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While the trad approach to fretless is always going to be finger style, and is certainly my preference, one should never shut their mind, (or their ears) to the possibly pick approach, or any other style.

Listen to the "Love Of Money" by the O'Jays to hear Anthony Jackson show what one can do with a pick, as this performance is a masterpiece of fretless playing, albeit in unconventional terms.

wints wrote:Listen to the "Love Of Money" by the O'Jays to hear Anthony Jackson show what one can do with a pick, as this performance is a masterpiece of fretless playing, albeit in unconventional terms.

One of my all time favorite bass lines. I never realized it was a fretless. I thought Anthony Jackson used a pick on a fretted Precision Bass.

It may have been Anthony Jackson on a FL on the studio version, but here's Curtis Teel on a fretted Precision on Soul Train. I prefer this bass sound to the studio version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCkLEo-DT1Q

rickenbrother wrote:

wints wrote:Listen to the "Love Of Money" by the O'Jays to hear Anthony Jackson show what one can do with a pick, as this performance is a masterpiece of fretless playing, albeit in unconventional terms.

One of my all time favorite bass lines. I never realized it was a fretless. I thought Anthony Jackson used a pick on a fretted Precision Bass.

+1, I need to go over interviews I have read by him as I don't recall him playing fretless bass.

Well, it was a looooong time ago.

I sure thought he mentioned it was a FL.

Jeff, you find anything else?

Doing a Google search I came across this:

"One day during the fall of 1973, keyboardist Leon Huff was leading the members of the MFSB rhythm section, along with Jackson, through a rehearsal of "For the Love of Money." Sigma Sound Studios owner/engineer Joe Tarsia was present and noticed that Jackson had a wah wah pedal attached to his Fender Precision bass. Tarsia decided to run Jackson's bass line through a phaser, giving it a swishing sound, and later mixed in echo. During the final mixing of the track,Kenny Gamble impulsively reached over to the echo button and added echo to Jackson's opening riffs. "For the Love of Money" went to number three R&B and number nine pop in the spring of 1974. Radio stations gladly played the over-seven-minutes-long album version."

Now, did they forget the word "fretless"...

Great thread and very helpful to this RRF noob!

LEL