Re: Greatest Rock Bass Players of all Time
Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2022 1:17 am
That Osmond video is mind-blowing. I can't remember the last time I heard the song, I think I saw it performed live once at a theme park, but as a kid, I had the record. We used to blast Crazy Horses on the record player as it was our only chance to listen to rock music loudly. We got a free pass because it was the Osmonds, otherwise we'd never have been allowed to listen to rock music on the family stereo system. In fact, we blasted it once for the friend a couple houses down from us one day. We were given permission to do that because it could have been a missionary tool. That friend was slightly older, and he kind of laughed at it. I recall he was a huge Ozzy fan, even though I didn't know who Ozzy was at that time, but I've just read today that Ozzy was a fan of Crazy Horses. Poetic justice after all these years?
The biggest shock is that Donny wasn't singing all the parts and actually confined to the most dicey instrumentation -- but how to predict where synths would go back then? Next, now I know where Lars got the toms opening to Enter Sandman. Just listen to that intro. I'm not a big early rock fan so I wouldn't know, but if anyone else knows of a tribal tom intro that breaks into a heavy guitar riff prior to Crazy Horses, I'd be interested.
In the comments, it says that some countries banned the song because they thought it was about heroin. Context means a lot. imagine that you don't know who the Osmonds are and don't know what Mormonism is, and don't know that they perform with plastic smiles on their face, and a concerned parent friend brought the song to you as about heroin. Would you think it was any less heavy than other stuff from that time? The song was written in 1972.
Here is Black Sabbath in 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSEzWXqGKY
Deep Purple 1972:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKCR7kQMTQ
Judas Priest 1972:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTfD9219EQs
If you took the synth out and the brass, which gives it the showtune color, it's about as metal is it gets for back then. And the Osmond bassist, Vocal 2; he should have had his turn as front man for Van Halen.
The biggest shock is that Donny wasn't singing all the parts and actually confined to the most dicey instrumentation -- but how to predict where synths would go back then? Next, now I know where Lars got the toms opening to Enter Sandman. Just listen to that intro. I'm not a big early rock fan so I wouldn't know, but if anyone else knows of a tribal tom intro that breaks into a heavy guitar riff prior to Crazy Horses, I'd be interested.
In the comments, it says that some countries banned the song because they thought it was about heroin. Context means a lot. imagine that you don't know who the Osmonds are and don't know what Mormonism is, and don't know that they perform with plastic smiles on their face, and a concerned parent friend brought the song to you as about heroin. Would you think it was any less heavy than other stuff from that time? The song was written in 1972.
Here is Black Sabbath in 1971:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSSEzWXqGKY
Deep Purple 1972:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKCR7kQMTQ
Judas Priest 1972:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTfD9219EQs
If you took the synth out and the brass, which gives it the showtune color, it's about as metal is it gets for back then. And the Osmond bassist, Vocal 2; he should have had his turn as front man for Van Halen.