Best Bass Intros?

[Bilbo]

[crez5150]

[witterth]

[quote name='lowdown' post='1240323' date='May 22 2011, 01:43 PM']Best is a matter of opinion

But one of the most played & heard - and known by the plumbers, Bus drivers and burger workers has to be.....





Garry[/quote]
Fa**in' A with that.

[BassBus]

Take it in a slightly different musical direction.

[Sawtooth]

EDIT: you nipped in there BassBus, great minds ... Edited May 22, 2011 by Sawtooth

[Sawtooth]

[Sawtooth]

[MacDaddy]

Ace of Spades - Motorhead

a bit cheesey but still great

[Marky L]

Simple but thundering - Love Song : The Damned

And what a bastard of a tone!

[Lozz196]

Eton Rifles - The Jam
Public Image - Public Image Ltd (simple but very effective)

And from a band that I know, Teen Idol by The Scratch:

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

Sometimes the intro goes on for about a minute - to the irritation of the bassist - but it sounds great.

Edited May 22, 2011 by Lozz196

[MacDaddy]

[quote name='Marky L' post='1240471' date='May 22 2011, 04:33 PM']Simple but thundering - Love Song : The Damned

And what a bastard of a tone! [/quote]
+1

could also say 'Neat neat neat'.

[Sawtooth]

[Delberthot]

Hanging Around by the Stranglers

You can almost imagine that the bass strings are rusty bits of barb wire. Its such a dirty sound

[Bottle]

+1 for Muse - Hysteria....mmmmmmm tasty

Also Bon Jovi - Keep the Faith; has an awesome bass riff intro

HTH,
Ian

[BassBus]

I hadn't remembered a lot of these, good stuff. Some in there I haven't heard before either. Keep 'em coming.

[nomis]

converge - hellbound

sums up the tone of an ad200 for me

[Shawman]

2 i can think of:

Sacrafice Theory - AFI

Schism - Tool

[BottomEndian]

[waynepunkdude]

[Count Bassy]

'Handy' by Wishbone Ash.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJqVW2L5is"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJqVW2L5is[/url]

Give it a listen - it's worth 3 minutes of your life (IMHO)

Love it, and wish I could learn it.

Edited May 23, 2011 by Count Bassy

[Conan]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPN-vp-quOs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPN-vp-quOs[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4xiRzlwwI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ4xiRzlwwI[/url]

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

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU9j5VTnZhA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU9j5VTnZhA[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lb4pS6n4mM"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lb4pS6n4mM[/url]

OK, some of these are not strictly bass "intros"... but very prominent bass parts at the beginning of the track. Good enough?

[muttley]

[quote name='arthurhenry' post='1240276' date='May 22 2011, 12:58 PM']Living in the past?[/quote]

Is that a song or a reference to the taste of the compiler of the OP's clip?

IGMC

[Shockwave]

Ok it starts off with drums, but the bass is out of this world. Lasts til 2:21

RKL are awesome, just wish they had a better recording process!

[chaypup]

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='1241503' date='May 23 2011, 01:02 PM'][/quote]

Wow - this is amazing!
And if we're deviating from Rock, how about the crazy little intro to 'You're so Vain'?

[Shockwave]

More RKL! They were on another level to most punk/hardcore at the time... Whether it was a "better" level is under debate!