Osiris Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 Think this has already been mention by someone else but it gets another shout from me. Nothing flash, just a simple, repetitive melody that compliments the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuezNswtRfo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baronialhall Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giiYDlqRQs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 [quote name='Baronialhall' timestamp='1503168117' post='3356226'] http://youtu.be/6giiYDlqRQs [/quote] Yes..! Just one of soooooo many gems from the brilliant pair: Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady, in whatever formation they're playing in. Hot stuff, and more where that came from..! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baronialhall Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 i've always massively admired Jack Casady's playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister RLP Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 (edited) I'm rather liking the following at the moment: Tom Waits - Soldier's Things - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwC8ETa0pg"]https://www.youtube....h?v=rNwC8ETa0pg[/url] Didn't realise it was featured in Peaky Blinders. Upright bass serves the song. Scott Walker - [font=sans-serif]The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime - [/font][url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=N-zgdGQB4S4[/url] Wow! Isthis Herbie Flowers? Sounds like tracks on Melody Nelson [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3C4AVbqyY8"]https://www.youtube....h?v=a3C4AVbqyY8[/url] Kate Bush - Mother Stands for Comfort - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnT9_eSVYM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=xRnT9_eSVYM[/url] Eberhard Weber. Rather sublime. John Martyn - Some People are Crazy - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wan46Vcbqow"]https://www.youtube....h?v=wan46Vcbqow[/url] John Giblin. More fretless. Edited August 19, 2017 by Mister RLP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJpullchord Posted August 20, 2017 Share Posted August 20, 2017 The real me by the who maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted August 20, 2017 Author Share Posted August 20, 2017 [quote name='Mister RLP' timestamp='1503184882' post='3356354'] I'm rather liking the following at the moment: Tom Waits - Soldier's Things - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNwC8ETa0pg"]https://www.youtube....h?v=rNwC8ETa0pg[/url] Didn't realise it was featured in Peaky Blinders. Upright bass serves the song. Scott Walker - [font=sans-serif]The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated to the Neo-Stalinist Regime - [/font][url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=N-zgdGQB4S4[/url] Wow! Isthis Herbie Flowers? Sounds like tracks on Melody Nelson [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3C4AVbqyY8"]https://www.youtube....h?v=a3C4AVbqyY8[/url] Kate Bush - Mother Stands for Comfort - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRnT9_eSVYM"]https://www.youtube....h?v=xRnT9_eSVYM[/url] Eberhard Weber. Rather sublime. John Martyn - Some People are Crazy - [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wan46Vcbqow"]https://www.youtube....h?v=wan46Vcbqow[/url] John Giblin. More fretless. [/quote] [color=#000000]What a great selection, cheers! The fretless on Kate Bush is lush! Really loved the Scott Walker track (I'd not come across before, so THANK YOU for the introduction to this guy). Completely apt comment with the YouTube clip: [i]"The bassline is incredible. It's like a stranger rummaging in your backpack."[/i][/color] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted August 31, 2017 Author Share Posted August 31, 2017 Cuzzie has just jogged my memory of two other great bass lines: John Taylor, Duran Duran, "Rio": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA (definitely a guilty pleasure!) Bernard Edwards, Chic and the iconic "Good Times": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1APFyc_QtQ - a clip of him playing at his last live concert in 1996 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acidbass Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 For Once In My Life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 One of my faves - simple yet total groove... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ElOgv5jz0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc S Posted September 1, 2017 Share Posted September 1, 2017 So many basslines - how can you choose a favourite? Which is best? - that will depend on my mood, what I wish to hear at any given time... and that constantly changes Also which ones do I like to play along to? That's maybe another question though Can't pick single "best" or "favourite" but in the running for me, already mentioned "Down In the Sewer" By the Stranglers. JJ Burnell's sound on that whole first album made me want to play bass "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" by the Blockheads - Norman Watt-Roy's bass is amazing on this song How about Chic's "Good Times"? - Bernard's brilliantly simple, groovy bass line to this song has been copied and re-copied so many times Several of Andy Rourke's bass lines from Smiths songs; "Heaven knows I'm miserable now" is just brilliant - love playing that (it actually makes me really happy lol) "This Charming Man" is just a great song, where the bass and guitar work superbly together - it's another one I like to play, as well as listen to "Barbarism Begins At Home" might be essentially the same all the way though, but it's a challenge to keep it going.... great bass line And on Double Bass, Danny Thompson makes Pentangle's "The trees they do grow high" sound simple - but it just oozes wonderfully chosen notes and a tone to die for Or perhaps pretty much anything he played on Nick Drake's "Five Leaves Left" album... But choose one? Just one? my head hurts now! Oh, I've just thought about yet more - that lovely Rick Tone Paul Gray gets on the whole of the Damned's "Black Album" "Therapy" "Dr Jeckyll & Mr Hyde" "Twisted Nerve" Oh, what about Paul McCartney on "Come Together"? and what about..... I'd better stop there and have a lie down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted September 2, 2017 Share Posted September 2, 2017 (edited) [quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1504276090' post='3363860'] So many basslines - how can you choose a favourite? Which is best? - that will depend on my mood, what I wish to hear at any given time... and that constantly changes [/quote] Yes, I am like that. Earlier, my oldest son was playing 'The Dance Of Life' (Narada Michael Walden) from my collection The (below) two singles jumped out Bass wise. