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06-23-2007, 01:52 PM
| | The most hurtful thing ever realized | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Ann Arbor, MI | | | Is "Glide" the "Stairway to Heaven" of bass?
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When I was first getting started on the bass my teacher showed me what I thought was an EXTREMELY obscure bass riff from the tune "Glide" by Pleasure.
10 years later I'm messing around with it in an all bass store. The guys working point to a sign that says "No Glide"....like the scene in Waynes World where they point to the "No Stairway to Heaven Song".
I've never heard the tune, heard anyone mention it. or play it since back in the day during that lesson. It was funny.
So do people know this tune haha??? 
I thought Higher Ground would be a better fit.
ps. if you like funky bass go download Glide. It's kinda challenging.
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06-23-2007, 01:58 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | | I don't know Glide. I think I've never heard it. As a matter of fact, I don't know Pleasure either.
"Come as you are" comes to mind as the most obnoxious and annoying music store bass line. |
06-23-2007, 02:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indiana | | | I doubt you can say its the Stairway to HEaven of the bass cause Ive never heard of it and Ive never really heard it mentioned on here or anything. |
06-23-2007, 02:36 PM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | No. |
06-23-2007, 03:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: ATL | | | I'd say that Higher Ground is the Stairway to Heaven of bass. |
06-23-2007, 03:54 PM
| | | | School Days, by Stanley Clark...when I was a kid.
Now? I have no idea. |
06-23-2007, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bay Area, California, USA | | | I thought Sunshine of Your Love was the "Stairway to Heaven" of bass...
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06-23-2007, 05:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Los Angeles | | Glide is a great bassline.
I think in an all bass store, that makes sense they have a sign like that.
LOL
And yes I can play it. It's a great way to test out how a bass slaps 
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06-23-2007, 06:53 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | Glide was a funk bass players anthem back in the 70's along with anything Mark Adams, Larry Graham or Louis Johnson did! Not a difficult song but the precision in playing it is the test!
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06-23-2007, 08:30 PM
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Originally Posted by DWBass Glide was a funk bass players anthem back in the 70's along with anything Mark Adams, Larry Graham or Louis Johnson did! Not a difficult song but the precision in playing it is the test! | yeah musically it's not tricky...it's kinda a tricky line though...
during the part he's chording those thirds...he's doing a muted rhythm patern too that's really cool....if that made any sense...
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06-23-2007, 09:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Bayou_Brawler yeah musically it's not tricky...it's kinda a tricky line though...
during the part he's chording those thirds...he's doing a muted rhythm patern too that's really cool....if that made any sense... | Was it at LDS? Among funk / Gospel players in the D it is certainly one of the signature licks. It's funny, they have a list on the wall of "not allowed" lines and one of them is Spain? As soon as I learned that line with the head, they banned it! I guess they figured If I could play it, it was too damn easy. 
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06-23-2007, 09:36 PM
|  | Jazz Chicken | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ennui, IN USA | | Yeah, I used to play it. Everybody around here used to play it. I played it every other night for four weeks. I don't wanna play it no more. 
Ainyone remember "Invisible Man's Band"? 'All Night Thing'? I used to like that, too.
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06-23-2007, 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by lbanks Yeah, I used to play it. Everybody around here used to play it. I played it every other night for four weeks. I don't wanna play it no more.
Anyone remember "Invisible Man's Band"? 'All Night Thing'? I used to like that, too. | Yeah, All Night Thang was a hot tune! I'm trying to get my band to play it! |
06-23-2007, 11:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: northern illinois | | | never heard it.
IMO there isn't a "stairway to heaven" for bass these days as much as flavor of the week slap runs |
06-24-2007, 02:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Gloucester, UK | | Quote:
Originally Posted by FrigginChris never heard it.
IMO there isn't a "stairway to heaven" for bass these days as much as flavor of the week slap runs | I always thought Money by Pink Floyd was the one you weren't supposed to play in the shops...
anyway, I usually play Badge, Politician and The Thrill is Gone... |
06-24-2007, 02:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ontario | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZhCrXfiEI
Funky line. I can imagine it getting pretty irritating though!
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06-24-2007, 05:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Barcelona, Spain | | | I don't understand that "don't play this or that song" policy on music shops.
I understand that it can be quite obnoxious to hear that lines over and over, but, in the end, I'm there to BUY something, and the customer IS ALWAYS RIGHT, so there should be no questioning in how I try their products. |
06-24-2007, 06:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | I love these threads. I always go off and learn or start playing the lines people on here say annoy other people. I had no idea Sunshine Of Your Love was in this category. It's now on my try out play list.
One things that annoys people is playing a familiar line, then telling them you can't remember who or what it is.
This happened to me once genuinely and the guy was so frustrated working it out, then accused me of lying to him on the grounds that surely if I can play it I can remember what it is!
So from then on it's deliberately! 
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06-24-2007, 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by fatbassjazzer I'd say that Higher Ground is the Stairway to Heaven of bass. |
Play Stairway to Heaven on bass then!
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06-24-2007, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Basshole School Days, by Stanley Clark...when I was a kid.
Now? I have no idea. | One of my bass testing tunes!
I've never heard the orignal "Glide", only the cover by Vail Johnson. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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