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Tina may be underrated in some circles, but from what I have seen on youtube she is very well respected among bass players.

@stevenfunderburg1623

10 ай бұрын

Precisely. I mean she probably doesn't have as many squares who know of her by name as say, Flea. But I can assure you without checking that Flea knows her name and he may have even acknowledged her as an influence.

@bjornlangoren3002

10 ай бұрын

She is the bass equivalence of Ringo Starr. No Ringo, No Beatles. Not technical virtuosos on their instruments, but know exactly what to play to bring the songs to the next level without getting in the way. And they have in common that they are more respected by the pros in the know than the public.

@wxcferdts

10 ай бұрын

Only because it is the 'done thing'. In assessing people like Ringo, Tina, Keith and some other mediocre musicians, you are not allowed to be truthful. You are expected to see them all as part and parcel of iconic names and bands, absolute no-go-areas for any criticism, however true and founded. I think Jimi Hendrix is an 'all right' player, but very sloppy, but you should see the venom I get greeted with in talks when I come up with such appraisals. And I find this oh so sad.@@bjornlangoren3002

@nylesfrench3568

10 ай бұрын

​@@bjornlangoren3002 good Point

@chasbodaniels1744

10 ай бұрын

The term “underrated” is a lazy person’s adjective. Drives me nuts 🥜.

Tina is who every bass player should be using as their gold standard in a band. She’s the quintessential bassist. You can sing all of her lines.

Anyone who doubts her melodic genius should check out her bass line on born under punches

@chudite

9 ай бұрын

I love that song

I never realised how much of a genius she was. I have loved talking Heads since 1980, especially Tina's funky Bass, but when you understand WHY she was playing what she was playing, wow, I had no idea.

All hail Tina! She is definitely Talking Heads' not-so-secret weapon. Thank you for this thoughtful look at her contributions to my favorite genre of music.

She became an integral part of the band. Not too shabby to then have Tom Tom Club on your résumé.

@derekpierkowski7641

10 ай бұрын

I saw a vid of the Tom Tom live. She was out of tune. It was painful.

@marks.3303

10 ай бұрын

@@derekpierkowski7641 If only the world would recognize your genius, right?

@derekpierkowski7641

10 ай бұрын

@@marks.3303 Nah, I'm OK just pointing out the obvious.

@AnthonyFlack

10 ай бұрын

@@derekpierkowski7641 - she was probably getting a bad monitor mix. It happens... especially if you've got the drums and bass up loud. Her singing in the studio is on point and they didn't have autotune in the 80s.

@derekpierkowski7641

10 ай бұрын

@@AnthonyFlack Not her voice. Her bass. And it was an MV Pedulla. One of the finest crisp sounding basses around.

Her bass playing in 'Take Me to the River" is SO groovin' and addictive! She adds SO much to that song, it's better than the original.

@kobalt77

6 ай бұрын

oH wow, great shout, I forgot about the bass on that, awesome !

Never showing off, always functional. That's a hard thing for many bassists. Btw, I enjoyed the quotes you had of her. Clearly she has thought about everything deeply and any limitations that people see in her playing are completely intended.

I named my bass Tina. She’s fantastic.

Thank God for all the 'someones' on KZread. Nothing like a nameless hero

When Talking Heads came around it was like nothing I'd heard before, and Tina's basslines were a major part of that uniqueness. The way my brain works the bass guitar in a song barely registers, I can't seem to pick it out, but Tina's playing burst through clearly, much to my delight. I've answered "Best Bass Guitar Player" polls with "Tina Weymouth" plenty of times. Love her work.

Tina is an absolute unit

She did the old school real school study of music harmony! Brilliant creativity

@meself349

9 ай бұрын

What are you talkin about? She wasn't Johann Sebastian Bach.😂 She already knew how to play the guitar before she picked up bass, btw, which is something she doesn't want a lot of people to know because it wouldn't be too self-promoting obviously. And a lot of bass player start out with the guitar because the strings of a 4-string bass guitar are the same as the lowest four strings of a 6-string guitar so it's not like you're starting from scratch either. And you don't have to have an exhaustive knowledge of "music harmony"😂 to do what she did with talking heads, etc. What she learned from playing guitar would have been enough to allow her to adapt both technique and theory without having to start from scratch. And some of those lines which everybody assumes she wrote herself were not always written by her. 😂😂😂😂

@chrissharkey9644

9 ай бұрын

@@meself349 I’m in the business as a pro bass player! Old school is a disciplinary term! Something a lot of todays “musicians” know not much about practice practice practice! 😂

@visibledistortion341

3 ай бұрын

@@meself349bro is butthurt gawddamn

The reluctant genius. I can see the look in her eyes in the early clips,where she is just hanging on to it. And then,simply and simple solid stuff. Outside the box.

