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03-09-2013, 06:36 PM
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IMO the technical aspects of playing bass can be perfected by anyone willing to put in enough hours of practice, but really using the instrument to convey emotion is another matter... though it requires technique of course as well.
I am a fan of Tony Levin, and when I first bought a copy of Lou Reed's Berlin years back, I was psyched when I saw Levin played bass on a track. Having first becoming a TL fan after seeing Peter Gabriel live, it is somewhat different here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY_i-R2ldyA
His use of space and the weepiness of the fretless is just genius on one of the saddest rock albums ever made.
So I am just curious... Can anyone name a truly sad bass line? One that really moves you? |
03-09-2013, 06:38 PM
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03-09-2013, 06:46 PM
| | | | 'Round here' by counting crows is one for me. That whole song is pretty sad, but the way that Matt malley builds up the bass line on that last chorus with the vocals... I get chills every time I play along to it.
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03-09-2013, 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by skee616 Weather Report - A Remark You Made - does it for me every time. | +1. I was gonna say this. For me, Jaco's ballad playing is even more impressive than his 16th-notes-of-fury.
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03-09-2013, 06:59 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Upland, CA. | | I always thought that Simon Gallup's bass brilliant counter-melody in "Watching Me Fall" had a sad, somber quality to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9mtHn0ONds
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03-09-2013, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by cjmodulus 'Round here' by counting crows is one for me. That whole song is pretty sad, but the way that Matt malley builds up the bass line on that last chorus with the vocals... I get chills every time I play along to it. | Big +1. Love this tune. Or anything in D minor, the saddest of all keys.
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03-09-2013, 07:16 PM
| | | Cliff's line on Fade to Black has always held a kind of sombreness to me.
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03-09-2013, 07:17 PM
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Originally Posted by skee616 Weather Report - A Remark You Made - does it for me every time. | THIS. One of the most beautiful bass lines ever.
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03-09-2013, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by cjmodulus 'Round here' by counting crows is one for me. That whole song is pretty sad, but the way that Matt malley builds up the bass line on that last chorus with the vocals... I get chills every time I play along to it. | They're a sad band. 
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03-09-2013, 07:43 PM
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03-09-2013, 08:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Epitaph04 I always thought John Myung's bass playing starting at 3:07 of Dream Theater's In The Presence of Enemies pt 1 was sad. | Oh, that one reminds me. Through Her Eyes.
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03-09-2013, 08:27 PM
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03-09-2013, 08:47 PM
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03-09-2013, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Hamlet7768 Oh, that one reminds me. Through Her Eyes. | Agreed!
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03-09-2013, 08:52 PM
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03-09-2013, 09:22 PM
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03-09-2013, 09:26 PM
| | | | Anything I play is pretty sad... |
03-09-2013, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by sandmangeck The saddest song or Lilah by Morphine. | Morphine might just be my favorite band ever. Certainly in the conversation. I'll say "The Night" by Morphine (Mark Sandman).
Can't go wrong with "A Remark You Mad" by Weather Report. |
03-09-2013, 09:46 PM
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Originally Posted by blackest_frank Anything I play is pretty sad... | Lol'd. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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