Guy Pratt Lockdown Licks Ep 11 Hold Back the Dawn Robbie Robertson
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I hope Guy never gets out of quarantine, so I can selfishly keep watching his brilliance.
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Really Great! - 3 for the price of 1 - Robbie is revered up here in Canada like Gilmour in the UK. Our king of music. Thanks Guy.
Ohhhh, this and "Night Parade" so good.
Guy, the music and playing is world class and the back story on this and the times surrounding the stories of when you made these records is priceless. Fly on the wall of a master class.
This along with Toy Matinee and several other records from that time frame (Simple Minds, Tears for Fears, Peter Gabriel) came out around the same time I moved to Nashville. I knew some of them but mostly the singles rather than the entire projects. I was introduced to all of this from many of my new musician friends and discovered all kinds of different artists and styles I didn't grow up listening to but quickly became staples in my music repertoire and library.
RIP Robbie Robertson - Love your story about him Guy ❤
"It's so me trying to be Tony Levin." I actually thought it WAS Tony Levin all these years. Love this song. Great job!
That Status fretless is gorgeous...both in sound and appearance. Love it!
Storyville is one of my all time favorite albums. Thanks for featuring this.
3 Pratt pour le prix d' 1 Génial ! ET VOILA ..... un grand Merci de France !
Never heard this song in my 50 years, its a beautiful melodic song. To my ears almost a cross between Deacon Blue and Phil Collins. Great video Guy and amazing playing as always.
Anytime Guy mentions (much less performs!) Toy Matinee I nearly tear up due to my unabashed love for every aspect of that perfect album! Guy mentions his work with Icehouse, I literally get goosebumps in anticipation (one of my top 5 favorite bands of all time). Thank you for forcing me to smile in such challenging times!
Mr. Pratt, thank you very much for your inspiring videos. You are living proof that the bass players are the coolest ones in the band (I’m bass player myself) Huge regards from Montenegro! Great stuff!!!
Wow! I love Storyville by Robbie Robertson. Got it all those years ago and still listen to it daily. What a track Hold Back The Dawn is. To see 3 basses on one track was special. Thanks so much. Loving all your videos. So looking forward to the next one! Stay safe!👍
Watching this I feel that your "waffling" is to me like Robbie's Story Hour was to you. It's absolutely amazing how you manage to make bass videos where the actual bass playing is the "boring bit".
great editing by Andrew Evans! just thought he deserves a mention!
Thank you Guy. I think this is my favourite of the LDL videos so far. Great editing too. I have always loved Robbie’s solo albums, I know this song so well and confess I had forgotten it was you playing. Superb, thank you!
Hi Guy, been following this series with great interest! As the bass player in a Pink Floyd Tribute, it's been like a fabulous free lesson programme! Thank you! But this one is the dog doodaas Guy, I loved this album from the day it came out, and your playing! Forget that Levin bloke, you are the man! :) David
excellent!! i enjoyed that so much! that fretless bass is just excellent!!
Guy you must be the ultimate name dropper! It’d be great to meet just a few of the people you have worked with. Nice Bass! ICEHOUSE, Yeah!
Guy, both you and Leland Sklar have the best stories! And that Status is one COOL bass!!
Great playing dude remember watching Robbie doing the weight at servile expo 1992 😊😊😊
Beautiful playing Guy and construction of parts.
A smorgasbord of bass. 12 f**king strings of joy! Bravo sir. Bravo. ❤
Guy you are so funny! I could listen to you talk all day. Love your work!
Just had to buy a Musicman Stingray after watching your Queen of Misery vid....so, thanks for that Guy!!!
So much to love in this vid - loads of waffle, tons of bass, huge thanks for sharing.
At last! The Status fretless ♥ Fantastic to see it up close. Back in 1990 or so I was always desperately trying to catch a glimpse of it on the Venice and Delicate Sound vids - the "On The Turning Away" bass 😊 and here it is in all its maple and graphite glory. Nice one!
Guy, thank you for doing these videos in these strange times we live. I’m really enjoying the stories and watching you play.
I love the sound of that Fretless and how you mixed the three basses together.
One minute I'm cacking myself laughing at the waffle, next I'm almost in tears at the spine-tingling song! I've got to say Lockdown Licks has been the second best thing to come out of the coronavirus pandemic! Thanks Guy.
Love the 80's basses - can't get much more 80's than a Status, ace stuff.
Yes Icehouse!! Woohoo look forward to it :)
Just presented my husband with a copy of your book Guy, can't get a bloody word out of him, cheers.
