My new favourite Xmas bassline

[gapiro]

The waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtmd-nfb7MA

Quite a cool bit of bass playing

[stingrayPete1977]

Its one of my favourite of all time! The guy who plays it is some serious jazzer in NY I beleive?

[Doddy]

Very cool line by Tracy Wormworth...she later played with Sting for a bit.

My favourite Xmas line is probably Donny Hathaway's keyboard bass part on 'This Christmas'.

[TRBboy]

Great bassline, one of my very favourite Christmas tunes!

[HMX]

My favourite bassline ever - possibly!

[gapiro]

I dont know how I never noticed this before, but it was just pure awesome when i heard on the radio

[Doddy]

It was transcribed in Bass Player magazine a couple of years ago.

[mep]

Heard it on the radio the other day whilst driving. Had to stay in the car when I got home to listen to the end. Awesome bassline.

[stingrayPete1977]

[quote name='Doddy' timestamp='1356479264' post='1910511']
Very cool line by Tracy Wormworth...she later played with Sting for a bit.

My favourite Xmas line is probably Donny Hathaway's keyboard bass part on 'This Christmas'.
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Now last time this came up someone looked into and found that she did not write it but was in the band when it charted etc?

[stingrayPete1977]

David Hofstra is your man , Tracy did not join until 82 which is when the song became a hit but it was recorded and released in 81 a year before Hofstra left.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waitresses

Edited December 26, 2012 by stingrayPete1977

[Dingus]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1356533111' post='1910822']
David Hofstra is your man , Tracy did not join until 82 which is when the song became a hit but it was recorded and released in 81 a year before Hofstra left.

[url="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waitresses"]http://en.m.wikipedi.../The_Waitresses[/url]
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I remember this record when it came out , they used to play it on Radio 1 and I think it was a minor hit . It was indeed 1981 . Very abstract bassline . My favourite Christmas bassline is me playing Good King Wenceslas when I am pissed . The neighbours love it .

[stingrayPete1977]

Ha I bet they do

[lowregisterhead]

Well, there you go. Funny how these things get mixed up in your head over time - I thought it was Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads playing bass on this, but I must have got confused with Tom Tom Club's 'Wordy Rappinghood'... old age setting in... :-s

[Doddy]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1356533111' post='1910822']
David Hofstra is your man , Tracy did not join until 82 which is when the song became a hit but it was recorded and released in 81 a year before Hofstra left.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waitresses
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According to the interview/transcription in the Holiday '09 issue of Bass Player, Wormworth had replaced Hofstra in '81 and recorded 'Christmas Wrapping' (on a
'78 Precision given to her by Marcus Miller) in August of that year.

[stingrayPete1977]

See I knew this was a tricky one as it has been covered before, if memory serves it may even be a case that she played the recorded version on the record but hofstra had already wrote it and done a rough or previous version of it?

[Doddy]

In the same article it says that a very basic demo was brought in by the guitarist at the start of the session and the band added their parts and recorded it
on the same day.

[stingrayPete1977]

And to flip it back I have found numerous examples saying the lp was finished by Hofstra and Tracy joined after to do the live shows?
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/the-waitresses/id348141

We need to put them in a room and make them decide!

[paul torch]

the only christmas song i'll stop and listen to.

[stoker]

[quote name='paul torch' timestamp='1356541622' post='1910955']
the only christmas song i'll stop and listen to.
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That and 'Fairytale of New York'.

[Raslee]

Yeah awesome bassline, I found myself groovin along to it t'other day

[mentalextra]

Heard this today twice, great bass playing! Why cant they play this instead of endless reruns of the Pogues!

[lowregisterhead]

On the subject of great syncopated bass lines by female bass players, what about Carol Colman of Kid Creole and the Coconuts - 'Stool Pigeon', 'Annie I'm Not Your Daddy', 'I'm A Wonderful Thing Baby' to name just three...