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Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: white_cloud on May 27, 2012, 04:53:25 AM

Here is some nice early footage of Jimmy playing with Alan Holdsworth in Japan. This features a really cool bass solo near the end of the track - plenty of nice Alembic visual footage throughout.
http://youtu.be/jX70njhUKII (http://youtu.be/jX70njhUKII)

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: tncaveman on May 27, 2012, 05:57:16 AM

WOW - three of my favs on one tour.   Holdsworth, Wackerman, and Johnson - so cool.   Way back in high school, about 4 or 5 of us were really into Holdsworth - no one else had a clue.   Being in flyover territory, another group not seen.  Thank God RTF has been here at least 2x.
 
Stephen

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: yogalembic on May 27, 2012, 01:41:20 PM

nice vid!
 
for more great jimmy, youtube 'wayne johnson trio'.  great live stuff!

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: JimmyJ on May 27, 2012, 09:45:03 PM

Yikes, who are them youngsters?  Ha!  
 
Thanks for the kind words.  That's another amazing and unusual Allan tune, one of my faves.
 
And for you Series bass historians (is such a thing?) that is 82 2252, a graphite necked bass which was only fretted for a short time - including this Japan tour (Holdsworth's first).  Soon after it became a fretless and now serves as a backup to my main fretless; 80 1467.
 
Cheers,
Jimmy J

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: room037 on May 27, 2012, 10:15:02 PM

Series Bass Historian is here.
Thanks, Jimmy.
 
Serial No. 1467 is 79' range and No.1467 is LSG series 2 that I know.
Your bass No. is 1667 ? (1567 is MSB)
 
Eiji

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: yogalembic on May 28, 2012, 06:45:55 AM

Yes, there are a few of us youngsters still out here!
   
IMO, one of the most beautiful solos I've ever heard....'Marina', from Grasshopper.
 
Singing fretless tone, melodic....and when you threw in that short flurry @5:01, had I not been sitting down, I would've fallen down!  
 
Lastly, Jimmy, 'One More Reason' from Tom Howard's View From The Bridge....fabulous!
(yes, I still have the album)  
Thanks to youtube, it's available---
 
Jay

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: white_cloud on May 28, 2012, 12:04:52 PM

Jimmy, your gig with Alan at the Glasgow Ferry  two years ago still remains my favourite ever live bass performance. The combination of sublime playing & wonderful tonality! It was an added bonus chewing the fat with you too :-)
 
Make sure you come back again!

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: JimmyJ on May 28, 2012, 01:05:08 PM

Eiji!  Of course!  You know more about Alembic than ... well ... anybody!  I will take a close look at the '80 when I get home and post an update.  It's definitely a long scale graphite fretless - Series I - but I'll check the number.
 
Jay, thanks for all that.  The Tom Howard record was maybe even before that youtube clip...  I don't know if I even have a copy of that... Nice guy, talented singer/songwriter.  Sad to have lost him suddenly a couple years ago...
 
Hey John, yes, that was a fun hang.  Hopefully there will be other opportunities like that in the future.
 
Best to all,
Jimmy J

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: JimmyJ on May 29, 2012, 11:07:14 PM

Eiji-san,
 
Thanks to your deep knowledge I have discovered that my main fretless bass is actually 80 1497.  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/449/132124.jpg)
I wonder how many years I've had that wrong?  I'll be calling my insurance company tomorrow!
 
Thanks!
Jimmy J

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: elwoodblue on May 30, 2012, 01:00:03 AM

!! lol...Eiji , you are priceless !
 
and thanks for the link whitecloud.

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: room037 on May 30, 2012, 01:41:56 AM

1497 !
It is the youngest number of 1980 in my archives.
 
Thank you for the nice picture.
 
Eiji

Title: Jimmy Johnson!
Post by: mario_farufyno on May 30, 2012, 07:21:40 AM

I'm amazed...