Music videos that feature Rics

[uwe]

Geezer with Glenn Hughes' 4001:

[Alanko]

Geezer never really got the best out that Rick throughout that gig. It's a dull rumble. They played that gig in Exstabdaed tuning, so all the sludgy C# stuff got hiked up to E as well.

[Dave W]

Chris Brubeck on a fretless Ric.

[ilan]

Chris is a great player and he can get an almost upright tone out of that Ric when he wants. But I don't like that he doubles the piano here. There's a very simple and effective bass part on the original recording, no need to mess it up. The head is in 9/8 and the piano is busy, why would you wannt a busy bass part under it?

[Alanko]

I like Chris' playing here. There's enough hairiness to it that it sounds human, but it is still quite technical and has an ethos of jazz at its core.

I really can't get behind that school of thought that the pinnacle of bass playing is playing rigidly through transcribed Ornette Coleman solos on a six string Ken Smith bass with a bit of chorus, using only the bridge pickup. With jazz, I would rather hear complex through-composed passages on their original instruments rather than bass. Wind instruments will always be more expressive that a clean bass tone.

[uwe]

"Exstabdaed"?

Never heard that term, what is it supposed to mean string for string?

[Pilgrim]

"Exstabdaed"

Is that defined as "stabbing your ex?"

[Alanko]

"Exstabdaed"?

Never heard that term, what is it supposed to mean string for string?

My iPhone tried to turn 'E Standard' into something more exciting.

[ilan]

My iPhone tried to turn 'E Standard' into something more exciting.

That's "dead bat sxe" spelled backwards.

[uwe]

Nali, uoy knaht!

(Ilan likes to read right to left, old habit of his. )

[Jeff Scott]

Nali, uoy knaht!

(Ilan likes to read right to left, old habit of his. )

Um, you have the exclamation mark on the wrong side.  Just sayin'... 

[uwe]

I forgot this is a Ric forum where everything has to be just right!

[Dave W]

[uwe]

at inter alia 02:53, 03:13, 05:15 ... 

[doombass]