Where's my Dutch Thin Lizzy floozy?
Rob, I have to make amends! Listened to Bad Reputation (the album) a couple of times. It's real nice (especially the ballady stuff - appeals to a wuss like me), good melodic songwriting. For the record: Downey's bass drum work on Bad Reputation (the song) is great.
And that feathery, airy Lynott bass playing ...
You can hear that he had an extremely light touch with his right hand (not a complaint, I don't dig very hard either and it got lighter and lighter over the years) which brings the old Scott Gorham comment to mind: "Phil didn't play or pick bass, he
strummed it like no-one else I've heard did".
Plus that phaser-drenched sound of the bass all over the record ...
If effects endorsements had been commonplace back then, Phil would have made serious money with this "
phased bass demonstration record". It sure sounds like my old Ibanez phaser - minus the hiss.