Word: bassists
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Sunday night should have been a good night. The Mountain Goats—plural only because frontman John Darnielle had decided to bring along bassist Peter Hughes to add weight to the former’s energetic rock anthems—had come to the Middle East. They were touring in support of their latest record, “Get Lonely,” and I couldn’t have been more excited. That is, until about five o’clock that afternoon. “No team in major league history had held a seven-game lead...
...It’s all going to be somewhat kind of low-key,” said David Lizmi, the bassist of Via Audio. “We’re trying to make it special and intimate...
...ADVENTUROUS Art Davis saw little value in modesty. He called himself the "world's greatest bassist," and many jazz giants, notably John Coltrane, agreed. The classically trained genre hopper ("It all sounded good to me," he said), who turned to jazz after encountering resistance in his early searches for classical jobs, accompanied singers from Lena Horne to Bob Dylan, played in TV and Broadway orchestras and backed Coltrane on such recordings as Ol Coltrane and Ascension. In the '70s, his unsuccessful discrimination suit against the New York Philharmonic got him blacklisted, so he added a new profession...
...chosen word. "We're influenced by so many things that we're able to balance and combine everything," says 23-year-old vocalist and keyboard player Armi Millare. "We would get bored if we got stuck within a certain style." She, along with guitarist Carlos Tañada, 25, bassist Paul Yap, 25, and drummer Ean Mayor, 23, cite eclectic musical reference points, from the fey electronica of Zero 7 to the studied cool of David Sylvian. It makes for music that manages to be both thoughtful and sensual. "A band like this doesn't come around more than once...
...past few decades. The style and the lyrics (“I took out a loan on my empty heart, babe”) are, in the strictest sense of the word, original; nonetheless, they sound exhausted, and this generic feeling seeps into the whole album. Guitarist Peter Hayes and bassist Robert Levon Been trade lead vocals back and forth, but it’s difficult to notice the switch. Both have the exact amount of raspiness and vowel-slurring expected of a rock singer; instead of being an asset, this just compounds their lack of character. Their songs tend...