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04-13-2009, 04:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Marietta, GA | | | Songs You Love Playing But Won't Admit It
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Let's hear it: what are the songs you secretly love to play that would spoil your rep or earn you the scorn of your bandmates if they knew? You know, the stuff you play in the basement with your headphone amp or alone in the car. We all have them, so c'mon, spill it.
Maybe a better title would be, "great bass riffs from songs that my band would fire me for suggesting" ...
I'm presuming that the why's will be obvious, but explain it if it's not.
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04-13-2009, 05:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Amarillo, TX | | | Haha alright, Im not embarrassed for playing it, but I like to play "Beat It" for laughs.
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04-13-2009, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Harlow, Essex, UK | | | Any Michael Jackson stuff, Superstions Stevie Wonder, my band just look at me when i am warming up with these (metal band) always brings a smile to my face...
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04-13-2009, 05:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Logan,W.V.(not up some holler) | | | "Caribbean Queen"-Billy Ocean
My "solo spot" of our show.Lots'n'lotsa salppin' goin' on. |
04-13-2009, 05:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Grand Prairie TX | | | Boogie Oogie Oogie by Taste of Honey. It's just fun to play.
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04-13-2009, 07:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bezerkely, CA | | Go-Gos - Head Over Heels
Mad fun
--Bomb 
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04-13-2009, 07:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Illinois | | | "Another One Bites The Dust"
my guitar player beats me with sticks |
04-13-2009, 07:29 PM
| | Thor's Hammer 2.1.3beta | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: South Houston, TX | | Granted, they're not actually bass lines, but I play 'em anyways:
Somewhere Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz
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Pure Imagination from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Despite my band's objections however I always manage to sneak one of these into sound check. Always brings a smile to my face too when someone recognizes it. 
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04-13-2009, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | "Aces High" Iron Maiden
I play in variety bands. Um...no metal. I learned that bass line about 20 years ago in a garage band. I still love it to this day. |
04-13-2009, 07:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Topeka, KS | | The title of this thread is kind of an oximoron (is that the right spelling?)
In general, I like a lot of disco tunes that make other musicians giggle... 
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04-13-2009, 07:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Vancouver, B.C. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by rell4 Boogie Oogie Oogie by Taste of Honey. It's just fun to play. | +1
Although, a lot of people don't recognize it when I play it.
Same with "Le Freak". When I bust that out, I sometimes get one of my teachers saying "......no".
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04-13-2009, 07:51 PM
|  | Wild boys always shine | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hooterville, Arkansas BR549 | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam Bomb Go-Gos - Head Over Heels
Mad fun
--Bomb | ROFL  I was thinking "Our Lips Are Sealed".....oh man...there ARE two of us!
Kathy Valentine would be so amused.
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04-13-2009, 07:57 PM
| | | | Gronladic Edit - Of Montreal. Its so embarrassingly catchy. |
04-13-2009, 07:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | | 'Ring my Bell' by Patty Labelle.
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04-13-2009, 08:03 PM
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um any music over 8 years old. i'm the oldest in the band at 19 and i love the older music and our guitar players (15 and 14) and drummer (11) are all about the new stuff so when i bust out white stripe-seven nation army and pink floyd-money and even temptation-my girl they just look at me like i'm a freak
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04-13-2009, 08:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Northern Indiana | | | I acually like several of the songs from the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons, expecially the grammar ones. Lots of catchy tunes, but wouldnt think of suggesting playing on stage. Would bet if its an older crowd, some would think its cute. hehe |
04-13-2009, 08:07 PM
| | | | I play alot of things like hey monday and paramore even though im a metal bassist
dont tell my friends lol ill have drumsticks shoved in my behind |
04-13-2009, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by TheHegemon Haha alright, Im not embarrassed for playing it, but I like to play "Beat It" for laughs. | i like beat it.  |
04-13-2009, 08:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brookfield, CT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CjSlayer I acually like several of the songs from the Schoolhouse Rock cartoons, | "I'm just a bill, on Capitol Hill."........
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04-13-2009, 08:13 PM
|  | Four on the floor | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: US Midwest | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bigbassman8342 um any music over 8 years old. i'm the oldest in the band at 19 and i love the older music and our guitar players (15 and 14) and drummer (11) are all about the new stuff so when i bust out white stripe-seven nation army and pink floyd-money and even temptation-my girl they just look at me like i'm a freak | Yeah the White Stripes are bloody ancient...
Damn
I
feel
so
old
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