Who gigs on their own?

[hatori]

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='280814' date='Sep 10 2008, 12:31 AM']Can't believe that no-one has mentioned the original and perhaps greatest solo bassist, Mr Colin Hodgkinson![/quote]
One of my major influences..a legend!

[BassMunkee]

I would.
If I ever got round to it, and if anybody besides my Fiancee and my best mate turned - unless anything else came up, which you never know..
It might be nice to give the machines an airing though...

[molan]

Steve Lawson is a regular solo gig man - check his site for more details, vids, MP3's etc: [url="http://www.stevelawson.net/wordpress/"]http://www.stevelawson.net/wordpress/[/url]

Last time I saw him was with Michael Manring - top solo bass night

[ped]

What did Trip say, Alan? Is it repeatable? ;0)

I have missed him a few times but he is definitely on me 'go see' list

ped

[WILD FROG SHOT]

Joe Garcia (who posts on here) does: [url="http://www.myspace.com/joegarciasnoise"]http://www.myspace.com/joegarciasnoise[/url]

It's pretty damn loud live.

[Alun]

[quote name='ped' post='281099' date='Sep 10 2008, 02:09 PM']What did Trip say, Alan? Is it repeatable? ;0)

ped[/quote]

He said...

"As an all-emcompassing statement, the players who make me want to BE them are Percy Jones, Mick Karn, John Taylor, Nick Beggs, Alun Vaughan, and I loved Squarepusher from the first time I heard it."

I was, and still am, enormously chuffed

Cheers
Alun

[Jase]

[quote name='Alun' post='281347' date='Sep 10 2008, 07:35 PM']He said...

"As an all-emcompassing statement, the players who make me want to BE them are Percy Jones, Mick Karn, John Taylor, Nick Beggs, Alun Vaughan, and I loved Squarepusher from the first time I heard it."

I was, and still am, enormously chuffed

Cheers
Alun[/quote]

Nice one! If my name was mentioned in the same breath a Percy Jones...I'd die happy!

[ped]

That's nice, innit! Good stuff all round. From what I have heard Alun, the praise is deserved...

ped

[Alun]

[quote name='ped' post='281351' date='Sep 10 2008, 07:38 PM']That's nice, innit! Good stuff all round. From what I have heard Alun, the praise is deserved...

ped[/quote]

I'll give you that brown envelope at Bassday

[pete.young]

[quote name='hatori' post='280841' date='Sep 10 2008, 07:35 AM']One of my major influences..a legend![/quote]
+1

If you guys hadn't, I was going to. What a legend.

As far as I can tell, Jennifer Moore is no longer doing gigs which is a shame - I saw her play once and was very impressed.

[doctor_of_the_bass]

...should'nt boast about this but my claim to fame is that Hodge wants me to give him some lessons in the art of `modern bass techniques' - he lives near here!!! Hehe!


Nick

[yorks5stringer]

[quote name='pete.young' post='281438' date='Sep 10 2008, 09:33 PM']+1

If you guys hadn't, I was going to. What a legend.

As far as I can tell, Jennifer Moore is no longer doing gigs which is a shame - I saw her play once and was very impressed.[/quote]

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[Moody]

I went to one of Steve Lawson's solo bass nights in London a while back - it was awesome, my fav moment being when Steve asked the audience "Who plays Bass then?" litterally the entire audience put their hands up!

That night I saw Yolanda Charles. Well worth a YouTube/Google - simply sublime!

[Faithless]

[quote name='ped' post='280638' date='Sep 9 2008, 09:52 PM']Anyone heard of Trip Wamsley?[/quote]
Mr. Trip [i]must[/i] be playing Vigier, eheh, right?...


Cheers, Ped
Faith.

Edited September 11, 2008 by Faithless

[bassninja]

John (or Jon) Lester was great when I saw him at Larmertree a couple of years ago. Solo electric and upright, with decent songs, too.

[Matt]

Thrones, its Joe Preston on his own with loopers etc. he used a BC Rich Beast bass when i saw him, lots of drones and vocal effects, its doom busking i guess, totally fearless.

[Bilbo]

Percy Jones has done the solo with backing tapes thing.

Michael Manring of course.

Dave Holland has done 2 cds of solo bass (Emerald Tears and Ones All) but I am not sure if he ever gigged solo.

Glen Moore of Oregon fame has done solo gigs and duos with singers. Rob Wasserman has done the duo thing.

There's a guy in Newport, S. Wales called Andy Long who is trying to nail this kind of thing but I have only heard one piece that was badly recorded?

Jeff Berlin does his Dixie/Imagine/Tears In Heaven set at music fares.

Renaud Garcia-Fons?

[Alun]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='282656' date='Sep 12 2008, 02:29 PM']Dave Holland has done 2 cds of solo bass (Emerald Tears and Ones All) but I am not sure if he ever gigged solo.[/quote]

I have a bootleg DVD of him playing a solo gig somewhere - very good it is too. Didn't think I'd enjoy 35 mins of solo upright but it's great.

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='282656' date='Sep 12 2008, 02:29 PM']There's a guy in Newport, S. Wales called Andy Long who is trying to nail this kind of thing but I have only heard one piece that was badly recorded?[/quote]

I know Andy, he's playing some very interesting stuff. There is an MP3 of me doing a duet with him on "Blue Monk" on my website...http://www.alunvaughan.com/Monkmix.mp3

Cheers
Alun