Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2024
- I can still remember the first time I heard the album 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome'. I was browsing in Golden Discs in Dun Laoghaire shortly before Christmas in 1984 and the guy behind the counter put it on. I continued to browse as the 'The World is my Oyster' intro played, and didn't pay much attention. But when the title track kicked in properly, 3 minutes and 20 seconds into the album, with that incredible bassline and those soaring guitar harmonics, I just stood there transfixed for the entire 13-odd minutes of it. (I'm getting chills as I type this, remembering how it made me feel.) It was the first time I'd heard a Trevor Horn production, I think, and it blew me away. For the first time in my life, I was compelled to race up the counter in a record shop to ask who the hell the band playing on the shop sound system was. I'd gone in with the vague idea that I might buy a single - which I couldn't really afford - but later that morning, having listened to entire album standing at the counter talking to the dude, I walked out with a copy of the album - which I DEFINITELY couldn't afford - but I never regretted it.
I've always wanted to do a bass cover of the track Welcome to the Pleasuredome, but I've never been able to find a multitrack backing track for it. (Its time will come, no doubt.) However, I do have a decent multitrack backing track for Two Tribes (which I got from Karaoke Version). Two Tribes has a repeating low D in the bassline and I'd been doing a lot of drop D stuff recently (check out my previous cover of "More Than a Feeling," for example,) so today, on a whim, I decided to see if I could get even remotely close to the bass tone on the original track. It's not perfect, but I was surprised and truly delighted to get as close as I did.
Now, this is an inordinately hard bassline to play. OK, let me qualify that: This is an inordinately hard bassline FOR ME to play. I'm really not at home with a plec in my hand, but you absolutely have to play this song with a plec to get anything approaching the right tone. It's by no means the most complex or tricky bass cover I've played recently, but I think I'm happier with what I achieved with this today than I have been with any other cover I've done in the last few years.
Anyway, here it is: Two Tribes.
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Those immaculate slides, Damn!
Funky stuff Mike.
FGTH to eternity!
Oh, you're going to love the one I'm going to put up tomorrow!
@@MichaelJSynnottSubbed so wont miss it!
Awesome sound Mike and you absolutely nailed it...remember listening to this record in my room and just getting lost in that great great bass line.
Thanks so much, Per. It's truly a great song. Horn is a brilliant producer and he was breathtakingly groundbreaking in the 80s.
Very fluid playing...congrats !!
Great job - sounds amazing! I've always loved this song and its driving bass line - I rushed out and bought the record the day it was released, listened to this track regularly ever since...!
Thanks a million! It really is a great track. The whole Welcome to the Pleasuredome album is just incredible.
I’m 52, and this is from my era. I loved this song, great bass pal. Remember the t-shirts 😂
I'm 56. I'd only been playing bass a couple of years when this came out. Blew my mind. My first listen to the Welcome to the Pleasuredome album was a transcendental experience. It's never left me.
@@MichaelJSynnott well done Mike its superb.
Great track! Really shows off your playing. Brilliant!
Cheers Conor.
Rocking itl!! . Bass guitar sound generally not appreciated so this is fab to show it off. Love it. Fair play.
Thanks a million, Emma! 😊
Hey Machete - very nice my friend!!! Hope you're well x
Hey Dave! Thanks buddy; hope you're well.
This is an epic Album. I remember when it came out too! I recently introduced the LP to my 14yo daughter to listen too. She was intrigued.... Love your playing !
Cheers man! It really is an epic album; one of the few albums from the 80s I still regularly spin in its entirety.
Talk about albums that changed your life. Welcome to the Pleasuredome definately is one. It changed how I listened to music.
I got so wound up remembering my first time listening to the album that I forgot to say: awesome bass-playing, man!
@@leesmapman4764 Thanks very much, Brother. If I could only source the stems - or a multitrack version - of 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome', I could die happy.
Abso-bloody-lutely!
Superb Dude :)
Thanks a million, Ned! I'm REALLY pleased with this.
@@MichaelJSynnott
Yea! It’s a bit more defined (louder) than some previous ones and shows off the skill involved better I think 🤘
Awesome bass line on that tune Mike!
Isn't it, though? A bugger to play, into the bargain!
Loving that Kubicki thump.
I hear you, Clem Fandango.
Sounds great Mike!
Cheers Ian.
Good stuff mike
Cheers Pa!
fucking awesome man!! new subscriber here too, this song is a great candidate to be my next cover :D
Cheers Jon!!