Good sweet baby jesus...

I just saw Burt Bacharach on “Later w/ Jools Holland” (it’s obviously a c. 2005 episode) with Rufus Wainwright, doing “Go Ask Shakespeare” off Burt’s “At This Time” album. Now, up front, I don’t care for mid-tempo love pap one tiny bit. And I don’t care for Rufus Wainwright the other tiny bit. However, I have two questions:

1. Who was the bass player at that gig? I assume it’s the same one on the album.

2. What the fuck was up with his tone? It was a large helping of pwncakes covered in awesome sauce. It was completely off the hook, the best live bass sound I’ve ever heard. The sound on the Jools Holland show is uniformly spectacular to begin with, but this bass sound just grabbed me by the ears and jammed its knee in to my face. Holy shit.

Now, caveat: I’ve listened to the album version, and it isn’t near as huge. Anyone know who that guy is and how he gets that shit? Must… have… now…