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Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
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Tony Levin is to bass what Albert Einstein is to...everything else.rickenbrother wrote:Tony Levin's bass lines in that song are really sweet.
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Where does Jaco fit in that Continuum?FretlessOnly wrote:Tony Levin is to bass what Albert Einstein is to...everything else.
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Jaco notwithstanding, I've got to agree with John. Tony Levin is a master of so many genres it makes my head spin. There are certainly things that he can do that just were never on Jaco's radar.jps wrote:Where does Jaco fit in that Continuum?FretlessOnly wrote:Tony Levin is to bass what Albert Einstein is to...everything else.
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I agree but Jaco's radar was cut short!
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"Lady In Red" by whats his name from the '80's. A lot of '80's pop seems to have had fretless.
Oh, and I mentioned "Asleep" by the Everly Brothers from their near perfect CD "EB 84" a few pages back. That's John Giblin playing fretless on that.
Oh, and I mentioned "Asleep" by the Everly Brothers from their near perfect CD "EB 84" a few pages back. That's John Giblin playing fretless on that.
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I'm NOT sure it was fretless, but THE ONLY LIVING BOY IN NY by Simon & Garfunkel is another. I can't get enough of that TONE on that recording.
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"Bad Love" by Eric Clapton. Nathan East, who is another monster bassist can also sing very well as he's playing bass.
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Just have a look at Levin's website discography:antipodean wrote: Tony Levin is a master of so many genres it makes my head spin. There are certainly things that he can do that just were never on Jaco's radar.
http://www.papabear.com/discography.html
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I think it was 1990 that I saw Anderson, Bruford Wakeman and Howe in concert. I had 12th row seats, dead center. Tony Levin was the bassist. Tony was set up right in the middle of the stage.
Now I LOVE Chris Squire as much as anyone else, but Levin was amazing in his own right that night. He took solos like everyone else. He even used a fretless, which if I remember correctly was on "Heart Of The Sunrise".
I've met Tony a few times, nice guy as well!
Now I LOVE Chris Squire as much as anyone else, but Levin was amazing in his own right that night. He took solos like everyone else. He even used a fretless, which if I remember correctly was on "Heart Of The Sunrise".
I've met Tony a few times, nice guy as well!
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People who think a fretless bass can't rock hard are not familiar with bassists like Tony Franklin.nattiep wrote: I LOVE Tony Franklin. The man sold me on getting a fretless.
This was one hard rocking band, Blue Murder that Tony was in with John Sykes and Carmine Appice.
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Last Sunday I listened to Aaron Nevilles album from 1990, there is a nice fretless bass played by Larry Klein on "Everybody Plays The Fool". Larry Klein has some fretless bass work on several Joni Mitchel albums, love 'em !
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