http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjxmWUxDA18
OMG the bass is bigger than her!
Oh no, i smell Nirvana in this thread....
Oh no, i smell Nirvana in this thread....
Not sure if there's such a thread yet, but there should be...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9iOk8PqkKs
Speaking of Nirvana, I found this. :mrgreen:
(http://totallylookslike.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/not-sure-if-trollin.jpg)
one of nugent's bassists played one. don't know who, though.
A special treat for Herr Fraulein from an Australian one hit wonder in 1976.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzDUcPfZoJ4
Dave Kiswiney. Played a Grabber modified with a P-pickup and also played (or at least advertised) the Victory.
... well, Democrats excepted maybe! - just for the heck of it.;D
I love the guy's playing, very musical, but what's so unusual about using a Ripper like that? It is very much a well-behaved, musicianly instrument and not so much an all-out rock axe (that is more the Grabber). Peter Cetera and Greg Lake were certainly Ripper players where you could hear every note and were meant to hear it too.
the drummer is not very good... ???
Always wondered why The Arrows with their David Cassidy teen dream boyish looks and material like that did not go any further. Perhaps because glam rock was on the wane already (though they looked more power pop - think of The Babys - than glam) then and punk just around the door step. I prefer this version to the Blackhearts one which is a straight copy of it.
I think you're spot on with the reason why. Probably the same with Marc Bolan who had a UK TV show around the same time; it raised his profile a bit until his untimely death.
Speaking of fat-bottomed basses though........... surely a '59 style EB0 would have to be included, can't be in the usual EB thread cos it's not yer actual SG shape is it?
It's more about the mudbucker than the shape.
Hmm... trans gender issue...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UWkKccf6_Y&feature=related
Who's the bass player? I like his solo.
Who's the bass player? I like his solo.
A bit of Quatro...?
...
Nice Grabber sound and I really like the music! Bit like these guys here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FongzPTD06Y
There is something in black and white line-ups that brings together the best of both worlds.
Bummer...
Oh well, chalk it up to the Hellcat... ;D
Dave wrote:
A Japanese hobbit copy is not a fat-bottom girl.
Actually that is an original Les Paul bass. The precursor to the Triumph. I don't think the Japanese ever made a copy of it AFAIK.
http://www.flyguitars.com/gibson/bass/LesPaulBass.php
(http://i50.tinypic.com/ra9ukw.jpg)
But Ibanez did make a copy of this model
Can't find a decent pic right now, but here's one
The Japanese copies can easily be recognized by the guitar sized pickups.
(http://img.2dehands.be/f/normal/136035440-ibanez-les-paul-bass-model-2373-from-1973.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obgl7t4FNEs
Ralphe Armstrong. He also had a fretless maho RD Artist, but the fretless Victories - either Artist or Standard - were more plentiful. That said, while I have a fretless Vic Standard, it's been to a decade since I saw the last fretless Vic Artist on ebay, shouldn't have let that last one get away, it was only around 550 bucks winning bid at the time ... :-\
The bass sounds great!
Is that considered a fat-bottom girl, though?
Lookie what I found!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFwqCByB4Y
Looks like a Ripper. Hard to find a good shot, but at 3:40 there is a decent view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEIVlYegHx8
Here's some nice Vic action if you're into proggy stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSRNgSEG5Tg
I have never seen a more disaffected-looking frontman.
Same bill as ZZ Top (in their Deguello phase) that Rockpalast night and while the 'Unter Ronson Band wasn't bad, the phrase was coined later on that one Bill Gibbons had more energy than the two guitarists of the Hunter Ronson Band plus Ian playing guitar together. Not really a fair comparison as Ronson was always a more ornamental player rather than one who brick-walled soundscapes with his Les Paul. That Rockpalast night broke the German market for ZZ Top (who only had a cult following largely among musicians before this, their first ever German gig), but unfortunately did nothing for Ian Hunter (but then Mott the Hoople was never much of a draw in Germany either).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjbaHlTl86Q
OMG, back then ZZ Top were just a couple of youngish guys with very long beards! :o
Mmm... Curved Air... Sonja... :P
Prog with chick appeal. They are still touring. I always found that she had a bit of Grace Slick in her voice.
How right you are. Unlike pUNK.
