Re: Elephant Talk - how does Tone Eleven do it?
metalken wrote:
the funny thing is, after looking at Colin Marston's tab for it, its actually easier (for me) to try to play the riff Colin plays it, than Tony plays it. I guess that really shows Tony's aversion to the melody side
Or your aversion to the bass side...
Tony is a bassist, and it's true that he only used the bass side in Gabriel's music, but if you listen to/watch everything from 80's era Crimson to the present, Tony uses the melody side quite a bit.
He even got the "bass gig" in King Crimson, in part, because of his ability to use both, as he told me when I interviewed him for an article in
Progression Magazine in 2000.
http://www.stick.com/articles/progression/a couple of examples:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duvW4kednWI[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDyjocvi6cs[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-tv6_8Bf1Y[/youtube]
I'm sure you wouldn't want people to get the wrong impression...