The Simple Stuff

With the blog hopper all but empty this evening, I went and dug up something out my email archive. This was advice on bass playing that a friend gave me a few years ago, around the time I bought the Spector. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind me sharing.

If you ever want some intense bassline learnin’, go get some of the old Motown stuff that had James Jamerson on it (which is just about everything). Or Earth Wind and Fire. Some of the songs sound kinda [lame] by today’s standards, but the bass lines are immortal. It’s like a whole ‘nother song back there! Oh, and of course, listen to John Entwistle. That guy was playing light years ahead of everybody and still kept it simple (except on “My Generation” – that’s serious voodoo). And then round it out with some good old fashioned AC/DC to bring it on back home. The older I get, the more I love the simple stuff.