Omer Plays Bass . . . Bryan Adams - Run To You (bass cover)

Omer Plays Bass . . . Bryan Adams - Run To You (bass cover)  Bass by Dave Taylor Bass Used in this Video: Dingwall Super PJ     Hope you have a look and if you do, don’t forget to click 'Like" and subscribe to the channel   Learning to play bass in my early teens in the age of the emergence of heavier music (of course not nearly as heavy today - what was heavy then might pass for pop music today) bass playing in those genres was, some of the time, solid and very interesting, sometimes flashy that was hard to learn and play and more often a bit plodding and following whatever the rhythm guitar player was playing and just playing the root - not overly interesting. That stuff was great to learn to play and learn from - in most cases not hard so you could really advance quickly, before moving to more difficult songs and parts, but not inspiring to progress from as a player.  As I progressed, I started to be able to play more difficult songs as well as discover songs, bands and players in other genres that offered cool parts and new learning opportunities. Eventually came the revelation that you could be melodic and move around the neck without trying to be a soloist and keep holding down the bottom end. Some of this came from the heavier music I was listing to but frankly most of it came from other genres. There were alot of examples of this - John Taylor (Duran), Derek Forbes (Simple Minds), Garry Beers (INXS), Ben Orr (The Cars). A couple of great examples of this included my friend Jay Semko, and his great playing with the Northern Pikes, with 'Wait for Me’ a great example of this that I did a video for and discussed    • Omer Plays Bass . . . The Northern Pikes -...   and Dave Taylor from the Bryan Adams band (on alot of tracks off "Cuts Like a Knife" and “Reckless” through his 16 year tenure with Adams). In the ‘80s, in Canadian music there was not an artist bigger than Bryan Adams. He really put the time in and capitalized on his talent with a great songwriting partner in Jim Vallance, a super band featuring, along with Taylor on bass - Keith Scott on guitar, Mickey Curry and Pat Stewart on drums and Tommy Mandel on keyboards and great production from Bob Clearmountain - in part creating that Vancouver sound at Little Mountain Studios that became very coveted by artists and bands in the ‘80s and into the '90s.  From 1982 into the 1990s, Adams was on his game and pumping out the hits - I wrote a bit about him in my Roger Waters video for ‘Young Lust’ which Adams sang on    • Omer Plays Bass . . . Roger Waters w/ Brya...  .  This track, ‘Run To You’ from “Reckless”, was released in October 1984 and was a massive hit hitting #1 with solid production, great playing, a big sing-along chorus and a great video. It also features one of my favourite guitar tones in the middle after the solo - a Strat through a heavily compressed Jazz Chorus JC-120. The bass part moves around alot with variations on the theme particularly at the end. Taylor has mentioned in interviews that Adams and Vallance would often come in with the parts set so he would play that as a bass player would with great tone that really provided the drive on many of these classic tracks.  The bass part on this track is not an overly difficult part just one that moves around and needs to be played exactly as it is because it’s the foundation of the song. Lots of variation throughout and the end is where Taylor really picks it up and moves the part around with those variations which got tricky to remember the order and still hit the part correctly. It was a great example of what I was learning - very melodic with being “solo-y” holding the bottom and driving the rhythm, playing off the melody and the track gets really interesting both to play and to listen to - a real standout and feature on the song. A real revelation for a young bass player at the time trying to get good. I remember seeing Adams on the Reckless tour in 1985 - one of the first concerts I’d been to - and it was a show I remember to this day.   Disclaimer: I am not saying this is exactly how Dave Taylor played this song, but it is how I would play it if I was playing it at a gig.    For more bass cover videos by Omer visit:  www.omer.com/youtube www.facebook.com/oalkatib www.instagram.com/omer_alkatib www.twitter.com/omeralkatib