Thundercat's favourite bass lines (includes Jack Bruce !)

[musicbassman]

Well, here's an interesting little piece - Thundercat's appearance will confuse your Mum, but here he talks eloquently about the role of bass within a band and chooses some favourite influential bass lines. Enjoy.

 

 

[musicbassman]

Sorry about the multiple postings - don't know what happened there  🙁

[Bolo]

I was pleasantly surprised by his cameo in the Book of Boba Fett series.

[SteveXFR]

Some interesting stuff. He's a clever bloke.

It's a shame there was nothing going back to his metal days, Cream were a million miles away from what Suicidal played.

No matter how many times I hear Jaco, I just don't get it.

[Burns-bass]

43 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

Some interesting stuff. He's a clever bloke.

It's a shame there was nothing going back to his metal days, Cream were a million miles away from what Suicidal played.

No matter how many times I hear Jaco, I just don't get it.

Lets open that can of worms! I got it, now don’t get it.

[SteveXFR]

1 hour ago, Burns-bass said:

Lets open that can of worms! I got it, now don’t get it.

 

I'm not going to say his music is bad and anyone who likes it is wrong. I'm just saying that personally, I don't get it. 

[visog]

Loving his choices... Bright guy and a real artist. You don't have to like Jaco but consider the situation. Fact is when he did 'Portrait of Tracy', most players had mostly used harmonics to tune their basses. Jaco manifests harmonics as chords with fretted notes and made a great tune from it. All this in the late 70's. It's part of the vocabulary now but back then it was heresy. Much love TC and Jaco,