Atlanta Rythm Section

[Willabe]

Here's the full "Red Tape" album.

http://youtu.be/FY0uAZn2NTk

And the full ARS 3rd album;   

http://youtu.be/p_gGXRiCcc4
          

    Brad      

[Ed_Chambley]

You found my favorite band.  A Rock and Roll Alternative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjiBLo-qKZw

But my favorite song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mww_nDz-bz0

I don't know what this has to do with amps, but it is cool.

[Willabe]

I'll see your honkie tonk song with this rocker;

http://youtu.be/6FK1H3zZjhQ

And I'll raise you with this blues rocker;

http://youtu.be/ntp_NkatrHQ

And just for good measure;

http://youtu.be/wBGGvWFPuG4


         Brad     

[Ed_Chambley]

I will see your blues and raise with a hell raising woman.
Killer Brad.  I had the opportunity to play with them in 1980 with Ronnie Hammond.  Paul Goddard the bass player (before he died) was a friend.  Great Player.  They actually rehearsed in the lower floor of Alex Discount Furniture in Doraville.

Every one of them are great players, not flashy, just nail anything they want.  Strange thing is we jammed on a few tunes, one was Jesus Just Left Chicago.  It was real fun.

There is really a person named Lois Malone (one of their songs), but she was not married to Ronnie Hammond.  She collected money at a Car Wash in Doraville.  If you listen it sounds like she was rough, but she was young them.  So was I.  She is really nothing like the song.  Man you brought back some great memories.  That is why I love music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujW8ZHWov6Q

I like the use of the D chord in this tune.  Doesn't have to be hard to be good.

[Ritchie200]

I was in a typing class in high school and the teacher was big on rhythm.  She encouraged us to bring in records or tapes to play for the class.  I thought WOW! this is too cool!  I brought in Slade, Trower, Sabbath, and Deep Purple - hey my thoughts were you could get a lot of words typed during Highway Star!  She played one song off of each and said, "No this is not appropriate, No, No, No...."  Unfortunately she said that to everyone EXCEPT some girl that brought in what I would image was the first ARS album.  That was the ONLY record she would play.  Six fricken months of the same ARS album, every day, five days a week....I was having ARS night terrors.   If I am EVER forced to sit through another ARS tune, I will end up on heavy medication.  If they come up on the radio, I have involuntary twitches until the channel is changed...with deadly force by me if necessary.

Ed, with all due respect for your buddies, I am sorry...  ARS comes on and I feel like Jason Bourne.
Jim

[Ed_Chambley]

I was in a typing class in high school and the teacher was big on rhythm.  She encouraged us to bring in records or tapes to play for the class.  I thought WOW! this is too cool!  I brought in Slade, Trower, Sabbath, and Deep Purple - hey my thoughts were you could get a lot of words typed during Highway Star!  She played one song off of each and said, "No this is not appropriate, No, No, No...."  Unfortunately she said that to everyone EXCEPT some girl that brought in what I would image was the first ARS album.  That was the ONLY record she would play.  Six fricken months of the same ARS album, every day, five days a week....I was having ARS night terrors.   If I am EVER forced to sit through another ARS tune, I will end up on heavy medication.  If they come up on the radio, I have involuntary twitches until the channel is changed...with deadly force by me if necessary.

Ed, with all due respect for your buddies, I am sorry...  ARS comes on and I feel like Jason Bourne.
Jim

Jim, I am so sorry to hear about your "tragic" experience.  If you were not goofing in typing class in order to meet women you would have a different opinion about ARS.   

I do know what you mean.  If I have to play Gimmie 3 Steps one more time I think I will puke.  At one time I liked the song.

Thinking about typing to the tempo of Highway Star is tough.  Maybe I am more suited for Space Truckin.  I forgot to mention I am looking for a MIJ B-more strat, then and only then can I get the correct tone for My Woman From Tokyo.

BTW, your teacher was far from cool.  SABBATH, NOW WHUTS RONG wit SABBATH, BLOODY HELL.

[Willabe]

I will see your blues and raise with a hell raising woman.

Thanks but no bet, I fold, you win Ed      I'm married now, thank God    , I wouldn't think twice about trading her for Rory Gallagher's strat, Clapton's strat from Layla and Champ with a 6L6 and a Lansing 10" speaker (which Lansing speaker who knows?) or Allen Collins Giby Explorer (yes he was my favorite), yeah I'd LOVE to play those guitars a little bit, let alone for some jive 2 faced big legged women.  

And besides, the lessons from the school of hard knocks   , ain't no hell raisin women ever done me no good, no matter how good she looked or what she whispered in my ear, thank you very much.  

I had the opportunity to play with them in 1980 with Ronnie Hammond.

Man, oh man, I wish I was there with you brother, would have been a great time and then some! I always carried a harp or 2 in my pocket back then just in case and a slide.

Paul Goddard the bass player (before he died) was a friend.  Great Player.

