Re: Grease 2 Soundtrack.zip
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How awesome is this bassline?? I ask you!?
I can't stop playing it, pretty easy to play, fun song, good times! It's really rekindled my love of bass lines as opposed to GASsing over awesome fuzzes and synths!
I think this and 'I want you back' by the jacksons are my favourite bass lines to play.
Anyone for anymore?
[quote name='umcoo' post='223259' date='Jun 20 2008, 09:27 PM']How awesome is this bassline?? I ask you!?
I can't stop playing it, pretty easy to play, fun song, good times! It's really rekindled my love of bass lines as opposed to GASsing over awesome fuzzes and synths!
I think this and 'I want you back' by the jacksons are my favourite bass lines to play.
Anyone for anymore?[/quote]
Snap. Two of my all time favourites to play as well.
So who knows who played on the Jacksons song?
[quote name='AndyMartin' post='223300' date='Jun 20 2008, 10:30 PM']Snap. Two of my all time favourites to play as well.
So who knows who played on the Jacksons song?[/quote]
Wasn't it one of them?
I don't think it's Jamerson. but its beautifully played
If Memory serves me....
Wilton Felder [Yes, The Crusaders Sax player ]
He did a few Early Jackson Tracks on Bass including ABC..
I did the Show Grease out in Japan about 5 years ago.
Fantastic Score to play.
Garry
[quote name='lowdown' post='223313' date='Jun 20 2008, 10:44 PM']If Memory serves me....
Wilton Felder [Yes, The Crusaders Sax player ]
He did a few Early Jackson Tracks on Bass including ABC..
I did the Show Grease out in Japan about 5 years ago.
Fantastic Score to play.
Garry[/quote]
The grease score is a favourite of a guitar player I know too...he loves it.
[quote name='lowdown' post='223313' date='Jun 20 2008, 10:44 PM']If Memory serves me....
Wilton Felder [The Crusaders Sax player ]
He did a few Early Jackson Tracks on Bass including ABC..
Garry[/quote]
I might be wrong about ABC...
Anyone else with that one?
But twas him on " I want you back "
Garry
[quote name='jakesbass' post='223305' date='Jun 20 2008, 10:33 PM']Wasn't it one of them?
I don't think it's Jamerson. but its beautifully played[/quote]
When I first heard it I thought it was JJ. Then I read somewhere, it may have been Bassist magazine, that it was Germaine Jackson. I suppose because in the vid he was miming holding a bass - Yeah Right
Wilton Felder's a new one on me though
great track! I love the bass line too and really enjoy myself everytime it shows up on a set list. " summerlovin" is another great track from the same album. I love Hungates playing - but I must admit that i can't stand Toto.....
There's awesome bass playing on the soundtrack to the film version of Hair - not the stage or cast recording.
I think it's Bernard Purdie on drums, but can't recall the name of the bass player (but Bass Player mag outed him a while ago)
Have to admit Toto is a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. I don't usually know it's them, but if I find an MOR tune that I actually quite like in a private sort-of way it always turns out to be Toto.
Whereas I'll actually admit to liking ELO. Yeah I know.
[quote name='chris_b' post='223560' date='Jun 21 2008, 01:01 PM']Wilton's the man. My favorites, apart from the early Crusaders, [u]are two Bobby Bland albums[/u], Dreamer and His California Album.[/quote]
Yep , good call on those..
Garry
[quote name='Jase' post='223278' date='Jun 20 2008, 09:56 PM']It's amazing!! Who played it...anyone know?[/quote]
An Australian called John Farrar wrote it. As he was a bass player (spent a while with the Shadows), I have always assumed he played on the recording. The bass line really makes the song, I agree.
[quote name='stevie' post='223693' date='Jun 21 2008, 05:14 PM']An Australian called John Farrar wrote it. As he was a bass player (spent a while with the Shadows), I have always assumed he played on the recording. The bass line really makes the song, I agree.[/quote]
A quick Google tells me I'm mistaken here. John Farrar was primarily a guitarist. He did have a hand in arranging the soundtrack, though.
[quote name='gypsymoth' post='223709' date='Jun 21 2008, 05:49 PM']it is a brilliant song - there's a couple more in there too.[/quote]
Hopelessly Devoted to You (which I think was also a Farrar song) was one of the first songs I learned on the bass (not that long ago). It's nice and easy to play, easy to read, and is so, so tasteful.
