 'risky' album..