Great Rick Bass - Crack the Sky

mortivan · Post by **mortivan** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 5:28 pm

Crack the Sky. First album.

Especially the songs "Mind Baby" and "Ice".

Years ago, I talked to Joe Macre, Crack the Sky's bassist for that time period, and he confirmed (no, there was never a doubt) that he played a Rick 4001 on this album, except for "Hold On" and "Surf City" (P-Bass).

Awesome sound! Awesome music.

dougp · Post by **dougp** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:32 pm

Great band, great album, although my favorite of theirs is 'White Music' (no idea if John Palumbo played a Ric on that one, though). They had a great sense of warped humor that I always felt was missing from most of their contemporaries.

revolver323 · Post by **revolver323** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:25 am

Rick Witkowski, guitarist from Crack the Sky, is still active in Pittsburgh are as a producer and with the B.E. Taylor Group. And he's still warped! www.betaylor.com

pekka · Post by **pekka** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:25 am

Great band. There's more Rickenbacker on their second album "Animal Notes". Later Macre switched to Alembic.

I'm pretty sure Palumbo played a P-Bass on "White Music".

My favourite Macre bass part is on "Lighten Up McGraw".