What is your favorite bassline?
- UlricvonCatalyst
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
The best bass lines don't need to call for technical expertise, though, as Jah Wobble proves....
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
No Mike Watt yet? I'll go for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysQ1duhNeY
And I'm addicted to Thundercat live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hnfBcE7A7s
And I'm addicted to Thundercat live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hnfBcE7A7s
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Mike Watt/fIREHOSE... Glad you linked these in, incredible bass playing/lines.lefty wrote: ↑Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:11 pmNo Mike Watt yet? I'll go for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysQ1duhNeY
And I'm addicted to Thundercat live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hnfBcE7A7s
Here's my pick of the fIREHOSE bass lines - Relatin' Dudes to Jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeov75xE3-E
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Right now I'd say Smiths, Still Ill.
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Surprised not to see any Bruce Foxton in here yet, so let's do that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4EFDGP4yg
I also really enjoy Steve Smith from the Vapors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNowJK1vDQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf4EFDGP4yg
I also really enjoy Steve Smith from the Vapors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNowJK1vDQA
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
This thread is near and dear to this bass player’s heart! I could probably go for days on this subject but I’ll zero in on two different lines that I both think are pretty amazing, and are light years apart.
The first is Jah Wobbles’ simple repeating line on Visions of You. When I first heard that song, which to this day I’m amazed I heard on regular commercial radio, I was in a maximalist mode as a player and I was too ego driven. So I hear a song that’s carried by an ultra simple repeating line that doesn’t get tiring even as it moves forward, it very much changed how I thought about my own playing. I’ve been a big Wobble fan ever since, altough he got hard to keep up with, and now seems mired in some generic jazz phase that doesn’t click for me. Still, love the guy. His economy of playing, as well as his tone, taught me important things.
https://youtu.be/NHBYXtqmerY
On the other end of things, the last song on Peter Gabriel’s Us album has a Tony Levin line that’s from another dimension. The song is called “Secret Word” and Levin moves between not playing at all, to digging into the absolute bottom end of his range, to these high end counter points that sound like some sort of middle eastern instrument. I’ll never be able to play anything like that but I aspire to have that sort of range, with that good taste.
https://youtu.be/ueefmoV1DYc
And what the hell, I’ll just throw out that when I was a teenager back in the 80s, hearing Hook’s line come in at the start of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures told me I wanted to play bass, and to only ever aspire to play the instrument how I wanted to play it. I now firmly believe Hook is a one-trick pony, but what a trick! I still can’t figure out who the villain is in the current New Order squabbles, but I hope those guys all find some peace with each other some day.
The first is Jah Wobbles’ simple repeating line on Visions of You. When I first heard that song, which to this day I’m amazed I heard on regular commercial radio, I was in a maximalist mode as a player and I was too ego driven. So I hear a song that’s carried by an ultra simple repeating line that doesn’t get tiring even as it moves forward, it very much changed how I thought about my own playing. I’ve been a big Wobble fan ever since, altough he got hard to keep up with, and now seems mired in some generic jazz phase that doesn’t click for me. Still, love the guy. His economy of playing, as well as his tone, taught me important things.
https://youtu.be/NHBYXtqmerY
On the other end of things, the last song on Peter Gabriel’s Us album has a Tony Levin line that’s from another dimension. The song is called “Secret Word” and Levin moves between not playing at all, to digging into the absolute bottom end of his range, to these high end counter points that sound like some sort of middle eastern instrument. I’ll never be able to play anything like that but I aspire to have that sort of range, with that good taste.
https://youtu.be/ueefmoV1DYc
And what the hell, I’ll just throw out that when I was a teenager back in the 80s, hearing Hook’s line come in at the start of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures told me I wanted to play bass, and to only ever aspire to play the instrument how I wanted to play it. I now firmly believe Hook is a one-trick pony, but what a trick! I still can’t figure out who the villain is in the current New Order squabbles, but I hope those guys all find some peace with each other some day.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Some really good songs here!!! And some epic bass lines! For me personally, ANYTHING with James Jamerson does it for me. Zeppelin's Dazed And Confused always gets me too.
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Live At Pompeii)
Probably my favorite bass line/bass tone ever. And with the Binson Echorec on it The 1994 Pulse version is very good too, if you can get past the fact that Guy Pratt plays it more like slap-bass than with a pick. You even get a bit of the Doctor Who theme from Tim Renwick
Dredg - Stationary Transient
Not the most technically impressive bass line, but with the fuzz, sounds fucking epic!!
Shiny Toy Guns - Somewhere To Hide
I don't even care that it's key-bass for most of the song likely. It ALWAYS gets me moving and grooving.
Marvin's Revolt - Siberia
Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Live At Pompeii)
Probably my favorite bass line/bass tone ever. And with the Binson Echorec on it The 1994 Pulse version is very good too, if you can get past the fact that Guy Pratt plays it more like slap-bass than with a pick. You even get a bit of the Doctor Who theme from Tim Renwick
Dredg - Stationary Transient
Not the most technically impressive bass line, but with the fuzz, sounds fucking epic!!
Shiny Toy Guns - Somewhere To Hide
I don't even care that it's key-bass for most of the song likely. It ALWAYS gets me moving and grooving.
Marvin's Revolt - Siberia
Raveonettes - Aly, Walk With Me
Pickup Switching Mad Scientist
http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=104282&p=1438384#p1438384
http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=104282&p=1438384#p1438384
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Every song Wobble played on in PiL, but especially Poptones.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
Lots of Wire (Graham Lewis) tracks have great bass lines. Here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OrxQ5cKaOQ
Love the bass tone Paul Raven got on Killing Joke's Nighttime album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy92Ypkpn6I
And Sigur Ros' Glósóli (from Takk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojLgN7wqc5A&t=117s
Love the bass tone Paul Raven got on Killing Joke's Nighttime album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy92Ypkpn6I
And Sigur Ros' Glósóli (from Takk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojLgN7wqc5A&t=117s
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A toddler could play it* but the first 15 seconds of Supervixens by AR Kane just fucking does it for me, the way it just drops into that hole.
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I always liked the bass in any Nirvana song. Very simple basslines, but the whole loud-quiet thing would not have worked without them. This is especially true for "Heart-Shaped Box", probably the best example, even better than "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
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Jump In The Fire - Harry Nilsson (Herbie Flowers on the bass)
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Perennial favorite has to be Dave Richmond's playing throughout Histoire de Melody Nelson, with Ballade de Melody Nelson being pick of the crop and my favorite bassline of all time by a country mile
Otherwise I tend to gravitate towards more utilitarian basslines, recently I've been enjoying Jaakko Eino Kalevi - No End's plunky shuffle.
Otherwise I tend to gravitate towards more utilitarian basslines, recently I've been enjoying Jaakko Eino Kalevi - No End's plunky shuffle.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?
I came here to post that, too!UlricvonCatalyst wrote: ↑Wed Jun 06, 2018 11:05 pmThere 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.
Pop perfection!
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