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01-01-2013, 12:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | | Other lines like Good Times / Rapper's Delight
Every once in a while I come across a cool line that I never worked out before. I work it out, and I wind up playing it forever, really enjoying it.
The latest for me - today - was Good Times / Rapper's Delight.
I heard the song, and I remembered I never worked out that line. I got it down, and I've been playing it for about an hour now. 
Anybody want to cite any other similar signature lines that we should all have memorized? [preferably funky stuff like that]
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01-01-2013, 12:46 PM
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01-01-2013, 12:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Providence, RI | | This an obscure one so it may not be exactly what you're looking for but I can't stop playing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m23uu5Yz-Y
Funny you mention Rapper's Delight. My drummer and I busted into it while our guitarist was swapping out guitars at our NYE gig last night. |
01-01-2013, 12:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | Quote:
Originally Posted by DWBass  Another One Bites The Dust! | Exactly. The ones I thought of since I posted are:
Superfreak
Another One Bites The Dust
Under Pressure
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01-01-2013, 12:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Madison,Wisconsin | | | Chic - Good Times.
Almost the very definition of a cool little line.
I'll add the outro of The Chain by Fleetwood Mac in as well for good measure.
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01-01-2013, 05:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: I'm on a Mexican wo-oh radio | | If you like Good Times, try the theme song to the movie "The Pest" Voodoo Mambo, written by Michael Sembello http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JyJanEsvW8
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01-01-2013, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Clark Dark | Excellent. I'm going to slow that down and work it out.
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01-01-2013, 05:30 PM
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01-01-2013, 05:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | | Rapture - Blondie.
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01-01-2013, 08:11 PM
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01-01-2013, 08:34 PM
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Originally Posted by SBassman Every once in a while I come across a cool line that I never worked out before. I work it out, and I wind up playing it forever, really enjoying it.
The latest for me - today - was Good Times / Rapper's Delight.
I heard the song, and I remembered I never worked out that line. I got it down, and I've been playing it for about an hour now.
Anybody want to cite any other similar signature lines that we should all have memorized? [preferably funky stuff like that] | You did notice that "Good Times" and "Rapper's Delight" are not exactly the same line, right? 
Some other lines that were inspired by "Good Times":
- "Monster Jam" by The Sequence and Spoonie Gee
- "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" by Vaughan Mason & Crew
Some other "signature" type lines? How about :
- "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" by S.O.S. Band
- "All Night Long" by Mary Jane Girls (also check out the very similar "Risin' To The Top" by Keni Burke)
- "Forget Me Nots" by Patrice Rushen
- "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" by McFadden & Whitehead (and the derivative and kind of funny "Ma Quale Idea" by Pino D'Angio) |
01-02-2013, 07:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | Cmon folks - what else? 
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01-02-2013, 07:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: S.W. Ohio | | | Bust a Move - That's Flea on bass there.
How about some Fat Boys? Maybe Jailhouse Rap, Can You Feel It, Fat Boys or a few others.
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01-02-2013, 09:23 PM
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My city was gone by pretenders
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01-02-2013, 09:53 PM
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Originally Posted by bass12 You did notice that "Good Times" and "Rapper's Delight" are not exactly the same line, right? | They're not? I've never really gave them a good listen though. |
01-02-2013, 10:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | How about some of the lines Nathan Watts has laid down for Stevie Wonder?
- I Wish
- Sir Duke
- Master Blaster
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01-03-2013, 07:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Northeast, US | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Grateful How about some of the lines Nathan Watts has laid down for Stevie Wonder?
- I Wish
- Sir Duke
- Master Blaster | Excellent.
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01-03-2013, 07:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | Start with GooD Times and follow Grandmaster Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel":
Chic - "Good Times"
Blondie - "Rapture"
Queen - "Another One Bites the Dust"
Sugarhill Gang - "8th Wonder"
The Furious Five - "Birthday Party"
Spoonie Gee - "Monster Jam"
Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band - "Apache"
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - "Freedom"
Sugarhill Gang - "Rapper’s Delight"
The Hellers - "Life Story" |
01-03-2013, 08:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | | Why not more Bernard Edwards / Chic?
Start with "I want your love" and "Hangin' "
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01-03-2013, 09:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyEztz6nY9Q
I hate Christmas music with a passion but heard this bassline and was floored at how sick it was. Totally from that school.
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