It’s not eactly a hard bass line. My daughter can play it and she’s 13.
Maybe not, but nothing sounded like it before and I’m not sure of anything else since in a rock/blues song. It’s the innovation of coming up with it in the first place and having the balls to do it. At 17!
This! ^^
A talented youngster can follow a complicated guitar riff or bass-line, or whatever, but, to create the riff, bass-line, solo, in the first place, that’s where the real talent comes in.
You can look at a Mondrian, and think, “bugger, I could do that!”
Yes, anyone could, but ‘anyone’ couldn’t come up with that way of combining the shapes, lines and colours in the first place.
I saw Laura Marling on her first proper tour, fantastic voice, good guitarist, but it was the quality of her songwriting that stood out, at the age of 18-19. Look at Kate Bush, wrote The Man With The Child In His Eyes at 14!
Very sad to hear about Andy, it’s a shame that real differences existed between him and Paul Rogers that prevented them working together to properly re-master the entire Free back-catalogue; the one album of re-mastered tracks is incredibly good.
Without Koss, though, there could never be any kind of Free re-union, the combination of talents in that one band, at their ages, was a one-off.
Sadly, I was too young to ever get to see them live. 😐
RIP, Andy, you’ll be very much missed.