Your first bassline

[theosd]

Come as you are, Nirvana.

[nedsbeds]

Money
Still sound check with it too

[David Nimrod]

It was my mums copy of 'Live at the Fillmore' by Cream.

I couldn't believe Jack Bruce's intertwining basslines...

Of course I still can't play them, but he's a brilliant guy.

And a great example of rock 'improvisational' playing.

[slowbo]

First bass was an Ibanez Musician 924 - Still got it and it still sounds monster after 25 years (I'm getting tearful!!)
First bassline was probably Day tripper / The Chain-Old BBC Formula 1 Riff / Roundabout - Yes (The easy bit)---- Something in Em

[David Nimrod]

[quote name='slowbo' post='94771' date='Nov 26 2007, 09:08 PM']Something in Em[/quote]


Most of my own best basslines fall into that category ;-)

[slowbo]

[quote name='David Nimrod' post='94779' date='Nov 26 2007, 10:16 PM']Most of my own best basslines fall into that category ;-)[/quote]


General Chat: I lived in Southwell, about 15-20 miles from you for about 20 years. I went to college in West Bridgeford, to get into UNI. I really miss Nottingham's live music scene. Here it's loadsa backing tracks!!

[David Nimrod]

[quote name='slowbo' post='94784' date='Nov 26 2007, 09:21 PM']General Chat: I lived in Southwell, about 15-20 miles from you for about 20 years. I went to college in West Bridgeford, to get into UNI. I really miss Nottingham's live music scene. Here it's loadsa backing tracks!! [/quote]


Hey, I'd swop Bridgford for Andalucia anyday ;-)

[theosd]

I lived in west bridgford for 7 years from the age of 1-7. I don't really remember it. Lived on Mona Road.

[Adam.M]

Tool - Schism was my first.

Cheers internet tab! ^_^

[mcgraham]

I was choosing whether to pick up guitar or drums, someone said what about bass? I didn't know what it it was, they said it's the thing that goes 'boom' underneath the guitars. I asked what else it could do and they sent me the 'Higher Ground' cover by the Chilis.

I HAD to be able to make that sound

First bassline before I actually got that one was the Peter Gunn theme tune.

Haven't looked back since, guitarists don't know what they're missing.

Mark

[Kiwi]

a bassline didn't want me to become a bassist, it was a second choice after I had to give up drums for medical reasons. First complete top 40 bass line I ever learned was New Years Day by U2 coz we had a geek American guitarist at high school whose father lectured at the nearby uni and he wanted someone to play bass while he did The Edge impressions over the top.

[carlosfandango]

he he...great thread!

mine was a song called "Cadillac" by a 60's band that I can't remember for toffee....I started playing bass in the late 70's just when punk exploded and learnt a lot of Sex pistols, the jam, the clash tunes.....my band "the ratz" had our first gig on my parents lawn a Sunday afternoon performing "dangerous" punk songs to our middle class neighbours....how funny! then I moved on to pumping eights in various heavy metal bands ( not sure if they count as bass lines really........then I moved on to 60'/70's funk/soul and later jazz and all sorts of music

[Treeb]

... showing my age ... it was Jacob's Ladder by Rush (because Freewill was too hard!). I just loved playing the 6/8 - 7/8 bit in the middle.

[tauzero]

Well, it was mine, all mine...

Having been elected to play bass by the rest of the band and gone out and bought all the bits to make a Hayman 40/40 and put them together, it got to the point where we were actually starting to try to play things. Item number 1 was "Back in the USSR" by the Beatles, which I had only heard a couple of times and never paid any attention to the bassline [1] so I had to make something up and I finished up playing the square on the almost-pentatonic scale (root, 4, 5, b7, octave). I might even still have a recording of our fist gig somewhere. I've never learnt the proper bassline to it and I haven't played it in over 30 years, which suits me (and probably Sir Paul, if he ever got to hear of it) fine.

[1] I still pay no attention to basslines.

[bremen]

[quote name='16Again' post='71583' date='Oct 9 2007, 01:54 PM']What was the bassline you heard that made you decide to be a bassist?
I think mine was probably Pretty Green by The Jam, so easy but so effective!

Then i started saving for my first bass which was a KAY bought from Marshal Ward clubby book back in the year dot! [/quote]

I can't believe no-one's said Live At Leeds yet. I wanted to _be_ John Entwistle when I got that album at age 15. The other one was Dave and Ansell Collins' Double Barrel. That was the first time I'd heard reggae, with its gloriously prominent juicy bassline.

[PaulyB]

Maiden - Running Free. Though my first bass was a headless Steinberg which didn't really suit the image... well it was the 80s.

[lonestar]

It was so long ago I can't remember if it was Money by Pink Floyd or Paranoid by Black Sabbath

[ergon]

first one was zombie by the cranberries

[notable9]

Usual story here.

Had two chums who played guitar, both better than me so guess who ends up with only for strings.
Our first tentative jam was I think Smoke on the Water, put together in my freinds pongy... pintsize bedroom. That was back in 1976. Great memories.

[bassfan]

Picked up my first bass 11 months ago and not looked back. First bassline attempted Fleetwood Macs "the chain".

Currently working on Jamiroquai and Chilli's with a touch of Police thrown in everynow and then!

Edited December 6, 2007 by bassfan

[jacko]

Seeing yes in '74 was what made me want to be a bass player more than anything else (yes, even being a clarinetist) and I think the first real bassline I ever learnt was the 'solo' section in yours is no Disgrace.

[mr.sibs]

mine was lady madonna by the beatles on my dads fretless yamaha rbx

[Guest TheBigBeefChief]

"She bangs the drum" by the Stone Roses.

[gary mac]

I think it was back in 1972 or thereabouts, went to stay at a mates house for a few days and got introduced to Led Zepp two.

Soon as I got back home I started bugging mum and dad for a bass. It took a few months and then one day my dad came home from work with a guitar shaped box. It was so exciting opening that case for the first time. My first bass an Epiphone semi acoustic.

I recall being a tad disappointed that I didn't sound like John Paul Jones (all these years later, I still don't).

I think the first bass line that I learnt all the way through was The Beatles, Let it Be.

Gary

[walplayer]

[quote name='Deep Thought' post='82042' date='Nov 1 2007, 03:54 AM']UK Subs-Warhead[/quote]

SNAP!!! :-)
And there was me thinking i'd be the only one who'd know that song!!
My version was played on a semi-acoustic guitar with the strings tuned down
though!(and was really awful!!)
When i got my 1st "proper" bass,it was also a Kay ,single cutaway on which i
learned a Siouxsie and the banshees track 1st then yes stuff.(an it was painful!)

Edited December 7, 2007 by walplayer