Old Man Riva Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 (First post, so here goes...) Really like Don't Interrupt the Sorrow off Joni Mitchell's Hissing of the Summer Lawns. It's played by Wilton Felder and sounds like a P-Bass with a pick and flats. Or is it a Jazz Bass with fingers and flats. Or... He also played the great bass line on I Want You Back by The Jackson 5 and is a top sax player.. An annoyingly good musician. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Wsdkll5-s"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Wsdkll5-s[/url] Quote
ratman Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 [quote name='Old Man Riva' timestamp='1423173753' post='2681929'] (First post, so here goes...) Really like Don't Interrupt the Sorrow off Joni Mitchell's Hissing of the Summer Lawns. It's played by Wilton Felder and sounds like a P-Bass with a pick and flats. Or is it a Jazz Bass with fingers and flats. Or... He also played the great bass line on I Want You Back by The Jackson 5 and is a top sax player.. An annoyingly good musician. [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Wsdkll5-s"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6Wsdkll5-s[/url] [/quote] He also played bass and sax on the Crusaders song Street Life. Awesome. Quote
Old Man Riva Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 [quote name='ratman' timestamp='1423211455' post='2682161'] He also played bass and sax on the Crusaders song Street Life. Awesome. [/quote] I forgot he was part of the Crusaders (had Chuck Rainey in my head, for some reason). Yeah, he's definitely a special musician. I Want You Back is enough to retire on.. Quote
RickyV Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Joe Darts tone with Vulfpeck, especially on the latest album, Fugue State. Ooooh lordy!!!!! Quote
operative451 Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) This is my benchmark as to 'what a bass sounds like': [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mSmOcmk7uQ"]https://www.youtube....h?v=_mSmOcmk7uQ[/url] I actually use this as a reference when i'm fiddling with amps and boxes: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_2RZzxr2J4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=l_2RZzxr2J4[/url] Can never get the flipping embedding to work, sorry!! Edited February 6, 2015 by operative451 Quote
joe.nemms Posted February 7, 2015 Posted February 7, 2015 I am fond of Eddie Jackson of Queensryches stuff - Spector/Zon basses. Anything off of Operation Mindcrime and 'Della Brown' off of Empire. Quote
zero9 Posted February 7, 2015 Posted February 7, 2015 Stanley Clarke https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pF05nEe2wAY Quote
Tech Posted February 7, 2015 Posted February 7, 2015 Great thread, loving listening to these suggestions. For me, two very different bass tones. When I started out over a decade ago this is the bass sound that drove me crazy: [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-V8kYT1pvE[/media] Rex Brown + production making that bass sound like a pack of growling lions! So cool. Now, this is much more my cup of tea - James Jamerson and the Fender P-Bass: [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz-UvQYAmbg[/media] Quote
dmccombe7 Posted February 8, 2015 Posted February 8, 2015 Geddy's tone on this has always been an influence. http://youtu.be/ZXH-DyjsBd0 Jack Bruce from Over The Top era http://youtu.be/yD8PxxfZMYI Dave Quote
wombatboter Posted February 8, 2015 Posted February 8, 2015 There are discussions who played this (even people who think this is keyboard but I doubt that) but I always thought it was Dean Garcia on a Wal bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEBU9lTnqpI Quote
Nicko Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 If I could only ever have one sound it would be this [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmJxtgmsqAE"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmJxtgmsqAE[/url] Quote
Skybone Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 Been listening to loads of old rock/punk & goth stuff recently... Budgie from Siouxsie & The Banshee's had a killer sound, as did the Captain in the early Damned singles. Craig Adams always managed to get a great sound in the Sisters/The Mission & Coloursound (Mike Peters & Billy Duffy). Tony Pettitt from The Fields of the Nephilim, superb. [url="http://youtu.be/BYYy862KFyE"]http://youtu.be/BYYy862KFyE[/url] [url="http://youtu.be/etTR0Qopbis"]http://youtu.be/etTR0Qopbis[/url] [url="http://youtu.be/eVTtFjU0T-Y"]http://youtu.be/eVTtFjU0T-Y[/url] [url="http://youtu.be/VcdxnQLKAYo"]http://youtu.be/VcdxnQLKAYo[/url] Quote
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