Your 5 favourite basslines from your 5 favourite bassists

[Toronto Bassist]

i. Paul McCartney

1. A Day In The Life
2. Nowhere Man
3. Lovely Rita
4. Taxman
5. The Word

ii. James Jamerson

1. I Was Made To Love Her
2. Bernadette
3. Reach Out (I'll Be There)
4. Darling Dear
5. Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Marvin Gaye version)

iii. Bruce Thomas

1. Pump It Up
2. Goon Squad
3. Party Girl
4. Lip Service
5. (I Don't Want To) Go To Chelsea

iv. Jack Bruce

1. Crossroads
2. Badge
3. Life On Earth (Question of Time version)
4. Grease The Wheels
5. Rope Ladder To The Moon

v. Anthony Jackson

1. For The Love Of Money
2. Move Me No Mountain
3. What I'm Said
4. Give The People What They Want
5. All Night's All Right

[Audiophage]

I like how you have a picture of Charles Mingus as your avatar yet he's not even in your top 5 bassists. I mean come on man, Haitian Fight Song? Pithecanthropus Erectus?

[Toronto Bassist]

In fairness, it was always intended to be a temporary avatar. I keep meaning to change it to something else.

[Goatee220]

Flea:
1. Higher Ground
2. Naked in the Rain
3. Give It Away
4. Stone Cold Bush
5. Soul To Squeeze

Bobby Sheehan
1. Alone
2. The Tiding/Onslaught
3. What's For Breakfast
4. Save His Soul
5. Crash Burn

Rocco Prestia
1. Soul Vaccination
2. What Is Hip?
3. Only So Much Oil...
4. So I Got To Groove
5. You Got To Funkifize

Roger Waters
1. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
2. Hey You
3. Money
4. Run Like Hell
5. Young Lust

Tony Levin
1. Don't Give Up
2. Red Rain
3. Big Time
4. Secret World
5. Sledgehammer

[mccartneyman]

Paul McCartney:
1. See Your Sunshine (Memory Almost Full)
2. A Little Help from My Friends
3. Rain
4. You Won't See Me
5. Paperback Writer

Tony Levin (all with Peter Gabriel):
1. I Don't Remember (although it's on Chapman Stick)
2. Darkness (Up)
3. Don't Give Up
4. Family Snapshot
5. Moribund the Buergermeister

Chris Squire:
1. America
2. Yours is No Disgrace
3. Heart of the Sunrise
3. Gate of Delirium
5. Starship Trooper

James Jamerson:
1. I Was Made to Love Her
2. Bernadette
3. What's Goin' On
4. Reach Out
5. Midnight Train to Georgia

Duck Dunn:
1. Wrap It Up
2. Soul Man
3. Midnight Hour
4. Hold On I'm Comin'
5. Knock On Wood

[ilnickyJ]

Geddy Lee:
1. YYZ
2. Freewill
3. The Spirit Of Radio
4. Tom Sawyer
5. Red Barchetta

Steve Harris:
1. Powerslave
2. Run To The Hills
3. Phantom Of The Opera
4. Fear Of The Dark
5. The Trooper

John Entwistle:
1. My Generation
2. The Seeker
3. The Real Me
4. Won't Get Fooled Again
5. Pinball Wizard

Jack Bruce:
1. Badge
2. White Room
3. Crossroads
4. Sunshine Of Your Love
5. Swlabr

Geezer Butler:
1. Paranoid
2. N.I.B
3. Electric Funeral
4. Heaven And Hell
5. Supernaut

[Toronto Bassist]

Originally Posted by ilnickyJ

Geddy Lee:
1. YYZ
2. Freewill
3. The Spirit Of Radio
4. Tom Sawyer
5. Red Barchetta

Steve Harris:
1. Powerslave
2. Run To The Hills
3. Phantom Of The Opera
4. Fear Of The Dark
5. The Trooper

John Entwistle:
1. My Generation
2. The Seeker
3. The Real Me
4. Won't Get Fooled Again
5. Pinball Wizard

Jack Bruce:
1. Badge
2. White Room
3. Crossroads
4. Sunshine Of Your Love
5. Swlabr

Geezer Butler:
1. Paranoid
2. N.I.B
3. Electric Funeral
4. Heaven And Hell
5. Supernaut

Some good choices there!

