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An excerpt from the recently released DVD of some of Marvin's greatest live performances on TV and film, "Real Thing: In Performance 1964-1981," This live performance comes from the long out-of-circulation 1973 film, "Save The Children" with James Jamerson on bass.
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Playing James Jamerson's classic line on the Gladys Knight tune "Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone", from "The Nitty Gritty".
Fender '62 RI w/Seymour Duncan Vintage J pups and Audere JZ3 pre (in Lo-Z mode), Avalon U5 (no eq)
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Short clip on Jamerson`s influence in the 60s bass playing. He was the most influencial electric bassist before Pastorius, allthough we didnīt know who was playing.Records didnīt tell the line up of bands.
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This is a simple little tune I wrote for the GREAT James Jamerson. Originaly it had a medium motown-ish groove, But I'm trying it in this 2/3 latin feel. I'm thinking of arranging it for the Bobby Sanabria Quartet. It's goes in and out of clave.... it's just a rough arangement. I'm using My Yamaha TRB 5PII. Let me know what you think.
Peace... Alex Hernandez
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I attempted (very feebly) to re-create how Jamerson recorded thie tune in the studio. The only major difference is that I am 100% sober. However, its incredibly difficult to play like this. I could only do one take because my back and shoulders start to go into spasm. Jamerson was a true master. A true, true master!
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This one seems to be the subject of debate about whether Jamerson only used one finger, so hopefully this will dispel some of that nonsense. I've spent a couple of hours trying to understand the 1st part of the original and here's where I got to. I've not cracked it yet but I'm nearly there - I just need to relax more on it. Jamerson makes amazing use of the open strings and grace notes on this.