First of all, not many shots of John during the song. On the few angles where you can see him, he appears to be playing a black six string guitar. Rhythm guitar? If so, who played bass? Morgan Fisher? Or was John playing a six string bass? The strings did not look big enough to be bass strings.
Yes, John played rhythm guitar on this one. Really fun to see that. Everyone went the extra mile on this one. Roger once said it was one of the hardest songs to play drums on.
John indeed played guitar, It's a black Telecaster. And no one played bass. The keyboard bass was play by the additional keyboard player, which was, I think, Morgan Fisher
I remember Roger mentioning Fred Mandel played synth bass in both Staying Power and Body Language, so I wonder what did John do in that one. Perhaps he played another rhythm or he just sat and watched his band-mates play
"Fred Mandel played synth bass in both Staying Power and Body Language, so I wonder what did John do in that one"
Maybe he was miming. Body Language, you know.
I had no idea that John played a guitar on this song. I didn't even know he COULD play the guitar. I watched it last night to check and it seems that he plays some bass-type riffs especially the final shot we see of him (you know, the "Power, Power Gotcha") bit. Thanks for pointing that out.
John plays guitar on a lot of songs (most of the time acoustic or clean electric guitar)
Who needs you
Need your loving Tonight
Misfire
Spread Your Wings
and more!
Ah, the happy hours of my youth spent reading sleeve notes. Any volunteers to type them all up into ID3 tags then we can start re-educating the mp3 generation?
> I watched it last night to check and it seems that he plays some bass-type riffs especially the final shot we see of him
the bass riff is doubled by Brian's rhythm guitar, not by John. What John did was a fast funky rhythm, like the one in 'Cool Cat', although that one is much slower
"Ah, the happy hours of my youth spent reading sleeve notes. Any volunteers to type them all up into ID3 tags then we can start re-educating the mp3 generation?"
Nah, they can just come here to find out anything they need to know about their new mp3s. No need to buy the cd.
And to clear up any misunderstanding about Fisher/Mandel, Mandel was the keyboardist for the US and Japanese legs of the Hot Space tour. Apparently Fisher was afraid of flying, so that's why the Milton Keynes show was his last.