Storyville is indeed a great album and the album before as you said was magnificent... ranked in the top 100 greatest albums of the 80’s by Rolling Stone. Music fans, ya gotta hear it. Then listen to Storyville... a great follow up. Me being a Canadian we took Robbie for granted because radio stations here play 35% Canadian music by law and we get sick of our great international artists... we still hear The Weight to this day... daily 🤨. Thanks Guy!
Beautiful!! 3 basses on the same song, what's not to love about that.
Wow. What a great song, I did not know it. So now I am waiting for more to come.
R.I.P Robbie Robertson. Love his first solo album. U2 is on one of the tracks... and Manu Katché on drums. Huge!
Hope you got paid three times ;-) Loving the series..
That was lovely, a beautiful track and well done on mixing the 3 parts. It may have already been said, apologies if so,but I see a 2/3 part, BBC4 Music documentary here. It could be focused on your career Guy and include your influences too. Sadly, I'm not a commissioning editor,so don't have the power. If anyone reading this has some influence, feel free to use my idea. All the best to you.
can't wait for stay close tonight!!
anything Robbie does is amazing... his first record had Tony Levin on Stick... THis was great Guy!!! Love you videos!
Gorgeous Status. I prefer the look of the early 80s ones. So classy.
Ooh, that was lovely. My favourite GPLL so far.Heart warming.
I love the way that Betsie just takes it easy and basically plays harmonics all the way through.
I have watched all your lockdown lick vids and this is my favourite, so far.
Excellent video Guy, the playing, the editing, the waffle, just brilliant!! Hadn't heard that song before, another album to explore. Half way through your book at the moment and managed to find a copy of the Toy Matinee cd which is fantastic. Keep finding myself looking at Music Man basses online, you're costing me a fortune!!
Favourite vid so far Guy. All 3 basses sound beautiful, fantastic playing and beautiful song. I brought a copy of your book last week for farthers day and read it in 3 days! shhh! I havent told the kids as i was supposed to wait for the said special day! oops! I am in complete awe of your mad,fantastic, star studied, rock n roll life and achievments. Being able to hang with the people you have and still do, and to be able to walk down the road to get a news paper and a loaf and not get recognised, is the perfect life! I laughed all the way through the book, couldnt put it down, amazimg stories, How are you still alive! Your a party animal and now my fav bass player. Rock on. see ya next vid.x
The first time i ever heard a fretless bass was back in 1982 on a Gary Numan album (I Assassin) and it was Pino Palladino, i just love the sound of a fretless bass, they're amazing!!
Brilliant as usual Mr Pratt hahaha love the status but love Betsy too, great sessions keeping us sane old chap,, take care
Brino x
just ordered My Bass and other Animals, i get it tomorrow!
It’s a fantastic book. If you like these videos you’ll love it! ☺️
I love your American impression so cool saw you play live in 88 wow the years thanks for all the great bass lines and grooves I jam a lot to your music and always have fun
A beautiful showcase of the different ways bass can be used in a song.
What a beautiful mix of textures, masterful stuff!
Thanks again Guy. Not only do these videos keep me ‘sane’ with what’s going on in the world they also open new music to my ears I might not necessarily have heard before! How difficult was it editing this video ?
Damn Guy, these videos of yours will be my ruin some day. I always have to go and buy the stuff you play (you made me a huge Kevin Gilbert fan a few weeks ago and now you did it again with Robbie Roberts). Thanks for the cool and really funny videos and those absolutely stunning tracks! I get to know so much inspirational music it makes this bloody virus worthwhile…
Super track- bass central. Roll on Icehouse. “Stay Close Tonight” has your vibe all over it. Cheers for the upbeat banter, wonderful waffle and effortless play. You da man!
Always been a big fan and thanks for introducing me to this and Toy matinee.
