I Finally Get Lee Sklar

[Grangur]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1460962511' post='3030079']
He's from Milwaukee.

Blue
[/quote]
So how come you don't play like he does then?

You clearly need a DFA switch!

He's amazing. Thanks for posting Delberthot et al

[color=#BBBBBB][font=Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2]https://youtu.be/RM34UHE6EN8[/size][/font][/color]

Edited April 18, 2016 by Grangur

[oldbass]

I'm with the OP...struth what a tasty player indeed.

But that verse?...wasn't there a tune called 'Candy Girl' by an early 80's kid band..sounds very similiar.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1460962511' post='3030079']
He's from Milwaukee.

Blue
[/quote]

And Wooten; Idaho. That's close (enough...) to Milwaukee, isn't it..? No..? Oh, well. Being born where one's born is only coincidence, anyway.

[blue]

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1460975068' post='3030226']

So how come you don't play like he does then?

You clearly need a DFA switch!

He's amazing. Thanks for posting Delberthot et al

[color=#BBBBBB][font=Roboto, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=2]https://youtu.be/RM34UHE6EN8[/size][/font][/color]
[/quote]

I don't have his talent or ability, it's why I'm still playing 76 four hour bar band level gigs annually after 50 years of playing.

Blue

Edited April 18, 2016 by blue

[blue]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1460987389' post='3030396']


I don't have his talent or ability, it's why I'm still playing 76 four hour bar band level gigs after 50 years of playing.

Blue
[/quote]

[Kiwi]

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1460962891' post='3030083']
Ah, finally I know what made Milwaukee famous
[/quote]
Yeah but when he was three, the family moved from Milwaukee to California. His parents are both STILL alive and in their mid 90's too.

[Mykesbass]

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1460991606' post='3030441']

Yeah but when he was three, the family moved from Milwaukee to California. His parents are both STILL alive and in their mid 90's too.
[/quote]
oh well, guess it must have been Schlitz Beer after all!

[lowdown]

[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1460992430' post='3030455']

oh well, guess it must have been Schlitz Beer after all!
[/quote]

[Grangur]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1460987389' post='3030396']
I don't have his talent or ability, it's why I'm still playing 76 four hour bar band level gigs annually after 50 years of playing.

Blue
[/quote]
Alas, Sir, you have more ability than I will ever have in a lifetime as I don't have 50 years available to me.

[Malcspring1]

Cookin'. So tasty. I know him from his time with Toto mainly though, but he has tons of credits. Fantastic player.

[BottomE]

Very tasty - the great players always have the savvy to put the right things in the right places but not all over the place - he does this so well.

[blue]

I'm sure Lee"s phone is always ringing.

Blue

[bassace]

One of the very best. He makes some of our own 'pin ups' sound quite ordinary in comparison.

[ivansc]

Read an interview with him years ago where he claimed to be using mandolin frets on his basses.
Also gave me the idea of copying his "playing with left hand fingers ON the fret" to get a more woody double bass sound.

It works!

But damn you have to be precise with that left hand.

[Marty Forrer]

I met him 2005 at NAMM. Lovely man. Saw him way before that with James Taylor. Played very simple and tasty...... until JT gave him a solo. He burned! I mean HE BURNED!!

[blue]

Daryl Strummer Phil Collin's guitarist is also from Milwaukee. He still lives here.

Blue

Edited April 21, 2016 by blue

[leschirons]

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1461279676' post='3033378']
Daryl Strummer Phil Collin's guitarist is also from Milwaukee. He still lives here.

Blue
[/quote]

Strummer, like it, I see what you did there.

[blue]

[quote name='leschirons' timestamp='1461280149' post='3033379']


Strummer, like it, I see what you did there.
[/quote]

Yeah,I'm not sure I spelled his last name correctly.I'll check it.

Blue

Edited April 22, 2016 by blue

[Mike]

Great video link, thanks! Terrific.

[Delberthot]

Decided to learn this today. What a fantastic bass line.

[Bilbo]

That Behind The Lines line was one that I used as a learning tool early on. Alphonso Johnson is, to me, THE underrated player. Sklar is top drawer, though, absolutely.

[spectoremg]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1461488625' post='3034963']
That Behind The Lines line was one that I used as a learning tool early on. Alphonso Johnson is, to me, THE underrated player. Sklar is top drawer, though, absolutely.
[/quote]Well said. Credit where it's due.

[TrevorR]

As a huge James Taylor fan I've always loved Lee Sklar's playing. If there was any Sklar line that is my "now I get..." Line it's probably Your Smiling Face from the JT. Sklar's bass line is pretty much perfect to my ears and turns what would otherwise be a cheerful, throwaway ditty into one of my all time favourite, play on repeat songs.

I don't really like slap bass but when he throws in the subtle slap bridge I just want to stand up with a big grin on my face and applaud. Every single time...

http://youtu.be/xIWSXGaJQ-A

Edited May 7, 2016 by TrevorR

[ezbass]

I really like all of this video, but if you want to skip to the Lee Sklar pertinent bit, go to 3:41 - 5:45. What makes me really smile about this video, apart from the incredible Mr Sklar, is that you can almost see that DW kit wince when Abe Laboriel Jr lays into it; the man is a monster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcDBYvOonP4

[merello]

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1460859798' post='3029391']
After years of listening to the man and reading interviews I could never get why he was held in such high regard. I'd heard some of his stuff and I thought he was ok but tonight for the first time I watched this:

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Ea5RtNwa0"]https://www.youtube....h?v=e1Ea5RtNwa0[/url]

Now I understand.
[/quote]
Alphonso Johnson's bassline off Face Value.
Saw Big Lee live with Collins and he is brilliant.

Edited May 7, 2016 by merello