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Background

Palladino began playing bass in 1973, having played the electric guitar for some time before that. His first professional gig was at a local television station, where he began playing in 1978. In 1980, he joined the band of Jools Holland and appeared on the album Jools Holland and the Millionaires.In the 1980s, Palladino became famous playing the fretless bass with many artists including Gary Numan, Paul Young, Richard Ashcroft, David Gilmour, Tears for Fears, and Don Henley. In the 1990s, he favoured fretted basses with Melissa Etheridge, Richard Wright, Elton John, and Eric Clapton. Also in 1991 he joined Paul Rodgers of Bad Company fame, to form the band The Law. A sunburst-colored Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a bass stringed instrument played with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into electrical current, which is then amplified. ... Julian Miles Holland, OBE, DL (born 24 January 1958 in Blackheath, South East London) is an English virtuoso pianist, bandleader, television presenter, architectural eccentric and pop music enthusiast. ... Traditional guitars, and most other stringed instruments, create tones of different heights using the fingers to adjust the length at which the strings vibrate. ... For the video game programmer Garry Newman, see Garrys Mod. ... Paul Antony Young, better known as Paul Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English pop artist. ... Richard Paul Ashcroft is an English singer-songwriter born on September 11, 1971 in Billinge Maternity Hospital in Billinge Higher End, Lancashire (now part of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester). ... David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge) is an English musician best known as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Pink Floyd. ... Tears for Fears are a popular English pop band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith, which emerged after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate. ... Donald Hugh Don Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band Eagles. ... Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961, in Leavenworth, Kansas) is an Academy Award-winning and two-time Grammy Award-winning American rock musician and singer. ... Richard William Rick Wright (born July 28, 1943 in Hatch End, London, England) is a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. ... Sir Elton Hercules[1] John CBE[2] (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. ... Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945), nicknamed Slowhand, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. ... This article is about the musician. ... Bad Company were an English hard rock supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free (Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke), Mott the Hoople (Mick Ralphs) and King Crimson (Boz Burrell). ... The Law The Law were an English rock group formed in 1991 comprising of ex-The Who, Drummer Kenny Jones,and former Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers. ...

In the late 90's, Palladino established himself as the go-to person for session work in a lot of left to center neo soul projects. Most noteable is his basswork on Voodoo for D'angelo, Mama's Gun for Erykah Badu, 1st Born Second for Bilal, Like Water For Chocolate & Electric Circus for Common as well as work for Jazzyfatnastees, Nikka Costa, Talib Kweli, De La Soul, Musiq and countless others. He was a silent member of the Soulquarian production team consisting of D'angelo, James Poyser, ?uestlove, and J Dilla. He, along with Phil Collins, was a member of the house band for the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II, which played with Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Cliff Richard, and Tony Bennett, among others. In spring of 2006, Palladino toured with Jeff Beck. After The Who bassistJohn Entwistle died, Palladino became the fulltime touring bass guitarist and recorded some of the bass parts for The Who's first album in twenty-four years, which was released in October 2006, called Endless Wire. 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In 2003, he played with Simon and Garfunkel on their "Old Friends" reunion tour and he appears on the Old Friends: Live on Stage CD and DVD from the tour. He also plays on Paul Simon's 2006 release, Surprise. He also has worked with John Mayer and Steve Jordan as bassist for the John Mayer Trio and also for Mayer's third solo album Continuum. The duo of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are American popular musicians known collectively as Simon and Garfunkel. ... Paul Frederic Simon (born October 13, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, half of the folk-singing duo Simon and Garfunkel who continues a successful solo career. ... Surprise is an album released in 2006 by Paul Simon. ... John Clayton Mayer (born on October 16, 1977) is an American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Steve Jordan is the drummer in the John Mayer Trio. ... The John Mayer Trio is an American blues rock music group. ... Alternate covers The Local 83 exclusive cover The front cover for the UK version Singles from Continuum Released: August 2006 Released: February 15, 2007 Continuum is singer-songwriter John Mayers award-winning third studio album. ...

Technique

Pino Palladino is considered one of the most noteworthy rock and pop session bass players due to his pioneering use of the fretless bass in many 1980s chart records. While it was typical for a bass guitar in a commercial track to have a rather generic sound and stay "playing the low notes" Palladino turned this on its head with a very recognizable personal sound (combining fretless tone with a octave effect) and highly creative basslines that frequently added chords, lead lines and counter melodies. Typical of this style was his playing on Paul Young's biggest chart hits, in particular his iconic introductory bass solo on Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home). His equipment at that time included a fretless Music Man StingRay and Boss Octave pedal (OC-2). Traditional guitars, and most other stringed instruments, create tones of different heights using the fingers to adjust the length at which the strings vibrate. ... Octave-effect boxes are a type of special effects unit which mix the input signal with a synthesised signal whose musical tone is an octave lower or higher than the original. ... Paul Antony Young, better known as Paul Young (born 17 January 1956) is an English pop artist. ... Wherever I Lay My Hat (Thats My Home) is a song written by Marvin Gaye, Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield, first recorded by Gaye in 1964. ...

References

The Fender Pino Palladino Signature Precision Bass is modeled after two of Pino's Fender Precision basses. The body featuring faded fiesta red paint over desert sand paint is based on Pino's 1961 Precision Bass while the neck shape and round-lam rosewood fret board are based on Pino's 1963 sunburst Precision Bass.

External links

• Pino Palladino's BASSment
• Pino Palladino at All Music Guide
• The Who Location Guide - Guide to historical Who locations in the UK and US.
• The Who Forum - Who news & discussion