Wyman back with Stones!

Stjofön Big · March 26, 2011, 03:43:01 AM

Billy Boy is back with them ol' Rolling ones! Yes, this next month, April, sees the release of a tribute to Ian Stewart, keys and roads for the Stones, Boogie 4 Stu. Main artist is English pianist Ben Waters. I've heard a couple of the tracks, and they swing!
On Dylan's Watching the river flow, the whole of the Stones of the 70's and 80's gets together for the first time since -92. Wyman playes a simple, but quite swinging bass line, the one I call 1+1, (root + the opposite, in this case G + D, guess educated musician's got another name for the movement. To confuse further, I also use the term 2+2, what Wyman uses on Everybody needs somebody. Though that's a completely different record).
As the end of Watching.. is beginning, Wyman, in a typical, and groovy (is there anybody out there still using that term "groovy?) way slides his way upwards the neck, but just like a teaser to remind us of what he used to do.
In all, (I llisten to Tribute 4 Stu while writing) a cool, relaxed and swinging record. Maybe even Groovy!

Chris P. · March 26, 2011, 03:07:33 PM

There will be a Wyman signature soon. I have seen it I I don't really like it. Maybe it's already online somewhere. Just a minute.

Nope, can't find anything yet, but I'll come back to it!

Stjofön Big · March 26, 2011, 06:12:36 PM

Hope nobody thinks Billy W is back for good! It's a matter of just one tune, remember, to celebrate the memory of Stu!

uwe · March 26, 2011, 06:48:29 PM

I sure was. Hoping he's back for good I mean.

jumbodbassman · March 26, 2011, 07:38:44 PM

Don't think that will happen but stranger things....

Aussie Mark · March 26, 2011, 08:11:44 PM

Quote from: Chris P. on March 26, 2011, 03:07:33 PM
There will be a Wyman signature soon. I have seen it I I don't really like it. Maybe it's already online somewhere. Just a minute.

Is it one of the Warwick Star basses?

Chris P. · March 27, 2011, 04:51:24 AM

Nope, it 's based on his homemade Bass, but fretted. It has à small body, Burns-Style pickups... I have à pic, but i believen i have an embargo until april 1st. Have to check my other computer for That later.

Rhythm N. Bliss · March 29, 2011, 01:40:32 PM

This year is the Stones 50th Anniversary so I wouldn't be surprised if Wyman tours with 'em!

Rhythm N. Bliss · March 30, 2011, 02:13:53 PM

The album is named after this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoS-jmAners

How didja get it so early, Stjofon?

uwe · March 31, 2011, 03:59:15 AM

Quote from: Rhythm N. Bliss on March 30, 2011, 02:13:53 PM
The album is named after this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoS-jmAners

How didja get it so early, Stjofon?

I love that song, always did. Even though it's so unzeppelinish. Or maybe because of that. But what I really want to know: How did they achieve that snare sound? Is that some noisegate trick or is he hitting the snare with a rubber strap?

dadagoboi · March 31, 2011, 04:10:34 AM

UnZeppelinish? If you increase the tempo it's basically 'Rock and Roll' unplugged. Sounds that way to me anyway.

uwe · March 31, 2011, 04:15:41 AM

Quote from: dadagoboi on March 31, 2011, 04:10:34 AM
UnZeppelinish? If you increase the tempo it's basically 'Rock and Roll' unplugged. Sounds that way to me anyway.

The tempo is unzeppelinish - somehow Zep always avoided mid-tempo stuff, they were either faster or slower. And both drums and guitars take a backseat to the music. Of course you can't hear the bass really well either, but then that is with almost all Zep production jobs, Dazed & Confused perhaps excepted!

Bart! · March 31, 2011, 06:13:09 AM

Quote from: Chris P. on March 26, 2011, 03:07:33 PM
There will be a Wyman signature soon. I have seen it I I don't really like it.

+1
I saw a picture of the bass in an very obscure Dutch Bass magazine i`m subscribed to.

nofi · March 31, 2011, 07:50:37 AM

that snare sounds could be someone using metal brushes, very hard.

uwe · March 31, 2011, 07:59:57 AM

Yes, that might be. I really like that sound. When I first heard Physical Graffiti (LZ's strongest and most mature work in my book) I was captivated by that snare sound on one track more than anything else. That and "In my time of dying". That "well, well, weeeeelll, so I can die easy" gave me goosebumps.

Uwe. Goosebumps. From a Led Zep song. I'm a man of contradictions.