Time on the road has made me late to the Ball on this one. If anyone has checked out the Miscellaneous thread I posted. um.....We love Jimmy!! Where's my beer?

Hi, Jimmy, My name is Nick, from Portland and I just heard you playing on James's covers album. Man. That is some sweet playing, on a diverse selection of songs. Thank you for a wonderful experience. Most times it is very hard to acknoledge a great player in the rythum section of a popular artist. I think it is really great of you to be available, as you are, on the club. Cool.

Hey Nick,
 
Thanks for the nice comments.  That project was a blast and you just can't go wrong with Gadd and Conte running the motor!  I love those slightly wobbly grooves they can get going.  Mmm mmm!
 
It's a good hang in here with my fellow Alembic nuts, a nice bunch of folks.
 
Jimmy J

Adam, Your beer's in the fridge. Or else grab one of mine from the cooler!
 
 
I sat and played 'The Secret of LIfe with a close friend from high school this weekend.  
made myself all misty
Mike

Thanks Flim! I'd already gave up trying to figure him out years ago... You know, I'm just a pop musician and all this grown-up things were too much for my knowledge.
 
But you finaly cleared me out on that. First I couldn't even understand what chords Holdsworth was using, but they are the same quartal harmony thing McCoy Tiner and Bill Evans brought. Thanks to you - and Barrie - I'll be back again to my harmony studies.
 
Never too old to learn new tricks!

What month is on the cover of this Bass player Barrie? Up here, WH smith always seems to be a couple of months behind the rest of the world.
 
and Nick... I've been listening to 'Covers' pretty much constantly for a couple of weeks and I agree, the playing is indeed sweet. if i was forced to choose, my favorites on that album would be summertime blues and not fade away that have been merged into a 'medley' on my CD.
 
Graeme

Graeme, for some reason US magazines always print the next month as the date for this month's issue.

Hi Graeme! You nailed em'. When I first heard the disk I did not know it was J.T. I was focused on the Bass. The tone is monsterous. Then I heard the technique. The quality of the playing. So I went into my buddies house and looked at what was on and it was J.J. with J.T. and my expression must have been priceless, cause' my bro asked me what was up. I then explained who the bassist was and where I knew him from. He s#!t his pants that JJ would be on the site and helping us all out like he does. Once again I got to hand it to Jimmy and all the other cats here on the site. Thank you all!
 
Nick

Same issue of BP - interview with Jay DeMarcus of Rascal Flatts.
BP:  Who were your three main influences as a bassist and musician?
JD:  Right out of the gate, Marcus Miller was a huge influence.  I also love Jimmy Johnson and Jaco....
JJ, you and your family are beginning to make regular appearances in BP.  
Rich

It's the October cover with Mike Inez from Alice in Chains on the front.
 
I also spotted that quote from Jay DeMarcus - good to see JJ getting mentioned twice in the same issue

Cheers barrie. I'll pop into Smiths on my way home to pick up a copy. it'll give me something to read while I'm up on Skye this weekend for the Big Tuna fest ;-)
 
Graeme

Well it turns out Scotland is at least a month behind the rest of the world as my local shop was just puttig out the September Christian McBride issue. bought it anyway - I love mcBride's playing;-)
 
Graeme

Only a month?
 
Sounds like they are catching up then. . .  
 
Say hello to my family - we're from the west coast of Scotland originally!

Mr Holdsworth has put a copyright on the Panic Station video..
Does he think we will bootleg it??

Well my friends that was a clip from the Tokyo Dream video (tape and videodisk) which was for sale at that time, surely still owned by somebody and clearly marked as copyrighted material.  So whoever posted it did so illegally.  
 
On top of that, Allan was not happy with his own performance, tried to exercise his right to STOP it's release and was ignored.  So I suspect he would like the entire experience to be deleted from history and we should respect his right to pull it.
 
I needed another take anyway!  Ha!
Jimmy J