If the kid learns to play WITH other musicians I'll be more impressed.
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If the kid learns to play WITH other musicians I'll be more impressed.
I'm old. I try to keep up with the new players but I don't fit in at the shows anymore.
You're right. JPJ earned his place in history.
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he can read music, it would boggle the mind to see him struggle playing with anyone else that can actually read music.
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I have not seen him reading music. He is VERY good technically much like most guitar "shredders". But playing WITH somebody requires leaving them space in the tune. He would have trouble with this.
This kid has the same issue.
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He should stick to electric bass, because he's just not clean on the upright. Mr. Ray Brown wrote the book on that.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the late great Oscar Peterson on piano and Ray Brown on upright bass. THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE, KIDS. Enjoy!
Stanley Clarke is at his best on acoustic tenor bass.
Good stuff. The camera placement is perfect.
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Not when Jaco Pastorius was around, IMHO.
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Stylish, but this was a warm up on a acoustic bass...from :36
Benjamin Orr mostly known as a bass player and a vocalist in the Cars, but what a lot of people don’t know about him is that he could play almost anything. He first got into music when he was 10 years old. He started out as a drummer. His parents paid so he could take drum lessons. (In) the first band he was ever in, at the age of 12, a band called the Cyclones, he was the drummer. And then a few years later, when he auditioned for the Grasshoppers, which would end up being the band that was on the Upbeat show, he took over for the leader of that band as a rhythm guitarist and a singer.
Eventually, when he got to the Cars, they needed a bass player, and he started playing bass. He could adapt his abilities to whatever band he was in at the time needed. After the Cars broke up and he did his solo Orr band, he went back to guitar. He played acoustic guitar and he played a Les Paul, so yeah, he really was a multi-instrumentalist and, of course, you know, his vocals. To me, his vocal style is right up there with David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Paul Rodgers from Bad Company… There were a lot of Cars fans that reached out to me after this book came out, saying that they didn’t realize that he played all these other instruments and was actually a drummer and a guitar player before he ever became a bass player in the Cars.
Eventually, when he got to the Cars, they needed a bass player, and he started playing bass. He could adapt his abilities to whatever band he was in at the time needed. After the Cars broke up and he did his solo Orr band, he went back to guitar. He played acoustic guitar and he played a Les Paul, so yeah, he really was a multi-instrumentalist and, of course, you know, his vocals. To me, his vocal style is right up there with David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Paul Rodgers from Bad Company… There were a lot of Cars fans that reached out to me after this book came out, saying that they didn’t realize that he played all these other instruments and was actually a drummer and a guitar player before he ever became a bass player in the Cars.