Little Gal can smoke on Bass
Was watching the SRV video that D posted and wound up on this…blew me away!
She’s like 21 now, around 17 or 18 when this was recorded, that young and on stage with Mr. Beck!
Jeff ain’t shabby on this tune also…nice finger pickin’ with that wammy bar!
I saw her playing this very song with Jeff on PBS a while back. The girl definitely knows what she’s doing. 
I’m looking as closely as I can to identify those bass amps…
They appear to me to be some model of case mounted
Acoustic Amps…
Does anybody know exactly what they are ?
Bill…
My bad on the age, she was 20 or 21 when that vid was shot, she started training on the bass at the ripe ol age of 17.
Bill i believe she plays EBS amps and cabs, Sweden company I believe.
Yup.
then there’s this little dude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MseYTD5XYDQ
I’m just gonna burn all my gear:-(
These kids have great memory skills…
They run on that…
However, in time and with practice they’ll begin to put “Feel” into their style…
After 50 years of it I am loosing what little memory skills I had and almost all of the “Feeling” toward any music I used to play… The communication between the brain and the hands begin to fail… What I’d like to be able to do and what I actually do are two different things with my hands-and-instrument…
I think you have to practice every day to keep your Chops and Feel…
and all…
Well…
maybe…
Bill…
[EDIT] I forgot… I paused the clip to see if I could place those amps in the road cases… The most I could imagine I saw was… the front panels of the amps appeared to look something like Acoustic colours and all… I have an Acoustic 370 Amp/Top… However, the front right-hand area has a 5-band bunch graphic faders and not so many knobs on the panel… but… the colours look like Acoustic…
Back Again:
I heard Chet Atkins do…
Ob-la-di Ob-la-da…
The kid has all the notes…
But Chet had all the feel…
If I remember,
he did the song on a nylon strung guitar…
If I remember more I think the guitar had a piezo pickup installed in it…
I know we had third row center seats to see the concert…
Right in the APEX…
Seats-to-die-for…
Bill…
[EDIT]
California Dreaming,
NoT BaD…
The Kid is GooD…
Awesome…
D
Oh yea, cute too. She was one of my first myspace friends. Doesn’t take size to play bass.
Quote: (woxnerw @ Oct. 03 2009, 10:09 AM)
I think you have to practice every day to keep your Chops and Feel..
and all..
Oh yeah!
Praticing an hr a day will keep you good.
But to be better than good, you have to put in the hrs.
No matter what level your at, the more you practice the better.
I would personally love to be able to walk around all day wearing my guitar.
No more nTrack betta testing for me, I'll leave that to you studio pros.
It's back to what I love, more pickin, more practicing and more recording
What I remember of playing the bars was…
We be playing seven nights a week…
We never had time to practice and rehearse songs…
SO…
We’d use the first set to play new songs…
By Friday night .
if we were doing anything with the songs, we’d move songs off the play list and move the first set songs in to replace them…
BUT, never tossed any material away…
That’s the way it went…
year-in-year-out…
I have no idea where I got all that energy…
?
Bill…
Tal has what most bass players are lacking, as it seems to me.
A desire to be great and different, to take bass playing to new levels.
It’s true a lot of bass players get held back by the bands music, but to me that’s an excuse.
If a particular bands genera or style is stifling a bass players level of play, that band should then become a side project to that player.
The side project can take on many faces, main source of income, main time consumer at the moment.
But it can’t be used as an excuse to hold you back.
Just talking in general. (Bill and Jason, don’t really know your music or styles that much) Interesting look at your bands ambition Bill.
First set was your practice set?
If your playing live 3 to 4 hrs a day, 7 days a week.
That good practice on your bands material!
Quote: (TonyR @ Oct. 03 2009, 9:37 AM)
Yup.
then there's this little dude
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MseYTD5XYDQ
I'm just gonna burn all my gear:-(
Aww he's cheatin, he's using a capo!
i don’t have a style. hence, i’m all over the freakin’ place.
i play geddy lee lines in ballads. then i try to emulate nathan watts (stevie wonder) in driving punk-type songs. and i wonder why my ‘career’ never took off.
have been playing A LOT lately, though. the press will cover my next gig on the tenth (got a differnt bass player, just singing/some 12-string work for me).
ha! stole the thread. now to put it back: yeah, that chick can wail, man!
Quote:
Aww he's cheatin, he's using a capo!
of course he is! every time i try to tune the guitar up 2 half-steps, all my strings break.
Hi john doe’s evil twin:
I’m known for rewriting threads…
all-the-time…
So, if he places his capo up there, does that mean he detune his guitar down two positions to allow him to play in that position?
I’m not a guitar player…
I just ask because you say you tare the strings off you guitar when you try to tune up there…
OR…
does he use strings of a different gauge/set ?
Bill…
Quote: (john doe's evil twin @ Oct. 04 2009, 10:25 AM)
i don't have a style.
hence, i'm all over the freakin' place.
i play geddy lee lines in ballads.
then i try to emulate nathan watts (stevie wonder) in driving punk-type songs.
Your style is probably about to rise to the surface, if you want that.
And then you might have a point about being all over the place.
A lot of the bass players I've known only want to hug honey, and don't have much time for style development.
What percentage of bass players do you think are x guitar players who didn't have the ambition or interest to develop guitar technique and grabbed a bass to stay or be in the band?
Thinking bass stood for basic?
Tal, to me is a genuine bass player, started with bass because she loves the sound.
She obviously really studied it.
It's like a singer who tries to emulate Muddy Waters, singing every muddy waters song.
He's never going to sound exactly like Muddy Waters, but some of what he's singing by muddy waters is going to embed into his singing technique.
So eventually he won't be what he was as a singer.
And at that point he has developed into something new and has developed his own style.
Or at the very least, started that process.
I have another Lady bass player friend at myspace who's no slouch either, but I lost her off my top friends list back when I lost all that. I'll point her out sometime.
Here’s that girl I was talking about.
Just remember’ed that she emailed me a couple times about my abbs She’s also a physical trainer there in the Nashville area.
A sweet honey!
And a fine bass player!!!
Not exactly in Tal’s league but still pretty impressive.
Dawn Richey! Cool, fine, singer/songwriter/guitarist too!
her j-bass is almost identical to my new one, tobacco sunburst and all. 'cept mine’s fretless.