Abe Laboriel - I LOVE this!

[Kiwi]

[i]Just[/i] enough chordal technique to make the song work. I didn't like the tone he was getting though. I wish he'd used something a little brighter for solo playing.



Have to confess I've been a closet Abe Laboriel fan for a while. The CHiP's TV series was formulaic and boring but he did some incredible playing on the incidental music in the 70's after pwning the original composer. The producers apparently left him to his own devices in the studio!

You can hear him on the original theme tune here, its not as flashy as the incidental stuff but he's funky as hell:

[Dood]

gosh! The memories! I didnt even know what a bass guitar was back then!

[NickThomas]

Thats just pure class .... I've been a Laboriel fan since his contribution to The Nightfly

Nick

[Kiwi]

Yeah there's something so musically complete about just bass and vocals. Jaco and Joni did something like that on Mingus and Heijra

[alexclaber]

Righteous!

I wouldn't say his tone is lacking brightness, just a smidgeon too much bottom and too little midrange. But we're talking very small amounts!

Very reminiscent of Jaco/Joni...

Alex

[OldGit]

So nice to see a solo that isn't slapping at 100 mph

Oh and CHIPS again, of course

[ped]

CHIPS looks like a great show.

[OldGit]

[quote name='ped' post='29438' date='Jul 9 2007, 11:21 PM']CHIPS looks like a great show.[/quote]

Awwww Too young to have seen Chips

[bass_in_ya_face]

Aw man CHips!...never noticed the bass when I was younger....I do now thanks

[Bloodaxe]

Be nice if they were both playing the same song.

Agree with you on the CHiPs thing though, there were more than a few dead funky US theme tunes from that era - was he a serial perp?

[OldGit]

There's some pretty fine bass playing on some contemporary kids programs as well..
Tracey Beaker for one

[Tee]

Chips was one of my favs back in the day, as a kid in the 80s. I loved all the theme tunes to tv shows like that, Starsky and Hutch, The Professionals, Magnum PI, Hart to Hart, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Lalo Schifrin scores. Funnily enough i was playing violin at that age, lol.

[Kiwi]

[quote name='OldGit' post='29436' date='Jul 9 2007, 11:19 PM']So nice to see a solo that isn't slapping at 100 mph[/quote]
In which case you probably wouldn't be interested in the incidental music. I did end up recording some of it years and years ago on cassette tape but I have no idea where those tapes are (probably thrown out) or even if they were playable after all this time. (Erm, not that I have a cassette player now anyway...)

Say does anyone have cable access to a channel which plays repeats of old programmes like CHiPs?

[Tee]

Bravo was showing it not too long ago.

[Chris2112]

Abe is the man! I dig his playing.

[Kiwi]

[quote name='Tee' post='29602' date='Jul 10 2007, 09:56 AM']Bravo was showing it not too long ago.[/quote]

Wikkid! I think it might have been around series 6 when Abe got started - any chance you could have a listen and record any for us?

[Tee]

I'm not sure if they'll show it again soon. I t was part of an 80s tv series thing they were doing a while back. But i'll keep an eye out. I can't record digitally though

[Golchen]

I really like Abe's playing. I have some great live (ahem......... Christian gospel) records by singer Ron Kenoly with Laboriel playing fantastic bass lines.

[ARGH]

MAN MASSIVE CHiPS FLASHBACK!!!!

I loved that show when I was a kid.