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Post subject: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 2:50 pm
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A lot of want you may want to know about him. One of the greatest!

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Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 4:35 pm
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The master of late 50's P tone. To me, that's how a split coil should sound.

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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 5:31 pm
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Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:31 am
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Ox, long time. How you been? Duck was one of the reasons I started in the first place. His work on the old Stax stuff still amazes me.

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Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 10:45 am
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I guess it's time to lose the NCIP. Shows you how long I've been away.

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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 9:30 am
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Believe it or not, his son, Jeff, works at the Sarasota GC. He is also a bassist. Have enjoyed chatting with him.

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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 9:34 am
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affprod wrote:
Believe it or not, his son, Jeff, works at the Sarasota GC. He is also a bassist. Have enjoyed chatting with him.


In that case, it is eminently worthwhile to drive down to the Sarasota Guitar Center to try out the new line of Rumbles with Jeff Dunn! :D

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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 4:54 pm
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Believe it or not, his son, Jeff, works at the Sarasota GC. He is also a bassist. Have enjoyed chatting with him.



Hug him for me!


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Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 5:02 pm
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Believe it or not, his son, Jeff, works at the Sarasota GC. He is also a bassist. Have enjoyed chatting with him.



Hug him for me!


Lets car pool!


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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 6:55 pm
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Everyone has several influences. Dunn is my #1 influence. He's the one I really wanted to play like. McCartney is gifted, Jamerson a genius and Carol Kaye is the best pick player ever, but Dunn was the one I relate to best as a player.


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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 12:50 pm
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Donald Duck Dunn is good but nobody come close to cliff burton former metallica bassist.


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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2014 11:48 pm
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Donald Duck Dunn is good but nobody come close to cliff burton former metallica bassist.


I guess the difference here is that I do not want to play like Cliff Burton, nor play in a band doing that style of music. Not knocking him because for that genre of music he's obviously skilled and some lists would surely put him number one and I think I've seen him at number 1 on some lists. It is just not my bag. I don't want to play like Chris Squire either and his work is jaw dropping awesome and can say the same for Geddy Lee and John Entwistle. Just not exactly my bag. The same could be said for lots of other bassists who I do not count as an influence at all because I'm essentially a pop and R&B fan. These other cats are good at what they do in their genre anyway and no doubt have legions of people they strongly influenced.

The Rolling Stone top 10 Electric Bassists of All Time are:
10. Victor Wooten
9. Cliff Burton
8. Jack Bruce
7. Jaco Pastorius
6. John Paul Jones
5. Les Claypool
4. Geddy Lee
3. Paul McCartney
2. Flea
1. John Entwistle

None of my major influences are on that list. No James Jamerson, no Carol Kaye, no Ray Brown, no Duck Dunn, no David Hood, no Leland Sklar, no Bob Moore, no Bootsy Collins, no Jerry Scheff and no Tommy Cogbill. Also there is no Jeff Berlin, no Pino Palladino, no Aston "Family Man" Barrett, no Doug Wimbish, no Anthony Jackson, no Billy Sheehan, no Tony Levin, no Verdine White, no Stanley Clarke, no Bernard Edwards, no John Taylor, no Charlie Mingus, no Nathan East, no Stu Hamm, no Larry Graham Jr, no Roger Waters, no Me'Shell Ndegeocello. And where is Sting, Steve Harris and Mike Dirnt? That's the trouble with any list. Lots of great and prolific players get left out and as time goes by others slip down and off the list. That doesn't mean they don't have fans and they don't have any influence on up and coming players.

People who like R&B and pop know who their influences are and do not need any list.

So far as ROCK bassists go, which is what the Rolling Stone list would be about, I think McCartney should have been number one for a number of reasons. For one thing, if you took photos of the Rolling Stone Top 10 Bassists Of All Time and showed them to non-bass-playing music fans, ONLY Paul McCartney would be identified on sight by the vast majority of the music appreciating, but non-bass-playing, public. Show 1000 fans ages 21 to 60 photos of the top 10 Rolling Stone bassists and I bet Paul McCartney scores at least 70% facial recognition while the others score less than 20% or in most cases worse. Has it dawned on anyone else that McCartney has co-written songs that will still be heard in 500 years and that he's been gigging fairly steadily at the highest level there is for over 50 years? He should have been number one and Roger Waters also belonged somewhere on that list.

The majority of electric bassists never achieve anything like the fame of the above named people. Even ones who have hit records! B.B. Cunningham Jr wrote and sang lead on the big Hombres hit "Let It All Hang Out" which did quite well in 1967. His brother Bill was bassist for another 60's Memphis based band that had several hits called The Box Tops. B.B. was a really good bassist and free-form lyricist who influenced countless people who came later. Most of them didn't know who he was, he was just the guy who half sang and half talked the crazy lyrics in "Let It All Hang Out." The term rap wasn't even invented yet but he rapped. His last gig was touring with Jerry Lee Lewis and he remained Lewis' bassist right up until he was shot to death in October 2012 at his other gig, which was as a private security officer as he rushed to the aid of another security officer engaged in a torrid shootout at a Memphis apartment complex. B.B. Cunningham was a really good bassist as evidenced by hanging with the likes of Lewis, he was a good person and nobody's ever heard much about him or even know how he died. That is what happens to the majority of bassists. We are born, we pick up a bass for a handful of decades, have a few bright moments and then we die. Nobody much will remember us and we'll never be on any "Best Bassist" list. Yet we keep on plugging away just because we HAVE to! We don't know any better, after all...we're bassists!


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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 5:27 am
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Yikes, that Rolling Stone list is disturbing. I think if I was to sit down and compile a list that maybe 3 of those names would repeat? :shock: Sign of the times, I guess.

I can't believe people still worship Flea. If you ever get the chance watch the Johnny Ramone tribute. Where you can see the RHCP butcher "I wanna be sedated". It was painful to sit through. It just dragged and dragged. The guy can't even run steady 8th note root lines with any life in them. If you can suck the life out of a Dee Dee Ramone bassline then you've got no business playing rock music. That band is built around Flea. He doesn't really function much as a part of it. Which to me does not a good bassist make. Duck Dunn is the epitome of a bassist that functions as part of the band. Everything he does is to make the band and song sound the best it can.

Cliff was really good. Especially at what he did. Metallica never regained the musicality it was capable of after his death. While the two driving egos behind that band are certainly James and Lars. The real musical talent was Kirk and Cliff. Comparing someone like Duck Dunn and Cliff Burton is silly. The skills needed to play the music they did are completely different. Metal bassists, Steve Harris aside, don't really function like a bassist in most other genres of rock music. (which makes sense as metal isn't really rock)
The skills that make Duck Dunn the legend that he is aren't really used often in that genre of music.

Apples and Oranges, imo.

Still that list... :?

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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 10:03 am
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My musical desires move in the same stream as Brother Dave's. Another good one that is always overlooked is Bob Babbitt. His bass line in Gladys Knight's Midnight Train to Georgia is a thing of beauty, but he will forever be overshadowed by James Jamerson. Bob died the same year as the Duck.

However, I diverge from BD when it comes to John Entwistle. I get a great deal of enjoyment from trying to rip a few of his riffs now and again. Yes, there is usually alcohol involved. After a while I just sit back and listen, and wonder "how the heck did he do that?"

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Post subject: Re: Donald "Duck" Dunn
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 12:36 pm
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Yes! Bob Babbit was excellent, and that is a beautiful example of his work. As BD pointed out. A "Best" list is fairly silly.

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