[Deathblade Eric]

This wasn't as easy as I thought...

Neil Murray (Whitesnake)

1: Fool For Your Loving
2: The Time Is Right For Love
3: Black And Blue
4: Lie Down (A Modern Love Song)
5: Ready An' Willing (Live In The Heart of The City)

Jack Bruce

1: Politician (Bruce, Baker Moore)
2: White Room
3: Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune
4: Tales Of Brave Ulysses
5: Take It Back

Colin Hodgkinson

1: 32-20 Blues
2: Blues For Jimmy Yancey
3: The Black Mirror
4: Linin' Track
5: Lieutenant Loose

Greg Lake (KC/ELP)

1: 21st Century Schizoid Man
2: Living Sin
3: The Barbarian
4: Knife Edge
5: Karn Evil 9

Tony Levin (all King Crimson)

1: Sleepless (Bob Clearmountain Mix)
2: Elephant Talk
3: Walking On Air
4: VROOOM VROOOM
5: Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream

P.

[Serial Junkie]

Originally Posted by Goatee220

Roger Waters
1. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
2. Hey You
3. Money
4. Run Like Hell
5. Young Lust

David Gilmour was the bassist for both Pigs (Three Different Ones) and Hey You.

Originally Posted by Tomi

“M: Was Roger an effective bassist back then?
G: He had developed his own limited, or very simple style. He was never very keen on improving himself as a bass player and half the time I would play the bass on the records because I would tend to do it quicker. Right back to those early records; I mean, at least half the bass on all the recorded output is me anyway.
M: This is not a widely acknowledged fact.
G: Well, I think it's been said, but it's certainly not something we go around advertising. Rog used to come in and say "Thank you very much" to me once in a while for winning him bass-playing polls.
M: Did you play the fretless bass on "Hey You"?
G: Yeah. Hmm. Roger playing fretless bass? Please! [laughs]”
Musician, August 1992.

And the answer from Roger Waters:

"Dave and I never wrote together. I don't ever remember writing with Dave. Sometimes he'd bring in a chord sequence and I'd the make a song out of it. Or he'd bring a guitar riff in and I'd make a song out of it, like 'Wish You Were Here.' I love that riff, it's fantastic. But we never wrote together, ever. Never. And Dave was never interested in drama, ever. In my experience. He never showed any interest at all, ever, in drama. Of any kind. Certainly not.
[...]
I was never a bass player. I've never played anything. I play guitar a bit on the records and would play bass, because I sometimes want to hear the "sound" I make when I hit a string on a bass with a pick or my finger; it makes a different sound than anybody else makes, to me. But I've never been interested in playing the bass. I'm not interested in playing instruments and I never have been."
Musician, December 1992

from this thread: Roger Waters

[Valerus]

Serial...that's an interesting development.

[Pj,Rj,Hj]

Bernard Edwards
Everybody Dance
My feet keep dancing
Le Freak
I'm Coming Out
My Old Piano

Mick Karn
My New Career
Buoy
She's Got Claws
Cantonese Boy
Still life in mobile homes

Pino Palladino
Where I lay my head
Call Me
Woman in Chains
Tear you play house down
Wonderland

John Taylor
Last chance on the stairway
Anyone out there
Girls on Film
Sound of Thunder
American Science

Louis Johnson
Get on the floor
Streetwave
I'll be good to you
Shine on
Off the Wall

[bstringkyle]

Geezer

1. Heaven and Hell
2. Iron Man
3. N.I.B
4. War Pigs
5. Electric Funeral

Marcus Miller

1. Blast!
2. Silver Rain
3. Scoop
4. Funk Joint
5. Milky Way

Steve Harris

1. Blood Brothers
2. Iron Maiden
3. Murders In The Rue Morgue
4. To Tame a Land
5. Powerslave

Geddy Lee

1. YYZ
2. The Big Money
3. Freewill
4. Spirit Of Radio
5. Vital Signs

Les Claypool

1. Too Many Puppies
2. Tommy The Cat
3. Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
4. Sgt. Baker
5. Harold of the Rocks

[Stingray19]

Bassists in no particular order,songs are in order.

