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Re: if you could play one song??

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Well here's one on four strings.

Jack Bruce on the 1968 Wheels Of Fire live version of Spoonful.

You'll need a new liver...throw in a pair of kidneys, too.

that's not hard
I could play that  lol

haha... and maybe add about 80 years to your face. He looks like he's about to die on the Cream reunion DVD smile

That he does, poor old sot...I mean Scot...Scot.

oh my my

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Re: if you could play one song??

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crossroads wrote:

Well here's one on four strings.

Jack Bruce on the 1968 Wheels Of Fire live version of Spoonful.

You'll need a new liver...throw in a pair of kidneys, too.

that's not hard
I could play that  lol

Ha Ha. Well , Jeff , me old china, if you can play that you're a much better player than me.

Mind you ,I'm not sure Jack can play it either ! The first night at the RAH they did a very short version of Spoonful and Jack's bass volume was low for the whole gig. But then I've been playing the album for 37 yrs with the bass on 11.Jack says he used to listen to Eric and just improvise to fit in.My guitarist thinks this is rubbish and that both players would know where the lead was going beforehand. Whaddya think ?

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Re: if you could play one song??

Joe's version of Tea For One

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Re: if you could play one song??

E blues?

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Re: if you could play one song??

Note for note

"Music is the only thing that you can share with a million million people and you don't lose, you gain. It helps you to get energy and to live long, because when your soul is very happy then you don't want to die." - Ali Akbar Khan

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Re: if you could play one song??

That edit made me chuckle out loud !!


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All kidding aside,  the bass part on Marvin Gayes song "What's Going On?" (per Jamerson or Babbit) is intense. 

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Re: if you could play one song??

c'mon BJJ

If I played bass the only song I'd play is Runnin with the Devil by Van Halen!

bah,
bah,
bah,
bah,
bah,
bah,
bah,
bah.....

thud that low E

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Ha Ha. Well , Jeff , me old china, if you can play that you're a much better player than me.

Damn good bassman...and salsa king too! cool

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Re: if you could play one song??

Well he had been very ill so perhaps that's why.

JBSRV wrote:
bigjeffjones wrote:
crossroads wrote:

Well here's one on four strings.

Jack Bruce on the 1968 Wheels Of Fire live version of Spoonful.

You'll need a new liver...throw in a pair of kidneys, too.

that's not hard
I could play that  lol

haha... and maybe add about 80 years to your face. He looks like he's about to die on the Cream reunion DVD smile

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Re: if you could play one song??

ken wrote:
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Ha Ha. Well , Jeff , me old china, if you can play that you're a much better player than me.

Damn good bassman...and salsa king too! cool

Better schmetter..on any given Friday night.  Thanks Ken.

About your Jack & Eric topic:  I don't know cause I wasn't there, but I watched Jonesy & Jimmy, Bonkers & Plant and it was obvious they LOVED to play.

I always thought I detected an undercurrent of ego clash or power tripping or something? there.  I mean Jack Bruce was the front man and a headstrong sort.  There was then,  always has been, and still is, a wierd set of dynamics in that situation.  Bassman leader/frontman...I try to be careful.  right!

I always got the impression from listening very carefully to Cream, that there was double soloing going on.  Bruce never laid back and pushed Eric out front or stayed in pocket to let it rip later.  When EC stepped up to solo JB often played twice as many notes.  Not saying he's wrong, mind now, and who knows what the producer was telling, but super bad as they all were (3 soloists if you will) how could it not implode?  the original hard rock jam band

Throw Alcohol, Queen Cocaine and King Heroin in the mix,  stir in a generous dose of Meth and a lot of wierd love triangles...BOOM!

I believe they laid out the foundations and just let 'er rip.  They were definitely ggod enough to lead through changes and get a feeling.  After playing with somebody long enough, you smell em.  The key to that is to have BIG EARS!  You can tell when you jam out, who's really listening and who's watching the chickees.

So I slightly disagree with your bandmate.  They were and are awesome musicos.

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smartaleck, that was funny

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Re: if you could play one song??

gsj wrote:

Well he had been very ill so perhaps that's why.

JBSRV wrote:
bigjeffjones wrote:

You'll need a new liver...throw in a pair of kidneys, too.

that's not hard
I could play that  lol

haha... and maybe add about 80 years to your face. He looks like he's about to die on the Cream reunion DVD smile

Yes Bro...I know.

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gotta bring this up again...... Reconsider baby or the new HTCT are new candidates for me.

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Re: if you could play one song??

Rory Gallagher's version of Messing With the Kid from Live In Europe, I find it such an exciting song, with four perfect guitar solos that fit in totally with the context of the song. It's amazing and really gees me up when I need it. big_smile

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Either 'If Heartaches Were Nickels' or Zep's 'The Rain Song'

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Re: if you could play one song??

Thirty seconds of any JB solo and then just walk away.

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On the electric blues deluxe or trouble waiting.
On the acoustic this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0

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Re: if you could play one song??

Love it when these older threads inexplicably and suddenly resurface, particularly as I missed it first time around.

Well if I could play one JB song / version then "Tea for One" would have to be it. But on an open choice I would  love to be able to play Richard Thompsons achingly beautiful "Persuasion".

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Re: if you could play one song??

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...or maybe Bridge to Better Days.

That ain't too hard - I think that's one reason why it is Joe's opening and warm up song roll

My favourites - Blues Deluxe or Reconsider Baby


..Pain and Sorrow would also be cool lol

But I think if I could play a perfect version of one of these three songs, it'd be no problem to learn the others too tongue

Here are my tabbed songs by "Smokin' Joe": http://www.jbonamassa.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=7236
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