What is your favorite bassline?

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by scottT » Wed Jul 18, 2018 4:33 pm

MechaBulletBill wrote:
Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:31 am
New Order are much better, I really don't care much for JD.
When I bought Substance I started learning all the bass lines off of it. So driving and out front. Who could resist? My little group who did covers played their remake of "Ceremony". A lot of people did I guess.
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Of late have also been enjoying Carol Kaye’s bass work.


I love that pick funk thing she did like on Hikky Burr and Boogaloo from a solo album.

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by lefty » Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:07 am

The sound and feel on the Melody Nelson LP is amazing, be it Dave Richmond or Herbie Flowers. It certainly inspired a lot of music through the years I like now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AznHU0c ... rt_radio=1

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Unicorn Warrior » Fri Jul 20, 2018 4:58 pm

The Cure's "Love Cats"

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by raindog13 » Sun Aug 05, 2018 10:52 am

The Stooges - Dirt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEk3mcnavow

Hands down my favorite bass part to play! That groove... :?

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by scottT » Sun Aug 05, 2018 2:15 pm

Fun House is my favorite Stooges album, and one of my favorite albums period. Good call. Brutal bass riffs all over the place.

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by raindog13 » Sun Aug 05, 2018 4:33 pm

scottT wrote:
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Fun House is my favorite Stooges album, and one of my favorite albums period. Good call. Brutal bass riffs all over the place.
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I always have a hard time picking my favorite; most often it happens to be the one I last listened to. But Fun House... there's just something about that record...

If anarchy had a soundtrack, it'd be Fun House.

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by leokula » Mon Aug 06, 2018 5:12 am

Beastie Boys - Sabotage
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:21 pm

i'm amazed i never posted here before seeing as i was an active bass player for many many many years. well here is a short list.

nice n sleazy - the stranglers (jj burnel was the man who made me pick up bass)
maga dog - peter tosh (my dad was a bass player and always said play along with reggae songs)
psycho killer - talking heads (cleche i know but watching tina play is a fucking joy)
monkey trick - jesus lizard (fucking evil bass tone and a good example of basslines that dance with the guitar)
salad days - minor threat
have you ever - the offspring (david will give me shit for this one but i stand by how greg k was a great example of the perfect bass player for the band)

there is a few others i'll add to that list but right now, im sleepy
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by MechaBulletBill » Sun Aug 12, 2018 6:01 am

Stevie Wonder 'Too High'. Sounds like a rhodes/wurly through an envelope or something

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:33 pm

MechaBulletBill wrote:
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Stevie Wonder 'Too High'. Sounds like a rhodes/wurly through an envelope or something
Was that another Jamerson song? That guy was all over everything. He might be tied with John Entwhistle from The Who for favorite bassist.
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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Maggieo » Thu Aug 16, 2018 11:27 am

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Singlebladepickup » Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:06 pm

Parliament - Give Up the Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWH3OWfT2Y

The "chorus" is kind of played out, but that line where the bass starts...fresh

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by countertext » Thu Aug 23, 2018 3:09 pm

Singlebladepickup wrote:
Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:06 pm
Parliament - Give Up the Funk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWH3OWfT2Y

The "chorus" is kind of played out, but that line where the bass starts...fresh
Do youngsters these days know Bootsy? Is he just that guy at NAMM with the sunglasses and weird bass now? He cut so many amazing bass tracks in the ‘70s. Sometimes they get a little swamped in the mu-tron, but I mean, seriously! Larry Graham, too. I worry that kids don’t dig through the campy fashion to get to the golden nougat at the core of that era of funk.

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by Singlebladepickup » Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:03 pm

He’s a national treasure and the world’s only rhinestone rockstar doll. Yeah bootsy is tha bomb

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Re: What is your favorite bassline?

Post by scottT » Fri Aug 24, 2018 6:09 am

The passing of Aretha Franklin had me thinking about her bassist on so many of her classic recordings and in concert, Jerry Jemmott.

But I'm throwing this soul groove out there since his bass is so out front and so Jerry. Also it's rare that a remake (IMO) blows the original away:

The Voices of East Harlem "For What It's Worth"

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