Re: [Harp-L] Group Arrangement

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I'm in the midst of reading LW's bio for the second time and at least  
half of his recordings had no bass but one of his guitar players  
tuning down an octave and played the bass line as The Iceman stated.  
Other recordings had Willie Dixon or Big Crawford on bass.

In those days the electric bass was in the infant stage and mic'ing  
an upright bass, drums or piano were far from perfect and provided a  
sound that would be unacceptable in today's music.

Taco


On Jan 31, 2011, at 2:39 PM, The Iceman wrote:

> One of the guitar players played a bass line, if memory serves  
> me..bass representation is pretty important one way or the other,  
> as it tends to "ground" the music and define the chord changes.
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> I believe Little Walter recorded most of his songs with no bass,  
> just the Meyers
> brothers on two guitars.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: william.lifford <william.lifford@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Hal Iwan <haliwan@xxxxxxxxxxx>; harp-l-bounces <harp-l- 
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxx>; Harp-L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 10:25 am
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Group Arrangement
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> Hi Hal,
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> I believe Little Walter recorded most of his songs with no bass,  
> just the Meyers
> brothers on two guitars.
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> Bill
> ------Original Message------
> From: Hal Iwan
> Sender: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
> To: Harp-L
> Subject: [Harp-L] Group Arrangement
> Sent: Jan 31, 2011 3:13 PM
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> Hello All
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> Anyone one on this list just use harp, guitar and piano or harp,  
> guitar, drums?
> In both arrangements the bass is not represented. Any hidden  
> pitfalls from your
> prior attempts with either of these configurations??
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> Thanks as always,
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> Hal in MI
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