Favorite bass solo??

[funkypenguin]

Theres a few i quite like

Michael Manring - the enormous room

Trip Wamsley - Huevos con Dios

John patitucci - The Heart of the Bass, Theme and Variations for 6 string bass and strings

Jean Baudin - Transcend

.......and for a giggle - John Myungs bass solo in Metropolis pt. 1

[Doc B]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='558014' date='Aug 1 2009, 06:59 PM']Good call.[/quote]

Cheers - I've recently introduced a mate to Living Colour and have started listening to them again myself. What a band!

[steve-soar]

I saw them at Manchester Poly on the Vivid tour. They were brutal.
Ended up missing our last train home to Liverpool and had to sleep in a cardboard box in some care park, happy days.

[thebeat]

[quote name='alexclaber' post='556929' date='Jul 31 2009, 10:48 AM']have to say though that a great bass solo is a rare thing, it's just not built for it!

Alex[/quote]


+100

[Bilbo]

Jimmy Johnson on Allan Holdsworth's Panic Station from his Metal Fatigue album. Just a great melodic solo.

[jakenewmanbass]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='558971' date='Aug 3 2009, 08:50 AM']Jimmy Johnson on Allan Holdsworth's Panic Station from his Metal Fatigue album. Just a great melodic solo.[/quote]

+1
I have a transcription of that somewhere, very melodic...

[Bilbo]

[quote name='jakesbass' post='558974' date='Aug 3 2009, 08:54 AM']+1
I have a transcription of that somewhere, very melodic...[/quote]

Wrote it out myself once. Don't know where it is now, though! Its not actually hard to play at all but its just a lovely solo. Like Jaco's melodic theme in 'A Remark You Made'; perfectly simple and simply perfect.

[foal30]

Paul Chambers on
Blues by Five

here is your blues

Willie Weeks
on Donny Hathaway
"everything is everything"

it feels right, nice use of the flat5

I like "Eric" by Marcus Miller too, the outro is fun Rich.

how about "Smooth Operator"
i've forgotten his name sorry
D minor it was... needed the Steinberger to get the reach on it.


righto,

[steantval]

[font="Comic Sans MS"]Andy Fraser on

Mr Big by Free..........................a real classic.[/font][size="5"][/size]

[bythesea]

[quote name='foal30' post='558985' date='Aug 3 2009, 09:18 AM']how about "Smooth Operator"
i've forgotten his name sorry
D minor it was... needed the Steinberger to get the reach on it.[/quote]
Love the sound he gets on that - Paul S Denman I believe.

[Beer of the Bass]

For electric solos, I think this is my favourite. It makes me grin from ear to ear each time:
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55z4GpA&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Loy55z4GpA...feature=related[/url]

Edited August 3, 2009 by Beer of the Bass

[Stag]

Cliff Burton's stuff is so much fun becuase of the overdrive and wah, id probably have to go with that lovely part in Orion, or most parts of Anaethesia...

Dune Tune is a good call as well, remember learning bits of that with my old tutor years ago. Happy days

[4000]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='558971' date='Aug 3 2009, 08:50 AM']Jimmy Johnson on Allan Holdsworth's Panic Station from his Metal Fatigue album. Just a great melodic solo.[/quote]

JJ is a great, great player.

[lowdown]

[quote name='4000' post='559849' date='Aug 4 2009, 12:27 AM']JJ is a great, great player.[/quote]

+100...and a great tone.

What ever happened to his band 'Flim and the BBs'...?



Garry

Edited August 4, 2009 by lowdown

[chrisba]

The one in Kirsty MacColl's My Affair .

I can't remember who played it, I did find out but as it wasn't anybody I'd ever heard of, I promptly forgot it.