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maybe something by jack bruce will finally prove appropriate?

Don't let me down - The Beatles

Can't think of it? Give it a listen and Get It On

DC

MONDAY

Ian Anderson interprets J.S. Bach. Glenn Cornick on bass guitar.

'Bourée' - Jethro Tull

'I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)' - The Moody Blues

John Lodge earns his shekels...

Mr - Johnny Cymbal.
Badge - Cream.
Bourée - Jethro Tull. ( has to be #3)
Vally Girl - Frank Zappa.
In The Valley - Michael Chapman & Rick Kemp.
Ramble On - Led Zeppelin.
Boris The Spider - The Who.
Hot Tuna - Water Song.


or anything featuring the tantalizing tonsil tones of Jon "Bowzer" Bauman (Sha Na Na).

I won't ask for Queen. Or Muse. Even though .... got to be an evening of at least SOME funk.
Wild Cherry Play That Funky Music White Boy
That's a request, not an order.

Level 42 Lessons in Love
A guilty pleasure.

Charles Wright Express Yourself
So long as nobody else gets hurt in the process, a fine motto.

I know this is a bit presumptious and cheeky - but if you do decide to play any of those, can I humbly ask that it's before 7.30? The netball restarts on Monday.

Wow! just tuned in after an evening taking photos up the Titan crane at Clydebank - American Saturday Night got played :0)

Recommend the Titan BTW, it's an excellent outing.

Just one bass for starters:

It Could All get Blown Away - Jeff Healey Band


Alarm set for 4.30am - night night

Gaie's getting up early to await Bambi. Sunday dinner is venison...

>8-D

women are their own worst enemies. followed closely by men.
sabbatical

Rain - The Beatles - McCartney's finest moment
So You Want To Be A Rock'n'Roll Star - The Byrds
Young Girl Sunday Blues - Jefferson Airplane - Jack Casady take a bow
I See The Light - Hot Tuna - Jack Casady take another bow
Stir It Up - Bob Marley
I Was Made To Love Her - Stevie Wonder - Carol Kaye - From Sam Cooke to the Jurassic 5 via River Deep Mountain High, you name it she was on it
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever - Four Tops - James Jamerson - a wizard

Great Endings and bass night. The first two themes I ever had played and here they're repeated within 10 minutes of each other. Last Bass night ended with Crossroads / Cream so you never know Henri!

Glen - I would like to hear Stir It Up as well, my favourite Bob Marley track.

Was it you or Frank that was talking about Carol Kaye last time on bass night?

Holiday in Cambodia ~ Dead Kennedys 'Klaus Flouride'
Mongoloid ~ DEVO 'Gerald Casale'
Shut Up ~ T. Stranglers 'J J Burnel'
Pretty Green ~ T. Jam 'Bruce Foxton'
Transmission ~ Joy Division 'Peter Hook'

Goon Squad ~ Elvis Costello & the Attractions 'Bruce Thomas'
Crosseyed & Painless ~ Talking Heads 'Tina Weymouth' listen out the for the Wordy Rappinghood type bit!!!
Friday ~ Joe Jackson Band 'Graham Maby' yet another peach missed on yesterday's weekend theme... Great shout Paul fae Ayr!
Magnificent Seven ~ T. Clash 'Paul Simonon'
White Rabbit ~ T. Damned 'Capt. Sensible'

Amazing Amazon: a Jiffy Bag dropped through the letterbox this morning.

It contained the CD 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning' by The River Detectives.

Brilliant! I gave it 'one click' on Thursday evening.It's great when things do exactly what they say on the tin.

Even better: it sounds every bit as good as it did before I lost my vinyl copy.As I was downloading to the ipod I noticed ichoons categorized it as 'folk'.

I never thought of it as 'folk' but forced to think about it I found it hard to categorize. It occurred to me that maybe that holds the key to the mystery of why this quite brilliant songwriting duo are out of print.

regardez youse

henri

PS I'll deliver my copy to Pacific Quay, and then the next time we ask for The River Detectives' the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland will have it too.

An' the best B side ever... that just happens to have a great bass line...

Barbecutie ~ Sparks 'Martin Gordon'

Roxette ~ Dr Feelgood 'John B. ''Sparko'' Sparks' ultimate tell your woman just exactly where to get off song ever!

#9

Funnily enough,I've long thought of 'Rain' as one of Ringo's finest moments, among many.

#14

Do you claim expenses?

