Who were/are you main influences on bass?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 6:59 am

Phil, muy expensivo: muy caro $10.00 por favor.
Gene, Willie Dixon played mostly blues upright, he also played on most of Chuck Berry's earlier stuff, he was THE blues bass player, wrote many famous blues tunes that got rocked out later on too. Superstitious, Back Door Man, many many others. He and Fred Below (drums) played one many of the greatest blues recordings, they were the Chess rhythm section

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 8:54 am

I believe Willie Dixon was the first to use the expression "there's no money past the fifth fret". I don't like upright bass tone at all, but in Willie's case, I'll at least overlook it.

"I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man", I Just Want To Make Love To You" and "I'm Ready" are three great Muddy Waters songs that Willie Dixon wrote. He and Fred Below played on them too.

Too bad "I'm Ready" was used for a Viagra commercial a couple of years ago.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:05 am

ha ha I didn't know that. It wasn't Muddy's version I hope? I know Willie didn't always have the best rep amongst the blues players for his comercial attitude either. Look at some of the stuff he had Otis Rush sing on the Cobra sessions. I thought he wrote the book on blues bass playing though. He could really get around that neck when he wanted to. I also like how he used to stay on the one in 12 bar blues, at first I thought he was just bad! LOL

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:15 am

Bob, I think it may have been Muddy's version used for the Viagra ad. Certainly no odder than Iggy's "Lust for Life" being used for a cruise lines commercial. Or the Ramones "Blitzkrieg Bop" on the AT&T cellular ads.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:17 am

the worst is Jacko the chester selling Beatle songs to commercials

dave4004 · Post by **dave4004** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 11:49 am

Speaking of Michael Jackson, have you ever seen his dog?

Hope that doesn't kill your appetite, Bob.

ricnvolved · Post by **ricnvolved** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:21 pm

David Miner-- This post almost began as a possible correction to your statement about George Harrison playing bass on "Old Brown Shoe". Then it occurred to me that the song I had in mind was "The Ballad of John and Yoko" in which it was strictly John & Paul who played on it. The story I read recently was that George & Ringo were out of town for whatever reason and John decided that he just *had* to get TBoJaY recorded and Paul was the only one around. So he paid Paul a visit at his apartment and asked him to help out at the studio. Paul went and recorded most of the instruments in the song. The story was interesting because this was the first I'd heard of only 2 bandmembers involved in the recording of a major release.

As for Paul playing guitar on "Taxman", it seems I read that his only contribution to the song in that regard was the lead guitar towards the end of the song. It's also been suggested recently by others here at the forum that George played bass though I had not heard this before. Does anyone have the real lowdown on all this?

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:32 pm

He must go to the same plastic surgeon as his dog. did a better job on the dog though.

dminer · Post by **dminer** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 6:02 pm

Yikes!! that is one scary dog...reminds me of the man-dog in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (the 80's version)
Jeffery...I think the closest anyone can come to on the real lowdown on Beatles tunes is the Abbey Road Sessions book, and of course the remembrences by the members themselves in different interviews....none of that is fullproof...ie. it could have been Paul on Old Brown Shoe...almost all of the Beatles songs have been discussed pretty thouroughly over at Voxtalks and other websites and mostly it's just educated guesses...personally, I think it sounds like Paul on Taxman, but that's just my opinion...my guess on the Ballad is that it's Paul on Bass and drums and John on the two guitars.
Other famous songs by Willie Dixon;
I Can't Quit You Baby
You Shook Me
The Seventh Son
Spoonful
Evil
You Can't Judge a Book by it's Cover
Little Red Rooster
Bring it on Home

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Sun Jul 20, 2003 6:06 pm

FYI .... On Taxman Paul played guitar and George played bass

levykev · Post by **levykev** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 10:18 am

I really don't think George played bass on 'Taxman'. Paul, we know, played the guitar solo... I've read that Paul played bass on the tune many, many times.

Will we ever know for sure?

ricnvolved · Post by **ricnvolved** » Tue Jul 22, 2003 11:37 am

Kevin-- That's exactly my feeling concerning who played what on that particular song. I'd never heard anything about George playing bass on "Taxman" until just recently. And supposedly Paul's contribution on guitar was strictly the solo towards the end of the song. However, I didn't want to argue the issue too vigorously simply because I haven't been able to verify the information to my satisfaction.