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Adams Bolero
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Topic: Favourite Jethro Tull Bass Player? Posted: April 15 2011 at 16:09 |
Very hard to choose but I’ll go for Glenn Cornick. Benefit is my favourite Tull album and I loved his playing at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.
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thellama73
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 16:21 |
Probably Glasscock. Hammond could never really play the bass and Ian got fed up of teaching him all the parts note by note.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 16:51 |
Who did Living in the Past and Stand Up? That one.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 16:55 |
Hammond Hammond was fantastic on Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play so i'll vote for him
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Adams Bolero
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 17:03 |
Mushroom Sword wrote:
Who did Living in the Past and Stand Up? That one. |
Glenn Cornick!
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 17:08 |
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Who did Living in the Past and Stand Up? That one.
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Why do so few people seem to realize that Living in the Past is a compilation that includes tracks from the band's first four albums? No one makes this mistake with other greatest hits records.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 20:23 |
Have to give a vote to Peggy. After that, Glasscock, Cornick (who I believe plays all the bass on Living in the Past), and Hammond-Hammond.
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Posted: April 15 2011 at 21:41 |
As others said, a very hard choice, since Tull has always counted on it's ranks a really good bass player. I guess Jeffrey Hammond gets my vote, only for sentimental/nostalgia reasons, but I admire all of them.
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 00:58 |
Hammond-Hammond
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akaBona
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 07:47 |
Cornick.
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 08:18 |
My vote goes to Glenn, he has been absolutely phenomenal both live and in the studio, and his bass playing really added a lot to Tull's music.
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 09:53 |
Glenn Cornick
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Tony C.
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 16:11 |
Adams Bolero wrote:
Very hard to choose but I’ll go for Glenn Cornick. Benefit is my favourite Tull album and I loved his playing at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. |
Me too!
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 22:02 |
John Glascock (RIP) was probably the most accomplished of them all, but I love Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond's playing on TAAB and APP, he gets my vote. He was also great on stage. Loved his Zebra suit and matching Zebra. bass guitar
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 22:10 |
Definitely Hammond by a small margin over Glascock.
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Posted: April 16 2011 at 23:47 |
Well, I can't pass this poll up... The only Tull bass player to wield the power of Satan, duh.
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Posted: April 17 2011 at 00:18 |
Hammond was very much under-appreciated in the 1970's. I saw the band numerous times, and I'd put Jeffrey up there with the best bassists of the era, Squire included.
Most memorable show was Tull's "Thick as Brick" show in Chicago....Glenn Cornick's band "Wild Turkey" was the warm-up act! Amazing night!
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Posted: April 17 2011 at 06:06 |
Whichever one did Songs from the Wood
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Adams Bolero
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Posted: April 17 2011 at 09:36 |
thehallway wrote:
Whichever one did Songs from the Wood |
John Glascock!
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Posted: April 17 2011 at 09:54 |
thellama73 wrote:
Mushroom Sword wrote:
Who did Living in the Past and Stand Up? That one.
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Why do so few people seem to realize that Living in the Past is a compilation that includes tracks from the band's first four albums? No one makes this mistake with other greatest hits records.
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Actually, I was talking more about the track, "Living in the Past" for the sexy bass line.
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