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05-16-2010, 07:47 PM
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I don’t know about you but when I started playing bass, I noticed some great bass lines out of old disco hit songs.
I’ve heard them so many times when I was younger. But in the new perspective the bass playing gave me, in my own opinion, they are just great fun to play.
My favourites so far are from Chic (Bernard Edward was great!).
So what are yours? |
05-16-2010, 07:50 PM
|  | Real Basses Have 5 Strings! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Colorado | | | hmmm ... I got nothing ... |
05-16-2010, 07:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Kansas City, MO | | | True. I really didn't like disco when it was big in the seventies. But I have noticed some great bass lines on disco songs when I hear them on the radio now.
First ones that come to mind are: Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry and Get Down Tonight by KC and the Sunshine Band.
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05-16-2010, 07:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: NYC | | | I like playing disco inferno . . . |
05-16-2010, 08:03 PM
| | | | Good Times - Chic
Fire - Ohio Players
ditto on Play that Funky Music
Do I Do - Stevie Wonder (maybe not disco?)
and lots more, bass was kinda the star of disco |
05-16-2010, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mailboxmoney Good Times - Chic
Fire - Ohio Players
ditto on Play that Funky Music
Do I Do - Stevie Wonder (maybe not disco?)
and lots more, bass was kinda the star of disco | The Ohio Players' "Fire" isn't disco!
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05-16-2010, 08:30 PM
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05-16-2010, 08:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Metro St. Louis | | | Chic: Chic Cheer, My Feet Keep Dancing, My Forbidden Lover
Donna Summer: Love to Love You, Baby
Instant Funk: Got My Mind Made Up
Change: Lover's Holiday, Paradise, The Very Best in You, You are My Melody
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05-16-2010, 08:37 PM
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Stayin' Alive - The Bee Gees |
05-16-2010, 08:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Rutherfordton North Carolina | | | Mcfadden and Whitehead - ain't no stopping us now |
05-16-2010, 08:48 PM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | This may not be a Disco song per se, but the bassline definitely is, and it's one of my true favorites. Lots of fun playing it.  |
05-16-2010, 08:53 PM
| | | | Strawberry Letter 23--Brothers Johnson (Disco Era, maybe not fully Disco)
That's the Way I Like It--KC & the Sunshine Band |
05-16-2010, 09:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Rutherfordton North Carolina | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. This may not be a Disco song per se, but the bassline definitely is, and it's one of my true favorites. Lots of fun playing it. | great one! |
05-16-2010, 09:08 PM
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05-16-2010, 09:15 PM
|  | M E T S ... Mets, Mets, Mets! | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NC. Residential Tourist | | | How about a couple of Rolling Stones tunes ... Hot Stuff & Emotional Rescue
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05-16-2010, 09:19 PM
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05-16-2010, 09:21 PM
| | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ubado How about a couple of Rolling Stones tunes ... Hot Stuff & Emotional Rescue | "Miss You" is one of the most Disco-influenced basslines in the Stones catalog. |
05-16-2010, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. This may not be a Disco song per se, but the bassline definitely is, and it's one of my true favorites. Lots of fun playing it. | *Definitely* a disco song. (Rod Stewart: Do You Think I'm Sexy) Quote:
Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A. "Miss You" is one of the most Disco-influenced basslines in the Stones catalog. | "Miss You" was my first thought when I saw the title of this thread.
Queen - "Another One Bites the Dust" is totally disco. |
05-16-2010, 10:56 PM
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05-16-2010, 11:47 PM
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+1 on "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"
"Disco Nights" by GQ
"Just A Touch Of Love" by Slave (disco-ised funk)
"Heartbeat" by Taana Gardner (technically post-disco)
"Keep The Fire Burning" by Gwen McCrae (also post-disco)
Some more post-disco favourites:
"Take Your Time (Do It Right) by S.O.S. Band
"Behind The Groove" by Teena Marie
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