Geezer Butler
NIB
Paranoid
Crazy Train

John Entwistle
My Generation
The Real Me
5:15
Tommys Holiday Camp
Pinball Wizard

Gene Simmons
Goin Blind
100,000 Years
Detroit Rock City
Strutter
Sure Know Something

Geddy Lee
YYZ
Freewill
Tom Sawyer
Closer To The Heart

Paul Macca
Paperback Writer
All My Loving
Hello Goodbye
Day Tripper
Get Back

[Valerus]

Originally Posted by bstringkyle

Steve Harris

1. Blood Brothers
2. Iron Maiden
3. Murders In The Rue Morgue
4. To Tame a Land
5. Powerslave

Have you played Revelations or Sign of the Cross yet? Fun songs!

[jmattbassplaya]

No order to bassists or lines...

John Taylor
1. Serious
2. Ordinary World
3. Rio
4. Planet Earth
5. Save a Prayer

Steve Harris
1. Strange World
2. Children of the Damned
3. Killers
4. Aces High
5. Sea of Madness

Robert DeLeo
1. Interstate Love Song
2. Trippin on a Hole in a Paper Heart
3. Vasoline
4. Plush
5. All in the Suit that You Wear

Sting
1. Walking on the Moon
2. Spirits in a Material World
3. Roxanne
4. Message in a Bottle
5. Next to You

Chris Wolstenholme
1. Hysteria
2. Time is Running Out
3. Bliss
4. Citizen Erased
5. Stockholme Syndrome

[RandomBass90]

Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya

Chris Wolstenholme
1. Hysteria
2. Time is Running Out
3. Bliss
4. Citizen Erased
5. Stockholme Syndrome

Excellent list good sir.

Chris Wolstenholme
Futurism
Hysteria
Bliss
Cave
Dark Shines

Paul McCartney
Taxman
Birthday
Dear Prudence
Getting Better
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

Jon Stockman (Karnivool)
Goliath
Umbra
All I Know
Fear of the Sky
The Caudal Lure

Steven Hodson (Oceansize)
Catalyst
Long Forgotten
The Strand
Superfluous to Requirements
Sleeping Dogs and Dead Lions
Trail of Fire

Geddy Lee
YYZ
Limelight
Tom Sawyer
Circumstances
Malignant Narcissism

[Kromwarp]

Cliff Burton
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)
Orion
Leper Messiah
The Four Horsemen

Jason Newsted
The Outlaw Torn
My Friend of Misery
The God That Failed
King Nothing
Holier Than Thou

Paul D'Amour
Sober
Hush
Sweat
Part of Me
Opiate


Justin Chancellor
Jambi
Schism
Right in Two
The Grudge
The Pot

Mike Starr
Would?
Dam That River
Rain When I Die
Rooster
Angry Chair

[stonedmotus]

steve harris
1. wrathchild
2. remember tommorow
3. running free
4. killers
5. hallowed be thy name

cliff burton
1. for whom the bell tolls
2. master of puppets
3. the four horsemen
4. am i evil?
5. the call of ktulu

geddy lee
1. yyz
2. tom sawyer
3. new world man
4. what you're doing
5. vital signs

klaus flouride
1. soup is good food
2. riot
3. we've got a bigger problem now
4. this could be anywhere
5. winnebago warrior

geezer butler
1. warning
2. the wizard
3. symptom of the universe
4. heaven & hell
5. hand of doom

[iruyle]

WOW. Soup is Good Food = win!

[J-Building]

John Myung:
-Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and the Sleeper
-Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity
-Octavarium
-The Root of All Evil
-The Glass Prison

Tim Commerford
-Cochise
-Bring Em Back Alive
-Bullet in the Head
-Wake Up
-Killing in the Name of

Chris Wolstenholme
-Hysteria
-United States of Eurasia
-I Belong to You/Mon Cœur S'ouvre à ta Voix
-Starlight
-Time is Running Out

Justin Chancellor
-Lateralus
-The Pot
-Prison Sex
-Vicarious
-Jambi

Marcus Miller
-Power
-Blast!
-Funk Joint
-What is Hip?
-Higher Ground