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05-14-2006, 05:17 PM
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1. What is the best bass line you have ever heard?!
2. What is the best slap/pop bass line you have ever heard?!
You dont have to answer both! just tell which one it is.
Personally I like Higher ground by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (yes, I know there must be better out there).
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05-14-2006, 06:04 PM
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05-14-2006, 07:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | Man, that is a tough one... There are so many great bass lines it is really hard to give you just one.
But I must admit to being really turned on by the bass line from "Christmas Wrapping" The Waitresses. I will not say it is the best I have ever heard, but every time I hear it, I just laugh because it is so freakin' cool! Especially for such an obscure, novelty song.
Another one along those lines it the bass line from Bow Wow Wow's song, "Hold Me". You never hear that on the radio anywhere and it seems to be kind of hard to find - but when MTV was in it's prime they played it pretty often. The bassline is extra-super-latin-cool-groovy!
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05-14-2006, 11:11 PM
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05-14-2006, 11:23 PM
|  | Ojo. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Beaumont/Calimesa, CA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by tZer But I must admit to being really turned on by the bass line from "Christmas Wrapping" The Waitresses. I will not say it is the best I have ever heard, but every time I hear it, I just laugh because it is so freakin' cool! Especially for such an obscure, novelty song. | dude. i thought i was the only one! waaaaaaaaay +1!! that line ROCKS.
and lemon song. anything by zeppelin, really. and anything james jamerson did is pure gold.
besides that... trevor dunn's on mr. bungle's first album rank quite high (regarding questions #1 and #2 from the original post). he's so stylish.
just listen to "dead goon", about 45 seconds in. not slapped, but amazing.
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05-14-2006, 11:47 PM
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05-14-2006, 11:52 PM
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05-15-2006, 12:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Picking a best bassline ever is... pointless. Not saying there is a point to any of my threads, but what bassline would justify being called the best ever?
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05-15-2006, 12:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Matt Till Picking a best bassline ever is... pointless. Not saying there is a point to any of my threads, but what bassline would justify being called the best ever? | ....
....and this comes from a guy who has even MORE posts than Munjibinjaninja or whatever.
no, there isn't really a point. MY bassline in Jet Pack Johnny's "Save Me" is the best line ever.
so there.
if the thread was called "most inspiring bassline to you" it would lose some of its.... zing. y'know?
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05-15-2006, 12:35 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pompano Beach, FL | | | the correct answer is:
"if you want me to stay" by sly and the family stone (larry graham)...i guess it is both 1. and 2. (albeit fairly sedate popping) |
05-15-2006, 12:58 AM
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05-15-2006, 03:36 AM
| | | | As far as bass guitar goes I'd pick What's Going On - Marvin Gaye with James Jamerson on bass. I really don't know my slap players to well, but for that I'd probably go with a Larry Graham line.
To pick the best bass line though you have to think about all the classical and jazz lines on upright. There's no way.
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05-15-2006, 04:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Newcastle - Australia | | | 1a. Lets Get Retarded - Black Eyed Peas
1b. Dyer Maker - Led Zeppelin
2. POW! - Graham Central Station
just my favourites, but that BEP line is IMO one of the most tasteful pop lines ever
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05-15-2006, 04:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Newcastle, Australia | | | JPJ on Led Zep II pulled out some of the classics of the genre. The Lemon Song is just so brilliant. But its Ramble On that just gets me.
Run For Cover Marcus Miller.
Only So Much Oil In The Ground- Rocco. I mean that is insane right hand funk going on.
Money- Waters, well its catchy.
An impossible question.
The bass player for Robben Ford at a gig at The Basement Sydney many years ago I think played the perfect bass line on this slow blues. It was just as close to perfect and cool as you can get, then took a solo that left the crowd stunned.
Stu Hamm at a Satriani gig in Sydney. A standing ovation that blew Satch off the stage.
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05-15-2006, 04:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Blunt JPJ on Led Zep II pulled out some of the classics of the genre. The Lemon Song is just so brilliant. But its Ramble On that just gets me.
Run For Cover Marcus Miller.
Only So Much Oil In The Ground- Rocco. I mean that is insane right hand funk going on.
Money- Waters, well its catchy.
An impossible question.
The bass player for Robben Ford at a gig at The Basement Sydney many years ago I think played the perfect bass line on this slow blues. It was just as close to perfect and cool as you can get, then took a solo that left the crowd stunned.
Stu Hamm at a Satriani gig in Sydney. A standing ovation that blew Satch off the stage.
etc. etc | Was the bassist for Robben Ford this guy by any chance? Roscoe Beck
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05-15-2006, 04:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2000 Location: Finland, EU | | | Can't believe no-one's mentioned Disco Inferno - absolutely the best disco bassline out there. I think it's by The Trammps, bassist is Stanley Wade according to teh intranet.
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05-15-2006, 05:04 PM
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soul to squeeze
wrath child
fairies wear boots
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05-15-2006, 05:14 PM
| | | | Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze
I think I've decided that that is the best bassline ever. No flash, just groove.
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