HI ROGER. IT WAS YOU ,PAUL McCARTNEY AND A FEW OTHERS THAT INFLUENCED ME TO BUYING A RICKENBACKER BASS. I LOVED YOUR SOUND ON MACHINE HEAD. DID YOU RECORD THE WHOLE ALBUM WITH THE RICK AND ALSO WHAT BASS STRINGS WERE YOU USING AT THE TIME? GOOD LUCK AND KEEP PURPLE GOING FOR A LONG TIME TO COME. ALL THE BEST, JOE
Could I just ask, why the bass? You write lovely music and I wonder why this is your preference?
And while I’ve got your attention THANK YOU for the pleasure you and your many musical incarnations have given me over 30 and more years – Let’s not dwell on that! 😉 and may I wish you and your family all the best for the future 🙂
an old friend, JANIS
Hey Roger,
I was watching a Documentry
on the making of Machine Head the other
night, and Jon Lord said that 2 generations
of kids in Guitar Shops have never got the
intro to Smoke On The Water right(or something like that anyway).
Did Ritchie play it with a pick or fingers?
It always sounded to me like he fingerpicked it, because you can here the 4th above the Tonic really clearly, which you
don’t so much with a pick.
Roger:
Dumb questions: given a choice, would you fret a low A on the E string (or D on A, G on D) or just play the open string?
And what do you think of five or six string basses?
And – no comment required – I’ve just seen Fairport Convention in Burnely and, wow, Dave Pegg really smokes!
Good luck with the new album.
Different kind of music altogether but what do you think of “funky” bass players – men like James Jamerson, Bernard Edwards and Marcus Miller? I’m a guitar player who has only recently started playing bass and although I’ve traditionally been into rock music it’s these players who I find myself listening to more and more.