The wet Euro-arse fretless slap bass thread
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hint
party record with a siren
hint said:
Ugh. What's the point? They've got a fretless 8-string too...
http://www.conklinguitars.com/facebass/facebass8/turnerfretless8descript.html
Hmm... two things going on here -
that weird rubbed fretless sound made famous by Pino Palladino on those Paul Young albums and
slap bass, where you play with your thumb, as made famous (started by?) Sly & The Family Stone with 'Thank You Falettinme' or however it's spelt, and all over our dear friends the Chili [sic] Peppers. And yes, Level 42.
What was up with that guy Eberhard Weber, who did some vaguely new agey stuff for ECM in the 80s? I guess that was fretless. I think he plays on Kate Bush's 'Mother Stands for Comfort', if anyone who knows that can hear what I'm thinking of in their mind's ear..
Incidentally, Pino Palladino re-invented himself in session with ?uestlove et al on D'Angelo's 'Voodoo', and however much that gets dissed for being rockist and pandering to some bullshit realness, I fucking love the rhythm section on that album.
that weird rubbed fretless sound made famous by Pino Palladino on those Paul Young albums and
slap bass, where you play with your thumb, as made famous (started by?) Sly & The Family Stone with 'Thank You Falettinme' or however it's spelt, and all over our dear friends the Chili [sic] Peppers. And yes, Level 42.
What was up with that guy Eberhard Weber, who did some vaguely new agey stuff for ECM in the 80s? I guess that was fretless. I think he plays on Kate Bush's 'Mother Stands for Comfort', if anyone who knows that can hear what I'm thinking of in their mind's ear..
Incidentally, Pino Palladino re-invented himself in session with ?uestlove et al on D'Angelo's 'Voodoo', and however much that gets dissed for being rockist and pandering to some bullshit realness, I fucking love the rhythm section on that album.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Rambler said:
What about http://www.conklinguitars.com/images/awardbasssm.jpg ? Oh, and Yes: http://www.trevorandthea.eclipse.co.uk/WalTripleNeck.jpg
Five string I can understand (as a lover of low frequencies), and as a sometime double bass player fretless doesn't seem particularly muso and does sound rather nice. But this is ridiculous.
I saw a 12 string once, but that was four groups of three strings (root and two an octave above) for the purposes of sounding super heavy...