I liked Jobson's work with Roxy Music too. Not that he did. He must have hated being with them while he has only nice things to say about his first love, Curved Air. The man is an amazing keyboard player - Emerson league really - and violinist. He plays electic violin like other people play lead guitar or Ian Anderson plays flute. Speaking of which: I like the A albun of JT which features Jobson too.
Jake, children are silent when adults discuss prog!
Spinning, whirling, still descending, like a spiral sea unending... strewth, have you ever tried to use one of those modern nappy disposal systems...?
Dee Dee in the shower playing a Ripper (maybe a Grabber?) - can't tell if real or a ho (I'm thinking ho).
Ugh... I forgot about that debacle. Frampton was just hell-bent on destroying his career after that live album, wasn't he?
I think that "I'm in You" cover was his personal Billy Squeer-nadir (rhymes!):
(http://eil.com/images/main/Peter%2BFrampton%2B-%2BI%27m%2BIn%2BYou%2B-%2BSealed%2B-%2BLP%2BRECORD-439064.jpg)
The title song also beckoned some penetrating physical questions, very unfortunate all in all. Note to self: Pink satin trousers and frilly shirts that look like an American quilt do not a respectable musician make.
That said, I've seen the man twice since he has balded and was never less than entertained. I like his lead guitar work and his band has a nice rapport.
He seems to be genuinely happy about it too: He once said that he got his first Grammy "after I had gone bald and for an album on which I didn't sing". He's still a handsome man, just doesn't look like Luke Skywalker interbred with a poodle anymore, thank God! Musically, I like him, not so much for his handful of mega-hits, but for the other stuff he did and does.
German New Wavers Fehlfarben with a G-3 and deutschem funk:
A dear friend of mine emigrated to Spain ten years ago. He was the drummer in four bands we played in together.
He's been playing all over the Costa in several bands. Now he has put together a new band with two Spanish musicians to do a Police tribute.
Just like mister Sumner, the bass player takes the lead vocal (although he doesn't speak any English).
His Ripper sounds very articulate in this video they made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8-cOi0TUx0
... I was smitten.
... the pick/flats combo was a trusted recipe to be audible without getting in the guitars' way.
Wango Tango.... That's about the time I decided the Nuge had lost his marbles.
Nice Hamer Standard!
Wango Tango.... That's about the time I decided the Nuge had lost his marbles.
Nice Hamer Standard!
what seems a one off single pup Artist
How does a dark side master such as yourself neglect to point out/rub in the also-not standard (like that one) black hardware?
Debbie Harry never turned my head back then, and her voice grated on me. Now she's just scary looking.
Debbie Harry never turned my head back then, and her voice grated on me. Now she's just scary looking.
Remember when Manuel Noriega surrendered after having music blasted at him? They were probably playing Heart of Glass. :P That would be enough to make anyone give up.
A mandolin, the late great El Ronno and one of Ian Hunter's loveliest songs. Plus a natural RD Artist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0XHVgjwU3o
Canalians
(http://img.ccrd.clearchannel.com/media/mlib/778/2015/09/default/loverboy_album_0_1443557023.jpg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuuL-FENQ6g (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuuL-FENQ6g)I love Ubaldo Schiavi's playing!
Never heard a Ripper used this way
A dear friend of mine emigrated to Spain ten years ago. He was the drummer in four bands we played in together.What year was that Ripper from?
He's been playing all over the Costa in several bands. Now he has put together a new band with two Spanish musicians to do a Police tribute.
Just like mister Sumner, the bass player takes the lead vocal (although he doesn't speak any English).
His Ripper sounds very articulate in this video they made
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8-cOi0TUx0
18 seconds of Krist Novoselic with his Ripper in 2013. Besides the Ripper sounding great, I had to chuckle at his performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPvAML2KhpY&list=RDIPvAML2KhpY#t=0
That video clearly show s the headstock with his autograph. So it's got to be the RD Signature bass.
How'd we miss this one...?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCs7ijNUVM
I've defended her against your unwarranted assaults before; sure you not mixing us up? (not my fave, but she's up there).
Love the matching (fin/guard/pointy headstock AND pups) S1 guitar
If you're the kind of sick bastard who likes the movie Videodrome, the fact that she's naked in it a lot explains that Dave.