The Jam - Pretty Green, Bruce Foxton at his best and a great opening to the Sound Affects album

Jaco Pastorious - Come On Over, Sam & Dave on vocals, David Sanborn on the sax, Herbie Hancock on keyboards....how can you go wrong? (he is fantastic on Ian Hunter's All American Alien Boy as well, also featuring fantastix sax by David Sanborn)

Paul McCartney - Take It Away

Paul Simon - You can Call Me Al, always liked this single

Talking Heads - I Zimbra or Once In A Lifetime, I Zimbra is less often heard and was one of the standout tracks on David Byrnes last tour.

Rush - Limelight

I'll be back later with my Norman Watt-Roy selection...

For Monday - Fever - Peggy Lee

Blue Moon - The Marcels


Nobody said it had to be Bass Guitars!

:o)

For Tuesday - Yeah, Low River - Christie

;o)

#19 Is that a 2nd? L.O.L.

#21 Feel free to make it up, anything goes!

#23 - Ask Santa for a dictionary.

;o)

Sorry MM that is very much a 2nd!! Great shout by madmac and I back it up! Tried to sneak it in while you were enjoying Off The Ball!

I've never been accused of excessive political correctness, but I would baulk at "yummy mummies". Is there a more patronising word than "mums"?

#2 #9

Paul McCartney is indeed a fine bass player, but he should..

#26

"yummy mummies" doesn't sound like a term that is supposed to denote efficient compartmetalisation in executing the exacting work life balance of the busy and talented working mother.

I'm sure The Sisterhood will be quick to point this out.

If anything, it sounds vaguley sexualized,though the morons tell me there is other terminology in this regard.

In any event, the real heroines will be mothers we've never heard of and won't be hearing on GIO. That's because they'll be in the audience.

Most of those we'll be hearing on GIO who appear to so adeqautely deal with the concept that 'a woman must have everything' (as Joni Mitchell put it) will have massive back up - moreover,and I'm not minmising it - their professional committments tend to be very intense over short periods - there's usually lots of down time to deal with Romeo and Trixiebell's emotional development.So let's not get things out of proportion.

I was married to a woman who believed she must have everything: it didn't quite come off.

I find it a difficult theme: there are lots of female artists who's work I really really admire - I love Kate Bush: I know she has a son called Bertie.I haven't a clue about their domestic arrangements.

I suspect I'll sit this one out.

regardez youse

henrietta

to The Gap Band whose bassist Robert Wilson died last week.

#26 Stop being so politically correct!

2nd / 3rd for Jaco Pastorius

I think we should have a full week of bass lines with a different genre each night. Funkfest Reggae Rock Rockabilly Jazz

#24
Madam I'm Adam and I know what a palindrome is!

Can I call you Agnes?

A man a plan a canal Panama

Dammit, I'm mad!

#28

Did Otto see bees? Otto did.

But he won't be troubled by any of those unappetising, infertile women on Wednesday.

#47 & 52 (previous thread)
Sterling work Captain. Have you got the playlists from the other bass nights?

What sre the themes for the rest of the week. That video doesnt work over here.
Whats wrong with listing the themes on one thread for the week?

Bass lines (stop me if you've heard it)
Songs with "Yeah" (forget Cole Porter)
Yummy Mummies (I'm not kidding)
Songs with clever rhymes (Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June....)

Maybe it's enough to wrestle with one concept at a time.

Yummy Mummies!!
Next to One For The Ladies??

Female artists who have kids then? When the records were released or subsequently?

I don't know and I'm not sure if there'll be a night for ugly, barren women to follow.

Well that's bambi gralloched and hanging in the bathroom now.

next?

oh aye. Themes. Yummie Mummies?? What This stand For?

Meantime
A bass player:

Crosscut Saw - Eric Clapton from Money and Cigarettes - Donald 'Duck' Dunn

Did I miss something? I only heard one theme announced. I wasn't paying as much attention as usual as I have my dad visiting. Is someone taking the mick here? If yummy mummies is a theme - I'm with Henri and gaie. What next? Songs with names of your favourite girls from the Daily Sport front page? Not impressed.

#40 After all this time....now we know! It was Gaie Brown!!

#21

Good point!

If Senga can have a Fever, I want to be

'Seduced' - Mary Coughlan

Mary's distinctive voice, accompanied only by an accomplished bassist. Superb performance.

#22

One for DC's arch-nemesis, U14585695

'Yeah, Low Submarine' - Beatles

And one for his wee dug, Düsseldorf the Dachshund

'Just One More Night' - Yeah, Low Dog

>8-D

#42 wisnae me - a big boy done it an' ran away. His name's Henri Hannah and he's got a thing about venison.

