cool bass lines

foal30 · Post by **foal30** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:37 pm

having a clean up of the music room, found some C.D.'s.

stopped cleaning and started playing,
"I Wish", Stevie Wonder
"Machine Gun and Brick House", the Commodores
"I want you Back" the Jackson5
"What is Hip" Tower of Power
"Making Plans for Nigel" XTC
"Come" , Prince
"Ain't no stopping us now" , Mcfadden and Whitehead
"For the love of money" the O.J.'s

I realise none of this is current, but all these Basslines have a certain charm and all "carry" the tune.

dylan · Post by **dylan** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 7:56 pm

"smooth operator"
"peg" - bassline written by chuck rainey and walter becker

DarcyPerry · Post by **DarcyPerry** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:08 pm

Papa Was a Rolling Stone

just so damn good

Darcy

Terexgeek · Post by **Terexgeek** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:31 pm

What was the dude from Level 42 called? He had some busy but pumping stuff...

The woman from the first Perfect Circle album/single had a good sound, loved her timing in the video, tying back her hair during the bridge and with microbeats to spare, straight onto the next verse downbeat...(okay so it was miming for the video...it looked cool...

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Oh and Lani from Elemeno P, epic rock poses from hell

Optimus_prime · Post by **Optimus_prime** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:40 pm

paz lanchantin

she was also in Zwan

but she was too indy for billy

I do hate indy children

Terexgeek · Post by **Terexgeek** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:53 pm

Optimus_prime wrote:paz lanchantin

she was also in Zwan

but she was too indy for billy

I do hate indy children

Billy gets grumpy about everyone/thing...

Optimus_prime · Post by **Optimus_prime** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:59 pm

well I think in that case he had every right to be annoyed

compromising the qaulity of a band due to your indy cred

that's just silly, like females

chrls · Post by **chrls** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:47 pm

There is no beating Jack Bruce.

Or was it Ginger Baker?

I can't remember which one of those two is which...

Lemmings · Post by **Lemmings** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:21 am

Day of the Baphomets - The Mars Volta

Bass solo intro followed by a really intense bass riff. The player is Juan (John) Alderte, who some of you 80s shred fans may recognise as being from Racer X. Hes also got a signature Fender Jazz bass being released soon.

Jenesis · Post by **Jenesis** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:12 am

Alderete is a god. He also did great work with The Scream.

slash-ed · Post by **slash-ed** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:31 am

Running with the Devil!

I know next to nothing about bass... but I reckon Rex Brown (Pantera) is quite underrated... Maybe nothing out of the ordinary technically, but he seems to have a talent for walking the line between holding the beat and weaving in and out with his own "melody" lines, complimented Dime's playing well, which I reckon is fairly hard to accomplish.

DarcyPerry · Post by **DarcyPerry** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 11:57 am

chrls wrote:There is no beating Jack Bruce.

Or was it Ginger Baker?

I can't remember which one of those two is which...

JB = bass mofo
GB = drums mofo

Does that help?

Darcy

chrls · Post by **chrls** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 8:03 pm

Yes it does help.

Oh, Infectious Grooves has some very good bass lines in it.

Kev77 · Post by **Kev77** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:09 pm

who the best rythm section of all time?

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:53 am

Consistently, in a real band (not a bunch assembled for the recording) I'm down with Booker T - tight, great lines - all I would want in a rhythm section.

Then of course there's the Count Basie Band - shwinging!

For me, the drums and bass must be tight, tight, tight to make a great rhythm section. After that, even total unknowns make it great!