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Post subject: Inside Album Cut Ignored of Jamerson
Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:58 pm
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Hello. Pasted below is an inside album cut on an old Stevie Wonder album on you-tube that many people never heard with Jamerson on bass. Take a listen. Check out the changes and how Jamerson moves through them. Later.
Scott Edwards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDJ0pdTx ... re=related


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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 2:00 pm
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Thanks for the post, I enjoyed it. As of late I've been playing pretty much every Stevie Wonder song I have. He's a great musician. Considering he practically grew up im Motown it's easy to see why.


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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 11:54 pm
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You're welcome Oxfan. I'll keep on the lookout for hidden gems. Later.
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Post subject: Another inside cut ignored by the public but loved by bass p
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:30 am
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Hello. here's another inside album cut that showcases Jamerson. Check out the interplay between the drummers foot and Jamerson, together and not together but it works. Also Jamerson is all over the neck on this song, down low and high. In the last seconds of the tune Jamerson decides to start up high and pluck it all the way down. I found for some reason, Jamerson did his most innovative playing on Stevie Wonder's songs. Later.
Scott Edwards
Stevie Wonder - "Shoo- Be-Doo-Be- Do- Da-Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdTDliT ... re=related


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Post subject: Re: Another inside cut ignored by the public but loved by ba
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 5:16 pm
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scottgedwards wrote:
Hello. here's another inside album cut that showcases Jamerson. Check out the interplay between the drummers foot and Jamerson, together and not together but it works. Also Jamerson is all over the neck on this song, down low and high. In the last seconds of the tune Jamerson decides to start up high and pluck it all the way down. I found for some reason, Jamerson did his most innovative playing on Stevie Wonder's songs. Later.
Scott Edwards
Stevie Wonder - "Shoo- Be-Doo-Be- Do- Da-Day"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LdTDliT ... re=related


Great cut, thanks!


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Post subject: Another song with Jamerson playing is a** off
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 3:50 am
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Hello. A lot of you might wonder why I'm giving these tunes to you. I learned on these songs after switching from trombone. The reason is the songs that became exposed by the Motown Machine didn't expose the s**t that Jamerson played his a*s off. Analyze the total essence of what was going on on the track, the piano, bass drums, keyboards, strings. This is what's missing on today's music and why people still relate to "old school". This old music is why we older musicians are still getting checks from movie studios and commercials because you younger dudes are not picking up the torch. You're trying to be virtuoso's of the bass, making a bass sound like a guitar and disregarding the basic structure of a orchestra. But that s**t doesn't make people dance. Remember, Jamerson made the "ants" dance. Does your playing do the same? Jazz got popular because people were dancing to it. Pick up the torch and you will be rewarded. The game is "making the people feel it, not analyze the music with their minds and say, "That's dude's bad" and nod to the other person in the room.
This tune is "I heard It Through The Grapevine" by Gladys Knight. Marvin Gaye did a version also. Go to Youtube and check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwnmJ4-CDpU


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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:19 am
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+1 on all that Scott. That's basically why I am presently working towards a more old school tone on my bass, it seems to me the only way to go as my primary interest is in old school blues and R+B. All I need now is a 60's P-bass with flats and an Ampeg fliptop. :D

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Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 9:14 am
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Scott, great tunes. Check out this month's Bass Player, with Bootsy on the cover. He has a lot to say about Jamerson in there.


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Post subject: To Bathead
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:14 pm
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Bathead, sounds like a good plan, you'll be just like the rest of us "old school" guys. You must be clairvoyant because the only amp I ever owned and have now is an Ampeg B-15N flip top with a JBL D-140 original, never reconed speaker. This is what I used on all my work. When you sit in front of the amp and hit a note and listen to all of the tonality, you don't give a hoot about anything else. So, until you get the equipment, concentrate on fingerings and smoothness with energy(sincerity). I don't know if you read music or not but another thing that helped me was being an ex-trombone player, there's a technique book for trombone that used to be called "Arban's Famous Method for Trombone". I would practice out of this book with my bass. I've got a link on Amazon for you below. I don't know if it is as complete as the one I had years ago, but check it out. So "future Jamerson", get to work. Later.
Scott Edwards

http://www.amazon.com/Arbans-Famous-Tro ... 0825802547


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Post subject: To Law Daddy
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 6:17 pm
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I haven't forgotten the call, it's just lately when I'm free it's been late at night after 1AM CA time. I'll swing it in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for the info on Bootsy in Bass Player magazine. Later.
Scott


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Post subject: Re: To All You Young Whipper Snappers Who Think You Are Bad
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:30 am
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scottgedwards wrote:
Hello. Pasted below is an old Stevie Wonder song with Jamerson playing on you-tube. All of you egotistical young players, see if you can begin to play along with Jamerson or even keep up. Good Luck -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MMlmyhqBlc


Scott Edwards

Hi Scott, thanks for making sure us "older" players continue to have a voice to be heard. BTW congrats on a beauty of a musical carreer. Bobby Babbit like myself is from Pittsburgh if that's a help. Yes, Jamerson has been studied, imitated, copied but never duplicated (except by Bobby).
BTW your opening post gave a sweet line-up of P-Bass players but you left ou one of my favs Jim Fiedler. After I heard Jim on a tour date with Al Kooper & Blood Sweat & Tears after the relaease of "Child is Father to the Man", I had to have my 1st P-Bass. I had been playing a Jazz Bass at the time. I actually still have that P-Bass too it's a '69 model and I will never part with it.


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Post subject: Re: Inside Album Cut Ignored of Jamerson
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:44 am
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scottgedwards wrote:
Hello. Pasted below is an inside album cut on an old Stevie Wonder album on you-tube that many people never heard with Jamerson on bass. Take a listen. Check out the changes and how Jamerson moves through them. Later.
Scott Edwards

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDJ0pdTx ... re=related

LOL Jamerson is King. They kind of kept the bass tack in the background on this one unlike "For Once in My Life" or "Fool to Love Her" etc. Corect me if I'm wrong bu do hear a trombone player following Jamersons bass lines? Not doubling but following! LOL and all played wth his index finger!
Keep up indeed you young 'uns!


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Post subject: To everybody
Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:33 am
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I played with Stevie from June 1970 to August 1973 and in all my exhaustive study of him and Jamerson, I never heard this tune I am posting tonight. Jamerson is doing his thing but pay attention to Stevie, the song, the changes, the arrangement, the total package. It is a superior piece with a lot of elements, (gospel , R& B etc,) and in all these years, I missed it. Thanks to you-tube.
Scott

"Don't Wonder Why" Stevie Wonder

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mOsYh5u ... re=related


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Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 1:44 pm
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Scott, thanks for some wonderful song selections. I had not heard a few of them before. Your insight is greatly appreciated. Are you familiar with another Stevie Wonder tune that had to have been done in the era you were playing with him- "Golden Lady", Always loved the bass line on that, although it sounds like it might be a keyboard playing it.
Thanks, Ken


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Post subject: To bigtwnvin
Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 1:43 am
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Bigttwnvin, On listening to the track, "I'd Be A Fool Right Now", the arrangers pobably had a written bass part for Jamerson and the left hand of a piano and Jamerson "did his thing". The piano was probably more structured and was probably trying to guess what Jamerson was going to do. To me it sounds like a piano left hand playing. Thanks.
Scott


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