"_______ doesn't get enough love around here!"

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Nate Watts , musical director and bassist for Stevie Wonder. Do I do, I Wish, Sir Duke.
Not to mention his work with The Jacksons, Michael, and Jermaine. Heartbreak (This place Hotel), Lets Get Serious, Lovely One, Say say say.

Greg Phillinganes. Though he doesn't really place a bass , he does play keyboard bass. His work with Michael and The Jacksons is just so funky. Impossible to sit still and hear his grooves. Shake your body down to the ground , Don't Stop till you get enough,PYT, Wanna be starting something.
 
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The guy on the right...Graham Maby! What a thrill it was to meet him!
 
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lowdownthump said:
Greg Phillinganes. Though he doesn't really place a bass ...
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+1

And speaking of "bass" players who don't really play a bass and don't get enough love (possibly because they don't really play a bass) but who are incredible bass players nonetheless:
- David Frank - keyboards
- Jon Raskin - baritone saxophone
- Marcus Rojas - tuba
- Pamelia Stickney (aka Kurstin) - theremin
- Bernie Worrell - keyboards
 
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Where did you meet?
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Center Stage in Atlanta...last Autumn.
We came out of a killer performance! to find the drummer outside the front door doing a meet and greet...that's After the show. All I could think was "Who did HE piss off?" I happily paid him his well- deserved due. (The band had knocked it out of the park!) and then worked up nerve enough to ask if Graham was also going to come out, I'm a long time fan who would love to meet him, too "Stick around a bit. I can make that happen." 15 - 20 minutes later my friends are ready to go, and so am I. I kinda wave good bye to the drummer, and he breaks off his conversation to catch me by the sleeve and says "Here we go!" My wife and friend are following us through the bowels of the venue and he turns a corner, and so do I, and there's Graham Maby! A smaller / slighter guy than I'd expected. Of course, for the last 30 years I've perceived of him as a Giant...
Warm smile, firm grip, offer of a beer (I was driving or I would be bragging about 'havin' a beer with my buddy, Graham'...)!
It could be that I used the words "Soundtrack of our lives as a couple"...
We talked about where our basses fall across our torsos...I play mine up well higher than he does. I asked him about playing loud, angry incredibly Tight 1970s rock and then NAILING IT on Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive! I don't believe that I've ever heard a bassist who could have made that transition with so much authority and Swing, and aplomb! (A desert Island album for me...)
He asked about my guitar...my '73 4001. I have a pretty good rap about the day I bought it, and he was polite and attentive...laughed at all the right places. I asked him to autograph the ticket and he happily obliged. I told him about reading Joe's book "A Cure For Gravity", and how I remember J.J. saying that 'it wasn't until the day he met Graham Maby that everything coalesced.' He said his wife read the book and told him about it, but he hadn't read it himself...and it was time to go, and a security guy brought us back out through the tunnel, and we were an hour from home, and I was driving, so I am the DJ.
We listened to Beat Crazy, and most of Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive.
 
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47th Street said:
Center Stage in Atlanta...last Autumn.
We came out of a killer performance! to find the drummer outside the front door doing a meet and greet...that's After the show. All I could think was "Who did HE piss off?" I happily paid him his well- deserved due. (The band had knocked it out of the park!) and then worked up nerve enough to ask if Graham as also going to come out, I'm a long time fan who would love to meet him, too "Stick around a bit. I can make that happen." 15 - 20 minutes later my friends are ready to go, and so am I. I kinda wave good bye to the drummer, and he breaks off his conversation to catch me by the sleeve and says "Here we go!" My wife and friend are following us through the bowels of the venue and he turns a corner, and so do I, and there's Graham Maby! A smaller / slighter guy than I'd expected. Of course, for the last 30 years I've perceived of him as a Giant...
Warm smile, firm grip, offer of a beer (I was driving or I would be bragging about 'havin' a beer with my buddy, Graham'...)!
It could be that I used the words "Soundtrack of our lives as a couple"...
We talked about where our basses fall across our torsos...I play mine up well higher than he does. I asked him about playing loud, angry incredibly Tight 1970s rock and then NAILING IT on Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive! I don't believe that I've ever heard a bassist who could have made that transition with so much authority and Swing, and aplomb! (A desert Island album for me...)
He asked about my guitar...my '73 4001. I have a pretty good rap about the day I bought it, and he was polite and attentive...laughed at all the right places. I asked him to autograph the ticket and he happily obliged. I told him about reading Joe's book "A Cure For Gravity", and how I remember J.J. saying that 'it wasn't until the day he met Graham Maby that everything coalesced.' He said his wife read the book and told him about it, but he hadn't read it himself...and it was time to go, and a security guy brought us back out through the tunnel, and we were an hour from home, and I was driving, so I am the DJ.
We listened to Beat Crazy, and most of Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive.
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Great story! Thanks for sharing! I, too, love Jumpin' Jive! But even though it's not a Maby heavy album, my favorite is Heaven and Hell. I have seen him many times but for that show we had first table (beers on the stage) at the intimate Supper Club in NYC (I live on the Island) when they brought out some of the performers on the album (Brad Roberts, etc.) to guest sing and they played the entire LP.
 
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Who sprang to mind was Noel Redding. Quite easy I suppose to get overshadowed by Hendrix but I still remember a show in Chicago at Circle Campus U of I. in which Hendrix could not get his equipment to work the way he wanted it to. Mitch Mitchell and Redding just stayed on the stage and played for no more than a half hour but I still remember how relaxed but tight those two were just fooling around while they waited. He never did get it to work and the concert was canceled.
 
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Mark Hoppus of blink-182.

I've been a huge fan of blink since 1999. Sure he's no Marcus Miller or Jaco, but he's still very talented and always has a good bass part for the song and what I'd say is one of the best Precision tones ever. When I was much younger and initially learning the bass, I didn't know chords were used on bass until I started playing blink songs. So much thanks for Mr. Hoppus for that. Plus they've influenced tons of newer pop-punk groups.
 
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