What bass is this?

[Rob]

Jump to about 22 minutes in. . .

[chromium]

Looks like an Italia Imola

[Rob]

Ahhh thanks Chrome!
Sounds good on this clip.

[gearHed289]

That was cool. Nice to see Waite on bass again. Miss the Zemaitis... I dug their first couple of albums when I was a kid. Still sounding good!

[slinkp]

Whoa.  That is right up my alley.  Like!

... have to do something about the rear pickup placement though...

[nofi]

it says takamine on the headstock. they are a nice bass for less than 300 bucks.

[Basvarken]

That was cool. Nice to see Waite on bass again. Miss the Zemaitis... I dug their first couple of albums when I was a kid. Still sounding good!

That is not John Waite!
He doesn't sound anywhere close.

[gweimer]

That is not John Waite!
He doesn't sound anywhere close.

Indeed!  This guy doesn't go flat when he sings.   

[dadagoboi]

The Babys, another band who made their US debut at The Whisky in '77 when I was doing sound.  Big billboard on Sunset in front of the Riot House, LOTS of hype.  I had the first record, looked forward to seeing them.  Turned out to be boring live.

Of course all The Whisky staff got free 'The Babys' T shirts.  I immediately turned mine into 'The Pap' by blacking out the bottom of the Bs and the Y.  A week later MY band was playing The Whisky and I was wearing the shirt.  After the set the Babys keyboard player showed up in the dressing room upset and ready to take a poke at me.  I'm a little guy.  Luckily my buddy Stan Lynch, Heartbreakers drummer, isn't and intervened.  Stan got more Baby's revenge by later writing  "Last Worthless Evening" which has its roots in "I Ain't Missing You."

[Basvarken]

Indeed!  This guy doesn't go flat when he sings.   

Haha! 
Still I like Waites voice better.

This 2013 line up however is very enjoyable. Nice to hear those song being performed again properly.
I did a support for John Waite and his band a couple of years ago and witnessed quite a few train wrecks...

[gearHed289]

That is not John Waite!
He doesn't sound anywhere close.

DOH! I thought he looked... different.  As far as the way he sounds, I figured it was just 35 years taking it's toll.

I can see how they might be boring live. They looked cool as hell in their very early promo vids, but I can see how the tunes wouldn't exactly incite a riot. Same with the Cars, from that same era.

[uwe]

Indeed!  This guy doesn't go flat when he sings.   

Phil Mogg, a man who rarely sang flat in even the most imbibed circumstances, would kiss you for that comment! Unhappy about the attention their new Charisma labelmates were getting plus a few unwarranted A&R man comments/snipes to UFO ("Be more like The Babies, they sell!"), Mogg and his men disgustedly penned this song here:



I have nothing against John Waite, his more recent stuff is pleasantly semi-Don Henley solo albums in nature. Bad English I always found a little light-weight. The Babies stuff was catchy in places, but again very light-weight in production.

[Highlander]

I remember all the hype here too... and still have the first release...

Like the Live Official 'Leg 4 or 5 track (UK) TP&HB promo'd they also did one - plenty of canned applause... mind you, there's an early BOC 4 track with that too, but it does have a great version of Buck's Boogie...

[Lightyear]

Just found this - he aged fairly well I suppose.  But, a greatest hits record? 

http://video.foxnews.com/v/3595375704001/john-waite-sings-the-hits/#sp=show-clips

[Basvarken]

Well, the man has had huge hits in three consecutive decennia. In the seventies Isn't It Time and Everytime I think Of You were big selling hits. In the eighties he scored big with Missing You and in the nineties he had big hits with When I see You Smile and Time Stood Still.

But he's done the re-recorded greatest hits album before (Downtown: Journey of a Heart). Which to me seemed like artistic anaemia.
And to do that trick again is just sad.

My favorite album of his is Temple Bar. And album which proves he's a great storyteller, singer and songwriter.