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Originally posted by Mandalor
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Originally posted by Tophat665
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I have to heartily disagree...BErry and Phil are of the same era, and the same genre, but definitely not the same style. Both skilled, yes, and the two bands experienced a lot of cross-pollination, but give the older ABB and Dead stuff a listen...two very different bass players.
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OK, I was going to step back on this, but since I've got some support, I'll expound. To me, Barry Oakley was the ABB equivilent of Keith Moon. Not that he was a lifestyle maniac, but there were times when, even though he didn't play a "lead" instrument, he was leading the band. If you listen to The Who when Moon was still alive, everybody would be kind of dithering along, not really doing anything; Moon would make a change and the band would follow him; the same thing happened with the Allman Bros. Oakley controlled the direction that the music took, Duane would take off on what Barry started; "In memory of Elizabeth Reed" is a good example; Oakley setup all the extended solos that Duane did. It may have been rehearsed, but it sure sounds spontanious to me. (And I've been listening to it for 30+ years.)