What is your favorite bassline?
- aliendawg
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What is your favorite bassline?
That's right my fellow OSGers... what is your favorite bassline?
I actually started in music by playing bass. But when I got into guitars my bass (and interest in it) was put aside for a while. I was just playing in when I needed to record something.
Well I realized that was very wrong on my part... To have a bass collecting dust on the corner of my room just seems wrong. I sent it to a tech recently and now it is a fine bass again
So now I'm searching for inspiration! I can't really just keep playing RHCP like I was 10 years ago because I want something new haha
Post your recommendations!!
(A pic of my bass just because threads with pics are way more pleasant to look at)
I actually started in music by playing bass. But when I got into guitars my bass (and interest in it) was put aside for a while. I was just playing in when I needed to record something.
Well I realized that was very wrong on my part... To have a bass collecting dust on the corner of my room just seems wrong. I sent it to a tech recently and now it is a fine bass again
So now I'm searching for inspiration! I can't really just keep playing RHCP like I was 10 years ago because I want something new haha
Post your recommendations!!
(A pic of my bass just because threads with pics are way more pleasant to look at)
Last edited by aliendawg on Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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- Larry Mal
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
The bass line on Primal Scream's version of "Slip Inside This House" is one of my favorites.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Also, Chris Hillman's playing on the Byrds' "So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star" is great.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Shit, I could do this all day. Here's another favorite of mine, James Jamerson on Marvin Gaye's "Right On". Jamerson weaves an ever-changing bass line throughout the song, it's contrapuntal, driving, percussive, all at the same time, he drives the song and dances around it... fucking amazing.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
And here will be my last one, I'm laying in bed with a sick kid, but he's going to sleep soon. This one has a bass solo in it, and one of my favorite bassists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqfqVDHNW6c
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- aliendawg
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Thanks, Larry! I'm listening to them right now! Hope your kid gets better (I find it very cool that you are a proud father online btw!!)
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Deeper Underground is hella fun to play bass to. Clean, dirty, auto wah, synth pedal - it all works.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
cascade - siouxsie & the banshees
- brucer
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Pump It Up - Elvis Costello: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KI9eN-AY1s
The Letter - Joe Cocker (Mad Dogs & Englishmen): https://youtu.be/xhlvQen4mWw
Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs: https://youtu.be/_bpS-cOBK6Q
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop: https://youtu.be/jQvUBf5l7Vw
I Feel Good - James Brown: https://youtu.be/B1wOK9yGUYM
Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers: https://youtu.be/m4tJSn0QtME
Masterful stuff.
The Letter - Joe Cocker (Mad Dogs & Englishmen): https://youtu.be/xhlvQen4mWw
Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs: https://youtu.be/_bpS-cOBK6Q
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop: https://youtu.be/jQvUBf5l7Vw
I Feel Good - James Brown: https://youtu.be/B1wOK9yGUYM
Long Train Running - The Doobie Brothers: https://youtu.be/m4tJSn0QtME
Masterful stuff.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
^^ Yes, Steve Severin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78PsGr5KGg8
Also pretty much anything from Barry Adamson, esp with Magazine ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y05_lyzgzWw
Also Peter Hook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnM9X0IgUmg
Basically the guys that defied rock and roll 'wisdom' and re-defined the bass as a lead instrument IMHO.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
That whole album is filthy with tasty bass.Larry Mal wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:50 pmShit, I could do this all day. Here's another favorite of mine, James Jamerson on Marvin Gaye's "Right On". Jamerson weaves an ever-changing bass line throughout the song, it's contrapuntal, driving, percussive, all at the same time, he drives the song and dances around it... fucking amazing.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
There are lots of great bass lines out there, but few come close to the joie de vivre and danceability of I Want You Back - The Jackson 5.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Sometimes its not the bass line but the bass sound that gets me in
The Flaming Stars - You don't always want what you get
from a long while ago
The Master's Apprentices - Hot Gully Wind
and then there is always this
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
and lets not forget
Sonny and Cher -The beat goes on
The Flaming Stars - You don't always want what you get
from a long while ago
The Master's Apprentices - Hot Gully Wind
and then there is always this
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
and lets not forget
Sonny and Cher -The beat goes on
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
https://youtu.be/ZmPcC3WMZUQ
Lazaretto
https://youtu.be/4_iC0MyIykM
Cissy Strut. I think that this is the 2nd thing that I learned on bass and it is probably the first thing that I play when trying out a bass!
Lazaretto
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Cissy Strut. I think that this is the 2nd thing that I learned on bass and it is probably the first thing that I play when trying out a bass!
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
And then there's Rain.
With so many compelling elements competing for attention, McCartney's bass still shines enough to warrant a listen where you follow its journey through the song. In isolation, the looseness of his playing jumps out at you; this wasn't a studied, carefully rehearsed performance, but a player at the top of his game, doing it on the fly, as he felt it.
With so many compelling elements competing for attention, McCartney's bass still shines enough to warrant a listen where you follow its journey through the song. In isolation, the looseness of his playing jumps out at you; this wasn't a studied, carefully rehearsed performance, but a player at the top of his game, doing it on the fly, as he felt it.