If you're the kind of sick bastard who likes the movie Videodrome, the fact that she's naked in it a lot explains that Dave.
Jake, you leave Noddy out of this! He looked great, like some unsavoury character right out of a Charles Dickens novel.
Poster girl for those considering themselves too cool to drool over Linda Ronstadt album covers.
Those of you complaining about Debbie's irritating voice, I wonder how you survive a day in the modern world... She sounds mild and pleasant compared to the pop stars you hear belting it out of every grocery store radio. Katy, Miley, et al ... Headache time ! I could do with a little more Debbie.
And I'm a guy who sometimes really likes an irritating voice used well to artistic effect. Corin Tucker!!
Fat ol' Ripper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCA-jjO-XW0
It's just something that a close friend of mine has been saying for years, that no one has ever seen Rick Derringer and Suzi Quatro in the same room at the same time.
The singer certainly keeps things interesting. :-*
There's a story about Mark Mendoza's Grabber being Gene Simmons' ebony one:
http://www.kissopolis.com/2012/03/gene-simmons-owned-gibson-grabber-bass.html (http://www.kissopolis.com/2012/03/gene-simmons-owned-gibson-grabber-bass.html)
It has good presence all the way through.
It's just something that a close friend of mine has been saying for years, that no one has ever seen Rick Derringer and Suzi Quatro in the same room at the same time.
Back from when my rigs were too small, I still identify distorted bass sounds with insufficient headroom or something breaking down. And immense volume without a hint of distortion as "No one can touch me!" instant gratification ("Move away, you guitar mortals with your puny distorted signals!"). That's très uncool, I know. :-[
Jack Bruce = Creamy overdrive
Felix Pappalardi = Mountainy overdrive
My only bass pedal is a preamp pedal. With the EB-0, I use it to cut output so that the overdrive is pleasant and doesn't blow the speaker on my small upstairs amp.
Jack Bruce = Creamy overdrive
Felix Pappalardi = Mountainy overdrive
Ampeg's repair service in Germany repaired it everytime! :mrgreen: But let's see what they will say this time.
Don't start me with tube amps right now!!! :-\ :mrgreen:
My SVT has just broken down again, it always reliably does. I read these amazing stories about people and their SVTs, roadworn and same set of tubes for 20 years. Not mine. I bought it (new) around 2004 or so. It was the Anniversary series, and it has all its tubes exchanged twice already since then. It's never gigged (I'd never trust it to work going from A to B with the experiences I've had!), not very often played, it just sits in a perfectly dry and heated rehearsal room and does nothing most of the time. It wasn't even played for the last two years or so (I had left that particular band, the amp was still mothballed in their rehearsal space), still all I get now is distortion at very low volume and the master volume obviously not working at all (full gain and full master = you can barely hear the signal and it is all distorted, brittle and keeps cutting out). I know the symptom, it is always followed by full replacement of all tubes. I find two - very soon: three - complete tube replacements in an amp over a period of 12 years (with the amp being played once a week at the most) unreasonably much.
No other piece of equipment has ever done this to me. Not Dynacord, not H&H, not Reußenzehn, not Peavey, not Ashdown, not Markbass, not Orange. That SVT is jinxed.
Rant over! :mrgreen:
You have a faulty amp being serviced by an incompetent tech, "certified" service center or not.
Maybe you could have them gut it and install a GK inside :rolleyes:
It wasn't even played for the last two years or so (I had left that particular band, the amp was still mothballed in their rehearsal space), still all I get now is distortion at very low volume and the master volume obviously not working at all (full gain and full master = you can barely hear the signal and it is all distorted, brittle and keeps cutting out).
They should know that if it keeps eating tubes, it's not the tubes.
Ship it to amptech in Norway. He'll find out what's wrong.
I guess he prefers those sounds ...
It's in moments like these I realize that I'm getting old, I like none of them! :mrgreen: 80% of those demonstrated sounds would have me turn my head in anguish and go: "OMG, my rig just broke down!" :rimshot:
One thing I've always liked about Ampeg was that with little EQ effort, it sounds like what I think a bass should sound like...
One thing I've always liked about Ampeg was that with little EQ effort, it sounds like what I think a bass should sound like...+1
I found this and had to add it into this thread. Someone finally got it right and built exactly what was needed.
