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This ☝️came up on my bass-covers radar.


Which strangely led to some Rocksteady covers, too...

Desmond Dekker

Keith & Tex

The Three Tops

The Soul Tops



and more! 😺 — (only 5 media links per post allowed 😾)


Such fun to get reacquainted with Rocksteady — hadn't listened to it in decades, from before I picked up bass.

The covers are on a yootoob chanel called Adventures in Beautiful Taiwan / ABT (Awesome Bass Tabs, and unusually the song is played once with bass, then repeated without bass for you to fill it in — tab and standard notation on screen for both with and without.
 
I've been heavy into Scott Henderson lately. Particularly his last 3 solo albums, Vibe Station, People Mover and Karneval

Scott is the most unique sounding fusion player I've ever heard. He considers himself a rock and blues player even though his harmonic approach is heavily steeped in jazz. There is SO MUCH harmony going on and it goes by so fast through the changes, it takes a few listens to figure out "what the hell is going on here....." heh. The line up of these 3 albums is his best trio. The chemistry between the 3 of them is insane.
Not for the faint of heart and maybe even a little out there for hard core jazzers. But imagine a cross between Jeff Beck, SRV, playing Coltrane....



 
MichaelW said:
I've been heavy into Scott Henderson lately. Particularly his last 3 solo albums, Vibe Station, People Mover and Karneval

Scott is the most unique sounding fusion player I've ever heard. He considers himself a rock and blues player even though his harmonic approach is heavily steeped in jazz. There is SO MUCH harmony going on and it goes by so fast through the changes, it takes a few listens to figure out "what the hell is going on here....." heh. The line up of these 3 albums is his best trio. The chemistry between the 3 of them is insane.
Not for the faint of heart and maybe even a little out there for hard core jazzers. But imagine a cross between Jeff Beck, SRV, playing Coltrane....



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And Travis Carlton, the bassist on Vibe Station, is Larry’s son. Whoop-de-doo!
 
I just discovered The Sword from a YouTube rec and this shit SLAPS so hard. Apparently they're not that obscure, so I'm baffled I never heard of them before. Kind of like a cross between doom and power metal with obvious Sabbath influences; but I'm getting notes of thrash metal, Spirit Caravan, early DVNE, and Clutch, which is like, could you have made a band more suited for my tastes if I asked? (Well yes, if you added some prog, but that's neither here nor there.)
Spent last night delving their discography and the first three albums are an insta-buy.
 
Love Henderson, back to the Tribal Tech days with Gary Willis on bass.

Got to see Henderson a few times in HK, and that Travis guy, too — and one time Travis brought his dad along, and some guy named Lou Catheter or something like that, but everyone called him "Steve" for some reason 😜 — that was a great show.

Here's some HK footage of Travis, dad and Gene Coye on drums...


Back to Henderson.
I don't remember if I took any phone-film-footage of Henderson's footwork, but he was gyrating and twisting up a storm during much of the show.
He turns a knob with his foot instead of getting an expression/volume pedal. More than a few times I thought he was going to fall right over as he was twisting the pedal-knob to an inhuman degree.

Here's a taste of his toe-ankle-twisting that I found online:

Going over his pedalboard...


At 8:10, he describes how he uses the knob-in-a-box — "that's just a volume-pot that's in the effects-loop so I can control my master volume. I like it better than a volume-pedal because a volume-pedal isn't very subtle and this is subtle. I can turn down just a little bit, or up a little bit and nobody notices..."

Geeze man, EVERYONE notices when you get to twistin' that thang!
 
Nostradoomus said:
To be fair I did just skip to the chorus and I can’t listen to that.

edit: I still sound like a prick lol, my bad
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Never apologize for what it is you like, if we were all into the exact same thing that might get boring… that said if you didn’t listen to the chorus you did miss the most interesting guitar riff in the song(to me at least)but I feel you vocals can make or break a song for me too and I can’t even tell you why I don’t like certain lyrics or vocal tonality But others I do. music is so personally subjective, maybe that’s why it’s special, to be able to connect with others in an unspoken way.
 
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