Basses seen on-screen

AlanBartram · #1 03-05-2009, 04:37 PM

It's always fascinating to see basses in movies or TV shows even if they're props. How about a list?
Funny Face- some cat in a Paris club is playing an upright on his lap
Raging Bull- In LaMottas Night Club
Mork and Mindy- In their music Store

If this has been done just ignore me.

zeytoun · #2 03-05-2009, 04:48 PM

Romance with a double bass

Marcus Johnson · #3 03-05-2009, 04:51 PM

thejumpcat · #4 03-05-2009, 06:10 PM

That "Some Like It Hot" clip is hilarious. My wife and I just watched it, and Jack Lemmon WAILS on the big dog.

txstatebass · #5 03-05-2009, 06:36 PM

Edwin Livingston holding it down on "Ray"

Great movie, Great bassist!

salcott · #6 03-05-2009, 10:31 PM

There's a WC Fields short where he's a dentist and for some reason, there's a string bass in a corner of the office.

Roger Davis · #7 03-06-2009, 02:30 AM

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Originally Posted by salcott

There's a WC Fields short where he's a dentist and for some reason, there's a string bass in a corner of the office.

But every dentist should have one, surely.

Bass · #8 03-06-2009, 07:35 AM

I noticed a Gypsy playing a black bass with cream binding (it wasn't a King though!) in The Amazing Race, Season 14, Episode 3, Road Block: "Gypsy Moves".

QuelOround · #9 03-06-2009, 07:39 AM

On the Bernie Mac show there is a Fender P-Bass in the background when he sits in the leather chair and adresses America... its a redish color..

Bruce Lindfield · #10 03-06-2009, 07:42 AM

"The Talented Mr. Ripley" has a great scene in Italy with live Jazz which is provided by the best of English Jazz players - the guys I see at my local Jazz club each week!!

Guy Barker ... Trumpet (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Bernardo Sassetti ... Piano (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Perico Sambeat ... Alto Sax (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Gene Calderazzo ... Drums (Napoli Jazz Septet) mer
Joseph Lepore ... Double Bass (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Rosario Giuliuni ... Tenor Sax (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Eddy Palerno ... Electric Guitar (Napoli Jazz Septet)
Byron Wallen ... Cornet (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Pete King ... Alto Sax (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Clark Tracey ... Drums (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Jean Toussaint ... Tenor Sax (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Geoff Gascoyne ... Bass (San Remo Jazz Sextet)
Carlo Negroni ... Piano (San Remo Jazz Sextet

Geoff Gascoyne is a regular - he is in Jamie Cullum's band!

klem.gote · #11 03-06-2009, 08:20 AM

The 3 Stooges in "Disorder in the Court". Curly eventually does a Robin Hood and shoots the bow into the mouth of the guy at the far right of this pic.

Bass · #12 03-06-2009, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by klem.gote

The 3 Stooges in "Disorder in the Court"....

Ha!

EggyToast · #13 03-06-2009, 09:22 AM

The two nightclub scenes in Dark City have the double bass player right behind Jennifer Connelly's character. It's probably overdubbed but the dude is actually playing the thing.

zeytoun · #14 03-06-2009, 08:37 PM

....I didn't notice the bass in those scenes (she is quite pneumatic, after all...)...

tippr34 · #15 03-06-2009, 08:49 PM

Cassandra in Wayne's World. I think she played a red Fender P. I use the term "playing" loosely.

Paul Dwyer · #16 03-06-2009, 11:52 PM

Nacho Libre

Phil Rowan · #17 03-07-2009, 01:45 AM

Buster Keaton in "The Cook"

arnoldschnitzer · #18 03-07-2009, 06:49 AM

My pal Bill Sloat in the tango scene of "Scent of a Woman".

TPugh · #19 03-07-2009, 07:07 AM

"East Harlem Shakedown - E Flat"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38KueDO3Iyk

Bassmickeyd · #20 03-07-2009, 07:18 AM

In the film North By North West, if my memory is correct, during the beginning you can see Alfred Hitchcock getting on a bus with an upright bass.
I'm an actor and upright bassist and it always pisses me off to see an actor pretending to play an upright. Most of them look so uncomfortable like they never seen one let alone touched one before.
Also, in 1950's and 60's music period films where they screw up the Fender basses with the dates. Things like rosewoods necks in 1957 and split coil P-basses prior to 1955.
I know that sounds petty, but it's my petty not Tom's.