OFF: Great Bassists (was100 Greatest Guitarists)

[Jon Jarrett]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Doug Pearson wrote:

> Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:07:29 -0400
> On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 08:30:45 EDT, RMayo19761 at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> >In a message dated 9/6/2003 3:40:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> >rich at BEERPOWEREDNOISEFRENZY.CO.UK writes:
> >
> >> Ross The Boss
> >
> >...is a guitarist!!
> >joey demayo: bassist in manowar
> >mark mendoza: bassist in dictators
>
> Thanks for the correction, Bob, although it should be noted that Mark just
> filled-in on one 'tators album.  The REAL Dictators bassist was, and still
> is (as of a month or two ago, when I last saw 'em), Andy/Adny Shernoff,
> who *definitely* belongs on the list!  (And is also a fine keyboard
> player, which is what he was doing on the Mendoza-bassed Dictators album.
> And producer.  And *killer* songwriter.  And stands about 8 feet tall in
> his Converse All-Stars.)

        And of course he plays on the version of `Room To Rage' on _To
Helen With Love_ alongside Ross the Boss and indeed Al and Joe Bouchard
and Deb Frost (seems unfair not to mention Jack Secret & Dave
Hirschberg now I've listed everyone else on the song) and so gets us those
much-sought-after connection points... Yours,
                                              Jon

ObCD: Ash Ra Tempel - _Ash Ra Tempel_
--
                Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk/ejarr01 at students.bbk.ac.uk
  "As much as the vision of the blind man improves with the rising sun,
       So too does the intelligence of the fool after good advice."
       (Bishop Theodulf of Orleans, late-eight/early-ninth century)