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Sean Lennon's Bass Playing


Annoying Twit
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[quote name='Marvin' post='1276979' date='Jun 21 2011, 01:05 PM']I never realised he played bass. I'll have to search out some of his stuff.

One would hope he has been more influenced by his father's song writing than his mother's singing :)[/quote]

After I posted my first post, I thought that I should search out some unambiguous examples of him playing bass. But, when I found some "suitable" Cibo Matto live clips, they were so utterly awful that I decided it would be best to ignore the thread and hope it drops down the list.

In the bands he's been in: IMA, Cibo Matto, Plastic Ono Band (2010 version), while he's a multi-instrumentalist, he seems to be quite foccussed on bass. But, he tends to be in bands with Timo Ellis who also plays bass, and they don't say who does what on the albums as far as I'm aware.

I like quite a lot of the basslines on these albums, though I could see that some would find them too repetitive. I quite like the concept of setting up a good bass riff and then everything goes on around it. E.g. basslines on this album: [url="http://www.we7.com/#/album/Cibo-Matto/Stereotype-A"]http://www.we7.com/#/album/Cibo-Matto/Stereotype-A[/url]

But when I looked up live clips of Cibo Matto. Well, maybe I unluckily found the wrong ones, but I thought they were unreservedly awful. So, I sort of want to ask you not to search them out.

Edit: This is from 1999, and sounds better. But, the live sound is really weak and ruins everything IMHO. Perhaps a band that was better in he studio than live.

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[url="http://vlog.xuite.net/play/ZVRLZVVjLTIzNzkwODkuZmx2"]cibo matto - spoon[/url]

This is a decent studio version of one of theirs. I quite like it. Nice groove I thought.

EDIT: or just go to Grooveshark and listen to the album for free :)

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[quote name='Marvin' post='1277050' date='Jun 21 2011, 01:48 PM'][url="http://vlog.xuite.net/play/ZVRLZVVjLTIzNzkwODkuZmx2"]cibo matto - spoon[/url]

This is a decent studio version of one of theirs. I quite like it. Nice groove I thought.

EDIT: or just go to Grooveshark and listen to the album for free :)[/quote]

The we7 link I gave above is for the album that contains this track. I don't know Grooveshark, but suspect that we7.com and Grooveshark might be the same thing.

But, back on topic, I like this track and the bass riff.

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[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='1277068' date='Jun 21 2011, 02:03 PM']The we7 link I gave above is for the album that contains this track. I don't know Grooveshark, but suspect that we7.com and Grooveshark might be the same thing.

But, back on topic, I like this track and the bass riff.[/quote]
Sorry, I was being too lazy to log into we7 and had grooveshark on already - all the same.

It has got a good riff to it, I agree.

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