Favorite Fretless Basslines

[Stickk]

Sorry if this has already been posted. Mine are "The Widow", by The Mars Volta, and "Anticosmic Overload" by Obscura.

[SteveC]

Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young. I believe it's Pino on bass.

[paul_wolfe]

That was Pino.

Even better though IMO were:

Shoot Down the Moon - with Elton John
Give Blood - with Pete Townsend

[Jim Nazium]

+1 for "Give Blood"

Other great Pino Palladino lines:
"Stop on By" by Paul Young, featuring Chaka Khan on vocals
"In a New York Minute" by Don Henley (the song itself is a little cheesy, but great work by PP)

[otis_thick]

Get Here-Pino
Give Blood-Pino
Graceland Album-Bakithi Kumalo

[paul_wolfe]

Yeah I should have thought of Bakithi

In particular: Diamonds on the soles of her shoes,

That's one monster of a bassline

[infamusblkdeath]

Originally Posted by SteveC

Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young. I believe it's Pino on bass.

took it right out of my mouth.

1.everytime you go away-paul young
2.moonloop(improvisation)-porcupine tree(colin edwin)

[Toronto Bassist]

"Barbary Coast", Weather Report w/Jaco

[hbarcat]

Originally Posted by paul_wolfe

Diamonds on the soles of her shoes,

That's one monster of a bassline

+11

That's the one bassline that slapped me in the face and made me take notice of what a fretless can do.


BTW, Bakithi Kumalo has a couple of pages in the latest Bass Player magazine. Good interview.

[JimK]

The "Extra Track/Remastered" version of Graceland has a bass/vocals only draft of "Diamonds On The Soles". PDB.

Track 13-
http://www.amazon.com/Graceland-Paul...9188215&sr=8-1

...worth the 0.99 cents if you already own the album.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by SteveC

Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young. I believe it's Pino on bass.

Sounds like a Daryl Hall tune, right?

From the same album, The Secret of Association, check out the Octaver/fretless bass on "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down".
PDB, IIRC.

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Jim Nazium

"In a New York Minute" by Don Henley (the song itself is a little cheesy, but great work by PP)

In the same league is "Lady In Red" by Chris De Burgh.
...although, I don't see the Henley tune as cheesy.

[anthowl]

most cirque du soleil.

[Pathpounder]

Originally Posted by paul_wolfe

Yeah I should have thought of Bakithi

In particular: Diamonds on the soles of her shoes,

That's one monster of a bassline

A great vid of this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OafqYNCzq5U

[BobOnBass]

Originally Posted by Pathpounder

A great vid of this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OafqYNCzq5U

Wow, killerband!!! Checking out the rest of the songs also, amazing band, smooth like a babies bottom!! That Paul Simon is an amazing artist and a lucky guy have worked with such musicians.

[M@ddest_H@tter!]

Elderly Woman behind the Counter in a Small Town....Pearl Jam...simple but effective

[swartzfeger]

Originally Posted by paul_wolfe

That was Pino.
Give Blood - with Pete Townsend

+3.14159

Used to be my favorite song back in the day and hadn't heard it in almost 20 years. After listening to it a few weeks ago it completely realigned my brain on what can be done on a fretless. Needless to say I've got a major case of GAS and saving my pennies for a Squier VM F.

[Kink Rimson]

I really like 'Mother Stands for Comfort' by Kate Bush.
Think that's Eberhard Weber but not sure...

[jgroh]

Originally Posted by M@ddest_H@tter!

Elderly Woman behind the Counter in a Small Town....Pearl Jam...simple but effective

I always liked that tune and the simple fretless line!

And the Living Colour song "Nothingness". Another simple but cool line.

[jmac]

I don't know if it's my favorite, but I really enjoy the fretless work on the song "Primal" off of Jason Becker's album "Perspective." I think it's Michael Manring.