Bon Jovi's bassist

[uwe]

I'm sure it is, I even remember it now, hummable and ecstatic, but not in the guitar tour de force league of say Blackmore on Highway Star or Page in the Whole Lotta Love-breaks. Frenzied inspiration wasn't really Box' thing.

[TBird1958]

Yup,

 Sometimes less notes = more.

[godofthunder]

Wow. that's depressing.  I was big into Foghat...I still think Tony Stevens was a great bassist.
I may be alone in that thought, but what else is new.

I liked Foghat a lot, Stevens included, great band imho.

[Hornisse]

I can remember staring at that photo of Gary Thain in the booklet inside of Uriah Heep Live.  I wanted a Jazz Bass just like his for a long time!  (I've settled for a '66 with dots and binding)

[TBird1958]

 Yeah, that's a cool pic! I really like Gary Thain, but I'm just a Gibson girl 

[patman]

I also used to love to listen to Uriah Heep Live...still have it on CD...loved everything but the tone of Mick Box's guitar--to me it sounds as if it is constantly filtered through a wah pedal that's on, but not being manipulated by the user, if that makes sense.

The vocals are awesome, as is the bass playing.

[uwe]

He used that wah as a treble booster - almost all Brit guitarists did that (or used a real treble booster) at the time, it was the en vogue thing to do.  Iommi and Schenker did the same thing.

[gweimer]

Rudolph Schenker kept the wah pedal on at all times, backing off the treble to give him that rhythm guitar sound of his.

[uwe]

And the little bruddah boosted the highs with it.

[bobyoung]

I couldn't care less one way or the other about Bon Jovi, having said that I don't think they are that bad of a band and the original bass player was OK in the video Phantom Opera or whatever there name was, it's such scripted music the only thing you could do would be to play the right notes for the right length of time, and that he did. It's very hard to tell how good a player is or isn't playing that crap.

[uwe]

Anybody heard the new album? Pretty somber and lean for Bon Jovi standards with definite U2 influences.

[Highlander]

It was a "cry-baby" that Michael Shencker used to get his lead sound, wasn't it...?

[Freuds_Cat]

I couldn't care less one way or the other about Bon Jovi, having said that I don't think they are that bad of a band and the original bass player was OK in the video Phantom Opera or whatever there name was, it's such scripted music the only thing you could do would be to play the right notes for the right length of time, and that he did. It's very hard to tell how good a player is or isn't playing that crap.

After reading the entire thread I have to ask how the hell Michael Anthony was never asked to join Bon Jovi?   

[Highlander]

He never got out of the bottle...  (ref to an old quote by Roth)

[Freuds_Cat]

Yep I got ya