What are you listening to, right now................
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Not any band, singer or song, but this guy's youtube channel is awesome if you want to really understand what's going on in a song or piece of music. Anyone who uses a frequency analyser to explain to non-muso's why Ella Fitzgerald is so bloody great has to be something special...
Well worth a visit.
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@Victor-Meldrew that’s fantastic. Perfect.
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@NZbloke said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Kiss are a funny old band, a few genuine bangers and I think it’s cool that every single member sang on at least one decent track.
They’ll never be one of my absolute favourites but they did some good rock in the day.
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@NZbloke said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Kiss doing disco back in 1979. This was a no.1 single in NZ along with a number of other countries. A novelty song in their catalogue.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Throw back to Stevie Wonder:
He’s no Jay Kay but Stevie went alright I guess
Jay Kay is a good showman and singer but the real star of Jamiroquai was Stuart Zender. Without his bass playing they were pretty average. At least Jay Kay recognised this and always had him up front stage.
His lines made the songs great (helped by the beautiful tones he'd get from those Warwick basses)This is a cover (Roy Ayers) but still, he has improved it.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Throw back to Stevie Wonder:
He’s no Jay Kay but Stevie went alright I guess
Jay Kay is a good showman and singer but the real star of Jamiroquai was Stuart Zender. Without his bass playing they were pretty average. At least Jay Kay recognised this and always had him up front stage.
His lines made the songs great (helped by the beautiful tones he'd get from those Warwick basses)This is a cover (Roy Ayers) but still, he has improved it.
Yep, awesome bass player but then again the whole band are absolutely top notch. SOOOOOOOOOOO tight when you see them live ( not that I have but I’ve seen lots on DVD and YouTube ) and they do not miss a beat.
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Throw back to Stevie Wonder:
He’s no Jay Kay but Stevie went alright I guess
Jay Kay is a good showman and singer but the real star of Jamiroquai was Stuart Zender. Without his bass playing they were pretty average. At least Jay Kay recognised this and always had him up front stage.
His lines made the songs great (helped by the beautiful tones he'd get from those Warwick basses)This is a cover (Roy Ayers) but still, he has improved it.
Can't agree with you there. The star is Jay Kay, no question. Bassist maybe the best musician but he ain't the star.
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@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Throw back to Stevie Wonder:
He’s no Jay Kay but Stevie went alright I guess
Jay Kay is a good showman and singer but the real star of Jamiroquai was Stuart Zender. Without his bass playing they were pretty average. At least Jay Kay recognised this and always had him up front stage.
His lines made the songs great (helped by the beautiful tones he'd get from those Warwick basses)This is a cover (Roy Ayers) but still, he has improved it.
Can't agree with you there. The star is Jay Kay, no question. Bassist maybe the best musician but he ain't the star.
Poor choice of words perhaps. Of course Jay Kay is the star of the show.
IMO though the point of difference that makes their music good was Zender. His grooves (along with the drummer) give Jay Kay the stuff to work off.
Maybe with an average bass player they would have had a hit or two along with contemporaries like BNH or Soul II Soul but I still think that Zander's work took them a level above and provided whole albums of listenable music.
It was the music that got them noticed first then one (brilliant) video that took them to stardom. Jay Kay the 'star' factor that held them there. The guy has stage presence and wears silly hats but is a bit of a tosser personality wise.
These guys came from a very small label with no track record of promotion to this scale.The support to my opinion comes from their history since Zender left and how no one gives a shit about Kay.
(All just my opinion of course)
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@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Throw back to Stevie Wonder:
He’s no Jay Kay but Stevie went alright I guess
Jay Kay is a good showman and singer but the real star of Jamiroquai was Stuart Zender. Without his bass playing they were pretty average. At least Jay Kay recognised this and always had him up front stage.
His lines made the songs great (helped by the beautiful tones he'd get from those Warwick basses)This is a cover (Roy Ayers) but still, he has improved it.
Can't agree with you there. The star is Jay Kay, no question. Bassist maybe the best musician but he ain't the star.
Poor choice of words perhaps. Of course Jay Kay is the star of the show.
IMO though the point of difference that makes their music good was Zender. His grooves (along with the drummer) give Jay Kay the stuff to work off.
Maybe with an average bass player they would have had a hit or two along with contemporaries like BNH or Soul II Soul but I still think that Zander's work took them a level above and provided whole albums of listenable music.
It was the music that got them noticed first then one (brilliant) video that took them to stardom. Jay Kay the 'star' factor that held them there. The guy has stage presence and wears silly hats but is a bit of a tosser personality wise.
These guys came from a very small label with no track record of promotion to this scale.The support to my opinion comes from their history since Zender left and how no one gives a shit about Kay.
(All just my opinion of course)
The bass player they have now is more than handy. Not sure Zender leaving has had that much impact !
……and being a tosser is hardly unusual for a rock star after all
In terms of no one giving a shit I think that’s just the natural progression of a band that’s been going 30 years, pretty hard to maintain the momentum without releasing some pretty ordinary stuff.
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@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MajorRage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@Crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@MN5 said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@broughie said in What are you listening to, right now................:
Throw back to Stevie Wonder:
He’s no Jay Kay but Stevie went alright I guess
Jay Kay is a good showman and singer but the real star of Jamiroquai was Stuart Zender. Without his bass playing they were pretty average. At least Jay Kay recognised this and always had him up front stage.
His lines made the songs great (helped by the beautiful tones he'd get from those Warwick basses)This is a cover (Roy Ayers) but still, he has improved it.
Can't agree with you there. The star is Jay Kay, no question. Bassist maybe the best musician but he ain't the star.
Poor choice of words perhaps. Of course Jay Kay is the star of the show.
IMO though the point of difference that makes their music good was Zender. His grooves (along with the drummer) give Jay Kay the stuff to work off.
Maybe with an average bass player they would have had a hit or two along with contemporaries like BNH or Soul II Soul but I still think that Zander's work took them a level above and provided whole albums of listenable music.
It was the music that got them noticed first then one (brilliant) video that took them to stardom. Jay Kay the 'star' factor that held them there. The guy has stage presence and wears silly hats but is a bit of a tosser personality wise.
These guys came from a very small label with no track record of promotion to this scale.The support to my opinion comes from their history since Zender left and how no one gives a shit about Kay.
(All just my opinion of course)
The bass player they have now is more than handy. Not sure Zender leaving has had that much impact !
……and being a tosser is hardly unusual for a rock star after all
In terms of no one giving a shit I think that’s just the natural progression of a band that’s been going 30 years, pretty hard to maintain the momentum without releasing some pretty ordinary stuff.
Good players since, yeah but their lines are nowhere near as good. One of the reasons so many of Jamiroquais band members left (all the those in their heyday) was that Jay Kay failed to recognise their contributions. The band added so much to the compositions.
There was a strange deal when they moved to Sony. It was signed only by Kay (not the band) with promises that he would share the spoils based on input.
The album where they erased and re-recorded all of Zenders tracks was the beginning of the end as far as decent new stuff went and they moved away from the funk grooves that made them.
Zender went on to work alongside Mark Ronson and has played on many hits since.
