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02-19-2012, 01:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cincinnati Ohio | | | The funkiest TV theme bass lines are Barney Miller, Night Court, and Sanford and Son.
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02-19-2012, 01:10 AM
|  | Hip No Ties | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New York, NY | | Of course. There's a couple of classics from two long-defunct shows:
1) the fingerstyle R&B-type bassline from the theme for Barney Miller: Barney Miller theme
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2) the funky slap bass theme used for Seinfeld: Seinfeld theme
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02-19-2012, 01:10 AM
| | | | Seinfeld? That's the most famous one, as far as I know, with the slap line.
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02-19-2012, 01:24 AM
|  | 6 String Nut | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Santa Barbara, CA | | | Everybody Hates Chris has a cool bass line during the intro theme. Simple, but cool...I think its Marcus Miller too!
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02-19-2012, 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Emilym80  Seinfeld? That's the most famous one, as far as I know, with the slap line. | It was played on a synth though.
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02-19-2012, 02:06 AM
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02-19-2012, 10:34 AM
| | | | The bass line for Mission Impossible is also the horn section line but still memorable.
The bass line from Peter Gunn is also played by other instruments but nontheless a memorable line. |
02-19-2012, 10:58 AM
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02-19-2012, 01:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New York City | | But of course...how could I have overlooked Seinfeld? I'm an avid fan!
Cool submissions guys. Trying to lay down a few of these as we speak  |
02-19-2012, 01:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Rochester, NY | | | Barney Miller! I remember playing that when I first started, it has a cool F7 lick that I used forever even when I was playing straight-ahead jazz. "Night Court" has a great theme too. I once had TV's greatest hits from the 1970's and there were some nice bass lines for things like "Josie and the pussy cats", "Brady Bunch" etc. Nothing like a good sticom to relate to while playing music! |
02-19-2012, 05:05 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Rush-2112 But of course...how could I have overlooked Seinfeld? I'm an avid fan!
Cool submissions guys. Trying to lay down a few of these as we speak | Again....NOT a bass. No instruments were used on that show.
Jonathan Wolf did the whole show from his extra bedroom with a synth or two and a slew of samples. No bass! |
02-19-2012, 05:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Los Angeles | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ethnotime Barney Miller! I remember playing that when I first started, it has a cool F7 lick that I used forever even when I was playing straight-ahead jazz. "Night Court" has a great theme too. I once had TV's greatest hits from the 1970's and there were some nice bass lines for things like "Josie and the pussy cats", "Brady Bunch" etc. Nothing like a good sticom to relate to while playing music! | I once did a concert with Hal Linden, the star of Barney Miller.
Hal's a Broadway singer and has a great big band book.
We did a little rehearsal earlier in the day. I open the book in a hurry and just get the first chart up. We start playing and I realize its just me at the beginning, and ...HEY!!! Its the BM theme! It was very cool reading the original bass part.
Hal was an absolute sweetheart. Good singer too. |
02-19-2012, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Southern California | | | The bass from the Fat Albert theme is phat. Hard to believe those kids played that well with garbage from a junk yard.
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02-19-2012, 05:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Saint John, NB, Canada | | Although it was written for a movie, it did have a very long run as a cartoon. Pink Panther Theme Song - YouTube
Love that jazzy sound. 
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02-19-2012, 05:50 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: London, Ontario, Canada | | | I used to play all kinds of tv themes on bass. none were really that "phat" or "hip" but to name a few
King of the Hill Theme
Simpsons Theme
Inspector Gadget (The 80's/90's cartoon)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the 80's/90's cartoon)
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02-19-2012, 05:50 PM
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02-19-2012, 05:57 PM
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