what records do you like to jam along with?

[biff malibu]

well, watcha got?

lately ive been playing along with smiths/morrissey

[Beast]

Earth Wind and Fire is pretty fun to jam along with.

I've mostly been playing along to stuff that doesn't have bass already though, like classical guitarists.

[Broseph]

Anything with James Brown is fun to play. Some of the bass lines from the JBs are catchy but simple. I would personally like to learn how to play everything on What's Going On note-for-note but that won't happen so...

I should be playing more country music, since that's what pays the bils 'round here.

[winstonthecat]

Since I'm in a couple of cover bands, I tend to play along with all the songs in our set list. A lot of 60's rock for one band, more of a 80's-90's mix in the other.

I put all of songs on the setlists in a playlist on my IPod. Sometimes I just put it on shuffle and play to a random mix. Keeps me on my toes.

[Bolt91]

Allman Brothers Band - Live at Filmore East.

[Broseph]

Closest Thing to Heaven - Tears for Fears

[capnsandwich]

Dave Matthews Band-The Best of What's Around
Hillsongs-Mighty to Save
Israel and New Breed-God Is Good
Fred Hammond-Nothing But the Hits

[Porksicle]

Sade - Greatest Hits

After reading the first couple chapters of Wooten's book, this CD just seemed like a perfect fit to the "groove" lesson.

[Standalone]

Some Live Clapton CD I got from the library that had Carl Radle was good to jam with for a while. A local DJ over in Long Island does a funk/soul show for three hours every Friday. Great stuff.

[Audiophage]

Anything I've been listening to lately.

[biff malibu]

Originally Posted by Audiophage

Anything I've been listening to lately.

which would be...?

[Nick Kay]

Pretty much any record by The Mars Volta, but especially De-loused in the Comatorium. That album has really fun bass parts.

[MEKer]

My Satriani albums

[kesslari]

Tower of Power, originals for one of my bands, and various other stuff.
ToP is the unifying force, though.

[werbo1]

Isaac Hayes's Hot Buttered Soul.

[snake23]

Any Rush or Primus album is great to play to.

[tomvelsor]

jaco pastorius - jaco pastorius
mothership connection - parliament
giant steps - john coltrane
kind of blue - miles davis
any/all meters albums
heavy weather - weather report
any james brown w/bootsy grooves

those are the tops. there are of course countless others..

[ac1710]

Originally Posted by Broseph

Anything with James Brown is fun to play. I would personally like to learn how to play everything on What's Going On note-for-note but that won't happen so...

Thats what I'm doing at the moment - tapping out that masterfull album.

Give it a go, it's not as hard as it seems once you get started.



Love jamming to nuyorcan soul records - Louis Bennedetti, Masters at work etc etc.
Standing in the shadows of motown gives me endless play along fun too!

I jam along to the radio as well - Put on Gilles Peterson or BenjiB's latest shows for 2 hours of quality music in varying styles.

[mellowgerman]

any of the 400+ jefferson airplane songs on my computer

[CjSlayer]

when i just feel like relaxing for awhile, i'll usually play along with 60'-70's stuff. Mostly Beatles, Cream, Joplin, Blood Sweat & Tears, and pre-79 Chicago.