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davr35

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #30 on: December 05, 2005, 04:11:19 PM »
what about Horace Planter and Graham Maby....two points if you know who they are...LOL

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #31 on: December 05, 2005, 04:25:59 PM »
David Crosby, 8/14/41
www.grahammaby.com, Joe Jackson, Natalie Merchant, They Might Be Giants
You got me on Horace Planter

davr35

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #32 on: December 05, 2005, 04:29:22 PM »
One point then ..  Horace Planter.. the Specials

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #33 on: December 05, 2005, 04:49:40 PM »
Graham Maby is one my favorites, with Joe Jackson, possibly the ugliest bass player on the planet; Sunday (later Monday)Papers, loved that bass line. Horace Panter, also know as Sir Horace Gentleman, another real cool player. I love all the British Ska groups of the early '80s.
 
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davr35

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #34 on: December 05, 2005, 05:03:37 PM »
The Two Tone movement of the late 70's early 80's is one of the biggest influences on my own very poor style of playing.. if you can call hitting my Bass with a Baseball Bat playing

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #35 on: December 06, 2005, 01:14:31 AM »
How could I forget Graham Maby? Still - credit where credit's due: he always points out that those marvellous bass lines came from Joe Jackson himself.
 
Now that we have the UK contingent back in line: we must mention Norman Watt-Roy (Ian Dury & the Blockheads).

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #36 on: December 06, 2005, 05:39:31 AM »
Wow, David Crosby's even older than my Mom, LOL!
 
BTW, you don't have to do a few hits to enjoy your LP's on a turntable. Analogue is alive and well and has never sounded better. Anyone who thinks digital is the cat's *ss hasn't heard good analogue...done right, it always has been and still is superior to digital: it's just plain sounds more like real music. Pardon me for my rave...my Hi-Fi tendencies are poking through, LOL!
 
Remember, lennon had a truntable installed suspended from the ceiling of his custom psychedelic painted '65 Rolls Phantom just so he could listen to Procol's Whiter Shade over and over again, LOL!

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #37 on: December 06, 2005, 02:19:46 PM »
you don't have to do a few hits to enjoy your LP's on a turntable
Well, thats true, its just a little more fun that way !  
I agree with the analog/digital thing, seems like they compress everything so much now days that there's not much bandwidth (an unsolicitied opinion, please I bruse easily), I do prefer the sizzle of a cymbal in there etc.  
Kev..I had a buddy that had a 66 Impala with a turntable under the dash..it was a riot..come on, hit that pot hole ! Zzzzzzzz...he wrecked more good records with that thing !    LOL !!!!

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #38 on: December 07, 2005, 12:57:05 AM »
Your average sizzle on an LP will be caused by dirt seated in the groove. But anyway, you need to look at the whole chain of reproduction, not just the start. And I'm not even talking recording techniques here ... though I do recommend making your own recordings on a digital tape recorder, perhaps an old Sony PWM module with a VHS machine for storage, in a controlled environment with only your own instruments, in a climate controlled ... etc, etc.
 
For sizzle, I recommend 1980s speakers of just about any German manufacturer.
For mid burp and no low or high end response to speak of, 1980s Tannoy.
For pure bliss, Quad electrostats with a meaty tube power amp.

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #39 on: December 07, 2005, 06:32:17 AM »
Sir Paul pre-playing; Phil Lynott as an inspiration and Lemmy as both player AND inspiration at the very start, then Geddy, Geezer, Glenn Hughes/Roger Glover/John Paul Jones/Mike Rutherford, Jean Jacques Burnel of the Stranglers and Lee/Leigh/Leroy Gorman of Bow Wow Wow (who is vastly underrated IMHO) then Stanley Clarke, Mark King (the first guy I ever saw slapping; I wish I'd seen someone a bit slower first, scared the pants off me), John McVie and Chris Squire, then Entwistle (for some reason I discovered him very late!). Joey DeMaio of Manowar (No comments please!). Since then Stuart Zender, ex Jamiroquai. And probably loads of others along the way.....

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #40 on: December 07, 2005, 06:40:49 AM »
I'm glad someone mentioned Phil Lynott. If you want to define what it means to play tight, he was the man. Great feel for the groove.

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #41 on: December 07, 2005, 10:36:53 AM »
Phil is one of my all time heroes. Just had my picture taken with his statue in Dublin , the nearest I ever got to meeting him unfortunately. Seeing Thin Lizzy live on the Old Grey Whistle Test was what made me want to join a band. Well, that and the first rock gig I actually attended (Hawkwind in 79). Was a bit of a culture shock as the previous gigs I'd been to were Buddy Rich (twice- my favourite drummer of all time), Louis Bellson, Stan Kenton and Woody Herman.

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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #42 on: December 07, 2005, 12:45:37 PM »
Where in Dublin is Phil's statue?  I didn't know about it and haven't seen it.  Do you know when it was erected?
 
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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #43 on: December 07, 2005, 04:06:29 PM »
Almost all those mentioned by everbody has been an influence on me, a few I can't say I'm really aware of. However, nobody mentioned (save your laughter until the end, please!) Mel Schacher of Grand Funk. For some reason his playing caught my 13 year old ear back in '72 and made me want a bass. Not a technician but could definately cut a groove.
 
OK, now you can laugh, but hey, I was 13!!!
 
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Re: Bass Player Influences
« Reply #44 on: December 07, 2005, 05:22:01 PM »
In all honesty one is most likey influenced by everyone one hears in some form or another even by bad player(like me) if it is just knowing what not to do