Jimmy "Flim" Johnson

[jacko]

Jamestaylor.com just emailed me my seating allocation for next september in Glasgow. Front Row centre stage! woohoo!  I'll try not to look too smug :-)
celebrating by playing JTs Christmas album. Some very tasteful festive playing on there Jimmy.
 
Graeme

[JimmyJ]

Thanks Dave.  Dennis Moody was the engineer and he does a good job of looking after the low-end.
 
Graeme, great that you were able to arrange those tix!  Guess I'll be seeing you in the fall (can't miss you in those seats!).  JT's Xmas album also has some nice upright playing by the late Dave Carpenter.
 
Happy Season to everybody,
Jimmy J

[rustyg61]

Jimmy, I know you don't like to toot your own horn, so I thought I would post this info from the upcoming James Taylor tour!
 
All-Star Band Revealed!  
 
Following the announcement of his Summer 2014 U.S. Tour, James is pleased to reveal the lineup of his All-Star Band. He is excited to be touring again with these amazing musicians!
 
Kate Markowitz ? Vocals
 
Andrea Zonn ? Vocals/Fiddle
 
David Lasley ? Vocals
 
Arnold McCuller ? Vocals
 
Lou Marini ? Horns
 
Walt Fowler ? Horns/Keyboard
 
Mike Landau ? Electric Guitar
 
Jimmy Johnson ? Bass Guitar
 
Larry Goldings ? Piano/Keyboard
 
Luis Conte ? Percussion
 
Steve Gadd ? Drums
 
https://tour.jamestaylor.com/
 
Unfortunately I will be in Alaska when you play my hometown of Houston! I'm SO BUMMED!!
 
Have a great tour!

[JimmyJ]

Rusty,
 
Thanks for the horn tooting.  It's an honor to get to play this  music with these folks!  
 
Sorry to miss you in Houston but Alaska should be nice that time of year, maybe preferable...
 
Jimmy J

[rustyg61]

Jimmy, had I known you were coming to Houston before I booked my vacation I would have changed my vacation dates to come see you! Unfortunately it's already booked. I'm still hoping to catch you at the Spud on one of my trips to visit my son in LA!
 
Rusty

[JuancarlinBass]

Well, that is one amazing lineup for sure!! Jimmy, have my very best regards, and my best wishes for a wonderful tour!

[Enzo]

No dates in Chicago? Aarrgh!

[JimmyJ]

Thanks Juan Carlos.
 
Wait for it Enzo...
 
Sorry in advance that I can't invite everybody to these shows.  Comps are scarce in this day and age......
 
Jimmy J

[jacko]

Really looking forward to seeing who turns up in Glasgow. I'm guessing David Lasley probably won't but it would be fantastic to have Luis Conte, Lou marini and Walt Fowler over here. The last couple of times JT came over he brought a reduced band (although by no means lacking in anything) so it would be great to hear the full ensemble for a change :-)
 
Graeme
 
p.s. Seeing as you'll have the whole of the 'gadditude' band how about getting Steve to open the show with a few of those numbers :-)

[JimmyJ]

Graeme,
 
I know, it would be nice to have perc and horns with us over there.  There is still a slight chance but  I don't think it's going to happen this time either.  We will however have the full rhythm section plus Markowitz, McCuller and Zonn, so we should be able to make a considerable noise.
 
James has never had an opening act that I can recall, he has too many songs to play!  But yes, if he needed a break I guess now we have instrumental tunes available to fill the void.  Ha!  That's unlikely to happen though as we sidemen prefer to keep our musical projects separated.  James is such a great chap that he encourages band members to bring their solo CDs on the road and makes them available at the merch table alongside all the JT gear.  So it's possible the Gadd record will be for sale at these summer gigs, which is pretty crazy.  If you want to hear the band with no singer, well, here you go.
 
