Mike Rutherford – Bass
A massively underrated bass player, transcribing Rutherford’s lines has revealed a creativity that is matched by few. There are sections on this tune that require an astonishing facility and it will be a struggle for people to get the articulation without using a pick, but using a pick requires a level of technique that some guitar players don’ have. And all whilst alternating 7:8 and 6:8 bars. This stuff is HARD!
Disclaimer – there are a couple of bars where I am not totally convinced I have got it right.
Rutherford’s complete bass part to the tune ‘Robbery, Assault and Battery’ from the 1976 Genesis album, ‘A Trick Of The Tail’.