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[quote name='Johnston' post='1031663' date='Nov 21 2010, 06:31 PM']The theme tune to neghbours [/quote] Another one I don't know. I must [s]get out[/s] stay in more.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='1031640' date='Nov 21 2010, 06:11 PM']I wasn't ignoring it. I just closed my eyes so I could concentrate. Yes, quite Macca-ish, IMO.[/quote] Are you sure you weren't having a little nap?

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='1031644' date='Nov 21 2010, 06:14 PM']I know no one else has posted this [url="http://www.myspace.com/ofmontreal"]http://www.myspace.com/ofmontreal[/url] The type of thing Beedster would enjoy.[/quote]

[url="http://www.skinnerinc.com/asp/fullcatalogue.asp?refno=++669887&t=5639641&salelot=2333++++++31+&"]1958/1963 Gibson Explorer which sold at Skinner's auction house in New York for $611,000 in October 2006[/url] and didn't even belong to anyone famous but was the only one of its kind: [url="http://www.stratcollector.com/newsdesk/archives/000253.html"]And Clapton's 1956/57 Blackie Stratocaster sold for $959,500[/url] in 2004.

[quote name='Michaelg' post='1031435' date='Nov 21 2010, 02:44 PM']white rabbit, for sure: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR8LFNUr3vw[/url] this scott walker track had some groundbreaking bass when it came out: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4[/url][/quote] I really like both of those but I'd say over 99% of people wouldn't recognise either of the basslines. EDIT: I don't think they would recognise the songs let alone the basslines. EDIT 2: Inability to write sensible English.

[quote name='warwickhunt' post='1031365' date='Nov 21 2010, 01:30 PM']Now you're being silly! It is a line/lick/riff played on the bass so by my definition it is a bassline; come on now, to say that it doesn't count because it is a 'melody line' is being a bit pedantic with the definition of bassline. [/quote] I didn't say it didn't count. I meant that it stands out because it is the melody line, so making people more likely to remember it. That's all, no pedantry intended. I stand by what I said although perhaps I ought to have made my meaning more explicit.

[quote name='indiegrungesound' post='1031336' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:52 PM']"Lust For Life" Iggy Pop.[/quote] Well, I know that one, but I must know about a hundred people who don't.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1031332' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:49 PM']Actually non of my mates are Maiden fans and bar a few albums I wouldn't class my self as one I like them and think Steve Harris is a mighty bassist but . But I'm mighty disappointed that Phantom is the one song being picked on in the thread Is there any song everyone would know?? never mind the bassline? The Chain is probably the most recognised bass riff but play the rest of the song and no one knows it.[/quote] There are perhaps a few songs that many many people at least in the UK and US would know - for example, [i]Happy Birthday to You[/i], which the [i]Guinness Book of Records[/i] cites as the most recognised song in the English language, then [i]For He's a Jolly Good Fellow[/i] and [i]Auld Lang Syne[/i]. In the section of [i]The Chain[/i] that is most commonly recognised, the bass line operates as a melody line and not as a bass line as such even though it's played in the bass register.

[quote name='Clarky' post='1031305' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:21 PM']I look better for the laser eye surgery[/quote] Have you had your hair done as well?

[quote name='chris_b' post='1031319' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:38 PM']+1 What a strange thread. Most of these posts are just fantasy! Very few people who are not musicians would associate a line of music to a bass! To Joe Public it's just a song. They don't deconstruct a song they just listen to the whole.[/quote] Nicely put ... but I suspect, with many of the songs referred to here, Joe Public (whoever he is) hasn't even listened to the whole let alone memorised the bassline. Fantasy is correct.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1031310' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:27 PM']Thats it everyone I know knows phantom ...[/quote] Does 'everyone I know' include your granny, the bloke in the corner shop, your cousin's boyfriend, that weird guy at work, and the violinist from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra who you once bumped into down the pub? Or is it just your mates, who are also Iron Maiden fans?

[quote name='tombboy' post='1031286' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:00 PM']I really can't be bothered to ignore this thread.[/quote] You should take as your motto: MUST TRY HARDER!

