Most people don’t pay attention to the bass player… until someone like Larry Williams steps up.
This solo is pure fire. He’s playing a right-handed bass left-handed, slapping the hell out of it, and still locking in with the band like it’s nothing. No wasted notes, just groove, power, and feel.
Bass doesn’t have to sit in the background. When it’s done right, it can take over the whole room.
Anyone else think the best bass players are still underrated?
It's almost a year ago I heard this heavy, groovy, dripping intro to Mexicola. Made me quite excited. Also the crowd was goddamn crazy that night, never before I've ended up so bruised from attending a show 😆
Years before Van Halen, Eddie and Alex Van Halen had a band called Mammoth and taught themselves entire Who albums front to back.
Here they are in 1993, at Eddie's 5150 studio, playing "Won't Get Fooled Again."
Lifelong Who fanatics, doing what they grew up on.
Lovitz tries to play nice and let Burr take a gentle ribbing and at the first chance Bill gives him Lovitz goes full laser eyes with some work off the top rope that Don Rickles would be proud to pull off. This is how it's done. You love to see it.