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12-11-2007, 12:29 PM
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Builder: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | | What tracks got you started on bass?
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What floated your proverbial "boat" (Song-wise)and got you started on your pathway to Bass-hood? |
12-11-2007, 12:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pacific Northwest | | I think one of the first tunes I remember hearing that really made me perk up was "Wrathchild"
Another big one was "NIB"
I still get excited playing those bass lines-even just noodling around in my living room... 
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12-11-2007, 12:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Rochester N.Y. | | | It was Chaz Chandlers bass intro to "We Gotta Get Outta This Place" by the Animals.
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12-11-2007, 12:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Dearborn, MI (Detroit area) | | | My dad turned up the bass on the stereo one day to show me what Paul McCartney did on the Rubber Soul LP, and nothing has been the same since.
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12-11-2007, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Stockholm | | | Black sabbath . 'NIB' & Fairies wear boots
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12-11-2007, 01:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Las Vegas Nv. | | | Motown and old blues records my dad had. Also big band stuff, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller etc... |
12-11-2007, 01:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Largo, Florida, USA | | | Thankufalettinmebemiceelfagin - Sly
The Chicken - Jaco
Rio - DuranDuran
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12-11-2007, 01:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | | Spinal Tap - Big Bottom |
12-11-2007, 01:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pacific Northwest | | Quote:
Originally Posted by meev992  Spinal Tap - Big Bottom | Nice! 
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12-11-2007, 01:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Paris, France | | | KISS - Detroit Rock City and Dave Matthews Band - Crush.
Go fig.
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12-11-2007, 01:34 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | earth wind and fire was the first group that got me on bass. i heard Verdine's work and thought "that's how i wanna sound". |
12-11-2007, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: MN | | | To Defy the Laws of Tradition by Primus
still one of my favorite songs & bass lines |
12-11-2007, 01:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: SF, CA | | | Day Tripper: Beatles
I Used to Love Her: Stones
Thela Hun Ginjeet: King Crimson
The Fish: Yes
Little Green Bag (Funkiest Groove): George Baker
Morning Dew (Phil Bombs on the intro): Grateful Dead |
12-11-2007, 02:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: North Carolina, USA | | | Walking blues lines.....take your pick. |
12-11-2007, 03:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Union City, California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by casualmadness Nice! |  |
12-11-2007, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Audubon Park | | Slow Ride by Foghat.Absolute killer bass line.And Moby Dick by Led Zeppelin.
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12-11-2007, 03:47 PM
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Endorsing Joiner & Ben Lindsey Basses - Maker: XB Custom Cables | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Twin Cities, MN | | The first songs I learned on bass were:
1 - Pipeline - The Ventures
2 - Gloria - Shadows of Knight version
3 - (Turn on your) Love Light - ???
What hooked me on bass-for-life was "The Best of The Animals" - learned EVERY song 'note-for-note' - Chaz Chandler rocked!!!
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12-11-2007, 03:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Chicago, IL | | | tool - lateralus
still my favorite song =x |
12-11-2007, 04:03 PM
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Mr. Wiggles the Worm | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New Jersey | | | I can't think of specific tracks, but Parliament got me into the bass, and Jaco got me playing. |
12-11-2007, 04:11 PM
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Non fosters drinking alcoholic. | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Perth, Australia | | | Take the Power Back - RATM.
I saw a guy a school play it and i was just like, "that, i wanna do that"
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