Here are some new lyrics to “Crazy Nights” by Kiss written by a reader (“Jacko”) about double bassist Guy Tuneh. I thought that those who tune into the blog to check out posts about Guy would enjoy this:
Ciao – I took a “Kiss” song (Crazy Nights) and made my own version:
“(Whoow! Here’s a little story for everybody out there)
People try to take Guy’s soul away, but He doesn’t hear the rap that they all say,
They try to tell him he doesn’t belong, that’s alright, he’s millions strong
This is his music, it makes him proud, this is his Bass and you are his crowdThese are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy people
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazySometimes Bassists are so hard to survive, oh yeah, a million ways to bury you alive, but when Bass go down like a bad bad dream
Guy wound up tight, gotta let off steam
They think they can break Guy again and again, if life is bass-playing, than Guy’s much above!!!These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy people
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy…Yeah, and nobody’s gonna change him, ‘cos that’s who He is, huh!
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy prople
These are crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy bassists..”Maestro, this song is for you and I wish you to know: YOU ARE THE BEST, after you ALL of them are looking like Students!
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Great!
As I said, this is not easy to be a pionner and in this case special!
Look at Kiss, Lady Gaga, M. Jackson – those stars got the same problem: You like it or not and if not they got only enemy hear or there, this way God made those people from other material… however, one is clear they are all become to be a LEGEND in there life time!
I think that Guy is doing it big time (& I dont have any problem to say it – I see Guy and he gives me power to be myself, I dont care what the rest of you would think about! – it looks to me that this is the only way to go after your dream!), he just need to take care of him self…
That was a BIG theme in the German Bass Blog “GEBA” before some days:
Someone compar Guy Tuneh with Alfred Brendel / Lady Gaga and Michelangelo – that they all did or doing IT on there own way, nothing to say about the high-level of performing only the kind of personality that these people have.
Daredevil, fearnaught, tiger, dare-devil & so on…
(for those who can read german, this is the link,
http://www.geba-online.de/forum.php4?action=viewtree&id=25340&pagi_start=13&search=&search_kat_id=&instanz=0
look for “Hen” comments…)
However,
Guy is paying a heavy price for being what he is!
But someone has to do his Job – to be the first to show something new!
Sorry Guy…
P.S – Very good news from Paris, Opps Guy did it again. He got a Wonderful critic from the madia about his playing with his Elite-Chamber-Ensemble.
B.T.W. this Bass blog : “GEBA” , has direct link to your Blog Jason!
great for you!
Tragic… isnt it??!
like with “Jackson” etc, In his life some did him hard time and run after him, and after…
But I think without him being “Tragic” he wouldn’t be what he is.
Well Jason boy, you have it right!
You cann’t get it all.
God give something BUT TAKING something else from us!
For being Talent you have to “pay”, funny isnt it…
& You, Guy D. Tuneh – U make my heart feelin love to music. May God be with U!
Fiddlesticks!
GUY DAVID TUNEH IS THE REAL THING!
this is why some of us are having problem with him.
Also this guy “jacko”…
Jacko is right!
Give Guy a break! I’m sure that he has some things he is doing like everyone of us!
Dear JACKO,
Bad taste Post!
Looks to me like a cheap “Populist” post.
To touch a raw nerve like this, as it is writen in the song; “but He doesn’t hear the krap that they all say,” and I think he sould do the same in this case as well.
Well, its part of being poblic-person…
About Mr. Tuneh’s playing I dont wont to say here anything!
But one is for sure – R E S P E C T !!
The guy is constantly on the fire line, being the boxing sack of the bass world and after all this time and heavy duty, He is still standing!
I would never be able to survive this kind of job under the conditions that Mr G. Tuneh is constantly under! (“easy way/life” is not his middle name!)
Give him a break and try, just try to enjoy from his playing, he is giving so much from him self to the world, amazing that he has so much to give, is it never ending?
This is also one of the reasons to my huge respect to him, to me he is being one of the respected persons in music world!
He gota be from “Iron”…
🙂
And I think that him being constantly the boxing sack of the bass world is NOT REALLY JUSTIFIED, the guy can do…
No Doubt!
How about posting more Videos from Guy, instead of this kine pulp…
Guy Tuneh war immer Symbol für Individualismus. (von Elgar bis zu Rococo u.s.w…). Kein Bassist hast Bogen-Technik wie Er! (Ich dürfte es bei einer Kammerkonzert hautnah erleben – es ist außergewöhnlich und unmenschlich).
