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[quote name='Paul_C' timestamp='1332423044' post='1588082']
[media]http://youtu.be/kUH2jxpVXqg[/media]
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This.

Oh, and me, of course. I'm fecking great... ;)

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Geddy Lee - Moving Pictures era

Glenn Hughes - live Purple era and Hughes & Thrall album 1982

Jeff Berlin on Bruford's album One of a Kind.

Pete Hurley from Lone Star.

Jack Bruce with just about anything - mainly his Warwick Thumb sound though.

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I like traditional tones as well as modern. Here's my favs...

Traditional - Bernard Edwards. Gotta love that punchy MM tone!

Modern - Marcus Miller. Pretty much set the trend for the scooped, hi-fi tone.

Other - I love Justin Chancellors tone...great rock tone. Pino's fretless tone is awesome (even though I hate chorus effects!). Felix Pappalardi had an awesome, fat fuzz tone...big fan of that!

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Lemmy's live sound does it for me. It sounds a bit treble heavy in this video, possibly the video, possibly my speakers, but as far as I remember, when I saw them there was a fair bit more bass. Not buckets, this is Lemmy we're talking about, but certainly more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6jEQnrsCmw

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[quote name='Stacker' timestamp='1332410400' post='1587786']Th guy out of Love Affair on Everlasting Love[/quote]
[quote name='christhammer666' timestamp='1332425502' post='1588151']anything by pete trewavas on the whirlwind[/quote]

These two!!

Also, Mannfred Mann's "Blinded by the Light", and two Supertramp tracks... :blush: "School" and "Goodbye Stranger". No idea who played them, and I don't care. Lovely tone.

Oh, and John Deacon on Queen's "Dragon Attack". Nice.

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[quote name='christhammer666' timestamp='1332425502' post='1588151']
for me its

anything by pete trewavas on the whirlwind(i normally hate bright tones but this rocks)

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+1 :) Awesome tone. Warwick +pick. Fast forward to 3min if you're impatient.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efa4aIe6-OU

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[quote name='Low End Bee' timestamp='1332407441' post='1587735']
Even though he was the bass player at the time and was credited on the sleeve I'm not to sure he actually played much on the LP. Nice tone indeed though.
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Indeed,I'm led to believe Captain Sensible played much of it,although Algy claims otherwise.

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Anthony Jackson with the Michel Camilo Trio - From Within

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd349Df1Ows

John Myung with Dream Theater - Scarred (not such a fan of some of his sounds these days, i love his chorus bass sound rather than his distortion)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xJumDqKBRQ

Geddy Lee with Rush - Cold Fire

Matthew Garrison's sound in general ranks among my favourites

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[quote name='morsefull' timestamp='1332440126' post='1588476']
+1 :) Awesome tone. Warwick +pick. [/quote]

Actually, I assumed it would be a Warwick too.... but the tone he gets in the live version is very similar to the recorded one - and that don't look like no 'Wick to me...

Best example of this tone is, for me, at 5:45 onward.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWC2I9TNuco[/media]

Not many girls in that audience though - so maybe having a killer tone does not make you more attractive to the opposite sex after all? :blink:

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I was playing Alan Wake (a game before I confuse anyone) the other night and when I finished it, Bowie's Space Oddity played over the end credits. Heard it countless times before, but at the time I had headphones on and realised I'd never really paid the bass much attention. What a tone! Herbie Flowers I believe? Seem to remember mention of a fretless jazz...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfbIFiOiHNo[/media]

Isolated here but it sits so nicely in the mix, sounds different again

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I wish I could find a better example of it than this - but I just so happen to be listening to 'Little Worlds' by the Flecktones and Vic Wooten's tone on the first track 'Bill Mon' on his fretless is just gorgeous - but also on the track 'Puffy' - it just has a little bit of everything in it, a bit of high end sparkle (bit not too much), lovely mid-range warmth and punch, but then some bottom end too when he switches to finger style... a hard one to explain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9lrIe4l_ZM

I love Matt Garrison's tone too - the really rich and warm mid tone without too much high end - it really sings... but hey there tons of great tones out there - Gary Willis' fretless tone is simply astonishing IMO - but this is all just MY taste...

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