Basslines that surprise u...

[mgibson]

Those times when you are listening to a band and an insane line just jumps into your face and you have to learn it... for me it was the solo from Metallica, Orion... gives us yr thoughts...

[Mykesbass]

I still can't get my head around Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (well, it diversifies the musical content of the thread if nothing else)!

[thinman]

Ronnie Wood's playing on "Maggie May". Sometimes I think it's naff but mostly brilliant - it sounds to me like he winged it rather than studied it.

[Fitzy73]

David Bowie Space Oddity , its all over the place . had to learn it for a gig , hard to nail down without a fretless but very enjoyable to play

[dumelow]

+1
fantastic bassline

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='741380' date='Feb 10 2010, 07:46 PM']I still can't get my head around Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (well, it diversifies the musical content of the thread if nothing else)![/quote]

[Pete Academy]

The riff right at the end of 'Ricky Don't Lose That Number'. It's like 'what the hell?'...

[spinynorman]

I did once try to play Maggie May with a "proper" bass line. It didn't work.

[discreet]

[quote name='thinman' post='741381' date='Feb 10 2010, 07:47 PM']Ronnie Wood's playing on "Maggie May". Sometimes I think it's naff but mostly brilliant - it sounds to me like he winged it rather than studied it.[/quote]

+1 to that... Ron fluffs practically every other note, but it's a great feel... can you imagine a No. 1 hit having a take like that on it today? Or even having real bass played on it, come to that!

[discreet]

James Jamerson's line on the Four Tops' [i]Reach Out I'll Be There[/i]. Ooh, yeah.

[bumnote]

[quote name='thinman' post='741381' date='Feb 10 2010, 07:47 PM']Ronnie Wood's playing on "Maggie May". Sometimes I think it's naff but mostly brilliant - it sounds to me like he winged it rather than studied it.[/quote]

Ronnie Wood or Ronnie Lane?

[Low End Bee]

[quote name='thinman' post='741381' date='Feb 10 2010, 07:47 PM']Ronnie Wood's playing on "Maggie May". Sometimes I think it's naff but mostly brilliant - it sounds to me like he winged it rather than studied it.[/quote]

I'm betting he was tired and emotional after a couple of light ales during the recording.

Sounds great to me. Doesn't matter to me a jot if it's technically correct or not.

[davidmpires]

Crush by Dave Matthews Band the sexyness of its amazing...

[P-T-P]

Kylie's "Spinning Around" and Sophie Ellis Bextor's "Murder on the Dancefloor" have oodles of lovely bass goodness going on.

"Maggie May" just oozes feel, so much so that even the "wrong" notes are right.

[Huw Foster]

Colin Greenwood of Radiohead always manages to come up with something unusual that somehow 'works'... off the top of my head, I'd say Airbag.

[Tech]

[quote name='Huwberry' post='742040' date='Feb 11 2010, 01:18 PM']Colin Greenwood of Radiohead always manages to come up with something unusual that somehow 'works'... off the top of my head, I'd say Airbag.[/quote]
i love the line in "talk show host" too - so simple, but it is exactly what the song needs.

along similar lines, i think guy berryman from coldplay does a good job of keeping in the pocket whilst still being interesting and melodic-y.



and on a completely different note, the bassline in outkast's "prototype" is probably the only time I can think of that I really wasn't expecting to hear a good bassline and then had my face melt when I heard it.

[Bilbo]

'Lemon Wedge' off Kim Mitchell's 'Itch' cd.

'YOU CAN BE MY LEMON WEDGE, AND I'LL BE YOUR TEQUILA!!!'

[Tech]

[quote name='bilbo230763' post='742110' date='Feb 11 2010, 02:10 PM']'Lemon Wedge' off Kim Mitchell's 'Itch' cd.

'YOU CAN BE MY LEMON WEDGE, AND I'LL BE YOUR TEQUILA!!!'[/quote]

this song is well worth checking out - i remember hearing it and being pretty surprised too. that chorus sure is catchy!

[essexbasscat]

It's just one of those sweet lines -

Midnight train to Georgia by Gladys Night and the Pips

As played by Bob Babbit

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Edited February 11, 2010 by essexbasscat

[Kiwi]

Found this superb contrapuntal bassline this week while I was looking for old 80's tunes to mash up:


If you want to hear what it sounds like on a bass, this chap does a good take:

[karlthebassist]

[quote name='Mykesbass' post='741380' date='Feb 10 2010, 07:46 PM']I still can't get my head around Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (well, it diversifies the musical content of the thread if nothing else)![/quote]

I'm doing that one at the moment. Its hard to get it to feel right I find.

[thinman]

[quote name='bumnote' post='741939' date='Feb 11 2010, 12:20 PM']Ronnie Wood or Ronnie Lane?[/quote]

I'm led to believe it was Ronnie Wood - maybe that's why it's a bit, um, unorthodox?

[thinman]

Coincidentally there's a bit of a discussion about "Maggie May" at
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=75334"]Mistakes[/url]

[xilddx]

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='742383' date='Feb 11 2010, 06:49 PM']Found this superb contrapuntal bassline this week while I was looking for old 80's tunes to mash up:


If you want to hear what it sounds like on a bass, this chap does a good take:
[/quote]
Hey! A fellow Go West fan! Cool

[ThomBassmonkey]

Having been at college and asked to learn some basslines, the two that really caught me out were my generation by the who (I just didn't really know the song at the time and wasn't expecting it to be anything like that on bass) and a song by Alanis Morisette, you oughta know (I think it was called that, but Flea basically jammed over it and compared with the rest of the album, the bassline's far more interesting though a pig to learn in a short period of time when nothing's repeated).

[thisnameistaken]

Lots of Smiths stuff but in particular...



and



This totally bonkers Madness bassline:



And this classic that I think I first heard on De La Soul's 'Ring Ring Ring', then Skee-Lo's 'Tale Of Mr Morton', it's a right slag of a bass groove, probably been on a dozen hit records:

Edited February 12, 2010 by thisnameistaken