New Lenny Kravitz album

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Very very good! If you like Led Zeppelin you'll like this album. Finest retro-rock. Nothing sophisticated, nothing 'extra-special', just the basics, guitar, bass, drums and organ backing. Good production, all songs sound nicely finished. 4/5.
 
I haven't heard it yet, but I am expecting superb bass lines. He is the master of funky retro old school motown bass lines, imo. Oh, ofcourse after Victor Wooten who is the god of everything... ;)
 
does the 'ПО' make the verb negative? it's been a long time since I studied that type of language.

oh man, it's difficult to explain and i was never good in it.. I think every time you have PO in a verb it is always 'active', like POmeriti (to move), POpraviti (to fix) etc. 'Praviti', for example, means 'building', 'constructing', if you add PO to it it means something like to re-build, to re-construct.

When did you learn cyrillic Dwayne??
 
I haven't heard it yet, but I am expecting superb bass lines. He is the master of funky retro old school motown bass lines, imo. Oh, ofcourse after Victor Wooten who is the god of everything... ;)


Victor Wooten is very good technically but his music is pretty pointless really... same with Jaco and the like. Give me James Jamerson any day.
 
I haven't heard it yet, but I am expecting superb bass lines. He is the master of funky retro old school motown bass lines, imo. Oh, ofcourse after Victor Wooten who is the god of everything... ;)

Haha, surely Wooten can not be from this planet. Just when you think Marcus Miller is invincible..

The Lenny album sounds as if he recorded it 10 years ago, which is a good thing in this case. All this mixing up with R&B crap and puff daddy and weird things like that made me think he's never gonna record a good album again. This is is as I said absolutely nothing special but it sounds real, raw, and it's got all the things you expect from him. I read he's been obsessed with Jimy Page lately so some of the guitar solos sound a bit like JP's guitar army.
 
oh man, it's difficult to explain and i was never good in it.. I think every time you have PO in a verb it is always 'active', like POmeriti (to move), POpraviti (to fix) etc. 'Praviti', for example, means 'building', 'constructing', if you add PO to it it means something like to re-build, to re-construct.

When did you learn cyrillic Dwayne??

I did a couple of courses in Russian during my last two semesters in University. I was quite good at it. my average for both was something like 85%. but I remember little these days from lack of use, it's a struggle to look at cyrillic and decipher it now.
 
Victor Wooten is very good technically but his music is pretty pointless really... same with Jaco and the like. Give me James Jamerson any day.

Soul Circus was a very good album. Has he got some new stuff btw? Must check.
 
I don't want to turn this into a nerdy bass discussion, but what do you guys think of Stefan Lessard?

Never listened to Dave Matthews Band so I can't comment. I just checked out one of his bass solos on youtube and I can't say I was impressed. Fast, flashy, effect-laden playing... just doesn't inspire me, personally. I don't know if that's representative of the rest of his stuff.

I'm not a fan of solo, virtuoso bass players, like Wooten, Jaco, Billy Sheehan. For me, my favourite players say something with the bass without overdoing things. Look at Jamerson, McCartney, and sundry funk and soul bass players... they know when to play and what to play depending on the song.