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Although Rutger Gunnarsson played on most of the stuff, a British (session) Bass player called Mike Watson also did a bit.
Full list of the studio musicians here, with some interesting little stories.
http://felpin80.tripod.com/ata/id41.html

This is a really good insight into the ABBA Basslines and worth a read (The Bassists of ABBA).
https://philwbass.com/2014/01/02/the-bassists-of-abba/

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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1483473953' post='3207498']
Although Rutger Gunnarsson played on most of the stuff, a British (session) Bass player called Mike Watson also did a bit.
Full list of the studio musicians here, with some interesting little stories.
[url="http://felpin80.tripod.com/ata/id41.html"]http://felpin80.trip...m/ata/id41.html[/url]

This is a really good insight into the ABBA Basslines and worth a read (The Bassists of ABBA).
[url="https://philwbass.com/2014/01/02/the-bassists-of-abba/"]https://philwbass.co...ssists-of-abba/[/url]
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Interesting, I'll give that a read too. I'd be interested if anyone knows about Carol Coleman from [i]The field of Zaad/Kid Creole and the coconuts[/i] fame?

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[quote name='toneknob' timestamp='1483529037' post='3207874']
Boom

http://www.sykestranscription.com/transcription-archive/
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Lovely Jubbly and thanks for the link.
I have just downloaded some stuff - Very accurate notation.
There is a ton of good stuff for download.

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[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1483530392' post='3207902']
Lovely Jubbly and thanks for the link.
I have just downloaded some stuff - Very accurate notation.
There is a ton of good stuff for download.
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Real treasure trove isn't it! I was proper omg when I saw all of 801 Live in there. Good accurate transcriptions as well, and no (or very little) tab.

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[quote name='KevB' timestamp='1483532201' post='3207925']
So it was neither Gunnarson nor Watson on Voulez Vous then...
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Google shows up a player called Arnold Paseiro.

[i][color=#444444][font=Georgia, serif]"To record the track Voulez Vous, Abba travelled to Nassau in the Bahamas. They used the Latin/Disco band Foxy as their backing track and this created a strong disco groove for the track. Paseiro had played with George McCrae and the great Betty Wright among others. Paseiro, originally from Miami (born 1950) had a big input to the track and suggested the instrumental section at the end of the track. He grooves like mad throughout but does show restraint where necessary. The lines are textbook disco but so well done: Good Times/Superstition style quarter notes, octaves, galloping figures…he leaps high up the neck to echo the horn riffs near the end of the track. Overall the song has a smoldering intensity."[/font][/color][/i]

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