The Last Bass Outpost

Here's one from a quaint little toilet in my hometown, back in '92-ish. Oh, how the mighty have fallen...

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 feel ashamed and responsible for starting a thread about such an awful topic.
I should be banned, but I ask for forgiveness.
It's dawned on me that I'm still going to have to learn/play some of their basslines for my son.
Certainly, the punishment does not fit the crime.

Thanks for the replies - and now that it's been mentioned here, I remember all of the available band members kind of drone on and on about how this band was a corporation...

Yeah, this is a fairly unappealing band.  As I said earlier in the thread, I like these documentaries - they kind solidify some of the reasons I dislike of lot of bands.  Thanks for clearing up the mystery - I hate the fact that I was even thinking about Bon Jovi's musicians.

OK, not to start a war, but you can't compare JBJ to Bruce Springsteen.  Even as reprehensible as Springsteen's music has become, the only thing in common is NJ.  Bruce's stuff prior to Born in the USA was deep-rooted and honest, and the E-St. Band was never a hair band.  Garry Tallent is also a bassist that I like listening to.

Thanks again.
Steve

Been a huge Clutch fan for years...their sound has changed a bit over the years (which is great), and they've always delivered. If you have a chance to see them live, do it - intense show. Their drummer, JP Gaster, is amazing and has a groove that won't quit. Dan Maines (bassist) has the best job in music.

Their past two albums (Beale Street and Strange Cousins) are mainly blues-based rock, and their earlier stuff (Transnational, Clutch, Elephant Riders, Pitchfork) was really intense.  The stuff in-between (Slow Hole to China, Robot Hive, Pure Rock Fury, Blast Tyrant, Jam Room,  etc.) is just some of the greatest music you've never heard.  Get the lyrics sheet, and an encyclopedia - Neil Fallon writes some killer stuff.

Good clean fun.  enjoy.

Two of my favorites: 
1. Jean-Paul Gaster of Clutch - It's difficult to go see Clutch without being mesmerized by JP's playing.  His timing is impeccable and he adds tons of color to some pretty raucous music.

2. Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree - the man has some mean feet and can play cymbals as well as anyone I've ever heard.  He's a real genius with his kit.

My favorite song of all time (lyrically).  Nothing else comes close.

Telegraph Road by Mark Knopfler

A long time ago came a man on a track
Walking thirty miles with a pack on his back
And he put down his load where he thought it was the best
Made a home in the wilderness
He built a cabin and a winter store
And he ploughed up the ground by the cold lake shore
And the other travellers came riding down the track
And they never went further, no, they never went back

Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the telegraph road

Then came the mines - then came the ore
Then there was the hard times then there was a war
Telegraph sang a song about the world outside
Telegraph road got so deep and so wide
Like a rolling river. . .

And my radio says tonight its gonna freeze
People driving home from the factories
There's six lanes of traffic
Three lanes moving slow. . .

I used to like to go to work but they shut it down
I got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found
Yes and they say were gonna have to pay whats owed
Were gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed
And the birds up on the wires and the telegraph poles
They can always fly away from this rain and this cold
You can hear them singing out their telegraph code
All the way down the telegraph road

You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights
When life was just a bet on a race between the lights
You had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair
Now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care
But believe in me baby and Ill take you away
From out of this darkness and into the day
From these rivers of headlights, these rivers of rain
From the anger that lives on the streets with these names
cos I've run every red light on memory lane
I've seen desperation explode into flames
And I don't want to see it again. . .

from all of these signs saying "Sorry, But We're Closed"
All the way down the telegraph road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0cvL8KsHI&feature=related

I said it before though, make up and flashbombs can't be put on records.

That's my point, too.
Make-up and flashbombs were the high points.  The records were the initial disappointments.

You're in Chapel Hill? I'm in Raleigh!
Have you heard the new album collaboration by John Doe and The Sadies? It's awesome!

I'm actually in F-V, a bit south of Raleigh.
I've heard a bit of their first album - kind of amp'd up Knitters. Very cool stuff.

Did you get a chance to see X last week?  His vocals are still strong and he had that 'ol P-Bass thumpin' the house.
I've been waiting since '81 to see these guys and was kinda prepared to be let down.. They rocked.

Steve