Ooh, that's a pretty Sadowsky bass that WB is fondling in the photos. How much bass playing did Walter do in later years? He seems to have slid over to the 6-string side of things as his career progressed. I'm too nearsighted to read the damn credits on a CD insert . . .
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Thx Matthew and Mod for reminding me of Walter's later bass forays.
I have an outsider's dim idea that the bass stand was occupied on tours by the dude who recorded as part of the muso's pact to support each other?
.... or maybe there woudn't be enough of these to justify a post per album...a single post of "bones" for everything and anything would probably do. New additions could just be added to the original media post.
Maybe?
Oh thanks heaps for those, Matt!! I think they and things like them deserve media posts of their own, don't you?.
Maybe Street-legal --> Track components --> then different posts for different general collections. Like these might go in a "kamajiriad" post...and contain any such clips that deconstruct any song on K.
"Track components" clearly isn't right. "Deconstructing" is sort of interesting: "Kamakiriad Deconstructed" ? or "The Bones of _-(album name) ---" ?
Maybe visitors can help name. And I know some visitors could contrribute to these collections as well.
Walter's bass work really shines. So damn good. I think these bass/drums/vocal mixes are in some ways better than the finished product, with my apologies to the fine musicians involved. I wonder if the truth is that Walter just liked working with Chuck Rainey so much that he stopped playing bass to justify bringing Chuck into the studio every chance he could.
Walter loved -- I mean LOVED -- to play bass. he played in on all of Circus Money save one song, and he played it for all of Everything Must Go, and all of 2vNature save three cuts. in other words, every chance he got. . If you ever get a chance to hear the bass and drum cut of Snowbound, you can hear him at his best.
Phil, also I've seen in numerous interviews that Walter says as soon as it would be clear that Chuck Rainey was going to be willing to keep playing for them (not a sure thing--and that's a good story too), he just "left my bass at home". Rainey was one of the luminaries, could kick it with just about any drummer, and was just simply so damn good --or so thought D&W-- that Walter obsoleted himself so to speak, and apparently with no regrets. 'Course we can't know if that was his true true inner feelings...but it certainly seemed he was serious.
Now why he didn't play bass with live SD is another issue entirely -- perhaps best left to it's own discussion. Maybe you can already guess the issues there.?
I think Walter got intimidated by some of the great session bassists passing through the studio from The Royal Scam and on. The same kind of insecurity that Donald had for his vocals. I wish Walter had brazened it out similarly, his bass was so much part of the Dan's aura - you just couldn't legislate for his pauses and the way he'd play with the melody. All the hired guns that followed were industry standard and you knew where they were taking the bass line, not so WB.
I saw them live in the UK twice in the 2VN era and he seemed a bit of a passenger in the band, noodling for noodling's sake. So my feelings for the switch from bass to lead are negative, a road I wish he'd left untravelled.