Who's playing what?

Prkl · Post by **Prkl** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 12:09 pm

Bass. Not very well, but still...

Jack Dempsey · Post by **Jack Dempsey** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 4:37 pm

Spoons and the wash board !

princessDungan74D · Post by **princessDungan74D** » Fri Oct 31, 2003 5:05 pm

I was playing the bass

Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 2:17 pm

Bass!!! Also learning guitar, and, when I was younger, I was taught to play a flute (I think I have to come back to it - Jethro Tull rules!

)
I wish I could play Chapman sick, I would be probably the first person in Poland playing it, and probably the first woman ever to do it...

Amazing sound. And I have much more problems with my right hand (I wish I could clang well) than with taking right notes with the left one. And playing Chapman stick, you have to have "two left hands"

!

ganaffe · Post by **ganaffe** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:30 pm

Anna-Roza wrote:Bass!!!

Nice to know there are so many bass players around on this forum

But what the

is a:

Chapman stick

?
never heard of it

Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 5:02 pm

A short definition from The Elephant Talk KC website FAQ:

"The Stick, invented by Emmett Chapman, is a 10 or 12-stringed guitar-like electrical instrument designed for two-handed tapping. Stick Enterprises can be reached at stick at earthlink dot net. Their Web page can be found at: http://www.stickent.com/
Stickwire, the e-mail newsletter for Stick players and for those curious about the Stick has its Web page at: http://clever.net/stick/stickwire. Stickwire itself is currently running, but not in digest form. "

One of the first brave people to play this terribly complicated instrument was Tony Levin (Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, Tony Levin Band). In KC he was replaced by Trey Gunn (who also played with Sylvian and Sunday All Over the World, as well as with his own bands).

Here's Tony Levin playing Chapman stick:

Pretty scary, huh

?

Prkl · Post by **Prkl** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 5:07 pm

Post by **mosespa** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:12 pm

Tony Levin is a maniac.

Some friends of mine went to see Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman and Howe back in high school (that's the reformed classic Yes line-up for those who don't know) and Tony Levin was playing bass.

Now...Mr. Levin doesn't use a pick (obviously) but Chris Squire (Yes' bass player) did. In order to simulate the attack of a pick, Mr. Levin apparently taped popsicle sticks to his fingers.

Tony Levin is a SERIOUSLY under-rated musician, I feel.

Anna-Roza · Post by **Anna-Roza** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 7:26 pm

mosespa wrote:Tony Levin is a maniac.

That's why I love him

!

mosespa wrote: Now...Mr. Levin doesn't use a pick (obviously) but Chris Squire (Yes' bass player) did. In order to simulate the attack of a pick, Mr. Levin apparently taped popsicle sticks to his fingers.

He still experiments with such things... For example, KC's great song "People" used to be played live by him with very long sticks taped to his fingers

It's seems that there are no limits for him. He should write a book "10000000000 freaky ways in which you can play bass and still sound great"....

mosespa wrote:Tony Levin is a SERIOUSLY under-rated musician, I feel.

You're 100% right

rosm · Post by **rosm** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:53 pm

mosespa wrote:Tony Levin is a SERIOUSLY under-rated musician, I feel.

Is he really underrated? Most people I know and who know Tony think of him as a great bassplayer. So do I, I love his work with King Crimson, Peter Gabriel and with Bozzio-Levin-Stevens (don't know if this is the right order...).
btw I play classical and other guitars and recently I found (!) a fretless bass so now I have 2 basses as well. I also think of the computer as an instrument which I play. I don't have any of my music on line but is there any chance of hearing anything on the net by any of you? I recently listened to Skewed Perception and that was nice getting to know what some people are up to.

ganaffe · Post by **ganaffe** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 11:46 pm

rosm wrote:I don't have any of my music on line but is there any chance of hearing anything on the net by any of you?

If you are anything like remotely into reggae, you could go to http://www.humanrites.com and download some music from the latest demo by a reggae band i'm playing in.

As for my other project, I'm still busy designing some sort of website to make some music available, if i'm ready I'll let you know.

Meddler · Post by **Meddler** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 11:21 am

I know there is a third one of these topics floating around out there, but thats okay... I play the guitar and keyboard on occasion. Nothing to write home about, but it keeps me entertained...

dogs_pigs_n_sheep · Post by **dogs_pigs_n_sheep** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:44 pm

Anna-Roza wrote:
mosespa wrote:Tony Levin is a maniac.
That's why I love him !

mosespa wrote: Now...Mr. Levin doesn't use a pick (obviously) but Chris Squire (Yes' bass player) did. In order to simulate the attack of a pick, Mr. Levin apparently taped popsicle sticks to his fingers.
He still experiments with such things... For example, KC's great song "People" used to be played live by him with very long sticks taped to his fingers
It's seems that there are no limits for him. He should write a book "10000000000 freaky ways in which you can play bass and still sound great"....

mosespa wrote:Tony Levin is a SERIOUSLY under-rated musician, I feel.
You're 100% right

I've seen Tony play live with King Crimson twice and Peter Garbriel 3 times. Also, same goes for Bill Bruford (Bill is to drums what Tony is to Bass). Fantasitic shows. After you see professional musicians like Gabriel, Brufford, Belew, Levin, Zappa, Vai, Fripp.... you can never watch bands same. Seeing them made me more critical of ... yes ... Floyd. When I saw them in 94 it was great, but it certainly was not of the musicianship of the guys I list above (and I'm sure many more).

Post by **mosespa** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:50 pm

rosm wrote: Is he really underrated?

I'll put it this way...I feel that Tony Levin is ten times the musician that Eddie Van Halen is.

Eddie Van Hales is ten times (at least) as well known as Tony Levin.

Maybe that's not the same thing as being under-rated, but that's was I was getting at.

rosm wrote:I don't have any of my music on line but is there any chance of hearing anything on the net by any of you? I recently listened to Skewed Perception and that was nice getting to know what some people are up to.

Sadly, the only way I can share my music with other people right now is through MSN messenger. But it's better than nothing.

rosm · Post by **rosm** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:45 pm

ganaffe wrote:...If you are anything like remotely into reggae, you could go to http://www.humanrites.com and download some music from the latest demo by a reggae band i'm playing in...

Reggae is not really my cup of tea but I also listened to the Dub side of the moon so why not give your music a try. I don't know much (about) reggae but this is better than UB40 (I know that they don't play real reggae..).

Who's playing what?

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