(http://i.imgur.com/F3ke8hM.jpg)
Dr. No releases yet another invention to add to his unique unconventional collection of handmade Guitar Effects, the TURD Fuzz.
Dr. No Effects tried to be successful in bringing you the shittiest guitar pedal in the world of guitar effects. Unfortunately he partially failed in doing so… The TURD Fuzz is a turd shaped pedal making it a shitty pedal indeed made of soft foam material, that when stepped on engages the effect, but this soft textured TURD Fuzz pedal houses a excellent fuzz effect, were the doctor is known for. The handmade circuit contains a pair of two NOS transistors that generate this nasty old fashioned fuzz tone, that works very well with guitar and bass guitar.
This TURD Fuzz is a collaboration with friend and artist Peter van Elderen, (Peter Pan Speedrock, Home Steel), who worked together on this smelly collaboration that resulted in this unique awesome sounding FUZZ.
The TURD Fuzz, has one single internal volume potentiometer, that can be tuned with a tiny flat screwdriver. The TURD Fuzz works on a 9v external 2.1mm power-supply.
Also on top of the TURD Fuzz a custom made Fly is added, that functions as a on/off indicator instead of a standard led indicator. The eyes of the fly light up when stepping on to the TURD Fuzz, and engaging the effect.
The TURD Fuzz is fully handmade in Dr. No’s lab from soft TURD enclosure and internal sonic design as well as the custom made and designed TURD Fuzz box.
I have nothing to add.
A++++ for originality and faithful implementation of an idea. :mrgreen: This is not just a spoof, but it actually exists?
:mrgreen:
With world-class-one-of-a-kind products such as this, what's all your moaning about that alleged trade deficit?!
Sa-weet sounding Ripper. Really hear it at around 5:15
https://youtu.be/t63IJ-vHdDo?t=5m15s
Not sure if this is posted somewhere here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDMmz_ITyw
Let me guess, the guitarist liked Mick Ronson? :mrgreen:
This has been posted before but thought it was worth a repost for singer Chuck Mosley - RIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQhX8PbNUWI
Did we have John B. Sparks with Dr. Feelgood yet? Pub Rock never got any better than this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzF0AETdRF8
Did we have John B. Sparks with Dr. Feelgood yet? Pub Rock never got any better than this.
You know, I've never really known this band, apart from some previous mentions here. I like the bass player, the drummer's fine, I'm kind of indifferent to the vocalist ... but man, that guitar player is great! I like his manic-robotic forward-and-back pacing too. Am I nuts or is there a precursor to Devo in his stage presence?
Having a limited vocal range hasn't stopped a lot of rock stars, starting with Chuck Berry.
^^^
After watching that, I honestly don't know which looks worse--a bass that looks too small on someone or a bass that looks too large.
I vote for Suzi; just remembered a bassplayer frontpage with Stanley Clarke and a small Alembic. That looked pretty corny :)
He should have kept his EB2, at least for photo shoots!
I'm not saving they sounded alike. They processed the same stuff, but wit very different outcomes. But I believe that what J. Geils did to American rhythm & blues was more agreeable to a few thousand Yanks in, say, Cobo Hall than what the Feelgoods did. For starters, the Feelgood audience was almost 100% male. And not that much different from a Status Quo one.
Roxette
Almost 100% male?
https://youtu.be/iHm7uIC84YM
https://youtu.be/LlCkczAakL8
Sparko and his Grabber stood in the front line of Dr Feelgood of England, though he was, of course, overshadowed by now really gone singer Lee Brilleaux in his stage outfit, that looked like he'd passed out in it (and that in a ditch!), plus guitarist Wilko Johnson who really looked like a crazy sniper om amphetamines. Don't know whether they ever hit in the US, but I shure liked that band! Let's not forget drummer The Big Figure, a wall for any rock bass player to lean on.
This is -75, before Sex Pistols, and the rest.
Just one more thing that this video makes absolutely clear: Speeeed kills! (Even though it keeps you in style, fashionwise)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzF0AETdRF8
Ah, so the Grabbers had the hardware corrosion problem of their Ripper siblings too - the pick guard is to blame.
