Celebration of "Soul Searchin"

[UndertheWire]

Glenn plays bass. I've seen it mentioned by Glenn, Timothy and Jack Tempchin. He even had a "signature" bass guitar.

Glenn has also said that he uses a drum machine at the start and then usually replaces it later with real drums. I haven't seen him mention playing the drums himself, though.

[chaim]

Glenn plays bass. I've seen it mentioned by Glenn, Timothy and Jack Tempchin. He even had a "signature" bass guitar.

Glenn has also said that he uses a drum machine at the start and then usually replaces it later with real drums. I haven't seen him mention playing the drums himself, though.

It's just that some of those bass parts sound like a keyboard to me (Working Man, and perhaps True Love). But of course it can be a combination of both. But then again, at the moment I listen to music with an exceptionally poor "sound system", so I can "hear" something that isn't even there.

[UndertheWire]

You may be right. I'm not listening closely.

[chaim]

You may be right. I'm not listening closely.

I'm not either, but when Working Man starts, a very mechanic sounding bass seems to jump out of my "speakers". Funnily enough I don't remember paying attention to possible synth basses or possible drums machines when I listened to this album in my teens.

[VAisForEagleLovers]

I'm not either, but when Working Man starts, a very mechanic sounding bass seems to jump out of my "speakers". Funnily enough I don't remember paying attention to possible synth basses or possible drums machines when I listened to this album in my teens.

Unfortunately, synthetic everything was very popular back then. A lot of artists did it. It eventually led to today's propensity to create 'music' with a computer.

[chaim]

Unfortunately, synthetic everything was very popular back then. A lot of artists did it. It eventually led to today's propensity to create 'music' with a computer.

Yeah. And I actually dig synthetic sounds if the song was written with a synthetic sound in mind. But a song like Working Man would work better IMO with a raw rock band sound (see Out Of Control)

EDIT:

It is possible, of course, that if some songs were "really organic" and raw productionwise, they would sound out of place on the album.

[VAisForEagleLovers]

27 years ago today!!

[Ive always been a dreamer]

HAPPY 27TH ANNIVERSARY SOUL SEARCHIN'!!!

Here's the album's back cover with poor Sugar doing some soul searchin ...



Also, I usually really enjoy the liner notes from Glenn's solo albums - a lot of his personality comes out. Here's a link to the ones from this album that Soda transcribed for those who may not have seen them already ...

http://glennfreyonline.com/solo/soul...linernotes.htm

[UndertheWire]

The liner notes and the bit he wrote for the Selected Works box set, give me hope for his memoirs. They could be fun.

Happy Birthday to "Soul Searchin'". At 27, you're just a young 'un.

[AlreadyGone95]

Happy anniversary Soul Searchin'

If today wasn't such a busy day, I'd do a song by song ranking. I think that I'd rank Soul Searchin 3rd on my list of Glenn's solo albums. My favorites are: Soul Searchin, True Love, Working Man, and Living Right. (Mostly because of the fantastic Live in Dublin version)