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acoustica1
Jammin' Hot
Joined: 05 May 2006
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Location: Paris-FRANCE
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 Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:41 am Post subject: No thread about women bass players? |
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(I did a search but I didn't find anything)
Who is you favorite?
-Suzy Quattro
-Paz Lenchantin
-Kim Deal
-Carol Kaye
-Melissa Auf Der Maur
-Gail Ann Dorsey
-Rana Ross
-Anybody else?
I'm really impressed by this pretty young lady:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRFkOrnds8I |
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Tim
Low Frequency Out
Joined: 14 Aug 2005
Posts: 1182
Location: Probably at the bar.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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D'arcy Wretzky is still one of my faveourites.
Tal Wilkenfeld (in that video) gets quite a lot of press in bass mags, the Jazz/solo stuff is'nt my sort of thing but cleary good, I do like her, what I would call 'proper' bass-playing tho, this is her with Jeff Beck:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=32Ln-SpJsy0&feature=related
Nice fills but nothing too much.
Grunge seemed to have quite a few Female bass players, Maureen from Babes in Toyland is a mod on Fuzz.com |
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1bassleft
Lowdown Cack-hander
Joined: 16 Feb 2005
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Location: "Hit The North"
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| Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, I was impressed by Tal (more so for her playing in a band rather than improv-clinic stuff). As Tim says, female bass players were de riguer in '90s indie bands. Even if they're not super-proficient technical types, Kim Deal and Melissa auf der Maur are faves of mine. |
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Tim
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Strangely, in my initial reply I forgot to mention my personal fave bass player: Jane Howden of Chicken Legs Weaver. We went to see them live locally and I was literally "Man, that's what I've always wanted to sound like!"
She looks pretty damn good too but that is definitely secondary to sounding fantastic!
Unfortunately there's not a massive selection on their Myspace but 'Rolling Wheel' (second track) pretty much demonstrates what I'm talking about. Even better live tho, so much more energy.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=52880827
EDIT: Wine+Spelling=Fail
EDIT 2: awwww, this was my 1000th post  |
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1bassleft
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Location: "Hit The North"
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| Congrats on the grand . I had a look at Chicken Legs but only the default track was available. Not a lot of bass but the band is clearly better, and more original, than a ton of "blues influenced" giggers. No wonder they have a rather impressive who's-who style list of "friends". |
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Tim
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| Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2008 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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 They have 2 tracks on there Myspace the second track should be there? it is when I look...? strange, much more the bass I meant, ah well, they are good anyway. Like a lot of blues stuff it loosing a little bit of something in the recording but still great. |
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