That Grabber bridge was functional in principle but as regards quality of hardware the worst "100-Dollar-bass" junk imaginable. No wonder it was replaced with a hipshot in the above vid
Sorry if this has been posted, but Ripper. And bagpipes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sUXMzkh-jI
LOL, that was grabbed from the 90s era alt rock segment on Muchmusic (Canadian MTV).
Also, why is that Voivod drummer wearing abAhaus T Shirt... shouldnt that be like, Sabbath or something.
You quoted the wrong video
2 sep comments - see the "Rage" logo at the beginning of the ACDC vid? Also, you sayin that dude litteraly played on the Bauhaus record? You learn something every day.
I am not so rigid Uwe, my own tastes are rather eclectic; just funny enough to mention, cuz the kids(erm, older gentlemen now I suppose, and that includes local people my own age, not pokin at you lot of grandads ;P) listening to krautrock mostly wouldn't have been into it.
LOL, that was way back when they were still hard to tell apart from Kajagoogoo, also noteworthy for their hair styles and the indisputable talents of their bassist.
Thank you Uwe. That made my day.
Always hilarious to see Bon with the bagpipes having fun, trying to impress the dancing chicks.
I think Bon actually sang live along with the tape on this one.
At 1.20 you hear him miss a part of the lyric while the tape goes on.
He sings live, yup, though the backing track features his vocal too, hence the fat and slightly delayed vocal sound. And the vid demonstrates his rogue charm like no other. It's how I remember them from 1976 as openers for Rainbow - and though I found their music simplistic and repetitive then and now (to which an AC/DC fan would of course say: "So? And what's not to like about that?!" ;D ), they were refreshingly cocky. Initially, in Germany, they were tagged as a "punk band of sorts for a young factory worker audience". That had a lot to do with Scott's weathered street credibility.
I have to thank you, Holländer! I now own a piece of lovely art by Lea, and your clandestine support in getting her a picture of the Buchholz-Bird has been revealed to me. Bedankt!!!
I have to thank you, Holländer! I now own a piece of lovely art by Lea, and your clandestine support in getting her a picture of the Buchholz-Bird has been revealed to me. Bedankt!!!
My family and friends, bunch of nutters they are, gave me this here as a present just because I occasionally said: "A Harley, once I'm real old, is still on my bucket list."
And then it stood outside our house and I was gobsmacked - I had no idea. I first thought it was rented for a weekend. ;D
(https://www.motorrad-matthies.com/Harley/2019/PreiseFarben/FXFBrd1G.jpg)
That is the first Harley Davidson that I actually find beautiful. :thumbsup:
What an amazing gift!
That is a great looking bike! I was never a motorcycle guy (I would be dead by now), but definitely appreciate a piece of art like that.
You can get a Grabber with a maple board to sound like that no sweat, after all it is an angry, nasty P Bass in nature (and P Basses can get that "angry piano string sound" easily, just think of JJ Burnel of The Strangers).
I've never rated Iron Maiden's songwriting finesse very highly, but Powerslave is the real pits. It sounds like all chord, note and key changes are made under the credo: "Oh, let's go there to see how maybe neat that might sound!". Makes Nirvana sound like the friggin' Beatles.
Steve Harris is no Paul McCartney.
I have no issues with his bass playing, he's nimble and busy, though hardly varied. But the songwriting! :-X
The NME, always good when it comes to scathing putdowns, wrote about Iron Maiden:
- "No doubt one of the better and more adventurous albums of 1973." (In a review of a mid-eighties album ... :mrgreen:)
- "Iron Maiden's set list consists of only two types of songs: Ones that start slow before accelerating into a gallop and others that confusingly start with the gallop only to slow down for mindless instrumental ambling in the middle." Nasty NME! :mrgreen:
But they're a people's band, tenacious and resilient - I wish them well, seen them three times (both with "oil rig" Di'Anno and "air raid siren" Dickinson plus assorted guitarist combinations). And who knows, one day they will even write a song as good as UFO's Doctor Doctor with which they like to bring the hall/arena lights down before they start their gigs. 8)
But I do give them credit for pretty much zero Zeppelin influence! Highly commendable. :rimshot:
Plus Steve Harris likes Be-Bop Deluxe
https://youtu.be/POK6L7g4AMo
and Bruce Dickinson worships Ian Gillan, especially the Clear Air Turbulence album - exquisite tastes!
https://youtu.be/qeVoRiMn-jU
But that Grabber in the opening post doen't sound like any Grabber I've heard before.