Re themes. When Miss Fillaoakey is away it all goes wrong. When she is here it's all don't you want me but then when she is not here to keep an eye on things the disgruntled sound of the crowd is obvious. Don't be too hard on him, after all Bryan is only human.

WEDNESDAY

'Π' - Kate Bush

#46 nice one for all the Human League references, but I'm no further forward with anything.
I'm guessing No Country For Old Men might cause more outrage.
Maybe this place is just too cerebral and/or my sense of humour has been bypassed.

#45

'Venison' remains a better theme than 'yummy mummies'!

Venison's dear. Chickens cheap though




#44 I use dugs as bait....

DC

#46 It's time to touch bass.

One of These Days - Pink Floyd - Two for the price of one.

It's not too late to scrap Wednesday's theme or to commit to a subsequent childless monsters night.

Childless Monters - do you mean like Godzilla?

Another couple of suggestion for Donald Duck Dunn since we'll surely get Cream, surely surely, and therefore unlikely to get EC and Crosscut Saw, so how about


Kansas City Blues - Freddie King - Donald 'Duck' Dunn

or

Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding - Donald 'Duck' Dunn

But for some really gorgeous guitar

Cause We've Ended as Lovers - Jeff Beck - from Performing this Week at Ronnie Scott's

I don't imagine this will get played, but go listen to it, go on.

And seconds for Don't Let Me Down

You sure about that... Godzilla being the good faither he is has a little one!
In the 'Son of Godzilla' scientists experimenting with changes in weather on a tropical island get more than they bargained for when Godzilla shows up to battle humongous insects and protect his newborn child.

yummy yummy yummy i have mummy in my tummy....ohio express

I don't have a problem with Yummy Mummies. I mean they could have called it something else!!!! The problem I have is that after they play Diana Krall I can't think of any others I would want to hear!

#55 that's Godzilla ruled out then!!!

#58 'fraid so but you weren't thinking of for Wednesday?

thanks to Wee Heavy and Glen for Hot Tuna - never heard them before, much enjoying!
I'd download some tracks if only iTunes store didn't close every time I try to get in. If anyone knows how to sort this problem I'd be very grateful - yes I know there are other stores available but I have a voucher for £25 that I'd prefer not to waste. itunes themselves have suggested umpteen fixes all of which I've tried to no avail.

Monday

You Fool No One - Deep Purple (From the Made In Europe album. You can skip the intro if its too long)

I Want You Back - Jackson Five

#60

Their album Phosphorescent Rat is good.

You might like Jorma Kaukonen's Stars In My Crown.

#60 This might solve the problem .

#62 thanks, will do

and

#63 thanks, but I've tried all of these and I've uninstalled and done a clean reinstall of everything, tried without firewalls etc, etc. It gets about half way along the timeline thingy and then windows says stopped working. Strangely enough it worked long enough once for me to register my voucher

#64

Is your voucher no redeemable in Woolies?

You've been away too long!!

and Gaie's first out the hat this week to win the moderators star prize

Found a for Gaie's iTunes problem.

Funk sorry Bass Night

Stomp / Brothers Johnson
One Nation Under a Groove / Funkadelic
Movin / Brass Construction
Funky Nassau / Beginning of the End
Brick House / Commodores
Are You Ready Do The Bus Stop / Fatback Band
Get Down On It / Kool and the Gang
Funkin For jamaica / Tom Browne
If You Want Me To Stay / Sly and Family stone


But my favouritest bass riffs of ever are
White Lines / Grandmaster Flash which i Gotten on last bass night

and

Let's Clean Up the Ghetto / Philadelphia International; Allstars

and

Papa was a rolling Stone / Temptations

Oh and forgot about

Inner City Blues / Grover washington JR

Yeh!!! still a rebel after all these years. phew. That's a relief.

now to that pc

# 68 If I had a Hammer....

Ah I forgot another one and I'm gonna stop after this one. A track I first heard on the Tom Ferrie Radio show about 30 years ago (Jeez) as he used it as his backing music.

Together Again / Stanley Clarke

A brilliant and innovative Bassist.

bruce foxton playing anything but it would be good to hear pretty green or malice.i always liked waterfront by simple minds- just about the only song i mastered on the bass!

Animals - We gotta get out of this place has to be in the mix somewhere (unless it was played in a previous bass line programme)

#52, #53

You're a Star!

A MONSTAR!!!

