I remember the very first time I heard the David Essex song Rock On<\/i> on the radio. I was completely transfixed by the beautifully desolate sound of that track — it was like listening to the spectral ghost of rock and roll.<\/p>\n
I couldn’t get enough of it. Every time through, it just kept getting better. Especially that bass line.<\/p>\n
It was only later that I learned that I was mainly responding to an innovative double-tracked bass guitar arrangement. The deep silences around it left that doubled bass guitar nearly all by itself — with plenty of room to create a haunted and elegiac space.<\/p>\n
And just today, in honor of the great Herbie Flowers, who passed a just few days ago at the age of 86, I have been playing Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side<\/i> on repeat.<\/p>\n
Every time through, it just keeps getting better. Especially that bass line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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