My friend, "a great bass player" are you kidding me? I say, NO!, NO!, NO! .

That man was a tremendous bass player! That's right, I said it! And why not. Got to be in my top 10 greatest bass players of all time for what he played.  

Now it's just my opinion, but come on, his pulse and tone were The Real Deal in my book, ears and heart! He was not what most would say a "handsome man" (not that I'm so good look'in) but his playing was SURE NUF absolutely beautiful and then some!

He was NOT a guitar player who didn't make the cut in the band and got pushed into the bass players spot, although there were many who did excel at playing bass from that point.

There is really a person named Lois Malone (one of their songs), but she was not married to Ronnie Hammond.  She collected money at a Car Wash in Doraville.  If you listen it sounds like she was rough, but she was young them.

Yeah, sure, it's just poetic license. All song writers are always looking for a good/great women's name for a song. I still do.

Yeah, I love that song to.

I think we should start a post on greatest bass players?

I'll move this to it, but James Jamerson from Motown was and still is probable the greatest American bass player EVER!

Diana Ross with strings and horns from the Detroit Symphonic orchestra and James IS the anchor, lynch pin, key stone, pulse for the whole kit and caboodle, leave him out and it's gone brother! He's not only the anchor for the whole recording but he's side by side with Diana's vocal through the whole song, listen to it a dozen times and you'll hear with out a doubt he's sharing front and center in the mix with her vocal! What bass player does that?

Think I'm wrong? Look Diana was Motown's flag ship women singer and Barry Gordy was nobody's fool when it came to cutting and releasing HIT songs. He would NEVER had let James be front and center IF it didn't make the song, PERIODE.  

By the way, James played everything he ever recorded at Motown on bass with only his right hand index finger.

http://youtu.be/5_pmKPWLBrE  


              Brad, gimmi one of these,  

[Ed_Chambley]

My God Brad, James Jamerson is like the top 100 songs of Motown.  His efforts and list of song collaborations is up there with anyone.  I also really liked the traditional Fender Jazz Bass he was usually using.  It just seems appropriate.

Paul Goddard was not attractive and he loved to eat.  Played a Rick mostly and you are correct, he was not a guitar player.  Watching him is where I began to understand the different approach to bass.  I still sound like a guitar player playing bass.

What is the importance of bass.  I will not play with others unless there is one.  It is actually, IMO, the most important instrument. That is why I learned to play bass.  If you want to play guitar, that is cool with me.  I will play bass as it is like playing lead all night, just not as much bending or double stops.

BTW, while Barry Gordy was a genius, he did take advantage of a lot of young musicians.  People say "they signed the contract."  He found them before they were known at all and had little representation at all.  There sure was a lot of great music.

I will listen to the song on my Hifi, I cannot hear it as good as I need to.

[Willabe]

James Jamerson is like the top 100 songs of Motown.  His efforts and list of song collaborations is up there with anyone.  

Yep.

Preach'n to the choir again am I?    

I think Paul was that kind of bass player.

I also really liked the traditional Fender Jazz Bass he was usually using.  It just seems appropriate.

I think it's more than that, it was THE electric bass sound. It set the mark and the greats played them just like the greats played Strats, Tele's, Paul's, 335's, etc.

Motown when they were in Detroit had 3, 4 guitar players, 2, 3 keyboard players, 2, 3 drummers, BUY ONLY 1 BASS PLAYER! END OF STORY!

There was NO Motown sound with out James.  You name um, Temps, 4 Tops, Diana Ross, Marvin Gay, etc, it was ALL James!

It's been said many times over the years that on Marvin's "Trouble Man" album that James was tracked down late at night and brought to the studio cause Marvin wanted to keep recording. Problem was that James was so drunk that he couldn't stand up to play, so they laid him down on his back on the floor and he cut 2 or 3 of the songs that night.            

If you haven't read this yet buy it, it's a great book, you'll love it;

"Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson"

Comes with a CD that has backing tracks of Motown songs on 1 side and the bass part James played on the other and the bass parts are played by guys like Paul McCartney, so you can learn his bass parts.

Listen to the bass on this, sound familiar? Even has a cool electric Sitar part.    

http://youtu.be/uF9Q3hnAr88

In 1969, her old friends back home in Detroit, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Edward Holland, Jr., persuaded her to sign with their newly formed record label Invictus.[4] During that same year, her first Invictus single, "Unhooked Generation" (a minor R&B hit), was released.[7] Shortly thereafter, Eddie Holland offered her a song entitled "Band of Gold", which he along with Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier co-wrote (under the pen name Edythe Wayne) with Ronald Dunbar.[7] In early 1970, the song became an instant pop smash reaching #3 in the US and #1 in the UK for six consecutive weeks; it also gave Payne her first gold record.

            Brad    

[Willabe]

Here's another great bass player who's got the thump'in pulse.

http://youtu.be/uY3vgBzgYn4

http://youtu.be/-1pYKdqD1ls


              Brad