Music videos that feature Rics

[Jeff Scott]

One of my favorite Genesis songs!

They did that song when I saw them for the first time on April 14, 1973. 

[ilan]

Okay, and Jon Camp in Renaissance.

[amptech]

Mike Rutherford did a pretty fine job as well.

At this point there were many good rick players, let's add Lemmy and Jon Camp to the list🙂

EDIT: Ilan beat me there..

[Alanko]

Okay, and Jon Camp in Renaissance.

Jon Camp came a wee bit later, no? I struggle to enjoy his playing. Maybe because he looked like a sleazy cocktail waiter? His solos in live versions of Ashes are Burning are rudimentary and fairly musically bankrupt.

[Jeff Scott]

Jon Camp ..... looked like a sleazy cocktail waiter...

[ilan]

He was a guitarist until he saw Yes. Here is how he answered the who-were-your-influences question in an interview: "In one word, Chris Squire."

[Jeff Scott]

I particularly like Jon's bass line as a sort of counterpoint to Annie's vocals in "Ocean Gypsy".

[uwe]

It looks fantastic but sounds pale. Back then only two guys exploited what a Ric can do. Chris Squire and Roger Glover.

The irony being that Roger's trademark sound came about more by accident (pick, Ric & Marshall because there was nothing else to experiment with in the unheated Montreux hotel where DP recorded Machine Head and in an effort by Roger to finally get heard after neither the P Bass on In Rock nor the Mustang on Fireball had worked out) and he never even really liked it! He would have preferred a much cleaner and rounder sound, but just couldn't get it.





That Ric made a reappearance in the hands of Pete Agnew on Nazareth's Razamanaz, their first album with Roger in the producer's seat.

[Alanko]

CME usually post good videos but this one is baffling. Shit-eating-grin bassist going all the 'in the pocket' bass face shite, but totally not getting the feel of Heart of the Sunrise at all. The drummer seems to be out off by this.

[ilan]

14 seconds were enough for me.

[Paul Boyer]

That was awful. Too slow, then too fast, the bassist never settling in, and the drummer still looking for him.

[Alanko]

Yup. All the chattery stuff Bill Bruford plays on the original only works as they were working with a clear consensus between the bass and drums. What this guy is playing is a straight reading of the bass line Chris Squire hints and pecks at on the original.

Sort of strange they never went for a second take.

[Jeff Scott]

I'll give the bassist props for using a Strymon Flint (I've had mine since the mid '10s).

[uwe]

You know, if you can't play weird meters, just don't ...

A-bys-mal.

[Dave W]