Re: I just read the piece," Why so many strings" well let's see

there's a great steve miller/ben sidran  take of Space Cowboy, and they have a keyboard player that plays a DX7 and takes a solo... for the first couple of times i heard it i thought it was bass til this guy does an impossible lick to be done on bass.   Its like an arpeggio thats frightening.. i'll put a link to it.. http://www.mefeedia.com/music/12784632
the solo starts at 4:42 and its the slap bass sound on a dx7
the keyboardist is Ricky Lawson i believe... i can watch that solo over and over.. maybe one of these days i'll get all the whole solo down!
Yo Victa, whatsoever you do, remember this here. You can't hold no groove, If you ain't got no pocket !

--- On Sun, 11/22/09, Steve Molk <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Steve Molk <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Bass Place] I just read the piece," Why so many strings" well let's see
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, November 22, 2009, 12:48 PM







 



  


    
      
      
      Common Mark,,,



If it aint a Hammond, it aint an Organ!



(Just Kidding,,,,, , and showing my age)



Hell, What's a "keyboard" anyway?   You got your B-3 and then there are pianos,,,Right?  What else coulld there be?



 Midi- Aint that a skirt from the late 60s?



Just had to pull everyones leg ;))



Later alligators,  

Smoke



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>From: Mark Hughes <elkkid2@yahoo. com>

>To: bassplace@yahoogrou ps.com

>Sent: Thu, November 19, 2009 6:36:40 PM

>Subject: Re: [Bass Place] I just read the piece," Why so many strings" well let's see

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>...Hi!,

>  Actually, It was the Yamaha DX-7 that changed everything for Bass players. In the early Eighties it came out, and it was MIDI compatable, and we all know keyboards go lower than Bass... well, everybody started buying these keyboards, and writing Songs on them. Without thinking about a bass players range! We were able to adapt--But my Father sold Organs--YAMAHA Organs! It KILLED that market! 

>Some of the big "Electone" models went for $10,000, suddenly,they weren't needed anymore.

>I too wanted a higher string, not a lower one before that time. Thus, I guess, the Six string bass. 

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>From: soulman928 <soulman928@ yahoo. com>

>To: bassplace@yahoogrou ps.com

>Sent: Thu, November 19, 2009 1:52:31 PM

>Subject: [Bass Place] I just read the piece," Why so many strings" well let's see

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>I grew up with four strings, then I seen a 5 and 6 string built by Fender, and I thought, not a bad idea. Then Anthony jackson comes a long, and detunes his Fender down to D. But, in the meantime, here comes both Stanley, and Jaco. While studying Anthony, he mentions a bass player I didn't know nothing about then, and His name is James Jamerson. The "spirit" of Motown, and I thought Jermaine played those bass lines with the Jackson 5!Anyway, back in the "swinging 70's", there was so many bass players to be "heard", no one thought about extra range, until the synch bass came along. So what really came first, extra range, or extra tones? Remember, active basses was just coming out, unless you could afford a Alembic, or something "custom". Marcus Miller, "hotwired'(added a pre-amp)to his stock Jazz Bass. Fender made a Precision Bass "special",which was both active and non-active,and plus had gold hardware, and a 60's neck width to it, but I remember, that

>bass was heavy! Then, Leo made the Musicman Stingray, and it was cheaper than the Alembic or a custom model, plus it had a somewhat "fender bass" feel to it. Even Leo fender said in a interview before He died, "He didn't see the need , for the extra strings". He built the Bass V, because, that bass had a high C to it. So, instead of playing "down" the neck, the bassist could play "across" the neck, with better ease? The Bass VI, was suppose to be a "baritone" guitar, like that "sound" of the Tick-tack bass sound that is used in country music, and sometimes on movie soundtracks, like Our Man Flint. Anyway, Custom luthiers, like Ken Smith or Vinny Fodera, built these "new monster basses", for those who were really studio bassists, who could afford these basses.I agree with Anthony Jackson, that playing with a organ, that "Hammond B-3" has that bass tone going on, not the Fender. So that low "B", did the trick! I was one, who didn't want to change, but,

>sometimes, change is good for some, and bad for others. Ron Carter, and other jazz purist, didn't like the Fender, but, Ray Brown, played both, and it didn't matter to him. Now, the 6 string, I played by Yamaha, was too wide for me, but their 5 string, is just right for me! I feel, anything beyond 6, well that's too much, I think. I think , it's over kill. Nowadays.the younger bass players are somewhat going "retro" these days, so range to them, really doesn't matter. I just wonder sometimes , why can't a upright,fender, and a 5 or 6 stringer, all play together?

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