I have long thought of Tina Weymouth's style as "I'm Learning as I Go:" the longer the performance, the better she got. My favorite example: live performance of Houses in Motion.

Tina is the very paradigm of the underrated but brilliant bass player. Duck Dunn would be another example.

@richardnanian2446

10 ай бұрын

I don’t like the adjective “underrated,” because first, it’s often not true (I recently saw John Entwistle called underrated, which is like saying Michael Jordan was an underrated basketball player), and second, it’s meaningless unless you consider who is doing the rating. But I agree Duck Dunn isn’t as widely known as he should be. I also consider David Hood insufficiently well known. He was one of the Muscle Shoals guys and has probably played on more hits than anyone but James Jamerson. Chuck Rainey and Leland Sklar are right up there too.

Being a musician myself, I love Tina's bass playing.

Always enjoyed Tina's bass lines. So important to the band. I wish you have shown more examples.

She does have a great sound, she's a natural.

She is so wonderful ❤

Honestly, I like the sound of the line in the song Once in a Lifetime. She she had a solid harmony groove on it

She’s great. And some would say she the underachiever in the family. Seriously, she has quite a family of successful people. Dad, brother, sister…

I agree but Suzi Quatro is a bass icon too and needs recognition as well.

@kaysguy

10 ай бұрын

Tina learned to play by watching Suzi Quattro videos.

Saw the Tom Tom Club at a Reggae festival twenty years ago. They were the hit of day filled with excellent music.

Thankyou it is sooo inpotertent, to wimen revolution. And nice to No more about Tina. Ik liked her and do. She is/ was the STIL POWER of TH. Ik think.THANK you an Tina.

The bass line In Speaking in Tongues' I Get Wild is totally out of nowhere. Holy crap what an amazing invention.

Totally Enjoyed Tina's Bass Playing

Yes, yes and yes. But it didn't hurt that she was adorable.

Tina’s basslines are downright addictive and a lesson to wannabe virtuoso pretentious bass players

2:45 That's definite.That's the cause why she was so astounding.

Tina-love you! I miss records like REMAIN IN LIGHT

There is no talking heads without Tina she was and inspirational influence on 80s music and female guitarist Mushlove tina

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for that bio on Tina!! I've kind of been a misfit when it comes to knowing where I fit musically. I've always enjoyed several of the Talking Heads songs but I had no idea about Tina and I'm so glad that you shared this with the outside world. I love the bass guitar! Between the drums, bass and vocals, it's beautiful to hear them synchronize. I'm 58 and probably too old to be joining a band by by God, I'm going tear it up on the bass even if it's in my own living room! Thank God for Tina Weymouth and Johnette Napolitano. Talent and style 💯

There's some things wrong here. She did know how to play guitar, piano and flute. She even played in bands before.

@rederic2004

10 ай бұрын

Right--she played folk guitar, which influenced her early bass playing, using her thumb, for instance, to play an open E on the "Psycho Killer" riff, which was unconventional in rock bass. You can see this in the OGWT performance of the song.

Great info. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.

Thanks A Brilliant artist 🎉 with amazing talents .

Luv me some Tina

I’m surprised you didn’t mention that she didn’t record the bass part on Genius Of Love.

@OffBeatChannel

10 ай бұрын

Great point! I did come across that but couldn't find an organic part to slot it in - great trivia!

Happy Belated 🎉 Birthday Tina!!!

She is a huge part of their sound. So few people seem to realize that. Check out Burning Down The House in the live movie. She completely dropped the bass and made a simple line that's both funky and mechanical on a keyboard. The song has incredible drive.

Really enjoyed this, I've always overlooked TW as a bassist, will have to give her work more of a listen.

Great video!

Great story, Subbed. Thank you!

*Tina will always be underrated. Rightfully so*

@meself349

9 ай бұрын

The most frequently self-rated top bass player in the history of music bar none.

@jennyjohn704

3 ай бұрын

Why is it 'rightfully so' that Tina must always be underrated?

The Ringo Starr of Bass

@ericlineback6848

10 ай бұрын

Yes ... or Charlie Watts ...

She was a brilliant player. Most top end rock bass players are self-taught with no formal training. {:o:O:}

Tina Weymouth is a fantastic bass player, but I wouldn’t call her an “unsung hero”, as she’s garnered the utmost respect in the music industry.

vERY nice

"The Great Curve" is torrential. I love that track.

I saw Talking Heads at UCLA in 1978 (or 1979?) when the only song I had ever heard by them was Take Me to the River on the radio. What is the one thing from that show that I remember most clearly to this day? Tina's bass line on Found a Job. Been a fan from that day forward.

She's a masterful player, like Ringo's drumming in The Beatles.

