Monday, June 25, 2012
Give Me Bass Or Give Me Death Part 2
A few more pet peeves: Bill Wyman's non-presence that is noticed when Keith Richards substitutes. Any bad upright bass Arco technique. Stanley Clarke's hyper-overplay-slap crap. Wolfgang Schmid's totally unfunky playing in Passport. Anyone want to chime in here? Now, for me, Stanley Clarke's upright bass playing is phenomenal, and Wolfgang Schmid's playing in Passport is stunning. The late great Bob Bogle of The Ventures especially his work on "Super Live '80". Jonas Hellborg's acoustic bass guitar workouts on Ginger Baker's "Unseen Rain". Jaco Pastorious for just being here for a few minutes and influencing a whole generation of bass players (Joe Zawinul said of Jaco, "It's too bad you can't copyright style, man."). John Wetton for his work in King Crimson (NOT Uriah Heep!). Paul Chambers for everything. Ian Hill of Judas Priest for solid bottom end and consistency beyond reason. Jerry Scheff for his work with both Elvises, Sam Phillips and appearing on the Get Smart episode "The Groovy Guru" in the band "The Sacred Cows". Lee Dorman for his great work in Captain Beyond. Whoever the bass player is on the Shadow Music tape my Dirt Red band mate Tristram Lozaw found in Bangkok. Ingebrigt Haker Flaten of Scorch Trio for pushing the limits and kicking Raoul Bjorkenheim's ass. Any and all thoughts, comments and suggestions welcome. Give Me Bass Or Give Me Death Part 2 concluded!
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What...no Mingus? No Jack Bruce? (his solo stuff is terrific...Theme For An Imaginary Western, Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune...the killer stuff he did with West, Bruce and Laing); No Miroslav Vitous? No Ron Carter?
ReplyDeleteMind you, I'm delighted to see that you're live and kicking. You were always a charming fellow and you introduced me to a lot of stuff that I'd never heard before (Kraut stuff [Rock/Fusion/Progressive], for starters).
I have very fond memories of Sunday afternoons in your apartment, off Comm Ave.; you, me and Kay, drinking all that wine (that I believe you got from work) eating cheese (that, ditto) and listening to your music.
You might not remember me but I remember you well. Of course, I was an utter asshole back then...it took me a long time to grow up (got there eventually) and I was lucky that people like yourself and Kay tolerated me. Stay well.
Affectionately, Misha