But their most obvious immediate effect was a kind of rhythmic shift: in the wake of their initial success, you suddenly couldn’t move for indie bands who wanted to make their audiences dance. That was Mani’s musical raison d’être. “It’s what the bass and drums are for, aren’t they?” he once averred. “That’s what they’re for.”
There’s a bit on Primal Scream’s live version of Screamadelica, in “Loaded”. Mani’s playing bass for them by this time. And the whole thing simply does swing – as a result of his bass playing – in a way that the recorded version just doesn’t.
I’m afraid I never paid any attention. I’m a Bernard Edwards man, me.
Gutted by the news. Stone Roses have been a staple of my music listening life for over 30 years. So glad I managed to see them in 2012 at one of the reunion gigs in Heaton park, as they’d split by the time I got into them in the early 90s. By complete chance the only ticket I could get was a pretty expensive hospitality one, and it was £400 notes well spent. I was right down at the front in a special fenced off section, it was like watching them in a small venue.