Songs *about* bass players...?

[Beer of the Bass]

3 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

Highly unlikely. Hey Joe was written late 50s, very probably in Scotland. Joe Osborne started out professionally in 61 with Ricky Nelson. Can't see how he could have been the guilty party!

True, there's a distinct lack of murders and fleeing to Mexico in Osborn's biographies, which makes me think it may not have been him!

[pineweasel]

The Minutemen's One Reporter's Opinion is about Mike Watt:

 

[Hobbayne]

23 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

I can't imagine "You're so vain" being about a bass player.

Tenuous link time.

The famous badabump, badabump, badabump bass intro was in fact played by Klaus Voormann who also played bass on 'How Do You Sleep' in the OP.

He also designed the cover of the Beatles Album 'Revolver' a few years earlier.

[paul_5]

‘Murder One’ - written by Metallica about Lemmy.

[BlueMoon]

3 hours ago, Hobbayne said:

He also designed the cover of the Beatles Album 'Revolver' a few years earlier.

And probably on the strength of that Höfner commissioned him to paint the artwork for a few limited edition violin basses. Nice, but very, very expensive.

[MrCrane]

19 minutes ago, BlueMoon said:

And probably on the strength of that Höfner commissioned him to paint the artwork for a few limited edition violin basses. Nice, but very, very expensive.

Plus the artwork for this

https://www.aclamguitars.com/dr-robert

 

[BigRedX]

"Stereo" by Pavement name checks Geddy Lee.

(But as a vocalist rather than a bass player)

[el borracho]

Jethro Tull's first three albums all featured songs referring to their bass player to be, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond.

Song For Jeffrey (on This Was)

Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square (on Stand Up)

Inside (on Benefit)

[MrCrane]

Arthur by the Hoodoo Gurus

"Arthur played the bass,

He had an angel's face"

[Nail Soup]

41 minutes ago, el borracho said:

Jethro Tull's first three albums all featured songs referring to their bass player to be, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond.

Song For Jeffrey (on This Was)

Jeffrey Goes To Leicester Square (on Stand Up)

Inside (on Benefit)

Wow, they must have really wanted him to join!

[Richard R]

Alas not about the gentleman from Yes, I was mislead!!

[Beedster]

8 hours ago, paul_5 said:

‘Murder One’ - written by Metallica about Lemmy.

Wasn’t Motörhead, by Lemmy, pretty much written about himself? 

[paul_5]

2 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Wasn’t Motörhead, by Lemmy, pretty much written about himself? 

As was ‘Capricorn’ by Motörhead.

[Painy]

 

[Rexel Matador]

This one's about Lemmy and includes the line "he's playing bass and melting your face"

 

 

And this one's about Fat Mike, as far as I can tell

[Rexel Matador]

 

[Rexel Matador]

Sung by their current bass player, about their old one

[Hobbayne]

6 hours ago, BlueMoon said:

And probably on the strength of that Höfner commissioned him to paint the artwork for a few limited edition violin basses. Nice, but very, very expensive.

Ironic then that he played that 1965 Fender Precision (That he painted himself) and not a Hofner.