In my early twenties (when I was trying to make my festival happen - pipe dream) i was very blessed to get invited (open invitation, I went every week for over a year, I can't totally remember how long I went if it was 1 year or longer then 1 year but definitely did do a full year of once a week) to these private roots & blues jams that were happening in the back of The Art of Steel. The Art of Steel was interesting because they were hooked into the movie industry providing alot of services & props etc, very well connected people who were rubbing elbows with celebrities in much the same way you talk about, but you know, the legends (not the ''no one gives a fuck about Kayne West who has any real taste in music'' - what I would consider celebrities who didn't earn it, dont' have the talent to back it) which is relevant cause it makes for really interesting life stories. Anyhoo, so they had a ton of session players (not just session players but definitely a large %) who had worked with huge names who would attend the jams; it was by invitation only but if you got invited to attend it reflected being on a certain calibre of skill & talent, intellect; might sound snobby but it wasn't that at all, they just wanted to jam with the cream of the crop so to speak because when you're jamming with that calibre of musicians it goes to a whole other level that I literally have never seen at any other jams since then; there was true magick happening not to mention by working with such skilled talented people it stimulates everyone & helps each person reach their truer potential in a way you can't do else where. Being so young it was particularly mind blowing. Anyways I remember this oldtymer, he was a bit overweight & probably close to Paul McCartney's age that showed up once in a blue moon that people would make a fuss over because he had amazing stories to tell about the albums he worked on, most notably he was one of the session players who worked with the Beatles before they split up; on more then one occasion. I don't remember the fellows name. But anyways; you remind me of the people I used to meet at those sessions. I just felt like sharing that random thought sequence; not sure what you will get out of what I just shared but it's my way of relating. I wish I could go to jams like that again; I love listening to people's stories & the jams are always so invigorating & inspiring; I was alot more productive on the time between each session then I would have been without that regularity that those jams created in my life at that time. I have tried to find it again but have not found what I was really looking for in that regards here in Montreal. I used to art jam at The Art of Steel jams; and would sometimes sing; everyone there knew I had terrible stage fright so they created a safe space to help me try to work my way out of my shell and the regularity of going for a year made such a difference; the last jam they did before it all got shut down I would say was a big break through for me at that time; it's too bad I back peddled in that regards. It took me a long long time to get comfortable expressing myself there & to get the tension out of my voice but by the last jam I succeeded in really showing them what I really was actually capable of which made me feel so much better about myself as before that I felt so shitty from being unable to let it out the way I would/could when I am alone. It was theraputic on so many levels. But the jams got too big at a certain point, the word of mouth in the music industry was really spreading because people had fun & it was just always so positive & so amazing, so much magick; the oldtymers I am still in contact with from that time always talk about how they too have never found anything quite like what we had going then ever since and they all look for it but I guess that kind of synergy & magick is like the wind.... They had to shut it down because they couldn't control it anymore; the invitations about who could be invited was supposed to be controlled by The Art of Steel - people were supposed to ask permission to be able to invite anyone and part of that was because of limited capacity; there were nights when there was 70 people there & if you saw the space, I mean, that would be like trying to fit 70 people into my apartment.... Started to have problems with the cops trying to shut us down, then the movie industry took a nosedive & the owner of The Art of Steel decided to close the business & go to Africa to open an orphanage & work on helping kids. Anyways, maybe I'll be lucky and find that sort of magick again.
Didn't realise you had been involved with so many music icons Guy. Floyd yes but not the countless others. You're a great story teller.
These are great, please keep them coming! I've been a fan since I first started playing guitar in the 90s, I'm amazed (but not surprised!) by not only how much you have contributed to so many people's music over the years, but also by the way you have remained a regular human being, like the rest of us. Humbled, to say the least.
Thanks again for another great song Guy,i am sure Tony levin would love your playing
Superb fretless sound Guy. The bridge looks like some serious hardware
love Robbie's solo stuff!
I’m not a bass player but a massive Pink Floyd and David Gilmour fan. I have loved these videos. Got into Guy’s stuff since seeing Pink Floyd at Earl’s Court in 94. Loving the links these videos give to other music. For example I never knew David Gilmour played on 2 tracks on a Jimmy Nail album! But mostly love the stories and of course the amazing bass playing. Thanks Guy!
No way you were there when they filmed Pulse. I got to see David and Guy in Hollywood 2015. When they had professional filming cameras so I thought they were going to release it as a concert but they did the new one in Pompeii instead. Which obviously I understand. But you seen a show that will live in infamy.
What a great song! Love the use of 3 bass guitars on this track.
Thanks Guy Cheers 👍😎😁
from.liverpool
Superb , great bass and always an entertaining repertoire to match , fab
Great stuff Guy, have been really enjoying these and you've put me onto some splendid tunes I wasn't aware of. Thanks for taking the time to put this all together!
Mate, Waffle on ‘it’s the way you tell’em’. Great sound & vision production values on the Lockdown Licks; especially this one. Still waiting to get a copy of your book, still waiting for the reprint. Sending health and happiness to you. Thank you Sir for ’88 Wembly. H🙏👊🏽
91's Storyville was Awesome! A great follow up to his 87 Debut Solo Release. Hold Back the Dawn was Brilliant. Thank you for giving us so much Behind The Scenes on your work!
