31 Dec
2010
31 Dec
'10
9:17 p.m.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 09:21:30AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Ken Restivo
<ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
Yes, that Soulive. Awesome show. They opened with "Steppin", and then went from
there. They did a Beatles medley, which was fun too. Then Karl Denson came out and did a
second set with them, and then Nigel Hall came out and sang the last part of the set too.
A good time was had by all. I spent a lot of time over by stage left, studying what the
keyboard/bass player was doing. Which was, mostly, keeping the keyboard parts simple, and
going bananas on bass instead.
This is what he was using for a bass sound:
http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/trilian.php
-ken
I saw Soulive a few weeks ago (doing research,
since I am now a left-hand-keyboard-bass-player). He was playing a Mac laptop running
something called Trillian (not the IM client). It sounded like a bass. But he rolled off
all the highs and high-mids, probably a habit formed early in his career when the bass
samples available weren't that great, and which is kind of his signature sound.
soulive? the trio? holy god, the bass parts that their keyboard/organ
player pulls off are unreal. "Dig" from their eponymous album is
astounding in this respect (to me, at least).