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I think Moore and Bruce first met when they both guested on Cozy Powell's debut solo album in 1979.




Stuff like this here (featuring Powell, Bruce, Moore and Airey):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6SH901lbMc

That track always owed more than a bit to Cobham's Quadrant 4 (with Bolin, Hammer and Sklar) in my ears:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unxshBHfVsY

Airey and Moore had a mutual high octane jazz rock history from Colosseum II:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtjDigJ_QQI

And Airey and Powell had played together in Cozy Powell's Hammer (and of course later on in Rainbow):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGghvgGZeSs

All four of them, while earning money with more accessible music, had therefore dabbled with jazz rock: Airey & Moore in Colosseum II, Powell with The Jeff Beck Group and Bruce on several of his more jazzy solo outings. For someone who had played with Ginger Baker, Bruce's fondness for Cozy Powell - a heavy-handed drummer - might seem strange, but he did hold him in high regard. I remember an interview where he lauded him for not joining Led Zep after he allegedly got the offer following Bonzo's death.

I had posted some Cozy Powell stuff here a year or two ago.  But I had no idea that's where Jack and Gary met.  I really like "Killer." 

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It's amazing how the older Gary Moore would team up with Jack Bruce of all bassists - the same Gary Moore that had driven legions of bassists such as Glenn Hughes, Neil Murray, Craig Gruber and Bob Daisley mad by demanding they play nothing but the root note in eights on his mid-80ies albums. Better late than never, I guess.  ;D

The "I didn't want to sound distorted, the equipment then gave me no choice"-comment I have heard in the exact same way from Roger Glover who has disowned his classic Ric sound on Machine Head, Made in Japan and Who Do We Think We Are as "way too distorted for my taste, I always wanted a clean sound like American bassists seemed to have, but with Deep Purple's stage volumes that just wasn't possible back then".

And Frank Zappa's penchant for the sound of a distorted short scale Gibson bass goes a long way in explaining why he also liked Jim Lea's playing and sound.

But it could have been Jack Bruce who extended the invitation to play to Moore.  I posted something here some time ago referring to an interview in which Jack Bruce was asked which guitarist he preferred playing with.  He said Gary Moore.  His reason being that it was probably because he was Scottish and Moore Irish.  But I don't know the specific details of how they got together. 

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Other Bass Brands / Re: NBD : ´63 Gretsch 6070
« on: February 25, 2019, 03:35:12 PM »
She's good! That's the first time I've ever seen a two-Musicvox lineup.

Yes, she is good  Also, it looks like Chris has made some interesting choices in friends. 

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: February 25, 2019, 12:16:49 PM »
It might have been a blessing in disguise.  I've tried to not get too upset when something doesn't go the way I think it should.  You don't always know for sure if something is going to be good or bad.  I was one of the ones not happy about Lindsey Buckingham getting kicked out.  But it looks like I might have been wrong. 

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Other Bass Brands / Re: NBD : ´63 Gretsch 6070
« on: February 25, 2019, 06:42:38 AM »
Not metal and not a Gretsch, but here she is playing a little "All Right Now" at the end of the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKgxiO0oDGw

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: February 24, 2019, 02:46:43 AM »
All the best to Lindsey Buckingham...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgQFsN0mMWc


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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: February 22, 2019, 11:15:30 AM »
Bridgewise, I always felt Carly got a little inspiration from You're No Good ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8uU_4XBugA

But both songs are great.

And ... playing a cruise ship before people in evening gowns/black tie is perhaps not quite so counter-culture, but she and her voice have aged nicely.  8)

Both songs certainly are great, IMO.  I haven't heard much news about Carly Simon, but as for Linda Rondtadt it's a shame she got Parkinson's.  However, she seems to be dealing with it much better than most. 

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: So, what have you been listening to lately?
« on: February 22, 2019, 09:47:34 AM »
Linda Ronstadt with her live version.  I saw her around this same time although it would be another 14 years before I'd make it to Germany.  I like what Sara Niemietz did with the song, but I didn't notice anything unusual with her pronunciation. 

I don't even know what John Fogerty was doing with the way he pronounced some words.  Nobody that I know talks like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=082KfTzWOxE


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The version I heard was that Jack wanted to return to his EB-3 for the reunion gigs, but it didn't do anything for him anymore. Decades of playing quality German instruments with a, uhum, slight Spector influence had spoiled him. THEN someone (I believe a bass tech) gave him an EB-1 "to try out" and he fell in love with it. I never heard anything about the origin of that particular EB-1. But Jack must have certainly known that it was a bass very much identified with Felix P.

I like to listen to him no matter what bass he plays. With that Warwick Thumb - butt-ugly as it was - he very much created his own sound as well and perhaps his bass playing was even more impressive on a fretless, (not so infrequent) bum notes and all. (Admittedly, there was a time when I did not much like it, but my tastes have changed.)


That's also the version of the story I heard.  Some of the details are kind of vague to me now.  I do remember Jack saying in an interview that by 2005 the EB-3 felt like a toy to him, though. 

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2005 was a while back.  All I know is that there were a lot of rumors that Jack was playing Felix's bass.  But then I heard even more rumors that the bass was actually Jack's own EB-1.  But I don't know for sure what the accurate version of the story is.  Personally, I lean toward the version of it being Jack's bass. 

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 :mrgreen:

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Here we go.  Stairway to Heaven. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WfoccRna6I

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The Outpost Cafe / Re: If it's too loud, you're ...
« on: February 20, 2019, 02:04:58 PM »
I never personally paid much attention to them, but Damn Yankees had quite a far-reaching and solid reputation.  Now Ted Nugent says hunting is more important to him than that band--a way of thinking I simply cannot relate to at all. 

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I had only heard a few things about the Jake Holmes situation.  What I was more baffled by was the Randy California estate case.  I don't see how the jury could come to an objective conclusion when they weren't even allowed to hear the songs. 

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