any reccomendations for nice bass lines? i've learnt alot of muse, ratm, and chili peppers but i want more! any help is most appreciated:bassist:

Some of my favs:

Jaco - The Chicken
Cream - Politician
Santana - Soul Sacrifice
MMW - Uninvisible
Hendrix - Machine Gun

led zeppelin... most of their stuff has AWESOME basslines. start with "The Lemon Song" and go from there. :bassist:

RUSH! "Tom Sawyer" is a great starting point.

Chiodos, The Mars Volta, At The Drive In, Incubus, Matisyahu, Flyleaf, Sublime, 311, Bloc Party, Bedouin Soundclash all have very catchy bass riffs in pretty much all their songs, if u want some more specific ones PM me.

I agree with the Zeppelin suggestion, try out The Ocean, fun bass line! Waiting Room by Fugazi is a fun one too.

I'm surprised the Who wasn't on the immediate top of the list; John Entwistle is a "one in a billion" bassist.

Whatever you enjoy listening to IMO. I love 4/4 rock bass lines- simple and solid.

Well I truly believe some of those suggestions are awsome, John Paul Jones from LedZeppelin, John Entwistle from The Who. Another of my fav's is James Jamerson from Motown; try some stuff like Cloud Nine from the temptations (Yes the Temptations) It will shock you, maybe another song from the Late 60's 70's Bernadette, Pretty sure that was the Four Tops.
James played on those and many many more. His method is a challenging one for passing notes, percussive thumps and phrasing. An Awsome player. It would never have been the "Motown Sound" without him. Even Entwistle, admired him.

Just my 2 cents..

Happy Jammin!

J:bassist:

Yes, Entwhistle :hyper:. Young man blues from Live at Leeds is a good start.

I'm surprised the Who wasn't on the immediate top of the list; John Entwistle is a "one in a billion" bassist.

Goodbye Sister Disco and The Quiet one are two of my faves for variuos reasons....

One in a billion is right!

any reccomendations for nice bass lines? i've learnt alot of muse, ratm, and chili peppers but i want more! any help is most appreciated:bassist:

I love playing those too.

I have a habit of playing these:

Forty-six & 2 - tool
Schism - tool
Mountain Song - jane's addiction
Been Caught Stealing - jane's addiction
Cherub Rock - smashing pumpkins
Houses of the Holy - led zeppelin
Moondance - van morrison
daytripper - the beatles
Friday I'm In Love - the cure
Love Song - the cure

Bruce Thomas, the bassist for Elvis Costello and the Attractions has some great bass lines. A few that spring to mind are This Year's Girl, Lipstick Vogue, I Hope You're Happy Now and Shabby Doll. His playing is pretty busy as Elvis's guitar parts are fairly minimal.

"Lovecats" by The Cure is always a fun one to play and anything by the clash.

Fugazi. Check out "Promises", "Long Division", "Turnover", "Shut the Door", "The Kill", "Break", "Sweet and Low".

And I'll second BQuinn recommendation of Bruce Thomas - "Radio, Radio"and "Pump it Up" off This Year's Model were two of the first really cool basslines I learned and I still play them today.

I find these pretty good to run through:

Pearl Jam - Hail Hail.
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way.
James Brown - I Feel Good.
Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage.
Metallica - Orion.

Try some Jack Bruce, Noel Redding, Les Claypool!!

311- beautiful disaster , all mixed up
red hot - torture me, wet sand
primus - laquer head, tommy the cat,john the fishermann
incubus - are you in, hilikus, sommer romance

It's baffling to me, as a musician playing all kinds of instruments all of my life, that when I google to hopefully find a list of songs that have fun bass lines in them to figure out and jam to I'm led to forums like this. That's not the baffling part. The part I absolutely can not get is that none of you, calling yourselves bass players and naming 'fun' cover songs to play, don't mention a single word about any of Flea's riffs from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. That guy is GOD! lol
How could you not mention the Chilli Peppers and Flea in lists like this? You should all be ashamed. haha

It's baffling to me, as a musician playing all kinds of instruments all of my life, that when I google to hopefully find a list of songs that have fun bass lines in them to figure out and jam to I'm led to forums like this. That's not the baffling part. The part I absolutely can not get is that none of you, calling yourselves bass players and naming 'fun' cover songs to play, don't mention a single word about any of Flea's riffs from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. That guy is GOD! lol
How could you not mention the Chilli Peppers and Flea in lists like this? You should all be ashamed. haha

Maybe because the original poster stated that he's already learned a lot of Chili Peppers and that he's looking for something else perhaps?

http://www.archive.org/details/gm2002-03-01.matrix.flac16

Primus - TommyTheCat

Black Sabbath - Geezer Butler has some very cool bass lines.

I just learned sailors hornpipe, which is definatly fun.

Anything by Cake is always great.

Chic - Good Times/SHG-Rapper's Delight is legendary.

Beatles, just about any of theirs but extra fun:

Lady Madonna
Nowhere Man
All My Loving

Stones: Wyman

Under My thumb
Bitch
Live with Me

the intro to John Wayne was a Nazi from MDC was always a favorite lick of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQsXrhF2X4

the intro to John Wayne was a Nazi from MDC was always a favorite lick of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQsXrhF2X4



Worst Song EVER!!!!....

Reel Big Fish - Sellout

Simon & Garfunkle, "Only Living Boy In New York" is a bass feature. "America" (Bookends LP) has my very favorite bass lines, ever. Especially the last chorus. Joe Osborn played them.

Loggins & Messina, "Watching the River Run" has some beautiful lines. Larry Sims is the player.

Well you said you have already learnt some chilli's, but as I pretty much play nothing but chilis, I thought id mention this song any way, its my fav chilis song to play, I could play it looped all day.

Soul to Squeeze - RHCP:bassist:
its got a lot of little changes in it and the last chorus is really fun.

Other songs I have fun with are:

Sweet Child of mine - GnR
My Michele - GnR (intro is nice on a fretless)
Welcome to the Jungle - GnR
Ballad of chaisy lane - Blood Hound Gang (stupidly easy song but I cant help laugh all the way through it singing along)

Cant think of any other none Chilis songs I like have fun playing. I play a lot of Arctic monkeys too, quite simple bass lines though ive found, but I have fun playing and singing along, works out too cause Im from Sheffield so I get the accent down.. shame I cant sing though lol.

I could do with learning some other stuff. But I dont really like playing songs I dont like, ok its not gonna help me progress but I couldnt care less if im having fun with it, Im never going to be the next flea but im happy.:hyper:

metallica - orion, master of puppets, minus human, the god that failed

Megadeth - angry again, peace sells

Muse - hysteria

This is a good mix of slap, fingerstyle, and pick stuff that I will always play and never get tired of.

"Glide" - Pleasure

"She's a Super Lady" - Luther Vandross

"The Chain" - Fleetwood Mac

"PDA" - John Legend

"Runaway" - Jamiroquai

"Tear your Playhouse Down" - Paul Young

"Maggie May" - The Faces

hmm a good one ima is Cage by Dir En Grey