I am going to keep suggesting this until someone listens to me!!!!!!
I am going to keep suggesting this until someone listens to me!!!!!
Best Fretless recording I've EVER heard:
Trip Wamsley-Dancing About Architecture.
The Manring Stuff is good, but busy.
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"For my eigth birthday I asked for a nuclear missle and got a record player. Now some people are wishing I'd gotten the missle. I think it would have been nice." -Trip Wamsley.
Also there is a David Gilmour song, I think it's called
"Murder" which has a great fretless bassline.
And there was once a band called the Firm.
Jimmy page and Paul Rodgers w/ Tony Franklin on bass ( I think he played only fretless too ) and I think Chris Slade was on drums.
I would have to say Jaco's debut solo album. I just listened to "Continuum" yesterday. I don't even want to call it a tune. It's just an amazing piece of music!
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"Without principle, technique is mechanical; without technique, principle cannot be expressed. With both technique and principle, there is grace."
I'm surprised that someone here even knows of the song, "Murder", from David Gilmour's "About Face" solo album from the 80's. This is a great song, and the fretless work of none other than the ever-perfect and tasteful Pino Palladino is the most memorable part of the song. I still play that solo as a warm-up from time to time.
And Tony Franklin's playing with The Firm is very ear-catching, especially his harmonic glissandos. Great overall bass tone on the first album.
Back to Pino -- he provided some incredible lines to some great pop songs, particularly in the 1980's. His stellar work with The Christians and Paul Young have already been mentioned in this string. But also give a listen to some of Go West's earliest singles, especially "Call Me". That's also him on some of the cuts from Tears For Fears' "Songs From The Big Chair".
I am going to keep suggesting this until someone listens to me!!!!!! 
