12-13-2021, 11:28 AM
All that spliff is bad for the memory. We saw a comedian once who said that he gave up pot and thought he was psychic because he could remember things.
And naturally I have to go a bit off topic. TG's link to his recording credits got me digging into some AllMusic listings to see who played on some Burning Spear tunes. Interestingly, RS played a bit, but most of the studio recordings show Aston Barrett as the bass player. That surprised me since the Spear grooves tend to have big bass notes on the first beat of the phrase (Civilize Reggae for a great example), while I've always noticed his lines on Marley tunes that don't hit the downbeat at all (Natural Mystic for a great example). Of course that's only a few of them - some more listening showed me the obvious similarites: the bass line in Want More is just like one of the lines in some Burning Spear tunes. In fact lots of the lines sound like the lines in Spear tunes, but he starts the line in a different place in the measure. I'm going to have to experiment with that.
And naturally I have to go a bit off topic. TG's link to his recording credits got me digging into some AllMusic listings to see who played on some Burning Spear tunes. Interestingly, RS played a bit, but most of the studio recordings show Aston Barrett as the bass player. That surprised me since the Spear grooves tend to have big bass notes on the first beat of the phrase (Civilize Reggae for a great example), while I've always noticed his lines on Marley tunes that don't hit the downbeat at all (Natural Mystic for a great example). Of course that's only a few of them - some more listening showed me the obvious similarites: the bass line in Want More is just like one of the lines in some Burning Spear tunes. In fact lots of the lines sound like the lines in Spear tunes, but he starts the line in a different place in the measure. I'm going to have to experiment with that.
the hands that guide me are invisible