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Post subject: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 4:00 pm
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What is your favorite bass lick or bass passage or bass part in a song = and played by whom ?


I'm going to have to go with Jaco and it's proibably the bass solo in the song Havona. That solo is just chilling and fits the song with an outstanding display of virtuosity. Jaco did many great bass parts and solos and it's hard to pick a favorite but Havona is real Modern Jazz uniqueness. So is Donna Lee but we're not talking that....YET!!!!! :D


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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 6:49 pm
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Too tough. There are just too many to choose one, or even ten. We recently started playing Time Won't Let Me by the Outsiders, and I have to admit that is kind of fun. Wild Nights by John Mellencamp is a fun one too. I confess to adding a few riffs to that one.

There are so many, and that is why bass is our chosen tool. I'm happy.

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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 7:11 pm
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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:06 pm
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Ask me tomorrow. My opinion will have changed by then.

Some good lines that stood the test of time as good solid work in no particular order:

"Dance Dance Dance" Beach Boys
"Bernadette" Four Tops
"Money" Pink Floyd
"Boogie Oogie Oogie" A Taste Of Honey
"Wild Night" Van Morrison
"Wild Night" John Mellencamp
"Disco Inferno" Trammps
"Papa Was a Rolling Stone" Temptations
"Midnight Confessions" Grass Roots
"Dazed And Confused" Led Zeppelin
"Another One Bites The Dust" Queen
"Roundabout" Yes
"London Calling" The Clash
"Billie Jean" Michael Jackson
"Theme From Shaft" Issac Hayes
"Suspicious Minds" Elvis Presley
"Good Vibrations" Beach Boys
"Dock Of The Bay" Otis Redding
"Little Green Bag" George Baker Selection
"Crazy Train" Ozzy Osbourne
"Hysteria" Muse
"In The Midnight Hour" Wilson Pickett
"Stand By Me" Ben E. King
"Good Times" Chic
"Taxman" The Beatles
"The Lemon Song" Led Zeppelin
"My Generation" The Who
"Heartbreak Hotel" The Jacksons
"My Girl" The Temptations
"Orion" Metallica
"Under The Boardwalk" The Drifters
"More Today Than Yesterday" Spiral Staircase
"I Can't Turn You Loose" Otis Redding

Take away the bass and most of those songs die. There are many more but that's a few I find very memorable and that I've learned from, been intimidated by or that made me envious of the player's talent. If you are unfamiliar with those tunes they are worth listening to the bass work.


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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:12 pm
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I just listened to the isolated bass track of "Free Bird". It was like a religious experience..hearing it played and recorded so well. There's an improved with added bass version of "Call of Ktulu" online too.

Everything on Led Zeppelin I and II...


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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:15 pm
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I like the part where the things that make the strings tight are.


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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:31 pm
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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 6:29 am
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oxfan wrote:
I like the part where the things that make the strings tight are.


I like the output jack best... :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 7:25 am
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I like the knobs too!

Do the long leather things count?


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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 7:46 am
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oxfan wrote:

Do the long leather things count?


Oooooooh!!
Yes!!
That's my favourite part too!
I saw one with tassels!!
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Does it have to be a song?
How about the opening theme song for the TV show Barney Miller?

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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 9:21 am
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okay class !!!! Let's stay on subject !!! Favorite bass part in what song by who ?? Also I'm going to list some bass players worth checking out- some you may have not heard of but who are very good --


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Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 10:58 am
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stroker vance wrote:
m going to have to go with Jaco and it's proibably the bass solo in the song Havona. That solo is just chilling and fits the song with an outstanding display of virtuosity. Jaco did many great bass parts and solos and it's hard to pick a favorite but Havona is real Modern Jazz uniqueness. So is Donna Lee but we're not talking that....YET!!!!
Havona is simply brilliant as is Donna Lee & Punk Jazz,....... there's just so many bass lines & riffs out there that have made me go Whoah !! it's hard to pick a favorite
though if we start back in the 60's I think we could name a Paul McCartney riff or song/songs on every Beatles album that would of made us pick up the Bass guitar & learn how to play & then the same goes for The Who & Cream & Led Zeppelin ........ John Paul Jones had a lot of tasty riffs..... & he's still doling them out today just check out his work with Josh Homme & Dave Grohl in Them Crooked Vultures from 2009.
Chris Squire has many a riff that has influenced me to .... Roundabout, Long Distance Runaround, the Fish, Seen all good People..(just to name a few) & then there's Geddy Lee from Rush,.... Workingman, Freewill, La Villa Strangiato, YYZ, Vital Signs, Red Barchetta ...so many great bass lines all the way to 2012's Clockwork Angels,.. Geddy keeps the riff's coming & man he's got a killer bass Sound on Clock Work Angels. Stanley Clarke's Night School Album is a Gem as is anything that Marcus Miller has done .....get his Ozell tapes (2 CD live recording) if you're not Familiar with Marcus & also get his 2009 CD Marcus & 2012's Renaissance for some killer Bass... :) I could go on & on... I haven't even mentioned Steve Harris....


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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 12:47 pm
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stroker vance wrote:
okay class !!!! Let's stay on subject !!! Favorite bass part in what song by who ?? Also I'm going to list some bass players worth checking out- some you may have not heard of but who are very good --


By who?? No, you mean The Who, John Entwistle, The Ox, Thunderfingers, Bass Player of the Millenium, only to be unseated, justifiably so, by James Jamerson.

What bass part? in the word of stroker vance, "HA!",

ANYTHING HE DID!!!!!!!!!!!


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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 1:18 pm
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Added one to the playlist about a month ago - rather than using the Roland synth for the bass line, they gave it to me: Hall and Oates, "I can't Go For That." Sounds good and our keyboardist is happy now that he is able to concentrate on the rhythm line and singing.


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Post subject: Re: Your Favorite Bass part
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2013 1:25 pm
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PaducahLuke wrote:
Added one to the playlist about a month ago - rather than using the Roland synth for the bass line, they gave it to me: Hall and Oates, "I can't Go For That." Sounds good and our keyboardist is happy now that he is able to concentrate on the rhythm line and singing.



Love this version :arrow:

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