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02-14-2009, 04:36 PM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | | Your vote for the all time greatest performance on our instrument?
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Any genre you like.
Mine would still have to be Jaco on "Havona". Never fails to move me.
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02-15-2009, 03:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia | | | All time greatest performance? So basically our favorite bassline ever? As in no lists? Haha, hmm....(opens up WinAmp and starts playing songs).
I really don't know if I can narrow it down, I'll come back later, or maybe I won't if I can't name a favorite haha.
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02-15-2009, 03:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: St. Louis, MO | | | Michael Manring- The Enormous Room
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02-15-2009, 03:51 AM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | It's a 3-way tie for me:
Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
Beatles - Rain
Four Tops - Reach Out (I'll Be There) |
02-15-2009, 04:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Preston, Lancashire | | | I think JPJ on Led Zep I has to be one of my favourite bass performances of all time. |
02-15-2009, 04:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: U.K. | | | John Entwistle - The Real Me
Stanley Clarke - School Days
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03-07-2009, 07:02 PM
| | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | I wouldn't really object to any of these - although I don't know the Manring track. I do enjoy what I've heard of his stuff, though.
I'm still going to stick with Jaco though, on "Havona".
And he only needed four strings. 
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03-07-2009, 09:27 PM
|  | NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN NYAN! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada | | | I agree with Manring, but I would suggest Selene over The Enormous Room. Same general idea, but much more refined. Technically and melodically immaculate song, imo. |
03-07-2009, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Vancouver, B.C. Canada | | | Man.. where to start? A bunch Jaco's, (Portrait of Tracey) Geddy's (still love YYZ), Squire's (Long Distance Runaround), Entwhistle's (The Real Me) yikes. I think you might have to go genre by genre.
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03-07-2009, 09:54 PM
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03-07-2009, 10:09 PM
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Last edited by fourfinger : 03-07-2009 at 10:13 PM.
Reason: Narrowing it to one song
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03-07-2009, 10:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New England | | | In the early 80's I saw Ornette Coleman's Prime Time live in NYC.
Two guitars two basses two drums and Ornette.
The bassists were Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Albert McDowell.
Tacuma was playing his Steinberger and was just wanking with a thin, brittle sound.
I didn't know anything about McDowell and had never heard him before. He was playing a J bass.
He totally disassembled and reassembled the instrument. And destroyed the room. I wasn't playing bass at the time, but I remember thinking that I wasn't sure that anything further needed to be said on the bass after hearing that.
Ever since then, I've been waiting to have another Albert moment of that magnitude, but it has never come to pass. |
03-07-2009, 10:36 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | Prince's When Doves Cry. |
03-07-2009, 10:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Chicago, IL | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedulla? Michael Manring- The Enormous Room | +1 to that, but the Live at the Quick version of the Flecktones' "Big Country" edges it out, IMO.
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03-07-2009, 10:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Don't think I could pick one, to be quite honest.
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03-07-2009, 10:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | | +1 to "Reach Out (I'll Be There)," and Jamerson's playing on Stevie Wonder's "For Once In My Life" ain't too shabby either
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03-08-2009, 01:06 AM
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I caught Jaco in the late 70's with Weather Report (Wayne Shorter when he was in his late 50's and Zawinul on KB) and they were amazing. I remember watching him come out onto the stage, dressed in light cotton clothing, barefoot, just eager to tear it up, and he did.
I saw Jamerson backing up Marvin Gaye and Tammy Terrill at the Coconut Grove in the late 60's. Marvin was slick and Tammy could sing, but Jamerson dug the trench and threw the band into the groove. He was light on his feet but could hammer away on the downbeats, and then put an amazing syncopated arpeggio on the turnaround 8th bar starting on the upbeat of three. Damn, he was good.
-richard
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03-08-2009, 09:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada. | | | Havona is a masterpiece IMO, but I'll give "greatest performance" to Jaco in Continuum. |
03-08-2009, 09:50 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Bloomington, IL | | Too many to name. Like asking who ones favorite bassist or band is. 
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03-09-2009, 10:06 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Philadelphia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Deluge Of Sound Prince's When Doves Cry. | Great track, but even my six year old can play the bass part, and she doesn't even play bass.
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