Yeah, Grabbers are real snarlers.
Arthur Barrow with a G-3 Zappa.
https://youtu.be/pl1xMVEBkgg (https://youtu.be/pl1xMVEBkgg)
I'll just leave this here. :vader:
I'll just leave this here. :vader:
https://youtu.be/f6tnj7IEI0E
One of the girls became a senator...
I agree, Flock of Seagulls are happy depressives. There is something elating to melancholy, I should know!
For some reason, Grabbers invite punkish bass playing. It's the inherent slight nastiness of their sound! :mrgreen:
Hadn't seen this video of Acca Dacca before, Mark Evans with his Grabber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kO70b6U_A&ab_channel=RockMusiclmLForevah
Glad to know they've caught on. Figured this is worth posting for the V.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymI7t9gb8nk
Someone owning a "V"-Bass and actually playing it, albeit as a rhythm guitar (which is probably all it's good for).
Dino Jr anyone?Oh Yeah! I bought 'where you been' in '94. A friend of mine just bought a record he picked just because it had a cool cover, so I decided to do the same. A big departure from the music I listened to back then, but I really liked it and it widened my quite narrow mindset at the time🙂 followed them up to about 'hand it over'.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CQjQHj5DrUa/?utm_medium=copy_link
But who takes care of the low end in that band?
For some reason, Grabbers invite punkish bass playing. It's the inherent slight nastiness of their sound! :mrgreen:
Like I don't see people ragging on Jaco for not being very bassy when he goes through a whole song above the 8th fret.That's an entirely different story. But even above the 8 fret there's plenty of low end with a clean bass.
Or Lemmy.Yeah, Lemmy's sound didn't have that much low end either. He dialed in lots of mid. And overdrive of course
Like in a power trio config sometimes it's cool to leave space for boomy drums - especially if it's a tommy number (vs ride or hatty).
Lack of bass is just what happens if you dial in that much overdrive (and when you mainly play chords).
In studio recording that can easily be fixed with a dubbed bass track.
But in a live situation you really need to mix the clean signal with the overdriven signal to get a solid low end.
But in a live situation you really need to mix the clean signal with the overdriven signal to get a solid low end.Too bad Dino Jr. didn't know that!
(I personally hate it when your sound has a clean bottom and distorted highs - I like the dirt spread around more evenly).
Thats not how a blend knob works!
A blend knob does not discriminate frequencies.
It just mixes the clean signal with the distorted signal. You choose how much of the clean signal you want.
By the way, talking about clean low end and distorted highs:
A couple of years ago I got to test the Tech21 VT 1000 amp.
I was impressed by the options this amp offers.
It's basically two amps in one.
One channel for the clean (low end) and one for the distorted part.
I really like the sounds you can get out of this amp.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYnRQBiLCLE
So I guess it's all a matter of taste.
I personally don't care for the bottomless bass of Dino Jr. (but you guessed that already ;) )
Herr Wetton and his black Victory Artist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_0TzCuEA9Q
If Bond was a bass player, I can hear this exchange between him and Goldfinger:
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to solo!"
Grabber (and several other -then brand new- Gibsons) with the Doobie Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCJHHoYm5zE
So American in a good way - that these guys aren't in the RRHoF is criminal and inexplicable.
Grand Funk Railroad did have the brief period in the early 70s going for them, but after that they began to fade out. I certainly personally like them. But that doesn't change the fact that not too many people think of them today. From what I've been able to gather, there are people today who have barely even heard of them or haven't heard of them at all. Still, there is no way to predict what the RRHOF will or won't do.
I can. They'll ignore GFRR and induct some hip hop artist instead. And I use the term artist loosely.
Although I'm a fan, I have doubts Grand Funk Railroad will ever get into the RRHOF. They have never quite received the respect they deserved, IMO.
Most people probably know them from that skit in the Simpsons. They are one of these bands like CCR who aren't big enough to warrant the nuclear-scale squabbling between the original members. Thus you have these facsimile bands with one or two original members playing crap gigs in theatres on the oldies circuit. GFR without Mark Farmer!?!