And, with the above said, 1985 to 1994, were some of the Very Best (and last IMO) Years of Music Ever Made. So Many Great Songs! Thank you for being a big part of it! Thanks for the Video!
Only got into early-ish Icehouse (that Guy plays on) recently but it's a treat - gorgeous, superbly crafted tracks that have really stood the test of time. Definitely worth exploring imho.
Really looking forward to your next podcast, thanks!
That bought a real smile to my face.
Looking forward to the Icehouse track.
Best thing on the interwebs today! Thanks Guy!
Storyville is one of my favorite albums, and this is a gorgeous track. I'd never really thought about what was happening with the bass parts (or that there were multiple parts), so it was a treat to see how you put all those pieces together. Wonderful stuff--thank you for sharing it!
Was watching delicate sound of thunder last night. What a show. Your bass was epic. Especially one slip. 😁
All 3 of these basses are on it!
Yup. It was weird seeing Betsy with you from the videos you have posted during lockdown. Thank you for all of them, as a massive Pink Floyd fan it's a pleasure to watch :)
Another great video. As an Aussie, I've been hoping there would be some Icehouse work here and looking forward to next week. Thanks Waffles.
Your editor deserves an onscreen credit for keeping the parts separated.
Amazing playing! 🎶And another "must hear" album to get...
Ah Tony Williams one of my all time favourites ..
that really is one of my favourite of Robbies records , ah Just reminds me of Levon Helm another of my fave drummers
Great fun Guy. You're a joy to watch.
Never seen anything quit like it. Awesome Guy! More Spector please!
Canadian here. Yes, Daniel Lanois. If only his genius was in the water. Thanks for mentioning Robbie's stories, that's cool. He acted in tge Carney, if you can't get enough
Beautiful sound that stunning Status. Great 3 bass line.
Status Graphite Bass!! I'm a fan, they're all I play 👌🏿
Greetings from Uganda 🇺🇬👊🏿❤️
Such a great song. Amazing arrangement and playing!
I used to have one of those Ashdown RPM-1 preamps... back when I had a huge bi-amped rig. How times have changed
Just finished your book Guy. Great!
Any chance of another? I'd love to see you do some stuff with my guitar hero and your mate, Johnny Marr.
Oh that is just beautiful, and cool and gorgeous.
That was AWESOME!! Must brush up on my fretless work - good job we’ve got plenty of time on our hands to do such things!
Thank you. Beautiful job on a beautiful song. Makes me what to dig my fretless out of the closet and learn it. If someone knows Steve Bailey maybe challenge him to try doing all 3 parts at the same time.
Please keep these coming. And you are Not waffling, your giving us a history lesson.
Yes! One of my favourite albums! That’s where I first picked up on your playing: I’d only been playing bass a couple of years when this came out and I bought it because I loved all things New Orleans, and the city and its musicians were obviously a huge influence on this album. But I remember hearing the bass on this album and thinking, ‘Damn, that’s some cool bass playing, I wonder who that is!’ And I’ve been following your work ever since! 😊
Days are simply way better with you round 😉 thx and keep on rocking
Ashdown RPM1 and a lovely status bass :)
that fretless tone and your playing is superb.
Many thanks for doing these videos
Not sure which bass sounds best in that song. All have their own merits. Great song and off to google Storyville album. I'm buying albums from bands i'd never heard of before. Nice added bonus.
Lovely playing Guy. Got to get me a fretless now,meant to years ago. I bet you heard some stuff about the late great Rick Danko from Robbie! What a great singer and bass player he was. Thanks again.
Amazing! Wow no words! That fretless sounds amazing in your hands! Thank you for sharing!!
That was so relaxing , didn't know this song so thanks again for sharing.
Great playing and a wonderful feel!!!
You know, I just want to say that you have really good energy. Like you and the rest of the Saucer's band all of you give off the vibe of just good intentions and ethical, you have an ethical energy is the only way i can explain it. I just think it's really lovely to see someone who exudes goodness. You all come across as down to earth & humble too; which is something else I appreciate.
Measure for Measure : On "Paradise" song, it sound like a fretless ... The sound is beautiful ! A demo on "Spanish Gold" should be great ! The bass line is terrific !
Damn, kinda speechless at your imaginative use of three basses. Beautiful!