MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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Captain Kangaroo is what my Mom used to calm us down. Not sure what episodes you guys were watching. If we wanted to get worked up, we’d watch Soupy Sales. Throw some pies.
I know the Charlie Brown movies. I still like Vince Guaraldi music for Christmas.
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Bud,
Agreed on Beato. Any guy with his experience knows a thing or two I haven’t heard about. Beato’s interviews are really good too. Saw the one with Yngwie recently; that’s another great one.
There are lots of ratings for bassists, for sure. From your list I’ve seen Ron Carter, who’s from Detroit, so he’s local, and Stanley Clarke, who I saw with RTF, parts of RTF, and also the Stanley Clark – George Duke Band long ago. All those guys you mentioned are great though of course.
Speaking of ratings, if you haven’t seen Beato’s rant on Rolling Stones’s rating of all time guitarists, which I had the same reaction to not long ago, it’s funny. He gets pretty irate.
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I’ve seen Jaco listed as the #2 best bass player of all time. So who’s #1?
Some say James Jamerson. One of the Funk Brothers, the unseen backup band of Motown, whose day gig was playing in what they jokingly called “Studio A”, a little room in Berry Gordy’s basement. At night he played in jazz clubs.
From 1963-1968 he played on 60 top 15 pop singles, 23 #1 pop hits, and 56 #1 R&B hits. I don’t know if those totals count US and UK both though. To put that into perspective, the Beatles had 32 #1 hits, and that number does count both US and UK.
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Here’s Rick Beato’s analysis of the first cut from Jaco’s album above. ^ ^. I like Rick, he includes the esoterica for guys like me, while also making it (somewhat) comprehensible to anyone else. I think Rick likes it, and he’s not the only one.
https://youtu.be/kjqSBU0v6TU?list=PLGgj9jEo9iqlhw-wEQMI9NvNwlruZzpoa
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You might find this interesting – a bit different. Jaco’s debut album. Check the notes – look at who else is playing(!). He had made a name for himself already. My next post is Rick Beato analyzing the first cut on this album. But pick any cut you like. Lol.
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Yes, Brownsville Station is from my backyard. One of the original members still lives walking distance from me. He teaches guitar at a local music store and runs his studio. I remember Smoking in the Boy’s Room.
There’s an annual Memorial Day festival in Detroit for electronic music. I know nothing about electronic music. I thought it might be interesting to go to that festival one year, until I found out tickets were over $100. I’ve been spoiled by years of free jazz.
This year I found out why that music festival is there. Techno was invented in the early ’80s 10 miles from where I live, by The Belleville Three. I never knew that. I played in a band that rehearsed in Belleville, a town of 3,000 people, at that same time period.
Here’s a Techno song, by a couple Austrian/Italian lads. I wonder if team MLT knows of these guys.
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I know Charley Daniels; that song you posted got play on the rock channels. Crossover hit.
We thought he was “southern rock” at the time. Although I don’t remember any other songs of his. So my question is, did he tour with rock bands before he had that crossover hit? That might be another reason he was there.
I’m with you in preferring the older, classic style of country music. But everybody loves Willie Nelson. The newer country/pop songs would not have had that harmonic rhythm difference that I mentioned in that story from the ’80s. The newer stuff changes chords just like pop and rock do.
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That Liliac tune was fun. I actually don’t listen to hard rock much any more. I did in my youth though. It’s fun to play too. Play it like you mean it. This is closer to what I might play when my neighbors want to hear my guitar. Okay, they never tell me they want to hear it, but I’m sure they do. And really, the guy next door, and both the husband and wife across the street all play trombone, so they can’t complain.
I didn’t recognize the title, but I see it’s Metallica now. I recognized the tune though when they started. So another one for the list of songs that I remember hearing before, but not the title, or any of the lyrics, or who wrote it. Lol.
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I grew up in suburbia, so even though country music was available, I didn’t grow up with it. I still don’t know that much about it. I remember playing in a band in the early ’80s and the singer brought in a country song. That was culture shock – a different idea of harmonic rhythm, to begin with, but playing in bands taught me a bit about how it works. It’s very popular around here. and everywhere else in America. The biggest country radio station in this part of the state is a mile from my house.
There’s at least one guy I always knew and liked though, and that was the man in black, Johnny Cash.
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Some are though. This is more internal ones. #1 on the Rock Charts in 2019.
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Not all Monster songs are scary.
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I have Aerosmith’s first 3 albums, which includes this one, and that’s it. Didn’t buy any after. Sounds similar to what you were saying Tim.
That’s a great bass line in that song.
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I read a story about BOC not long ago — after they released their first album, they were touring to support it, and while they were touring, whenever they had a spare moment, like when driving to the next gig, or in afternoons or whenever, they were writing the music for their next album, so that when the tour ended, they got back home and went straight into the studio to start recording that next album. Sounds like they had the same boss I used to work for.
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Yep, that one. And this one too.
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I saw BOC play once, in the mid ’70s, headlining a show which opened
with Status Quo and then Bob Seger. Their final song had all six
guys gradually switch from playing their regular instruments, while
the song was going on, so that by the time they finished, all 6 were
playing guitar. Lots of fun. Of course, since their shtick was to be mildly satanic (all in good fun of course), lots of their songs could fall in the scary category, if you could stop laughing long enough.