Stringed instruments are of course (and will forever be) at the core of rock'n'roll, but keyboards open other avenues. It's just more musical to me.
Farner had strong pipes (bit on the dramatic-intense side sometimes, Brewer's singing was more laid back) and an earthy, more rhythmically-oriented approach to guitar rather than just providing a flurry of notes at high speed à la Alvin Lee, but saying he wasn't a good guitarist is like saying Keith Richards or John Fogerty can't play. He also left room for his band-buddies Mel and Don. If you believe that Farner is a grooveless, unmusical guitarist, you're deaf. He was even sparse, but since when is that a bad thing? Free and Bad Company were always lauded for it by critics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLoxrISbip0
I believe critics had foremost issues with Farner's bare-chested and chest-beating macho approach, but hell, GFR came from a blue-collar, industry town after all. If you were from Flint, you weren't going to read poems on stage.
Speaking of "GFR without Farner", I thought the post-GFR-split spin-off without him monikered Flint didn't sound bad at all - it sure lacked Farner's overt drama, but the typical GFR groove remained very much intact (no wonder with the rest of GFR in Flint), their music had even more an RnB influence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1tAI4Uu0m0
I REALLY miss keyboards and keyboard players in popular music. And 75% of cover bands doing songs with keys just have them on backing tracks, which is super lame.
Heck, with a good keyboard player you don”t even need a bass player!
Mark Mendoza (the other one) grabbers you by the balls with New York’s finest …
https://youtu.be/ZZ2AEjV8sQM
So that - after the cleansing process - their singing would be more in key, you mean? :mrgreen:
Groucutt played G-3s quite a bit.
So that - after the cleansing process - their singing would be more in key, you mean? :mrgreen:
Even their fans (like me) will admit that The Dictators were not The Beach Boys as harmonies go, especially live. And Handsome Dick Manitoba, their former roadie who initially would guest on only one song (Wild Thing?) with them on stage until they realized that there was something about him that made people want to watch him, wasn't really a singer, but a character/stylist. Andy Shernoff (the keyboarder here, but often also bassist, and main songwriter) and Richard Teeter (the drummer) both were probably better singers than Handsome Dick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnaccwBVM6k
(Scott "Top Ten" Kempner, the rhythm guitarist, sure had a cute butt and he certainly knew it too!)
But I still have a soft spot for stuff like this ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhkxKDREQR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLuXiedNBBc
They are actually staging their umpteenth reunion! With Albert Bouchard (ex-BÖC) on drums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQnPOgYf5c4&t=71s
I finally figured out Wilko's technique but still can't do it myself.
Serek basses introduced the L3. A take on the G3 with Curtis Novak reproduction of the Bill Lawrence designed pickups for the humbucker-and-a-half G3.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxQff_JFao8
Unorthodox use of a G-3.
Herman Brood and his Wild Romance. Bassist is Freddie Cavalli
I wish I could lie that I had combined the two band names on purpose! :mrgreen:
Hey, I've written so much about first and second tier 70ies rock bands here, I'm now edging myself forward to 3rd and 4th tier!!! Or 5th. :rimshot:
Incongruously failed bands have always fascinated me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFYl14fMAo4
That's a good number in all its glorious dumbness. One number from AC/DC is always refreshing, two is "Didn't they play that song already?" and by track three my mind begins to wander. :mrgreen:
New Gov't Mule bass player Kevin Scott steps into Allen Woody's shoes bringing a Gibson Ripper to the stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EdxTVcoJ4E
Yes, Tom, very commendable, but then you were never really normal either ... :mrgreen:
That Scottish singer guy has a touch of the Vikings about him. The Norsemen must have visited his village.
The women of the occupied countries simply could'nt help themselves against the vain Norsemen:
https://thornews.com/2014/10/30/english-women-fell-in-love-with-vain-vikings/ (https://thornews.com/2014/10/30/english-women-fell-in-love-with-vain-vikings/)
There's a wee bit of Norwegian in my mostly Irish and Scottish DNA. Not surprising!
First video I've seen featuring Francis Buchholz and his Ripper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsLq8HDkqNU
A Grabber with Death From Above 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wnl9PpnTXI
Lamont Johnson on a Fretless Ripper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lz15fhD-Sk