May 22, 2012 · On the bass forum Jaco Pastorius gets that kind of acclaim, and I’m not actually a fan of Jaco. Too busy for my tastes. I prefer reggae/dub bass players and old-school double bass jazz players myself. But, if you find Flea amazing, YouTube Jaco Pastorius and prepare to have your mind blown.

Mar 26, 2007 · After a long time away from my music collection I have started to look start listening again. I have been listening to my Steve Morse and Dregs albums and I started thinking, what happened to Jerry Peek? He was the bass player on the first Steve Morse Band record. You can see his great playing on this clip. Later he left the band and Steve started playing with another great player, Dave Larue ...

Oct 26, 2004 · I’ll start the ball rolling. Off the top of my head I’ve got: [ul] [li]Paul McCartney[/li][li]Jack Bruce[/li][li]Nick Lowe[/li][li]Aimee Mann[/li][/ul] I’m sure I’ll come up with more, and I know I can count on you f…

Mar 15, 2009 · In a rock band, the bass player is nearly always on the left (from the audience perspective). Is there any reason for this? A technical reason, or has it just become the convention? Even in a true 3 piece, the Bass play…

Jan 3, 2003 · The video for “Right Now” shows Eddie Van Halen tickling the ivories. OK, so that’s just the video – maybe it’s not EVH in the studio playing piano on the album. But Eddie is a classically-trained pianist (right?) – maybe it is EVH and he records his guitar and piano parts separately for the studio albums. Alternatively, perhaps Sammy Hagar …

Aug 28, 2000 · At the tender age of 20, I’ve had 2 Panasonics and one Sony Portable CD Player. With each of them, sound was an issue; quality was fine, but volume was inexplicably low. On both Panasonics, the maximum volume for the CD player has been just as loud as I would want in a completely quiet room (unless I was really into the song), but was woefully inadequate, say, on the Greyhound to Albany (or ...

Apr 4, 2008 · I thought that Stillwater was entirely made up by Cameron Crowe for the movie Almost Famous. But apparently there really was a Stillwater whose music Crowe licensed. According to Wikipedia, however, there was a real 1970s band called Stillwater whose works Crowe licensed for the movie, but ended up not using. Instead, the “Stillwater” music was written by Nancy Wilson. So, looking at the ...

Apr 17, 2008 · Where most metal drums hinge on the double bass, Vinnie plays straight up single bass near as I can tell (or at least doesn’t invoke the mighty machine gun that often). And while most metal is straight-on time (i.e., most Metallica, except for Sad but True), Walk is off time – Vinnie plays behind the beat and his fills are punctuated with ...

Nov 23, 2018 · Johnny. Half the devil’s solo is some totally new groove that his backing band plays, and all he does is play some kind of tremolo slide up the strings and some, I admit, somewhat interesting run down the strings, ending up sounding like some kind of fiddle thrash metal, but Johnny plays to the music and serves the song, so Johnny wins.

Feb 8, 2025 · Our living room floor was replaced at some point. The laminate flooring is clearly lower than the original by 1/8-1/4 inch. Even though the floor is insulated in the crawlspace, there’s a draft. The previous folks had stuffed a line of weatherstripping in between, which looked terrible. We’d like to find a different strategy that is still …