@meself349

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 you're never going to hear Ringo say that. He was much more humble, honest about his abilities and down-to-earth than Tina Weymouth has ever been.😂😂😂

Not a musician so I don't know if TIna is an icon or not. I do know I really enjoyed her bass playing and seemed to be a perfect fit in the band.

Adrian Belew might be famously from King Crimson but he toured with Talking Heads before joining with KC. I'm not sure Genius of Love is Tom Tom Club's biggest hit, I think in most places Wordyrappinghood was a higher charting single, although GoL is their most famous song as it's one of the most sampled records in music.

Tina is my favorite member of Talking Heads, she brings such a unique approach to their sound, and she still looks good too (:

Wonder how Tina Weymouth thinks about being referred to the 'rug in a dude's room'?

But she didn't play bass on "Genus of Love". She was injured.

By the way her dad was a world war 2 us navy pilot flying in the Pacific.

Putting ego down and playing for the song was easy for her, but harder for her bandmates

@meself349

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂Actually, it was the opposite. Have you seen interviews since the band after the band broke up with her and hubby narcissistic supplier? Trashing DB while putting herself on a pedestal? 😂😂😂. Always got a kick about how she always related that story about how she never knew how to play bass until a couple of months before she joined talking heads... when she actually knew how to play guitar before that... but she always seems to leave that part out for some reason. Most bass player start out playing guitar. It's not exactly like starting from scratch to switch from one to the other. No, much ego there. 😂😂😂

I saw a video recently about meg from the white stripes, and this video reminded me of it… That they are both women is the obvious thing, but the important thing is the untrained, unaffected natural creativity, unblemished by copying other’s lessons and training… and the ability to do what is good for the song, rather than what strokes the ego or is technically impressive. I love musicians who have those traits

@meself349

9 ай бұрын

Yes. We all know how totally lacking in ego Tina is.

She was more than proficient in acoustic guitar going back to her HS days…. So there was a musical foundation there…

Weymouth was a DIY Goddess!

"Once In A Lifetime" has a repetitive bass line that is simple yet indispensable to the song's arrangement. Tina's lack of formal training prior to joining Talking Heads allowed her to develop a unique style that wasn't beholden to conventional playing techniques.

@davidhoward4715

7 ай бұрын

Very perceptive.

Saw them in 1977 in a small theatre venue. Thought they were awful lol they got better

You had to be different to play bass for Talking Heads. David Byrne was one eccentric, quirky, and funky dude.

@Mambojambo157

10 ай бұрын

What were his quirks?

@michaeldevose8923

10 ай бұрын

@triple5762 have you listened to his music? Familiar with his other body of work? His creative writing? His videos? Live performances? Definition of quirky: often denotes eccentricity that is not offputting but rather charming and whitty. Quirkiness is in the eye of the beholder. I consider quirky his style, his musical/stage persona. I like David Byrne, by the way, but I wasn't a big fan of his music.

@Mambojambo157

10 ай бұрын

@@michaeldevose8923 I’m not arguing, just thought you might have some inside knowledge.

@ShanghaiRooster

10 ай бұрын

@@Mambojambo157 David has stated he has 'borderline Aspergers Syndrome'.

@meself349

9 ай бұрын

​@@Mambojambo157😂 yeah. What were they? He was an individual? Damn, how quirky is that!

Alongside John McVie, Geddy Lee and John Paul Jones in my list of best bass players. 😊

@wxcferdts

10 ай бұрын

That's a joke, right? Of course it is.

@douglasstrother6584

10 ай бұрын

and John Entwistle

I heard Genuis of Love bass line is not done by her ( if I'm wrong please correct me)...if this is so really hurts the argument of how great she was.....

@m.scottmcgahan9900

10 ай бұрын

She wrote the bass part but wasn't able to be there the day it was recorded, so another player played it.

@robwood1987

2 ай бұрын

It’s true, if you listen to he play it live she couldn’t actually play the bass line correctly

In The Pocket, solid lady bassist…

Time for the obligatory mention of the fact that Tina did not play the bass line for genius of love on the Tom Tom record. Not that she couldn’t she had just played herself out. Her hand cramped up after hours of playing, and the studio engineer was recruited to record the bassline.

Shes also one of the writers on some of the best hip hop songs!

@Mambojambo157

10 ай бұрын

Like what?

Always liked Tina Weymouth. When you listen to the records, "you" me or anyone won't be likely to think, "That bassist is a girl!" That's the best thing we get out of music. Then you see Tina, Susanna Hoffs, Jane Wiedlin or Zooey Deschanel and go...talented *and* lovely? Hmmm...

She is great from learning the bass like that

She's awesome. But it's noted that she didn't come up with the bassline for "Genius of Love." That was another musician playing. She was incapacitated at the time with bad hand cramps and the studio clock was ticking.

@m.scottmcgahan9900

10 ай бұрын

She did write the part, she just didn't record it.

