Who is the bass player on Seinfeld?

I don't know but Kramer is definitely the drummer!

 

Not if you've built up the strength. The notes that bend would be on the upper strings, which are quite easy to bend. The hard part would be to make it sound as unnatural as that synth!

 

I wonder if he's related to Michael Wolff, the jazz musician who was the band leader of the original "Arsenio Hall Show".

 

This guy?

Michael Wolff - Wikipedia

 

Yeah. Probably not.

 

I just checked and Jonathan is not related to Michael at all.

 

Seinfeld could have turned out very differently, if Jep Epstein, who scored the Pilot, scored the series.

 

This is kind of fun...

 

It's a sitcom whether or not it fits your definition of one. Single-camera comedies done without an audience go back to Leave It to Beaver, Make Room for Daddy, Father Knows Best, and thousand other 1950s shows. It doesn't have to be multi-cam or have a live audience in order to be a sitcom.

Sitcom - Wikipedia

More recently, I would point to Malcom in the Middle, The Office The New Adventures of Old Christine as sitcoms that tried some unusual non-traditional sitcom techniques here and there (even including a quasi-documentary style). The current Modern Family is another example. They all have wildly different styles, but ultimately they're all half-hour comedies.

You can make a good case that The Simpsons is more a sitcom than it is an animated show, and the producers tried very hard in the show's first decade to try to get the TV Academy to agree.

 

I saw that happen at the legendary Sex Pistols show at Randy's Rodeo in San Antonio.
Sid definitely had a swing-and-a-hit at a very "deserving" audience member that night.

 

Don't get me wrong. I can play it. I just don't like that people think it was originally played on a real bass. It's like when people tell me they like my guitar playing. I don't play guitar. I play the bass.

 

You guys are forgetting that "bending" and other effects can be done post-production, after the bass player has recorded the riff...I'm not saying that is what they did for Seinfeld, but it is possible and somebody should try that and see what happens...

 

It was Bob Sakamano.

 

That's basically what the keyboard sound is on Seinfeld. It is real samples of a bass with the player using the pitch bend wheel on the keyboard. It's easier to make it sound like that in real time (and faster) than doing it in post production. Plus, why pitch bend a bass after the fact when it's quite easy to do on a bass in real time? It won't sound fake like the Seinfeld bends, but it's not hard to play bass like that.

 

So it is a real bass, but synthesized?

 

"Sampled" is usually the correct term here. Synthesized is using specific waveforms manipulated to imitate the sound of another instrument.

 

Oops.

 

Who plays bass in the theme for the Charlie Rose Show, I wonder? It always reminded me of Seinfeld.

 

Pretty sure it's Paul Rudd.

 

I always thought it was Charlie Wooten.

 

sampled bass in a digital keyboard bank. It's a canned sound that came with the keyboard the musician who played it used.

 

So it's one of those demo sounds?