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<<Yep. The track is "Better Off Without You" on Rypdal's 1975 album "Odyssey". Cool track. It's also on ECM's Terje Rypdal "Works" CD from 1985. I was not aware that the bass playing was Rypdal's on that track. I'd always sortta figured it was whoever his bassist was (Sveinung Hovensjų). >> Well, it comes as no surprise to find out there are so many Rypdal fans on this list, myself included. I got into him back in high school, which was in the late 80's. I not quite sure how I first heard of his name, or which album I heard first. I do remember reading a review of the album he did with cellist David Darling, Eos, in Guitar Player. It was described as a "soundtrack to a movie about a cold, lonely place". THAT caught my attention right there, and I remember borrowing Eos from the library (that solo guitar thing that opens that album really knocked my socks off), though I can't remember if I ended up buying any of Rypdal's other albums before that. I think the first one I bought was my double LP copy of Odyssey. And then, basically, I started buying all of the stuff I could find by him, when I had the money. There were a couple I saw that I never got (like the second Rypdal/DeJohnette/Vitous album) but most of the Rypdal albums I saw in the stores, I ended up taking home with me. As I understand it, a few of the LP's I have never came out on CD. My favorite track from him would probably be Ballade, off Odyssey, where he alternates that beautiful trombone melody with the burning guitar solo, and I also like Per Ulv and Stenskoven (both on Waves) and There Is A Hot Lady In My Room And I Need A Drink off The Singles Collection. Anyway, getting back to the six bass playing on Odyssey, I always assumed it was all done by the bassist who played on that album, Sveinung Hovensjo (I don't know how to make the o with the line going through it on the computer, sorry). He's credited with 4 and 6 string bass, so whenever I heard something that sounded like a 6 string bass, I always assumed it was him. Also, am I the only one who has been disappointed that ECM left Rolling Stone off the CD reissue of Odyssey? They would have had to make it a double CD, sure, but they could have filled out the second with bonus tracks from that era (I know for the fact there's at least some decent quality live recordings in existence from that era, I know of live takes of Rolling Stone and Ballade that could be used, and who knows if there's any unreleased studio stuff that could also be included). ===== May you never thirst! The Scuba Diver Presently Known As Chris "What do you get when you give a yo-yo to a flock of flamingos?"-James Earl Jones __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/