lowdown Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) Does anyone remember Wayne Brathwaite? Around in the 80/90's and sadly went to play Bass upstairs a few years ago. He seems to be one of the session players from that era that dont get a shout around these parts.[quite a CV] I cant find much Youtube stuff with him on. But here he is with Herbie Hancock. Big Rich tone and groove sim to Marcus Miller at that time. [By the way not a post about Herbie going all Electro ] Garry Edited July 23, 2010 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Rich Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) [quote name='lowdown' post='903218' date='Jul 23 2010, 02:18 PM']Does anyone remember Wayne Brathwaite? Around in the 80/90's and sadly went to play Bass upstairs a few years ago. He seems to be one of the session players from that era that dont get a shout around these parts.[quite a CV] I cant find much Youtube stuff with him on. But here he is with Herbie Hancock. Big Rich tone and groove sim to Marcus Miller at that time. [By the way not a post about Herbie going all Electro ] Garry[/quote] Remember seeing his name on quite a few LPs, he must have been playing something good to have made me want to find out who was playing. Can't remember which songs or artists though, will have to do some digging. Edited July 23, 2010 by Fat Rich Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Bassman Posted July 23, 2010 Share Posted July 23, 2010 Certainly do! He played bass on Glenn Jones' fine album Finesse, around '84 I think. I was still noodling around on my old classical guitar, detuned and with 2 strings missing...! The album featured Wayne playing a cool slow slapped part on "You're The Only One I Love" - t'was one of the songs that drove me to buy my first real bass. I think the album was also produced by Wardell Potts Jr (the drummer on most of Shalamar's best known albums) and also had some input from a certain Leon F Sylvers. Can't go wrong there... RIP Mr Brathwaite and thank you. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-L_Bgjoqg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-L_Bgjoqg[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 [quote name='Captain Bassman' post='903549' date='Jul 23 2010, 08:38 PM']Certainly do! He played bass on Glenn Jones' fine album Finesse, around '84 I think. I was still noodling around on my old classical guitar, detuned and with 2 strings missing...! The album featured Wayne playing a cool slow slapped part on "You're The Only One I Love" - t'was one of the songs that drove me to buy my first real bass. I think the album was also produced by Wardell Potts Jr (the drummer on most of Shalamar's best known albums) and also had some input from a certain Leon F Sylvers. Can't go wrong there... RIP Mr Brathwaite and thank you. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-L_Bgjoqg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO-L_Bgjoqg[/url][/quote] That Glenn Jones track is great - stonking Tight Bass sound Good one. Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chardbass Posted July 24, 2010 Share Posted July 24, 2010 I remember him from my tape-sleeve-credit-reading days as playing on Jonathan Butler's albums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romy Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Here he is recording with David Sylvian... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXJxOszhH84 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted July 18, 2018 Author Share Posted July 18, 2018 5 hours ago, Romy said: Here he is recording with David Sylvian... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXJxOszhH84 Here you go ‘Romy’...👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Williams Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 I absolutely love Mr. Braithwaite's work,he had a big influence on me. He is featured on Melba Moore's outstanding 1981album "What A Woman Needs", check him out on the title track and the funky "Each Second". Continue resting in Power,Wayne. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James owens Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 Hi. Haven’t talked about my friend Wayne braithwaite in years. For those of you who don’t know,Wayne,myself another brother named victor and Alex all started playing together around the same time. The first band Wayne was in was with us four. We were known as BLACK GOLD. We were all just starting high school. I’m Perry the guitarist. All of us lived on Greene avenue in Brooklyn except victor who was the drummer. We spent many evenings in all of our basements practicing and making music together. We went to Bushwick high school on Irving ave. So if there’s anybody out there who wants to know anything about Wayne’s humble beginnings I’m sure the person to ask. He was exceptionally good and went on to levels I never imagined when we first started playing instruments. I haven’t seen or talked to Alex in years. He was the lead singer and percussionist. I believe he lives in North Carolina now. And sadly victor passed away along time ago as well. Before Wayne I believe. Anyway if anybody out there reading this would like to ask me anything please feel free to do so. 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burns-bass Posted January 2, 2021 Share Posted January 2, 2021 What a wonderful story and thanks for posting! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karon11 Posted February 28 Share Posted February 28 On 02/01/2021 at 20:54, James owens said: Hi. Haven’t talked about my friend Wayne braithwaite in years. For those of you who don’t know,Wayne,myself another brother named victor and Alex all started playing together around the same time. The first band Wayne was in was with us four. We were known as BLACK GOLD. We were all just starting high school. I’m Perry the guitarist. All of us lived on Greene avenue in Brooklyn except victor who was the drummer. We spent many evenings in all of our basements practicing and making music together. We went to Bushwick high school on Irving ave. So if there’s anybody out there who wants to know anything about Wayne’s humble beginnings I’m sure the person to ask. He was exceptionally good and went on to levels I never imagined when we first started playing instruments. I haven’t seen or talked to Alex in years. He was the lead singer and percussionist. I believe he lives in North Carolina now. And sadly victor passed away along time ago as well. Before Wayne I believe. Anyway if anybody out there reading this would like to ask me anything please feel free to do so. This was lovely to hear about him and his early days. My sister and I spent some time with him when he came to London on the 'Rock It' tour in 1984. He was lovely, a real gent and good fun. So sad he is no longer with us. I still have his neckerchief with me, will always keep it safe along with my good memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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