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Connecting => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: jzstephan on June 28, 2015, 08:46:23 AM
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http://www.jambase.com/Articles/125601/In-Memoriam-Yes-Bassist-Chris-Squire
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It was very very recently that I knew about his illness, but certainly I wasn't expecting this to happen so soon. Well, it is always so soon when it is about someone you love and admire. This is a sad, sad loss...
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Big loss. Such an inspirational and innovative player - the notes he chose and the sound he made. We are lucky to live in a time where all that recorded music is still available for us enjoy and for others to yet discover.
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This is indeed very SAD ! He was one of the Cats that I choose to make a difference in my perception of what the Bass Guitar can do . Like Jaco, and like Jack Bruce, one of the Cats .
Chris , your contributions and music will eternalize your essence for ever . Thanks !
Wolf
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Knew of his illness but didn't realize it was so serious - shocked and saddened - he was such a huge influence on me - just saw him last Fall with Yes, glad my wife and I got to go.
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It is impossible to measure just how influential the music of Yes has been in my life. I am very grateful for Chris Squire and the contributions he has made to our music and to my own journey. Thank you Chris.
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This is delightful; Chris talking about the famous night when they opened for Hendrix at the Marquis Club.
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Three great bass players gone in less than a year. Jack Bruce last October, Andy Fraser in March and now 'Fish'. All three very different, all three wonderful bass players and all three sadly missed.
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I just posted on another forum earlier today when I first read the news... it's sad when these guys leave here, but deeply comforting to know that their music lives on in us, especially those of us that play it.
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Gregory , so true !
It is up to us to carry on their chops and technique. In addition show and present their music to younger and beginning players .
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Saddened, a big influence on my playing and attitude about music...
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It was very very recently that I knew about his illness, but certainly I wasn't expecting this to happen so soon. Well, it is always so soon when it is about someone you love and admire. This is a sad, sad loss...
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Everyone has a top 3, 4 or 5 bassists who were the biggest influences in their playing style; Squire was one of my top 5, as I developed my chops in the late 1970s.
A truly sad day, Godspeed my friend.......
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See you on the other side Fish.RIP.
Nothing I can say that already hasn't been said.
A monster bass player and true legend.
Now I must listen to Going For The One.
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My favorite bassist and person that inspired me to play bass. My purchase of a Rick 4001 in 81 at the ripe age of 17. RIP Chris
Stephen
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Hi was very shocked to hear of Chris' passing yesterday, despite having posted of his illness a month ago. I guess we hadn't been informed just how ill he was and I was looking forward to next year's tour in the hope that Chris would be performing as he has at every Yes gig there's been. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family. There's a touching tribute from Brian May on his blog (http://brianmay.com/brian/brianssb/brianssbjun15.html#22)
Graeme
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Sad loss indeed, 'Close To The Edge' still is my favourite prog rock album.
RIP Mr Squire
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Dang!
I got goose bumps when I saw this thread . . . And then tears in my eyes when reading the news.
Huge influence.
Schindleria Praemeturus
May the waters guide you home.
(Message edited by Pauldo on June 29, 2015)
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Just read this!!!
My son and I were just listening to Fragile yesterday.
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Crushing news. Truly one of the greats, and gone far too soon.
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Bummer...I really haven't listened to Yes in years but some songs pop into my head on occasion and they always have a killer Chris Squire bass line in them...
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I still remember hearing Roundabout for the first time and trying to learn the bass-lines
VMG
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I remember hearing Roundabout many times on the radio and not realizing that the bass was making that sound until I saw a live performance on TV...made me realize that there could be so much more to a bass part beyond thud, thud, thud.
A true innovator and an inspiration to us all to think differently.
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Very sad. He and Jack Bruce were my first bass heroes. They were the players who convinced me I wasn't settling for anything by taking up the bass guitar. When I was a teenage bass player I played a Ric with Rotos because Chris did. Used cabs with 12 speakers because Chris did. Even used the same Herco picks. I was proud of myself to an unseemly degree when I was able to play Close To The Edge, Siberian Khatru and Roundabout correctly and from memory. He was an idol, an inspiration, a music teacher and a Bass Hero to me.
RIP, sir.
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Great musicians reach across many genres and influence people you just would not think would be listening.
Like most of us in the 70's, FRAGILE and the first single 'RoundAbout' made big impressions. I was working in a music store, and a local black bassist who was already a slap/pop master was a regular customer, he could Bootsy and Stanley and Larry Graham and Louis Johnson you to death, just fabulous at it and fingerstyle ala' Jamerson as well. One of my favorite guys and players, he just had 'it' for days.
He came in one day, and 'RoundAbout' was playing on the FM radio feed we kept playing as background music. So he picks up an axe and plugs in, and begins playing it, letter-perfect, in slap, and it was just hair-curling. Not funked up, but Squire's lines precisely. He went on to rave about Squire, pointed out the cooler little bits that told me he'd really woodshedded this. And his slap tone was obviously not unlike Squire's tone on the recording. What a blast !
I later begged him to teach me to slap 'The Wanton Song', but we never got 'round to it.
So when it comes to great players, you just never know WHO's digging on it.
Joey
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It's been a month, and I still tear-up when I think about it.
Lift Me Up has Chris playing Trevor Rabin's Alembic.
I can't believe he's gone.
John