Let’s Rally Gang - an update on our Bad Ass Bass Gal @PamPurrs

[autumnsdad1990]

Sorry about your dad, brother.

[MikeC]

Lost my Dad years ago.

Smile when you remember your Dad. You’ll feel him smile back.

[JerryP]

Sorry to hear about your dad @athosmr2003 .

[eric.kiser]

Man, sorry to hear about your dad @athosmr2003 .
My condolences to you and your family.

[Mac]

Sorry for your loss @athosmr2003

[John_E]

Hey @PamPurrs …

I was going back to the very beginning of the Post Your Covers thread to listen to some of the very first covers in the forum and found some fun things…

Oct 2019…

A bit shy of 2 years later, you are teaching the enitre forum how to do it!
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Then you broke up the boys club and became the first female bassist to post a cover here.
It took me a while of scrolling but then I found 1 year later your first recorded cover (audio only).

@PamPurrs

Well @terb, I have finally come out of my shell and will post a cover on your thread. I know it’s been over a year since you started this thread, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. Plus, I don’t think most people here like the same music I like.

Anyway, last night I was driving home from a dinner and listening to Pandora when the song “Sunday Morning” by Maroon 5 came on. Most people here aren’t even old enough to remember that song, but when it was on the charts, I was in a hot relationship and this was our favorite song.
So, today, I downloaded the song from Amazon, got the chords from Chordify, and away I went trying to improvise a bassline to it. After a couple dry runs, I fired up the record button on Reaper, and did my first take. I figured it would take several tries to get a halfway decent recording of it.
Much to my surprise the first take wasn’t too bad, so I decided to just go with it. It’s very minimalistic, nothing fancy, and not trying to dominate the song. As my bass coach always told me, “serve the tune”. That’s what I did. I realize I could probably come up with a more creative bassline if I spent more time, but to be honest, I’d rather just get back to practicing and improving my technique.

If it matters, I played it on my Yamaha BB735 with tapewound strings.

(Unfortunately, Soundcloud removed it within minutes after I uploaded it, so I had to put it on my own website)

Here it is

And it was a really good one too!

Same month you add in video…in a very big way of course, blowing everyone else’s video productions out of the water…

@PamPurrs

I chose to learn this song and record a cover of it, not so much because of the challenge, but because I simply think this is one of the most beautiful blues ballads ever (I hope I didn’t screw it up too badly).
It’s 6:12 long, which accomplished a couple things for me: (1) I proved to myself I could learn a song by ear (2) proved, even at my age, I could memorize a long song (3) proved, at my age, I could stand and play a song for over 6 minutes.

Please watch the entire video as I pay a tribute to Gary Moore during his incredible guitar solo at the end.

Still Got the Blues
Gary Moore

Bass played on a Yamaha BB735 with LaBella flatwounds.
PEDALS: Compressor, Tube Screamer, and Reverb.
https://pampurrs.com/pam_s_music/still-got-the-blues/

It is really fun going back and watching everyone’s progression.

[papkerry]

My condolences for your loss

[howard]

@John_E

It is really fun going back and watching everyone’s progression.

It’s one of my favorite threads on the forum just for this reason.

[eric.kiser]

Oh man, John. That’s a great find!

This goes to show why Pam has the BadAssBassGal moniker. She started from absolute zero and built her knowledge and skill up from nothing. But she did it with a level of tenacity and dedication that is like very few people I have ever known. Throughout it all, she fearlessly asked any and every question she had. No matter how small or how complicated. I hope all of our newer bassist feel just as comfortable doing that.

She is a testament to what you can accomplish by being a great student, but when she had outpaced what she could learn here she didn’t leave. She stayed around and shared what she has learned and has acted as an inspiration and mentor for many others. Me included.
And that’s pretty Bad Ass.

I hope all goes well @PamPurrs . Otherwise, you will be sorely missed around here.

[Wombat-metal]

Sorry to hear this. My heart goes out to you and your family

[TNKA36]

Sorry to hear of your loss,
Cheers Brian

[athosmr2003]

Thank you everyone! I’ll see you on Sunday!

Scott

[PamPurrs]

@John_E thank you for that walk down memory lane. You along with everyone else on this forum continue to inspire me and give me the strength to fight this cancer so I can come back and post more covers.

[howard]

That’s the spirit!

[kristine]

Y’all make it look easy, @PamPurrs and @John_E

[John_E]

@kristine

Y’all make it look easy

Your first cover was GREAT, so so did you!

[HowlinDawg]

+1

[howard]

@John_E

@kristine

Y’all make it look easy

Your first cover was GREAT, so so did you!

Yeah definitely!

[itsratso]

i have always thought that pam progressed so much faster than almost all of us is because she put in a hellacious amount of work at it

i aint got no energy for that, OTOH

[chordsykat]

We got you, @PamPurrs – Just do your best with how you’re feeling every day. Always a pleasure to read things from you, whether they’re full covers you’ve recorded, or simply how your day’s going.

And @athosmr2003 – very sorry to hear of your loss. We’re all here in solidarity for one another and if there’s anything you need as you grieve your father, just say the word.