What songs are the most fun for you to play these days?

[Baird6869]

I just starded playing the Doobie's Listen to the Music and I just love playing it. I am a sucker for that shuffle feel and it is just a great grooving tune.

I also love playing STP's Interstate Love Song. Great bass line.

[CrazyWallaWalla]

BUMP-age

[onewebfoot]

Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits (still fun after a year with bassline, and it's nearly 6 minutes long))

[scootron]

We're strictly a cover band. I wind up having the most fun on the songs where the band really gets it going, which doesn't always mean the best songs or the ones with the best bass lines.

Sultans is a good example. It gives our young (18) guitarist a chance to show his stuff, and he absolutely wails.

Come Together is another.

Crossroads may be the most fun of all, though, because everybody gets into it 100%.

For my part, I like playing the bass line of "From the Beginning".

[Baryonyx]

I've been having a lot of fun playing "Deaf To persuasion" by Jonas Hellborg recently.

[jenderfazz]

Funky riffs do it for me, at the moment. Not necessarily funk music, but anything that has more than a straight or shuffle feel. A lot of Motown, disco, etc. It's not always music I enjoy listening to but I'm having a blast with those songs.

[Linkert]

GREEN DAY! MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE! FTW!!!----
Joke..

No but i just love playing LarryG's - Pow and on the finger front i love basslines like Jaco Pastorius - Come On, Come Over. Thats fun stuff.

[afinalfantasy]

A Remark you Made by Weather Report

Really nice song and the bassline suits it well

[dragoon419]

Any of the early Judas Priest tracks, especially those from Point of Entry and Hell Bent For Leather. The tone Ian Hill has on both Green Manalishi and Desert Plains is so good that it's hard to resist them.

[plastik-bass[?]]

Higher Ground is real fun to play


and i love playing metal songs cause they are easy and i can go ****ing crazy on stage XD

[hbarcat]

Listen to the Music is one I always look forward to playing bass on, but it's a mixed blessing for me because I have to sing it as well. It's just on the very edge of my range.

Dark Eyed Cajun Woman (also by the Doob's) is an even groovier bassline with lots of room for expression in it.


My favorite bass line to play live (at least this week) is Closer to Home by Grand Funk Railroad. It has nearly everything from the bass player's toolbox in it, and in quantity: hammer-ons and pull-offs, chords, triplets, arpeggios, runs, syncopation, incidentals galore............... Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Bass.

[AJ Brown]

Jamiroquai, Jaco, Two Ton Shoe, misc blues/soul

[Smallmouth_Bass]

Lately, it's been Helter Skelter and I Want You (She's So Heavy).