Best Basslines
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mfin wrote:crispybug2 wrote:thegreatdivide wrote:Bee Gees - Staying Alive
Here's the very good Guy Pratt demonstrating why 'Staying Alive' should not be considered a great bass line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwru3q10LW0
Well found, I was racking my brains to think if the bass line was any good! The overall music is great though isn't it, its all the bassline it needed I spose.
Would be funny if that was the bassline - but it's not! And Pratt - here's some white folks taking the fun out of everything...not ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ISLeHByD-I0 -
Beatles A Day In The Life Taxman
Pink Floyd Money
Ben E King Stand By Me
Abba Name Of The Game Eagle
REM Man On The Moon
Stanley Clarke Schooldays
Stone Roses I Wanna Be Adored
Queen Another One Bites The Dust0 -
Road - Dolan Preffisio
MTB - On-One Inbred
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thegreatdivide wrote:mfin wrote:crispybug2 wrote:thegreatdivide wrote:Bee Gees - Staying Alive
Here's the very good Guy Pratt demonstrating why 'Staying Alive' should not be considered a great bass line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwru3q10LW0
Well found, I was racking my brains to think if the bass line was any good! The overall music is great though isn't it, its all the bassline it needed I spose.
Would be funny if that was the bassline - but it's not! And Pratt - here's some white folks taking the fun out of everything...not ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ISLeHByD-I
It is funny, he's just making a point, the original bass line just isn't much (to me) BUT, like I said, it doesn't have to stand out as great in isolation to suit the song and add to it. Knowing when not to play is as important as knowing when to play, something a lot of technically talented players seem to completely forget sometimes.0 -
mfin wrote:thegreatdivide wrote:mfin wrote:crispybug2 wrote:thegreatdivide wrote:Bee Gees - Staying Alive
Here's the very good Guy Pratt demonstrating why 'Staying Alive' should not be considered a great bass line
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwru3q10LW0
Well found, I was racking my brains to think if the bass line was any good! The overall music is great though isn't it, its all the bassline it needed I spose.
Would be funny if that was the bassline - but it's not! And Pratt - here's some white folks taking the fun out of everything...not ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ISLeHByD-I
It is funny, he's just making a point, the original bass line just isn't much (to me) BUT, like I said, it doesn't have to stand out as great in isolation to suit the song and add to it. Knowing when not to play is as important as knowing when to play, something a lot of technically talented players seem to completely forget sometimes.
Indeed. Kim Deal being a great example. Less is more etc.0 -
Always loved the bit where the bass comes in on the intro to Voodoo Chile . . .
The Jam (Bruce Foxton) had some epic bass lines as did/do the Stone Roses. I have to say I'm a big fan of Pixies bass lines - very simple but somehow made the tracks greater than the sum of their partsWilier Izoard XP0 -
I know some people will slate it, but the Killers have had great bass lines (on their first two albums)0
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Ballysmate wrote:
She's a good player. Jeff Beck I'll never understand though, last 20 years or so all he seems to do is cleverly pull sounds out of a guitar that do absolutely nothing for me, I know a lot of people love his playing, but it seems void of emotion! ...I dunno, I don't get it. (Mind you a lot of technical saturated guitar I don't get, people like Satriani for example, not that Id put him alongside Beck, only in the void of emotion thing, but, to me Joe S is about as impressive as seeing someone type like a rocket, its got nothing to do with real music).
Note, its only my opinion, its difficult to word without sounding like Im just saying Jeff Beck is sh1t.0 -
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Not his best technically, but Entwhistle's bassline on Baba O'Riley must be his most memorable.0
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Black Flag, Six Pack
Queen, Millionaire's Waltz
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Anything by Dirty Loops is worth a listen. Their bass player is something else - for instance, on their cover of Lady Gaga's Just Dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpO7AFMSOJU - but be warned, if you play the bass a bit, you might have a little difficulty in copying what you hear.0
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so many to choose from tbh, from lots of genres and lots of different players, i do always enjoy listening to anything guy pratt does though.....he's just such a classy playerBoardman CX Team
Carerra Crossfire 20 -
Sorry , I'm just bored today.0 -
I will have a think but this was the first i thought of
Waterfront - Simple Minds0 -
the theme tune to Bullitt by Lalo Schifrin"I get paid to make other people suffer on my wheel, how good is that"
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Wicker Man by Iron Maiden0
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Geddy from Rush - YYZ in Rio...
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=B3hJ5-ngUow&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DB3hJ5-ngUow0 -
John Kline wrote:
good call - and these
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h4AOgNJPXE
and on the vitamin b glandular show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_xo4PTI7MAThe dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
I like mesmerising dub bass lines like on th'Orb's Towers of Dub-
(Can only find a vid of the 7" single version, not the bloody wonderful Album version
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http://touch.dailymotion.com/video/xfyi ... -dub_music
I love pretty much everything by Jane's Addiction too, some quality choonage! Three days and Whores spring to mind first.
Fools gold by the Stone Roses is tops.
This Funkin Disco effort from Idris Mohammed is ACE!
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=a96OgR6h ... 96OgR6hjDYInsta: ATEnduranceCoaching
ABCC Cycling Coach0 -
Southern Freeez - Freeez
Waiting For The Weekend - The Vapors
Come Back and Stay - Paul Young0 -
Focus - "Anonymous" from the Focus III album___________________________________________
Titanium Bertoletti0 -
crumbschief wrote:Southern Freeez - Freeez
Waiting For The Weekend - The Vapors
Come Back and Stay - Paul Young
Very eclectic choice there, I like it.0 -
I agree with Nap D, you can't talk about Thee Bass without throwing in Level 42.
Some great ones mentioned here, but I'll throw in ....
....this dirty bass start (first few seconds) of "The Night", by Frankie Vallie and the Four Seasons:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsSoDsxB7Yo
My laptop isn't doing it justice!
...and I LOVE this David Bowie bassline from Heathen-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BYwwCWIGWc
I think Radcliffe and Macone had a "the best Bass line 'eva' vote" and they concuded it was Bernadette by the Four Tops, it's great, but you can't actually hear it on this you tube version:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g_TVRGWcfk
This does it some justice, proper funky, and the original was played 1-fingered by James Jamerson I believe - the Hook!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yBOJH_hZ540 -
anyone heard of Jack Bruce?0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipSspfDNVGc