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFSB_tbHb6Q[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVHX5OWXkjE[/media] Edited September 2, 2017 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 The Jamerson / Kaye / Dunn thread has reminded me about this little Jamerson jem: just one "simple" iconic riff, played perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDVaKRApcg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 [quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1504956467' post='3368542'] The Jamerson / Kaye / Dunn thread has reminded me about this little Jamerson jem: just one "simple" iconic riff, played perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDVaKRApcg [/quote] Who is that ? It doesn't sound like the original Jackie Wilson version....Just curious really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassTractor Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 Best bass line ever? Hard to choose, as I think there's a place for all three types (braid, fluorocarbon and monofilament). Aw, c'mon! Somebody had to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 [quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1504958074' post='3368554'] Who is that ? It doesn't sound like the original Jackie Wilson version....Just curious really. [/quote] Hmmm...I thought it was Jackie Wilson, but one of the comments in the YouTube clip also suggested it might not be him? It's actually going into our Retros live set tonight for the first time tonight - I find I have to add a ghost note in just before repeating the phrase as the only way I can keep the time completely precise, which is what Jamerson does so wonderfully (and with just one finger in his case!!) [quote name='BassTractor' timestamp='1504958821' post='3368559'] Best bass line ever? Hard to choose, as I think there's a place for all three types (braid, fluorocarbon and monofilament). Aw, c'mon! Somebody had to! [/quote] That's terrible!! Much worse than the one shared by a fellow BC of "why did the Mexican push his wife off a cliff? Tequila." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 (edited) [quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1504958958' post='3368560'] Hmmm...I thought it was Jackie Wilson, but one of the comments in the YouTube clip also suggested it might not be him? [/quote] Here you go, AL. Looks like this guy. [url="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Huntsberry"]https://en.m.wikiped...ward_Huntsberry[/url] And here is the original with Jamerson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcwqCmEi9Jc Edited September 9, 2017 by lowdown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gazzatriumph Posted September 9, 2017 Share Posted September 9, 2017 [quote name='Al Krow' timestamp='1504958958' post='3368560'] Hmmm...I thought it was Jackie Wilson, but one of the comments in the YouTube clip also suggested it might not be him? It's actually going into our Retros live set tonight for the first time tonight - I find I have to add a ghost note in just before repeating the phrase as the only way I can keep the time completely precise, which is what Jamerson does so wonderfully (and with just one finger in his case!!) That's terrible!! Much worse than the one shared by a fellow BC of "why did the Mexican push his wife off a cliff? Tequila." [/quote] yeah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted September 9, 2017 Author Share Posted September 9, 2017 [quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1504960158' post='3368572'] Here you go, AL. Looks like this guy. [url="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Huntsberry"]https://en.m.wikiped...ward_Huntsberry[/url] And here is the original with Jamerson. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcwqCmEi9Jc[/media] [/quote] Cheers for digging that out. Although the use of keys on the newer version does add something, overall there's no comparison in my mind. I guess it could be just the recording but the original is so much better! Jamerson's tone and articulation on the bass line sings whereas the newer one is "muddy" in comparison, and Jackie Wilson's vocals would definitely be my choice too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Relax - Frankie Waterfront - Simple Minds With or without you - U2 And one which is a brilliant bassline for a song that we're doing in the prog covers band that I still can't quite play: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OznS7X9BOxs"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OznS7X9BOxs[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share Posted October 14, 2017 Hey - can't believe I'm the first person to mention [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhjG47gtMCo"]Tool - Schism[/url]? Definitely worth a mention, right?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikel Posted October 15, 2017 Share Posted October 15, 2017 Glen Cornick playing "Living in the Past" Jethro Tull. Peerless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Krow Posted October 24, 2017 Author Share Posted October 24, 2017 (edited) [quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1508656233' post='3393516'] Their originals aren't too shabby either... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We_n_tLR3D4[/media] [/quote] This one's from another recent thread started by EBS, but I've become a fan of these guys following his post and particularly of bass player / composer / vocalist Bridget Kearney. They do a really fun version of [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqEiWN44L3M"]Bohemian Rhapsody[/url] too... Edited October 24, 2017 by Al Krow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 As of late I've been listening to a lot of 80s stuff where the the bass is played with a plectrum. Some stand-out tracks where the bass just drives the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4SYf9wocNk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMTsqAaUngQ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonEdward Posted October 28, 2017 Share Posted October 28, 2017 (edited) TLC: "Waterfalls" (Bass player - [color=#26282A]LaMarquis "Marq" Jefferson)[/color] https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nsy5oHJFX64 Incognito: "Jacob's ladder" (Bass player - Julian Crampton) https://www.youtube.com/embed/jGF2yyj8vJM Edited October 28, 2017 by SimonEdward Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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