Sein stil ist einzigartig deswegen – GENIE!
Das ist sein stil! Er spielt wirklich außergewöhnlich gut, das hört man doch.
Tuneh mach das intuitiv.
Eifach zusagen: Der kerl kann etwas, und auf sehr außergewöhnliche art und weise. Ich weiß, es macht etwas zugeben dass solche Menschen gibts aber so ist das…
L.G. C.
We need this sort of people, like Guy, also!
Its all about courage to be a step a head and going after your dreams.
A. Einstein said once, Imagination is more precious than Knowledge.
It was like this in the past, those to miss understand it, have been always problem-maker!
Classical case of Interaction beetwin innovative individual and middle-level-non innovative ability-society as we become to be today.
What he has to go through, I’m realy not jealous..
Speaking of “Kiss”, God gave Doublebass to Guy – he is just putting it in the soul of everyone.
Guy Tuneh is one of the best bassists out there, but no one? else does what he does with the same passion and charisma!
He is trying to share his gift with everyone.
What’s wrong with that?
Great, they write songs about him…
Its Great!
Hallo Jason, love your blog, its so nice to look inside and have so much good things to read.
(Sorry for my not so good English)
But today I would like to speak about Guy Tuneh, if this is O.K.
We have here in France Ensemble “Les Dissonances”
which was formed by the Star Violin player David Grimal, this LEGENDARY ensemble (which is well knowen as the “Orpheus Orchestra” of europe) which has only “Gusto” members, they are the best de la Best! (Technicaly plus they have a soul of ARTISTS), all of them are Soloists or members of the best Orchestras in europe or “Just” Professors in some of the best music-schools in our side of the globe and so on (one is from the USA…), NO conductor, Yes to innovation, corage and superier way of making music (its like lot of little “Gods” together)!!
They have/had A mega problem to find the right players to every section – and they look for the right people some times for years, this was the case with the Prima-Bassist (they have only One and he has to be everything together…), they try and try so many OUTSTANDING bassists, you name there name, the creme of Europe, all of them did a GREAT job but something was missing.
You don’t call them, they call you!
and then “BOOM” – last year in may they performed
in Paris the complet BACH violin concertos with Maestro Grimal and some other guys from the ensemble (understand – the Tutti players are playing Solo, like all the time…) with this little-chubby bassist (O.k. he is 176 cm and has very good stable compact budy) it was like from other planet! he has so much GREAT ENERGY, he is a fire temperament you never see something like this, stage chrisma – it is not normal.
But for us the audiance in France it was so new becuse he dosent have a Bass sound, it is like a Big violin, you never got to hear this kind of bass sound before, you have to hear it live!
His musical ideas, he has a soul of a Conductor, opera singer and theater-player all in one, and most of all like Hercoles, he has the corage to move some things, he has high-level of perfection and he is not an easy guy, no politic, no crazy EGO like most of the players havs today, direct, clear no games, just doing what is important for the music and the audiance, maybe this is way he has big wide shulter.
Now after ca. one year the ensemble sound got so much better, like the sound is alive.
it has to do with this bassist, before his time they sounded really good but today more than OUTSTANDING!
when he play its like focus, he hold this gruop of 16 people like superman from the under sub sound of his bass – I never saw this kind of bassist and more than that I never saw this kind of playing at all untill that day in last may in Paris.
The madia are just CRAZY about this bassist and every concert of this ensemble is just sold out, tha next concert is in Dijon and I’m allready here in Dijon, I need to see those Amazing players but most of all this phemomenal bassist again.
His name is Guy Tuneh!
So, if someone has a problem with him, YES I can understand, he is one in many 100red years! but as long as NO ONE and I say again NO ONE IN THE BASS WORLD TODAY can do what he can, ALL OF YOU sould just be hush…
thaks again Jason
N.B- like the story about the gig!
It is so sweet.
First time ever that a Bassist is getting such a Song fof him.
So this is Guy Tuneh’s new ensemble:
http://www.cite-musique.fr/francais/evenement.aspx?id=5375 🙂
This Video is before his time there…
Way not to post my reply? is it to long?
@ Mariea:
http://www.resmusica.com/article_7962_recital_les_dissonances_dijon_beethoven_sans_chef_mais_pas_sans_coeur.html
Your comment has a point, the rewiew proofs it!