I saw Jaco several times with Weather Report in the 70’s, and his Word Of Mouth band in a small club a few years before he died. What a shame that was. He’s my favorite bass player. I was crushed when I heard the news.
As far as Grand Funk, most of my friends hated them. I loved their simple catchy tunes with really strong bass played by Mel Schacker. To eash his own I guess.
When I listen to Grand Funk I seem to be on another planet.
The same situation. :person_facepalming:
I have never seen them as typical commercial performers …
Selling so many albums at that time was almost a guarantee of quality.
And I have not seen them as some others to appear in old age with a lost voice or no characteristic sound.
Most of the songs of Grand Funk have a very optimistic charge.
That’s one reason I like them a lot.
Very surprised.
I know that Prince was a multi-instrumentalist, but this does not imply such proficiency in one instrument.
In his first album (For You he is the orchestra-man. He plays all instruments and vocals.
I remember then that I could not believe that only one performer could play on everything.
And once again a link to the performance of gentlemen enjoying spring in California (44 years and 6 months ago):
Bonham:
I remember in 1974 when BTO released their “Not Fragile” album, around the same time that Bad Company released their first.
Both were big sellers, but Bad Co became much bigger, probably due to the talent of Paul Rogers.
atbglenn: John Paul Jones certainly was one of the great base players.
Another two I would mention from that era would be John Entwhistle, and Chris Squire from Yes.
Lightbringer: On the original Massive Attack album, that drum and base was sampled from Billy Cobham’s song Stratus, featuring Billy on drums and Leland Sklar on base.
IMHO I think Billy Cobham is one of the all time great drummers.
I mentioned meeting him earlier in this thread, and saw him play Stratus live in a small jazz venue.
May John Entwistle and Chris Squire rest in peace. They both were amazing bass players.
Leland Sklar, what a great session bass player. A freind of mine met him years ago. He told me he was super nice. A real down to earth kind of guy.
I saw Mahavishnu Orchestra with Billy Cobham back in the mid 70’s. What a great drummer.
Edit: A side note here. When John Entwistle died of a heart attack in 2002 from cocaine, I stopped doing drugs incuding cocaine cold turkey. I’ve never looked back. Today I’m a healthy 66 year old.
Please kids, don’t do drugs. It will end up bad in your later years.
Robowski, I’m fully agree with you about Paul Rogers. One of the best rock singer ever. Great voice…
atbglenn, I will say again that I envy you very much because of the opportunity to see many of my/our music idols live. And in the appropriate years. :+1:
In the 70s I heard for Mahavishnu Orchestra and John McLaughlin just as one of the best solo guitarists and nothing more.
As I remember then there was a legend that Ginger Baker can keep a penny of the wall, playing over it. I do not even know if this is true … :innocent: