what album, front to back?

[jeff_bass28]

What record did you just have to sit down with and learn, note for note, front to back?
Two for me:
"Fragile" by Yes. My timing's off on "Roundabout," but other than that, I don't do that bad.
"Graceland" by Paul Simon. I can't get the solo on "Call Me Al," and the longer solo riff on "Diamonds on the Soes Of Her Shoes," though.

[Philbiker]

When I was first learning bass I learned the then brand new Police album "Regatta De Blanc".

I did a project with my brother where we the entire contents of played both of Joe Jackson's "Night And Day" records.

[PinkTelephone]

These three ablums i know basically note for note.
Saves The Day - Stay What You Are
Saves The Day - Through Being Cool
At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command

three of my favorite cds.

[FunkSlap89]

Blood Sugar Sex Magic - Chili Peppers



for what its worth, on guitar:

White Blood Cells - White Stripes

[superbassman2000]

i used to do that when i first started bass

anyways,

Deep Purple -- Deep purple, Book of Talisyn, shades of deep purple, machine head

Rage Against the Machine -- RATM, Evil Empire, Battle of LA, renagades

Cream -- Greatest hits

[DarthDooku]

The last three chili pepper albums

[pauljacksonfan]

For me it was every album by Parliament, Funkadelic, Sly & the Family Stone and Graham Central Station. But I was definetly better at doing it when I was first starting out. Now I'm more inte just listening to it. Probably haven't done it since I discovered the Headhunters. Paul's lines are just so infectous you have to sit down and pick 'em out.

This reminds me. I've got a lot of records to which I don't know the basslines to yet. Frank Zappa & the Mothers of invention, here I come.

[BurningSkies]

Toot & The Maytals - Funky Kingston (both UK and US versions)
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread and Catch a Fire
Earth & Stone - Cool Roots
Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Yellowman - Live @ Marritime Hall
Charlie Chaplin & Roots Radics - Take Two & Two Sides Live


There are others too...

I use albums in my regular practice routine, so I tend to focus on learning a song or two during a practice session, then end up going through an album I've already learned, then go off into technique/etc. I don't practice my band's material during my own time...that's what rehersal is for.

[RwG]

metallica - master of puppets
guns n roses - appetite for destruction
skid row - skid row

[WalterBush]

Rush-Moving Pictures, Hemispheres, Power Windows, Exit Stage Left

Blue Oyster Cult-Fire of Unknown Origin

Metallica-everything through the Black Album

Slayer-Seasons in the Abyss

Now you make me want to grab a couple of more recent albums and learn them front to back. It's been a while since I did that

[Marcus]

L'arc~en~Ciel - Smile
L'arc~en~Ciel - Awake
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
Hyde - Faith
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Rancid - ...And Out Come The Wolves
The Lawrence Arms - The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Lawrence Arms - Apathy & Exhaustion
The Lawrence Arms - Oh! Calcutta!

Hum... that's all that comes to mind for now.

[BassGod]

Rush - Moving Pictures

If only I could nail the second solo in YYZ!

Graeme

[nad]

I think that about covers it. Haven't learned another band's song in years, let alone an entire album. Good learning experience in the formative years though.

[RHFusillo]

Not a whole album, but the fourth (LP) side of Johnny Winter's Second Winter. Tommy Shannon's playing is so subtle that you'd never know he was playing, but it's so effective.

[addylewis]

Everything by Joy Division (unknown pleasures, closer, etc) when I first started learning.

I'm MUCH better now though so I just generally play along to the stuff I listen to...

White Stripes (GREAT...you can play WHAT YOU WANT AND IT'S RIGHT!!!!)
Interpol (1st album...the second one was not half as good...)
Hives
Libertines
Strokes (their newest album more recently...)

oh yeah - the Departures "dirty words" (great album...some slightly (if only easy) funky basslines in there)

Beatles (er...everything really...! "Abbey Road" especially)

Pink Floyd "Piper at the gates at Dawn" (oh yeah..."interstellar overdrive"...)

New Order "Get Ready" and "Movement" (yeah...their most Joy Division-esque albums!)

er...

When I first got my first bass the first album I can actually remember playing along with was the Kinks "Villiage Green Preservation Society" (not particularly a GREAT album to play along with, but it was a new album (for me) and I was listening to it playing my month-old first bass...)

Thats about it really..I just HAD to figure out "By the way" when I heard it!

[Demon]

To the guys who learned Slayer etc, how can you do that? I Can barely hear the bass? Or maybe you follow the guitar and try tab it after that?

[cowsgomoo]

Originally Posted by jeff_bass28

What record did you just have to sit down with and learn, note for note, front to back?

Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life

for months my practice routine was to play along with this double CD and imagine I was Scott Thunes... there's some wonderful music on it and terrific bass playing

[EmmSee]

way back it was Frizzle Fry & BloodSugarSexMagik ... those are 2 I remember learning every bit of.

[Matt Till]

I still think a great beginner album is Nirvana's Nevermind. I pretty much hate that album I've heard it so much (or at least the singles), but it's sooOOOoooOO easy but it feels trickier than it is, makes you feel like a stupid big shot at the Guitar Center.

Last album I figured out was probably Frizzle Fry by Primus. I don't do covers much anymore. Though, I've joined bands recently (original) and had to learn entire catalogs of these bands off CD, so that probably counts. Last bassline I figured out for fun was One more Red Nightmare by King Crimson. I figure out other people's lines much anymore... I'd like to start when I get some free time, I think it would help me a lot, I'm in a rut, and my hero bassists have shifted drastically from Les Claypool and Flea.

[GM60466]

King Crimson -Court of the Crimson King
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis