Victor said a few weeks ago here in town and I quote
"Nathan East can do all the stuff I do. The differece is Nathan is 90% groove 10% flash. I would like to be that way but I paid to do the opposite. When you are truly grooving people can listen to you for hours. People and musicians get burned out on flash if it's over done."
As far as Vic's tone boost your highs at about 2-3 o'clock, your mids at about 4-5, and your lows around 12-1. That how I get it when I want it but I use more of a M@ tone myself. It's a lot fuller. As for Amazing grace. I have my own rendition that I play all the time. I did rip it from Vic though. Then I made it so it fit me. I don't go into the "fast flash" part and I chord my harmonics more than Vic. It's got more of a Jaco feel. More soul. less flash.
I have met and seen both Vic and Nathan play. My first bass video was of Nathan East (brother had a G-Curl..LOL!!)...They both have their styles, grooves and approaches to music. I love Nathan because he lays it down and really got me into studing not only the bass but music as a whole....I played other instruments in school but I only practices for what I needed to do and perform for. I was good but could have been great if I had taken a different approach and attitude. Vic taught me how to expand my thoughts and try new things, styles, techniques,etc.....it's funny about peoples perception of your playing...for example....whenever I am playing a song that has alot of beat and kind of funky in church my body movements really tell and show...the song may be something simple like "Joy" by Mary Mary which has all of about 3 chords and is repetitive..but people will come up after church and say "you really thumped that bass today or you sure tore it up"...but when there is a real complicated song with alot of changes and movement and alot of "bottom" to it people will say "oh, that was nice, but you tore that other song up!"...I just laugh because I know that I put alot of time into working around the changes and timing of grace notes,etc....
Anyway, sorry I guess I got of the main topic.....I saw Vic in Dallas back in May with his brother...Reggie had an "Orange" guitar and was killing it...yea, they do look board when they are playing.....they can do it in their sleep...
