andy67 Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 (edited) Bought a new hifi for the lounge this weekend. Nad c315bee and c515bee with Monitor Audio B1 Bronze speakers. What a sound! I put on The Firm - Paul Rodgers Jimmy Page project - and fell in love with it all over again! Great open/airy/clear/musical recording featuring Paul's melodic vocals and Jimmy's fantastic electric/acoustic 6 and 12 string guitar playing. Bass comes via the sublime Tony Franklin ably supported by ex Uriah Heep drummer Chris Slade. What a great album it is, featuring an previously unreleased Led Zepp track and music by The Firm. The reason for this thread is Tony Franklin!! His fretless playing is superb and tonally supreme. I had actually forgotten about Tony and the caliber of player he is so...I think this should now turn into an appreciation thread for his most obvious talent! [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firm_(band)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firm_(band)[/url] [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Franklin_(musician)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Franklin_(musician)[/url] andy Edited March 8, 2009 by andy67 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctor_of_the_bass Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 ..I've read in interviews that Chris Squire's project `XYZ'* which featured Jimmy Page (and also Robert Plant at one point) formed the basis of some of the Firm's tunes! After XYZ, Chris was introduced to Trevor Rabin, the rest is history! * XYZ = Ex Yes Zeppelin I had contact with Tony some years ago, we (the Yahoo JD group) were trying to track down a black Roadie fretless that he'd had nicked. Really nice bloke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy67 Posted March 8, 2009 Author Share Posted March 8, 2009 great info! surprising some of the contact basschatters have had with the famous players. andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7string Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Tony Franklin was a huge influence on me. I never really though about fretless bass in rock, but his playing on the self-titled 'Blue Murder' album really is quite brilliant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3V17C Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 yeah is quite nice to hear a bit of fretless in a 'rock' band situation - that Blue Murder album is quite good ... but a song titled 'Sex Child'?.... haha..ouch!! couple of his solo tracks on his myspace are pretty good too peace c Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 [quote]ably supported by ex Uriah Heep drummer Chris Slade.[/quote] Wot?...the same Chris Slade featured in [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Monp42hqw"]this clip[/url]? 'e gets around, don't 'e !!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevB Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Chris Slade has played with loads of artists, sometimes he's done tours for some bands without necessarily appearing on the original albums. He's toured with ACDC, Dave Gilmour & Asia as well as those already mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveK Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 [quote]Chris Slade has played with loads of artists, sometimes he's done tours for some bands without necessarily appearing on the original albums. He's toured with ACDC, Dave Gilmour & Asia as well as those already mentioned.[/quote] Indeed... ...He also spent many years with Manfred Mann's Earth Band...but they're rubbish, so we won't count them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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