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jps wrote:Just wait till you get to our wisely age, young whipper snapper!

rickenbrother wrote:Tony Levin's bass lines in that song are really sweet.

Tony Levin is to bass what Albert Einstein is to...everything else.

FretlessOnly wrote:Tony Levin is to bass what Albert Einstein is to...everything else.

Where does Jaco fit in that Continuum?

jps wrote:

FretlessOnly wrote:Tony Levin is to bass what Albert Einstein is to...everything else.

Where does Jaco fit in that Continuum?

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.

I agree but Jaco's radar was cut short!

"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.

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.

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.

Just have a look at Levin's website discography:

http://www.papabear.com/discography.html

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!

nattiep wrote: I LOVE Tony Franklin. The man sold me on getting a fretless.

People who think a fretless bass can't rock hard are not familiar with bassists like Tony Franklin.

This was one hard rocking band, Blue Murder that Tony was in with John Sykes and Carmine Appice.

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 !