Thoughts for the week ahead:

Monday:
Dancing in the moonlight - Thin Lizzy
Go your own way - Fleetwood Mac
Substitute - the Who
Lovely day - Bill Withers
Badge - Cream
Cold, cold heart - Norah Jones

Tuesday:
Hell yeah - Neil Daimond
Yes sir I can boogie - Baccara

Wednesday
Piece of my heart - Faith Hill
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
On a bus to St Cloud - Trisha Yearwood
Soft place to fall - Allison Moorer

Thursday
Thunder Road - Springsteen
(Show a little faith, there's magic in the night
You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright)
Michaleangelo - Emmylou Harris
(Last night I dreamed about you
I dreamed that you were older
You were looking like Picasso
With a scar across your shoulder)

Those three days - Lucinda Williams
(You built a nest inside my soul
You rest your head on leaves of gold
You managed to crawl inside my brain
You found a hole and in you came
You sleep like a baby breathing
Comfortably between truth and pain
But the truth is nothing's been the same
Since those three days)

Mary - Paty Griffin
(Mary, you're covered in roses, you're covered in ashes
You're covered in rain
You're covered in babies, covered in slashes
Covered in wilderness, covered in stains)

Joe
Linlithgow

#60 buy a Mac

Firewall? Anti-Virus Software?

I seem to remember these problems from a while back.........

#77 oh OK I'll get one in Woolies

#21

I spent Saturday putting together a playlist for Mum & Dad's golden wedding next weekend featuring tracks originating from 1956 - 1963. I suspect Senga was listening as both of those were on it, and I thought of the theme at the time!

And to that end: I'm adding
* The Crew Cuts - Life Could Be a Dream (Sh-boom)
* Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl
but pretty much any doo-wop track would fit.

Monday Bass Boosters:

There's absolutely no way that GiO is going to play *the* bassline track, featuring 3 basses at the same time:
* Spinal Tap - Big Bottom
So I'm gonna have to go for the Klaxon with
* Pink Floyd - Money
* George Baker - Little Green Bag

But you could also very wonderfully do:
* Groove Armada and Status Quo - Purple Haze

The bassline from
* Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You
is just perfect - enough to drive the track forward, but not overly obtrusive.

Same goes for a lot of Soul - a great example is
* Fontella Bass - Rescue Me

As has been pointed out, a bit of funk is good:
* Sly and The Family Stone - If you want me to stay

#60

it's probably not ichoons - it's probably your anti virus software that knackering things before your get going - especially if it's that panda system - it knackers everything.

More Monday Basslines:

* Nena - 99 Luftballons
(in German for preference) has a gorgeous bassline

Lots of good synthpop basslines, but here's a cracker:
* The Human League - Don't You Want Me?

...I'd written about another dozen suggestions, but withdrawing them *all* in favour of:
* Joy Division - She's Lost Control

Bass

Jack Bruce

Well,I've been campaigning on this topic for as long as I can now remember.

Doubtless, they'll be requests for Cream and they'd be completely justified.Big 2nd for those shouts for Badge (George Harrison plays the middle eight on Badge and also appears on Jack's first solo album, 'Songs For A Tailor'. but Cream lasted barely three years but sold around 35million albums in just over two years,among them Wheels Of Fire, the world's first platinum album.. Most of the songs were composed and sung by Jack Bruce.

His style of bass playing is massively influential - Jaco Pastorius and Sting are among countless bass players who cite Jack Bruce as a primary influence.

But three years of Cream does not do any justice to a forty + year career that has seen collaborations with just about anyone you've ever heard of, including Zappa and Lou Reed.The list is endless. He almost accepted the job of being in Marvyn Gaye's band (but marriage got in the way), played in Manfred Mann and post Cream was about to form a band with Jimi Hendrix when Jimi suddenly died a week before rehearsals.

Jack is a mutli - instrumentalist and his compositions stretch across rock,jazz, classical and world music.

A Glaswegian, honored with degrees by local universities and the RSAMD who designated a special creative area of their building to him, Jack must be the most prominent Scottish performer never to have been played on GIO in his own right.

This has hugely irritated me, especially when you hear of concerts to celebrate 'great Scottish song', with MacIntosh Ross singing The Proclaimers - no mention of the man whose songs sold 35 million albums in two years,the most influential musician Scotland has ever produced etc.

However, I have to concede that not all of Jack's material is really suitable for GIO.

I couldn't give a monkeys whether Cream gets played or not - we've all heard it before except on GIO perhaps - what I'd really like to hear and what is most appropriate is something from Jack's long and distinguished solo career.

I have two requests in this regard:

Make Love - jack bruce: from the album 'A Question Of Time' which is radio friendly and easy for GIO and only about 3 minutes.

