bass_in_ya_face Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 (edited) Anyone heard of him before.....I think he was in the Skids prior to the Armoury Show. Love the tone he has on this track. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV77kAhd10k"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV77kAhd10k[/url] I think he is playing my favourite bass , Aria Pro SB1000. Also features one of my guitar heroes, the late, great John McGeough. Despite being a Skids & Banshees fan, I don't think the track is upto much but I'm loving the bass. Edited September 22, 2007 by bass_in_ya_face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 That's an Aria Pro II PB-1500 our Russ is playing. Fine player, he was. The Armoury Show were one of the great "should have been" bands from the 80s, for me. I saw them once, at the old Town & Country Club (now Kentish Town Forum) - if I remember right, he played that Aria Pro & a Status. The [i]Waiting For The Floods[/i] album (the only album The Armoury Show made) is great - although the production sounds horribly squeaky & overprocessed these days! Webb was in The Skids prior to TAS - he played on [i]The Absolute Game[/i] and [i]Joy[/i]. He wasn't involved in the recent Skids 30th anniversary reunion thing - in fact I think I remember reading somewhere that he's involved in videogame design these days. John McGeoch's death was tragic - such an inventive & original player. Jon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaggy Posted September 23, 2007 Share Posted September 23, 2007 Haven't heard of him, though I saw the Skids back in '80 (Liverpool Uni), great gig and probably the best support band I've ever seen (Fingerprinz). +1 on John McGeogh - saw him around the same time play with Magazine pre-Siouxsie & the Banshees - absolutely unique, and so often played around the strong bass-lines of Barry Adamson rather than vice-versa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_in_ya_face Posted September 24, 2007 Author Share Posted September 24, 2007 (edited) I know people such as The Edge & John Frusicante from the chillis have sited John McGeogh as a big infleunce on their playing. Sadly I seem to remember at the time of his death he had given up the music scene as was training to be a nurse or something. I did see him play with PIL at the old town and country club when he went into the crowd to srot out a guy who had just hurled a pint of larger at John Lydon! Edited September 24, 2007 by bass_in_ya_face Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 [quote name='bass_in_ya_face' post='64231' date='Sep 23 2007, 12:11 AM']Anyone heard of him before.....I think he was in the Skids prior to the Armoury Show. Love the tone he has on this track. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV77kAhd10k"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV77kAhd10k[/url] I think he is playing my favourite bass , Aria Pro SB1000. Also features one of my guitar heroes, the late, great John McGeough. Despite being a Skids & Banshees fan, I don't think the track is upto much but I'm loving the bass.[/quote] Good call - a top bass player. Very underrated. What's Russell Webb up to these days? Great shame, Armoury never got the recognition they deserved - brilliant live. John McGeough's death was a sad loss. Another great band from around this time were the Chameleons. Anybody remember them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJA Posted September 24, 2007 Share Posted September 24, 2007 (edited) [quote name='Bassassin' post='64240' date='Sep 23 2007, 12:45 AM']That's an Aria Pro II PB-1500 our Russ is playing. [/quote] ah, I've been wondering what it was. [url="http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/catalogs/1979/79ap2a_pg8_page.jpg.html"]http://www.matsumoku.org/models/ariaproii/...8_page.jpg.html[/url] I've got waiting for the Floods and the version of Castles in spain on it has fretless bass, but the version I downloaded has fretted bass, probably the Aria. great tone. Russell Webb occasionally posts on the Big Country forum. a friend of mine has an Aria SB900 ex-John Taylor. Edited September 24, 2007 by SJA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccabe Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Russell Webb played some brilliant lines on that Armoury Show album. Apparently he was also in Slik with Midge Ure as well as The Skids. McGeoch was a fantastic guitarist, such a pity. Magazine are one of my all-time favourite bands; McGeoch and Adamson worked together really well. I like bands where there isn't any real prominent instrument all the time, and Magazine fit the bill perfectly. Along with Dave Formula's keyboards everything fitted brilliantly. I guess that's one of the reasons I like Duran Duran so much - they also have no real "main" instrument (well, most of the time) everything just fits together nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelk27 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 [quote name='Bassassin' post='64240' date='Sep 22 2007, 11:45 PM'][A]lthough the production sounds horribly squeaky & overprocessed these days![/quote] Surely not. Think it's time the gated reverb snares of the 80s made a comeback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebeat Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 I loved the Skids, but i always thought The Armoury Show was spoiled by Jobsons bombastic lyrics and pseudo intellectualism...in other words i think Jobson is a w***er. Stuart Adamson on the other hand was always the down to earth one...i miss him. Me and my Skids T Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 [quote name='thebeat' post='292953' date='Sep 26 2008, 06:15 PM']I loved the Skids, but i always thought The Armoury Show was spoiled by Jobsons bombastic lyrics and pseudo intellectualism...in other words i think Jobson is a w***er. Stuart Adamson on the other hand was always the down to earth one...i miss him.[/quote] I don't think either The Skids or TAS would have been quite the same without Jobbo's bizarre declamations! Stuart was probably my favourite guitarist, a huge influence on my own playing & songwriting. I had the pleasure of meeting him in the early 90s - such a talented, but unassuming & genuine guy. RIP. J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelk27 Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 [quote name='Bassassin' post='293178' date='Sep 26 2008, 10:37 PM']Stuart ... such a talented, but unassuming & genuine guy. RIP.[/quote] The last throws of the 80s, a friend of a friend of a friend’s house-warming, and in one of the sprawling Victorian bedroom suites, Stuart was perched on the edge of a very large bed, strumming an acoustic guitar and singing Scots laments, with some 20 or 30 drunken attendees. Quite magical to witness. A fragile soul, and sadly missed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 [font="Trebuchet MS"][i][font="Microsoft Sans Serif"][font="Comic Sans MS"] McGeoch was a fantastic guitarist, such a pity. Magazine are one of my all-time favourite bands; McGeoch and Adamson worked together really well. I like bands where there isn't any real prominent instrument all the time, and Magazine fit the bill perfectly. Along with Dave Formula's keyboards everything fitted brilliantly.[/font][/font][/i][/font] +1 from me..... Check this out then,: [url="http://www.myspace.com/magazineofficial"]http://www.myspace.com/magazineofficial[/url] I think I'll be going to the Forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmccabe Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 Thanks for that link. That's a difficult one! The Friday Forum show's sold out and Thursday is so phenomenally inconvenient, and Saturday - can I put up with the flack from the wife if I go to Manchester??? Aaaargghhh. Birmingham, Bristol or Cardiff would be so much better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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