We All Stand, what a giveaway

You know, I've come to the conclusion that WAS is a dead giveaway that NO know more about what they're up to than their willing to admit to. Seriously tho, Hooky playing a naked-neck (fretless), jazzy piano chords and a SEVERLY smooth groove. It's so easy to believe that all their stuff is the result of random pishing about (and most of it undoubtedly is), but WAS shows a level of musicianship and musical understanding that, unlike a lot of other NO tracks, doesn't require the listener to be a believer and have NO friendly ears.

Can anyone think of any other times the old norse bass god played a fretless cos I sure can't. Not bad going, 28 years behind a bass and he's used a fretless once and played wth his fingers once, wish I could get away with that :)

It sounds like a Japan track off of Tin Drum more than anything else.

Hannett of the Apes wrote: It sounds like a Japan track off of Tin Drum more than anything else.

It kinda reminds of Duran Duran Save A Prayer (although I think that came out later). The bendy keyboard (?) riff on Save A Prayer intro is reminicent of that on end of We All Stand (IMO). Anyone else agree?

Steve Campbell wrote: You know, I've come to the conclusion that WAS is a dead giveaway that NO know more about what they're up to than their willing to admit to. Seriously tho, Hooky playing a naked-neck (fretless), jazzy piano chords and a SEVERLY smooth groove. It's so easy to believe that all their stuff is the result of random pishing about (and most of it undoubtedly is), but WAS shows a level of musicianship and musical understanding that, unlike a lot of other NO tracks, doesn't require the listener to be a believer and have NO friendly ears.

Can anyone think of any other times the old norse bass god played a fretless cos I sure can't. Not bad going, 28 years behind a bass and he's used a fretless once and played wth his fingers once, wish I could get away with that :)

He used the Shergold Marathon 6 to play it live. Most of the live versions also had two sequencer bass parts.

Are u sure that it's a fretless? I agree that it sounds like one, but it also sounds like a slowed down version of Barry Adamson's heavily flanged bass playing in Magazine.

It's sequenced on record too, isn't it? Sounds like they found the sound and sampled it throughout the song. The only bass guitar part is the high end riff that comes in and out in various places.

oldmonkey wrote: It's sequenced on record too, isn't it? Sounds like they found the sound and sampled it throughout the song. The only bass guitar part is the high end riff that comes in and out in various places.

I just listened to it and came to the same conclusion!

i disagree it sure sounds like live bass to me and maybe fretless too, althought i had never thought about the fretless part before, i dislike the album versionthought i think the Peel Version is much Better, that has the rhythemBass parts Sequenced

It'd be really bloody hard to sequence that up I gotta say. The only thing about it that sounds like anything but a bass is when 2 notes play together, that sounds just a bit wierd, but then again, there'e nowt saying the various bits of the bassline aren't samples of hooky. I must say I do rather like the huge flat drum and bass noise they use live on the track.

if it IS sequencerd, Steve and Gillian have been wasting themselves on NO.....compare WAS to some of the ZTT output of the same era, produced by Horn, Jeczalik and Lipson, and you'll hear that such realistic sequencing was not really possible then.

BTW, someone mentioned it soundling like save a prayer cos of the bendy noise....the bendy noise is the fretless :)