Jimmy J

[keith_h]

I don't know how many other tracks Jimmy is on but Dave Weckl and Jay Oliver have released the album that contains the track from the YouTube video of Higher Ground. It's called Convergence. Listening to the flac version of the track as I write this. The remainder of the album I've heard so far is great too.  
 
Keith

[basriber]

Hi Jimmy J
 
I've been quite a follower (and subsequently Alembic-owner) for some years now  and am very much hoping to catch the JT show in Copenhagen this september.  
 
Speaking of which - and well, this may be way off the mark - but if you're in any way interested in having a cup of coffee and a (possibly bassy) chat with me and a fellow bass player and JJ-digger (no, we're not stalkers - just serious players with excellent taste in heroes) it would mean a great deal to us :-).
 
In any case, I'm really looking forward to hopefully hearing you live for the first time later this year!
 
This is me: www.mikkelriber.dk.
If you prefer, you can reach me at mikkelriber@mikkelriber.dk. Or not - you choose :-)
 
All the bass(t)
Mikkel

[jseitang]

hi Jimmy
 
been a fan for a long time... just love your tone and the way you play...
ive got a question ( sorry if you have already answered it, as i was looking through most of the archive postings on this thread) i recently started recording and playing my series 2 in earnest, i got a REDDi di box which i think is great, but i wanted to ask the following: how do you hook up the power supply outputs ( which are stereo; neck and bridge)to the single input of the REDDI? looking at your pics in this thread i see you only have one REDDI on your live set up. am i missing something here? or is it that you have the stereo output going to a stereo quarter inch into the REDDI?
again sorry for my ignorance, just tryin to learn.
thanks
 
Jimy

[JimmyJ]

Mikkel,
Thanks for the note and hope to see you in Copenhagen.  We're probably playing Tivoli Gardens again but I haven't seen the itinerary so I'm not sure.  I hope you can come and enjoy the gig.  Maybe I can meet you at the Lakrids shop?  Ha!!  Post something in here to remind as we get closer to the date and maybe we can connect for a chat.  Bass talk is always good.
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Hey Jimy with one m (love it),
 
Thanks for your kind comments and glad to hear your series machine is getting some playtime.  Your gonna get spoiled!
 
97.65% of the the time I run my basses in mono.  I used to run a stereo amp rig simply because it sounded so fantastically huge and was fun to stand in front of.  But there have only been two bands for which I have made the effort to record in stereo: Flim & the BB's and Allan Holdsworth.  And even then I barely used the effect.
 
My approach in those cases was to record both outputs separately but only pan them slightly off center from each other.  I prefer more bridge pickup than neck pickup in my blend so it would end up looking like the bridge pickup was maybe panned to 1 o'clock with the fader at 0 and the neck pickup was at 10:30 and down about 10db.  Even though the bass sonically appeared to be in the center of the recording, this slight spread did something interesting to the overtones and harmonic content that I liked.  Subtle...
 
I also only touched on using effects pedals but I can see where running stereo could open up a whole bunch of options if you were into that.  I used to use a chorus on the bridge p/u only and when turned on would simply add the wet sound to the bridge pickup's output. This essentially changed the p/u balance and overall volume while adding the slight smearing of chorus.  I used it mostly for soloing.
 
I'm still doing this stereo split for Holdsworth (I have a few REDDI boxes) but everything else these days is straight up mono.
 
Does your PSU not have a mono output option?  If not, you can build it in pretty easily.  Or, you can buck the trend and always request TWO channels for bass.  Yeah!
 
Cheers,
Jimmy J

[jseitang]

Jimmy-
wow thats kind of crazy, mono 97.65% of the time! your sound still sounds huge but still very YOU.  
thanks for letting me know, i was just trying to figure out your signal chain, only because recently ive been more and more into a no amp setup like you. funny how alembics can do that! playing the series 2 is getting already getting me spoiled silly!
my power supply does run mono, i should it more often!
my other question and maybe you have already discussd it: whats up with the big aluminum block you have on your recording bass? are all of your basses equipped with aluminum blocks?
thanks
J