Another goodie that I find really fun to play, although it's a bit cheesie, is My First, My last, My Everything, by Barry White. Could that be Wilton? [url=" =qc1oiER2VTE"] =qc1oiER2VTE[/url]
Bass players on the Grease Soundtrack album are: Mike Porcaro, William David Hungate, Max Bennett, David Allen Ryan, Wm. J. Bodine, Dean Cortez and Harold Cowart.
John Farrar wrote You're The One That I Want and Hopelessly Devoted To You.
Toto was formed as a result of the musicians working together on the album.
[quote name='chris_b' post='223872' date='Jun 21 2008, 10:35 PM']Bass players on the Grease Soundtrack album are: Mike Porcaro, William David Hungate, Max Bennett, David Allen Ryan, Wm. J. Bodine, Dean Cortez and Harold Cowart.
John Farrar wrote You're The One That I Want and Hopelessly Devoted To You.
Toto was formed as a result of the musicians working together on the album.[/quote]
You certainly pick up some useful information on here!
[quote name='gypsymoth' post='224683' date='Jun 23 2008, 04:36 AM']there was something else in it with a real deep baritone - voice. cool tune.[/quote]
At the outro of "We Go Together", really deep voice doing some forms of "bop"s and "doo"s by the sounds of it!
Grease is also a favourite of mine to play. (Greased Lightning and Born To Hand Jive in particular). They're the first "proper" basslines I've learned to play (I play mostly straight 8th root note punk style lines, so I'm hardly a bassist )
Very much like the differing accounts of the same romance in the song "Summer Lovin'", this review could easily employ a split screen to capture my schizophrenic opinion of last night's production of Grease: Live! on Fox television. It was certainly not a calamity and within its bizarrely, uninspired re-imagining, there were little bursts of wonderful to keep us invested through it's awkward conclusion.
Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's Grease was a big hit when it first appeared on the theatre scene in 1971, starting out Off-Broadway, then transferring to Broadway for a run of 3, 388 performances. It it's original inception, Grease was raucous and unapologetic, youthful and even cynical. Somehow that approach was considered a hard pill to swallow when it made the leap to the big screen in 1978 where it was softened and homogenized just enough to make it silly satire. The film also excised several songs from the original stage piece and interpolated some very popular new songs. The result being: there is no definitive version of Grease and the Fox live production seems to have cobbled together their own version of the show, drawing on both the stage and film versions equally.
The first problem with Grease: Live! stems from directors Thomas Kail and Alex Rudzinski's indecision on whether or not they wanted to re-stage the iconic film or create a fresh approach to the material. In fact, even as they try to leave the ghosts of the film behind, they end up stealing many of the staging gimmicks of the film in what has to equate to, at the very most, artistic robbery and at the very least, a desperate laziness. I, for one, have seen Grease as a film and was excited to see something that didn't make me recall a superior production. Grease: Live! drew too much attention to the 1978 film, robbing this version a chance to breathe in its own right. Too much was tied to the audience's nostalgia for the film.
The Live production of Grease had a lot of challenges thrown at it from rainstorms forcing last-minute location changes, to one of the leads (Vanessa Hudgens) losing her father to cancer just the day before. In regards to the former, Fox put a lot of eggs in Mother Nature's basket, staging chunks of the production outside with only the vaguest of plan Bs to accommodate for precipitation. This resulted in poor lighting for exterior shots, clunky adjustment to transplanted staging, and a sound design that gave the impression it was being achieved by a toddler with two soup cans and some string. Hudgens, on the other hand, was galvanized by her recent tragedy and gave one of the evening's most nuanced and touching performances as the tough-as-nails Pink Lady Betty Rizzo. Her interpretation of "There Are Worse Things I Could Do" was the musical and emotional highlight of the production, proving that there is more to this High School Musical alumnus than "Most Likely to Live in Zac Efron's Shadow."
The rest of the leading cast was not as fortunate. Julianne Hough, who is a very talented dancer, was not served well by the clumsy, pedestrian choreography of this production. I have never found Hough to act as well as she moves, and her Sandy is thin and without dimension. Her singing voice is fine, but not exactly brimming with technique or even verve. This is why I had hoped she would be afforded the opportunity let loose on the dance floor and show off the talents she does have. No such luck. Aaron Tveit has been the wet dream of most theatre enthusiasts since he first dazzled us in Next to Normal. As talented as this guy is (and he is quite a bit more than just a pretty boy), he never relaxes into the role of Danny Zuko. Trying desperately one minute to shake the memory of John Travolta and then mimicking his performance the next, Tveit never trusts his own instincts and abilities to come up with his own take on this goofy greaser. There is also zero chemistry between him and Hough, and in one awkwardly staged moment, he appeared to be swooning over Doody (Jordan Fisher).
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