[quote name='Doddy' post='1031290' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:07 PM']Maybe this thread should be renamed- Basslines that everyone recognises if..... A.... They're a certain age B.... Of a certain genre persuasion C.... Not Doddy or EssentialTension. Seriously though,I know alot of songs,but there are a bunch here that I don't,and I reckon that lots of other people wouldn't either-especially just from the Bassline.[/quote] There is another possibility: D.... They watch a lot of TV adverts

And back on topic with a very nice bassline:

[quote name='Clarky' post='1031276' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:44 AM']loser[/quote] Hey Clarky, standing on the right - or maybe it's the one in the middle - is Chris White, Zombie bass player: EDIT: It is the one in the middle.

[quote name='Beedster' post='949303' date='Sep 8 2010, 10:57 AM']On [url="http://www.myspace.com/ofmontreal"]http://www.myspace.com/ofmontreal[/url] This line has really got to me, kinda Macca-ish but a bit more funky, just love the groove and the tone, kinda panicky sounding! Not my sort of music otherwise, but love that little line. No doubt someone will tell me it's a synth now C[/quote] Sorry to have ignored you so selfishly Chris. Agreed nice Macca-ish line.

[quote name='Maverick' post='1031240' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:15 AM']Can't believe no one's said Muse yet (I think) - Hysteria & Time Is Running Out Massive Attack - Angel is very well known. At the very least, people will recognise it from some advert or another. A couple, perhaps not for the average man on the street, but your average metal punter at least: Megadeth - Peace Sells Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls (although I always wonder how many think that's a guitar part) Iron Maiden - Wrathchild[/quote] [quote name='Doddy' post='1031257' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:28 AM']I wouldn't know any of these if you played them in full,let alone just the baselines.[/quote] Nor me - although I'm vaguely familiar with Massive Attack but not that song.

[quote name='bartelby' post='1031255' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:27 AM'] [/quote] Well, if people in the street were to recognise that it would be the guitar rather than the bass, it would be Lucozade not Iron Maiden. I'm still not convinced they would recognise it at all, let alone associate it with bass.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1031247' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:23 AM']It was the lucozade advert tune for ages !!![/quote] I'm still no wiser.

[quote name='Doddy' post='1031243' date='Nov 21 2010, 11:19 AM']'Phantom.......' by Iron Maiden? Really? I've never heard it. I think the majority of people wouldn't have a clue.[/quote] I certainly haven't a clue.

[quote name='Shambo' post='1031171' date='Nov 21 2010, 09:49 AM']I think some people might be just listing their favourite big tunes they know how to play. Your average Joe on the street isn't going to be able to name half of these. Wha about Around The World by Daft Punk?[/quote] Don't know that one either, but +1 on the the first part of what you said.

[quote name='PURPOLARIS' post='1031165' date='Nov 21 2010, 09:33 AM']I'm thinking surely they must know these two but it depends on your definition of the man in the street. White Stripes - 7 Nation Army U2 - With Or Without You[/quote] I know the first but not the second.

I always ran my LMII with the EQ flat and then used the VPF and VLE to add in the tone I wanted. It worked well with two Ashdown 1x15s and better with an Ampeg 4x10.

[quote name='purpleblob' post='1031032' date='Nov 21 2010, 12:01 AM']Well being that Bernard Edwards bassline for Chic's "Good Times" also appears in Michelle Gayles "Happy Just to be with You", The Sugar Hill Gangs "Rapper's Delight", Will Smith's "It's all good", Beverley Knight's "Made it Back" and I think all were pretty big sellers - then this is THE bass line everyone probably recognises most (musicians and the general listener). EDIT: Even has it's own wiki page [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_(Chic_song)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Times_(Chic_song)[/url] [/quote] ... and the inspiration for Another One Bites the Dust.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1030871' date='Nov 20 2010, 09:07 PM']Seeing lots of them together doesn't make 'em any prettier (IMHO, of course). So what are they - got a link?[/quote] [url="http://www.kifguitars.com"]http://www.kifguitars.com[/url]