The Nightfly

[kets]

I remember my dad letting me hear this many moons ago when I first started playing bass, telling me "this is what good bass playing should sound like". To this day it's still in my top 5 albums. A true classic.

[crez5150]

Having worked over 10 years of PLASA, Musikmesse and NAMM........ I now hate this bloody album....... oh and 'Hell Freezes Over'

[mep]

[quote name='Bilbo' post='894443' date='Jul 14 2010, 09:37 AM']This may help (bearing in mind XB26354's alterations to my chords)

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=59948&hl=walk+between+the+raindrops"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...n+the+raindrops[/url][/quote]

Good link to a great chart. I've still got the chart one from a very old guitar mag that is 100%

[KevB]

I recall when it first came out Dave Lee Travis playing it to death on his show, he seemed to have a track from it practically every week. Picked it up not long after that. I was really disappointed with the next solo DF album but then that was about ten years after Nightfly!

[wombatboter]

[quote name='crez5150' post='894574' date='Jul 14 2010, 10:51 AM']Having worked over 10 years of PLASA, Musikmesse and NAMM........ I now hate this bloody album....... oh and 'Hell Freezes Over'[/quote]

I used to work in a music shop and everytime I had to listen to "Hell Freezes Over" :-)

A couple of years ago I went to see The Brussels Jazz orchestra (with the very best of our musicians over here) and suddenly they announced a singer who did a cover of "The Goodbye Look"...great to hear that again.
A great album indeed.

[Bassistclem]

All time classic, full of greatness...Would love to see a 'Classic Albums' done on this album.

It is still used by many engineers and producers as a reference when working in a new studio, even stranger when you consider it was one of the first all digital recordings with inferior sample rates etc compared with todays!

Proves the content is still more the most important ingredient to making a great music/recordings...

[Pete Academy]

It's hard to choose a favourite track, but from a bass player's point, Marcus's part on the title track is sublime. The way he tackles the amount of chord changes is both interesting and groove-laden.

One of his finest moments.

[Pete Academy]

Even if you don't like the album, it's still a great study in creating the perfect bass part for a song. Not a note is wasted.

[Shambo]

Never heard it until this thread made me do a quick search. Bought it yesterday and really like it.

[Golchen]

Definitely something 'perfect' about that album. I love the quality of the engineering and production, and the songs are so good.

[yorks5stringer]

Awesome album and thanks to this thread I'm going to learn Walk between Raindrops now! ( incidentally, how do you walk between raindrops?)!