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Title: Long, Long Way from Home
Post by: ack1961 on September 07, 2012, 10:05:47 AM

All,
Can anyone tell me what is accompanying the bassline on this old Foreigner song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubas4z3poQE

It sounds sort of Moog-ish, but I'm sure that someone here will know some details. It's a great sound (from a band that I really don't care for very much).

Thanks,

Title: Re: Long, Long Way from Home
Post by: lowend1 on September 07, 2012, 01:40:48 PM

It's a Hohner D6 Clavinet. Also featured on Led Zep's "Trampled Underfoot". My band does LLWFH without keys - I always play this one on a bass with a bridge pickup (like a J, PJ or T-Bird), using a pick, and play right near the bridge.

Title: Re: Long, Long Way from Home
Post by: ack1961 on September 07, 2012, 01:58:12 PM

Quote from: lowend1 on September 07, 2012, 01:40:48 PM

It's a Hohner D6 Clavinet. Also featured on Led Zep's "Trampled Underfoot". My band does LLWFH without keys - I always play this one on a bass with a bridge pickup (like a J, PJ or T-Bird), using a pick, and play right near the bridge.

Thanks for that!
I'd love to hear a post of you playing LLWFH on bass.

Steve

Title: Re: Long, Long Way from Home
Post by: Wilbur88 on September 13, 2012, 02:43:53 AM

I love the sound of a clavinet.  Trampled Underfoot is a great track, with clavinet played by JPJ.  JPJ also plays some mean clavinet on Scumbag Blues off the Them Crooked Vultures album from a couple of years ago.

Title: Re: Long, Long Way from Home
Post by: uwe on September 13, 2012, 04:42:00 AM

Are the intro and verse licks of Nutbush Cuty Limits clavinet of Fender Rhodes?  ???

Hard to hear here, they are more prominent on the studio mix.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mljV2OdBGD0

Title: Re: Long, Long Way from Home
Post by: ack1961 on September 13, 2012, 06:16:41 AM

Quote from: Wilbur88 on September 13, 2012, 02:43:53 AM

I love the sound of a clavinet.  Trampled Underfoot is a great track, with clavinet played by JPJ.  JPJ also plays some mean clavinet on Scumbag Blues off the Them Crooked Vultures album from a couple of years ago.

Yup - both of those are big hits in this household.
JPJ is a such a creative musician and has been paired with two pretty heavy drummers in in Zep and TCV.
He looks so up-front and happy in TCV, where he always seemed to stay buried in the back during Led Zep shows.