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Title: Thumb pick and Kay Bass
Post by: Pilgrim on March 24, 2010, 01:12:25 PM

While searching YouTube for great bass riffs, I checked the Spencer Davis group's "I'm a Man".

I had never noticed that this bass line is played on an old Kay hollowbody with a thumb pick!  I've never seen s thumb pick used in rock before.

GREAT recording of the bass, too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzN0mMx-sJg

I can't claim this is one of the great bass riffs, but it's absolutely one of the great rock songs.  Turn it up loud and EVERYONE moves.

Title: Re: Thumb pick and Kay Bass
Post by: nofi on March 24, 2010, 05:48:30 PM

where have you been? i used one for about five minutes. :)

Title: Re: Thumb pick and Kay Bass
Post by: Pilgrim on March 24, 2010, 08:39:23 PM

Quote from: nofi on March 24, 2010, 05:48:30 PM

where have you been? i used one for about five minutes. :)

I musta been in the can unloading a beer.  :bored:

Title: Re: Thumb pick and Kay Bass
Post by: Dave W on March 24, 2010, 09:19:24 PM

Bassists using thumb picks were never that common in the 60s but you did see them used in rock and other music. More common with English bands.

Title: Re: Thumb pick and Kay Bass
Post by: rahock on March 25, 2010, 05:57:29 AM

I forget how old Stevie Winwood was when he did  I'm a Man but I think he was 17 or 18 when he did Gimme Some Lovin'. WOW.....not bad huh ;D.
Today we have Miley Cyrus at roughly the same age and setting the world on fire. Things are somehow a bit different ???
Rick