The Wind Cries Mary - Jack Bruce from the compilation 'Can You Follow? which is a gorgeous re-imagining of the Hendrix classic -a glimpse of what might have been. This is also filed under 'Mirolav Tadic/Jack Bruce - the Snake Music' and really is special and absolutely worth hearing.

Of course, I shan't put the champagne on ice in anticipation that GIO will play Jack Bruce as opposed to Cream on Bass night... it's not asking very much... really... Bryan, to acknowledge one of the world's great bass players on bass night, in his native national radio station? Surely?

Failing all else, play 'Sunshine of Your Love - Cream Vs The Hoxtons - this dance version is really interesting and upbeat for a Monday. The original offers us nothing we don't understand.

More to follow

regardez youse

henri

Capn I hope your folks Golden Wedding Celebration goes well and congratulations to them.

pandas are the trouble? Can you shoot them? Are they as tasty as venison?

bass lines

It Could All Get Blown Away - the Jeff Healey Band - Joe Rockman

I feel a Jeff Healey campaign coming on

Call Me the Breeze - J J Cale - Carl Radle

either of these would be superb

and I happily endorse Henri's Jack Bruce campaign - esp the Wind Cries Mary

therefore I'm removing Dock of the Bay for Donald 'Duck' Dunn, and reinstating

Crosscut Saw - Eric Clapton - Donald 'Duck' Dunn

here's to a week less ordinary - Go For it, GIO.

Want to add to the great shouts for THE JAM and PRETTY GREEN please!

#32 - So, we'll just change the subject and gloss over the fact that I'm right and you're wrong.

Yes, you can ask.

No, you may not.

;o)


#79 - Are you saying that I'm old???

;o)

#84 - Let me add my congratulations. Enjoy the party!

:o)

Why do you see everything in black & white?

Is Gaie losing her mind???



;o)

#81 Good to know we still have IT experts on the blog :-)

No-one heard of DANNY THOMPSON then?

#91 Aye, plenty.

Normally I'm pretty useful on iTunes/iPod stuff, but as I don't run any of it on Windows[1], I'm letting the experts deal with it.

[1] Anti-virus? What's that again?

Night Flight - Pentangle

Herbie Flowers?
Bill Black?

Bass

The Beatles

Hey Bulldog:Dear Prudence:I Want You/She's So Heavy:

Motown just about eveything but especially

Keep On truckin' Eddie Kendricks
Golden Lady - Stevie Wonder
I Wish - Stevie Wonder
The Night - Frankie Valli

McCartney

Ou est Le Soliel: Rough Ride:The Mess:Let Me Roll It:Medicine Jar:Get It: Take It Away (2nd for Norrie).What's That Your Doin':

the rest to follow.

regardez youse

henri

MONDAY - NORMAN WATT-ROYÌýÌýÌýI’m useless at talking about the technical abilities of musicians…I just like the sound and that’s it. I love the sounds created by Norman Watt-Roy, bassist with The Blockheads who has also worked with, among others…ÌýNick Cave - ‘Let It Be’ – from the ‘I Am Sam’ soundtrackÌýThe Clash - ‘The Magnificent SevenÌýWith The Blockheads:‘Rhythm Stick is probably his most well-known and best bass line but, it’s surely been played to death on GIO…what about one of these instead:Ìý‘Don’t Ask’‘Sink My Boats’ Ìý‘The Passing Show – starts a little uneventfully but soon shifts up a few gearsÌý‘What A Waste’ÌýOr the slower…‘My Old Man’ÌýÌýBy the way, he names Jaco Pastorious as his favourite bass player

bass

Synth - Pop

It's My Life - Talk Talk
Breakout - Swing Out Sister
Dusted - Leftfield
Strict Machine - Goldfrapp

Others

The Boy In The Bubble - Paul Simon
Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
Walls Come Tumbling Down- The Style Council
The Trip - Donovan great bass line deserves to be heard.
Zion Youth - Dreadzone
Safe From Harm - Massive Attack
Love Like A Man - Ten Yeras After
How Long - Ace
Stylo - Gorillaz from Plastic Beach- prog rock album of the year?
We Walk - The Ting Tings
Step On - Happy Mondays/ John Kongas
Black Cow - Steely Dan
Tell Me Somethin Good - Rufus.
You Don't Know Me - Basement Jaxx

... but my prefrence remains with Jack Bruce ..

regardez youse

henri

#cz. Use your noodle to figure out where the full stops should go!

Oh! this is too good an opportunity to miss...have I scored?