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05-03-2008, 06:23 PM
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Was there a riff you heard either that made you want to play bass or just after you started learning the bass made you want to stick with it. I first started playing in the late 70's - early 80's and at that time there were several:
Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
Super Freak - Rick James
Cars - Gary Newman
My Sharona - The Knack
Drugs In My Pocket - The Monks
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05-03-2008, 06:30 PM
| | | | "Roundabout" - Yes
"YYZ" - Rush
"N.I.B." - Black Sabbath |
05-03-2008, 06:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: USA | | | "The Real Me"-The WHO
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05-03-2008, 09:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Peterborough Ontario Canada | | | The interlude in Orion by Metallica blew my mind. Up to that point I didn't really know what bass was. That was probably what actually made me want to play bass. Other songs that fueled my bass-ic desire were, among many others,
Phantom of The Opera - Maiden
Immigrant Song - Zeppelin
Fairies Wear Boots - Sabbath |
05-03-2008, 09:49 PM
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05-03-2008, 10:13 PM
| | | | One song. Changed my life: Money -Pink Floyd |
05-03-2008, 10:19 PM
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The bass line in "Close your Eyes" by the Beatles, the bass line in "Paperback Writter".
That was all....
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05-03-2008, 10:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by landry.bass  The interlude in Orion by Metallica blew my mind. Up to that point I didn't really know what bass was. That was probably what actually made me want to play bass. Other songs that fueled my bass-ic desire were, among many others,
Phantom of The Opera - Maiden
Immigrant Song - Zeppelin
Fairies Wear Boots - Sabbath | Great list  |
05-04-2008, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by MaccaMan1964 The bass line in "Close your Eyes" by the Beatles, the bass line in "Paperback Writter".
That was all.... | What is "Close Your Eyes" I've never heard of it, unless you mean "All My Loving"?  |
05-04-2008, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnstunner One song. Changed my life: Money -Pink Floyd | +1000
Some other lines that I still love today:
Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
What Is & What Should Never Be - Zep
Sweet Emotion - Aerosmoth |
05-04-2008, 09:49 PM
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man...thinking about it.. ive been playing metal for a while now.. and as much as i would LIKE to say im influenced by cliff and steve... A LOT of my style and the tone i find most appealing is based off what i played when i first started to learning to play bass... and i guess that would be based off of Tony Kanal. |
05-04-2008, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Shawnstunner One song. Changed my life: Money -Pink Floyd | First song I ever learned, I still play it everyday.
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05-04-2008, 10:20 PM
| | | | Come as you are by Nirvana. |
05-05-2008, 07:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NYC | | | Lady Madonna -Beatles
Nowhere Man -Beatles
We gotta get outta This Place -Animals
Cool Jerk -The Capitals
Shotgun -Jr Walker
Still love those riffs. I still build some bass riffs thinking about them. |
05-05-2008, 07:52 AM
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05-05-2008, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Jaguar "The Real Me"-The WHO | +1
Also; Peg - Steely Dan
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05-06-2008, 07:20 PM
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One of these nights-Eagles
Hey you- Pink Floyd
Something-Beatles |
05-06-2008, 07:41 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | | The Big Money and Distant Early Warning by Rush were my earliest ones.
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05-06-2008, 09:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | Chris Squire - The Fish (Live) and a Stanley Clarke solo (The name of which I never have found out) I figured after hearing them play I could either turn my bass into an end table or keep practicing  |
05-07-2008, 02:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Toronto | | | Sting's bass part on "Walking On The Moon"...so simple, yet so effective | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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