Functional and as a bsnd front man for many years, I would have had her in a band. GREAT? Not.

Can we hear her play..........

Hopefully she never gets treated like the Dude's rug!

Every rock band has an “unsung hero“ it seems: Beatles: George Harrison Stones: Brian Jones Led Zepoelin: John Paul Jones Etc...etc...etc

Really ??? 🤔 Chris Squire/ John Wetton/ Geddy Lee/ Les Claypool/ John Entwistle are Bass Icons !! 🎶🎼

Everybody loves a female bass player

There is a lack of examples of her music for all the chat

So why did they want her to join for 2 years before she did if she couldn’t play bass or had any musical training?

@RexVergstrong

10 ай бұрын

That's completely wrong. She did play guitar, piano and flute.

@Mambojambo157

10 ай бұрын

Ahh! Expected so. People like to make these claims for dramatic effect.

All the Dude wanted... was his rug back.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

@wxcferdts

10 ай бұрын

I think that may be the best reply to this over-the-top and oh so misguided musical appraisal.

Please join my band, and by the way, could you possibly learn how to play an instrument just a thought!

Underrated? I don' think so, anyone who knows knows she's a phenomenal bassist. That being said she's not in my top 10 or 20 bassist just like she wouldn't be in most. Does that mean she's underrated? Maybe, it's subjective. Who would you substitute her for in your top 10/20?

Fender Musicmaster bass not Precision bass

@bjornlangoren3002

10 ай бұрын

Her first was a 96 Fender Precision.

Sixto Rodriguez is worthy.... "The Sugarman"......

You left out their best songs and best bass lines, just so you could have something muso bore to say that you thought was _"clever clever."_ {:o:O:}

She really seems to hate David Byrne. I don't think I've seen an interview with her where she doesn't launch into some kind of character assassination of him. Once I read her complaining that some of Byrne's solo albums could have been Talking Heads albums, and it was really selfish of Byrne not to cut her and Frantz in on them, jeez Tina I wonder why he doesn't call you?

@crazyralph6386

10 ай бұрын

Who cares? DB is a weirdo anyways.

@YoItsEvanAdams

3 ай бұрын

she once claimed he killed a child in brazil with voodoo

Talk about a phenomenal WOMAN??!!!

I don't think she is underrated at all. Anyone who knows music would hold her in very high esteem. She pathed the way for the likes of women bassists such as Kim Deal, Kim Gordon, Paz Lenchantin and many more. Personally I think the last quote in this video was spot on "If it weren't for Tina Weymouth, Talking Heads would be just another band"

How many rock musicians have an "academic training"? Being formally self-taught is just as valid as being "academically trained."

I’m female, so context…. Weymouth was not officially accepted into the band, and the writer of this video claims that she says it was because she was female. Then goes onto to say that she doesn’t actually know how to play the bass. So… WTF?

@hlowrylong

4 ай бұрын

@thermodynamics5951 But she didn’t actually play an instrument. That’s far more critical to being accepted as a band member than her gender. Evidently she learned the bass and all was fine.

I have no idea why David Byrne spent half of his professional life stating Martina Weymouth wasn't a skilled enough musician. Dude, really? And it was with the complicity of producer Brian Eno that he hired B.C. Jones to play on Remain In Light, both the album and the tour (although sometimes Jones would also nicely slap his bass, a technique Tina doesn't [know how to] use). But then again, what can you expect from a guy who said he used to have Asperger autism but has eventually overcame it!? Sure, Dave, like it's the flu, right? And don't get me started on royalties. One day TH manager told Chris & Tina that Tom Tom Club were #1 in whatever chart. Byrne looked outside the Rolls Royce window pretending he hadn't heard the news, only not to greet his two mates. Too bad cause I really admire the man as an artist but, gee...

Psycho killer was written by the group. Byrne always tried to take credit for everything.

Noooo my brother, Lil Ellen Alaverdyan is an icon. She may not have the Production skills but look out.😳👌🏾

It's funny, "the tension", like hello David looks like Ted Bundy's stand in. Then there's Psycho Killer, I mean who writes that? Maybe we should be glad he found a musical outlet 🤣

What is this "underrated" nonsense? Who exactly is doing the rating? Bollocks. Tina Weymouth has $20 million. The bass players who really have an effect on large numbers of young bass players, tend not to be the highly technically proficient cats such as Jaco Pastorious, Stanley Clark, et al, but rather such characters as Tina Weymouth, Jah Wobble, & Sarah Lee. Think about it.

One unfortunate thing that can not be forgotten is that she is a horrible person, she has made several bizarre claims that byrne killed a brazilian child with voodoo, that he has some kind of psychic firewall, and that people should "watch out for that autism". she also tried to kick byrne out of the band in 1980 and replace him with Adrian Belew but belew declined the offer of a band coop.