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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1444209687' post='2881075']
2000, I took the family so see that gig.

Midnight Train To Georgia is Bob Babbitt's tone at it's best.
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Good lord, was it 15 years ago? Probably was... Don't know how I managed to get us tickets coz it was clearly the place to be that night. So many slebs slumming it with the hoi polloi. Recall seeing Weller, Ellis Bextor, Ellis (Janet), a glimpse of McCartney, a host of random actors... But that night the band was so very very good (septuagenarian or not). And so cool guest spots too...

And yes, Midnight Train is a great line and great sound.

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[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1444160480' post='2880818']
This is the best bass tone I've ever heard although this is live, actual song starts about 1m 30s in
[media]http://youtu.be/4wsd-vRaVHE[/media]
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Yep.
And JJ Burnell's sound on "Peaches", same gig.

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUoIclrvsPQ"]https://www.youtube....h?v=TUoIclrvsPQ[/url]

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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1444177337' post='2880960']
For me the best tone in bass playing, in no particular order:

Reggie McBride with Keb Mo.

Cornell C Williams with Jon Cleary.

Anything by Bob Babbitt and everything by Nathan East.
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Have to say I like Nathan East's playing but thought his sound at times was borderline poor.
I'll see if I can dig up a few examples.... which is weird since he ends up playing with everyone,
His slap can be very average, IMO.

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The one that gets me every time is Martin Brierly's Rickenbacker on Dave Greenslade's 'Time and Tide' LP (every time 'Animal Farm' appears on my ipod. I also was taken with Jack Bruce's sound on the Cozy Powell 'Over The Top' LP (specifically the track 'Sweet Poison').

The ones I always 'notice', tone-wise, are Chris Squire, Jaco Pastorius, Jimmy Johnson, Percy Jones, Anthony Jackson and Steve Swallow. Double bass wise, it's Charlie Haden that I really think has what I call that 'definitive' sound.

What is surprising, now I think about it (and I haven't really done so before), is that the only one of those that had any impact upon my own concept of tone was the Jack Bruce/Cozy Powell recording. None of the others ever led me to think 'I want to sound like THAT'.

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It's not a tone that I would use in my current band (even if I could get it!) - but this Dave Meros line is just awesome and suits the track so well B)

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pCw3Aw9yyk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pCw3Aw9yyk[/url]

And more progtastic tone-mastery from Jonas Reingold...

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhyJVEtiN4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhyJVEtiN4[/url]

Damn! Why aren't my youtube videos embedding? :(

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[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1444297786' post='2881932']
The one that gets me every time is Martin Brierly's Rickenbacker on Dave Greenslade's 'Time and Tide' LP (every time 'Animal Farm' appears on my ipod.
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Which is why good or bad tone is entirely subjective. As a Greenslade fan there is very little I like about the bass guitar sound on any of the Time and Tide album.

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1444307799' post='2882090']
Which is why good or bad tone is entirely subjective. As a Greenslade fan there is very little I like about the bass guitar sound on any of the Time and Tide album.
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It was the first Greenslade LP I bought. Maybe relevant? ;)

PS I like Tony Reeves also so don't feel 'snubbed'!!

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Jimmy Lea's live tone was awesome (to my ears). An active bass, huge output pickups with onboard overdrive through a massive Hiwatt based rig
[media]http://youtu.be/2UUVQEUs4o0[/media]
Starts on the riff at 14 seconds in but is repeated throughout in parts.

Also love Lemmy's live tone and anything by Duck Dunn, so as BRX says - (I paraphrase, I hope) - context is everything.

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[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1444312129' post='2882143']
Jimmy Lea's live tone was awesome (to my ears). An active bass, huge output pickups with onboard overdrive through a massive Hiwatt based rig
[media]http://youtu.be/2UUVQEUs4o0[/media]
Starts on the riff at 14 seconds in but is repeated throughout in parts.

Also love Lemmy's live tone and anything by Duck Dunn, so as BRX says - (I paraphrase, I hope) - context is everything.
[/quote]that is fantastic

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[quote name='doctorbass' timestamp='1444246561' post='2881609']
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svK4hZB0nKk[/media]

Keith Ferguson. I always point towards the opening bass riff - 52 precision and heavy flats.
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Yes, yes, yes - I play in a blues band called "Money Honey" named after this track and use a repro 53P complete with the appropriate resistor containing wiring, phenolic saddles and big fat flats to get as close to this sound as possible. A valve head and 2x10 cabinet helps too.

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I'm sure I once read that Bob Babbitt's line on Inner City Blues was a composite of a few takes and there are times when two basses are in the mix - I've listened to it countless times and still can't make my mind up. Either way it's a wonderful line and beautifully played.

I always liked this tone..sounds like an old Thunderbird, or could be a Rick? [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ylqx1zAgg"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5ylqx1zAgg[/url]

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[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1444329788' post='2882355']
Yes, yes, yes - I play in a blues band called "Money Honey" named after this track and use a repro 53P complete with the appropriate resistor containing wiring, phenolic saddles and big fat flats to get as close to this sound as possible. A valve head and 2x10 cabinet helps too.
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Keith really was the man for Texas blues

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[quote name='rogerstodge' timestamp='1444160480' post='2880818']
This is the best bass tone I've ever heard although this is live, actual song starts about 1m 30s in
[media]http://youtu.be/4wsd-vRaVHE[/media]
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I must confess that, although punk's never really been my thing, the studio version of Peaches was within a hairs-breadth of being inculded in my original list (although in truth I would probably have plumped for the bass tone on No More Heroes because of the way it sits within the track). Ditto Paul S's bass tone on London's Calling.

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