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02-07-2013, 04:31 PM
| | | | The Top 5 Faux Bass Players
These are bass players who had their recordings done by top studio musicians but
gave outstanding performances when lipsyncing there songs *Jermaine Jackson, Jackson 5.
Bass lines and music; the Funk Bros./ James Jamerson *Danny Bonaduce, Partridge family
Bass lines and music; the Wrecking Crew and Carol Kaye *Peter Tork, Monkees
Bass lines and music by Producer and bass player, Chip Douglass *Derek Smalls, Spinal Tap
Harry Julius Shearer, Actual bassist playing a faux character playing a bass *Dino Martin, Dino, Desi and Billy
Wrecking Crew again     
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02-07-2013, 04:32 PM
| | | | The invisible dude from the Doors?
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02-07-2013, 04:40 PM
| | | | Invisible Guy, Doors
Larry Knechtel (uncredited) bass ("Soul Kitchen", "Twentieth Century Fox", "Back Door Man", "I Looked At You", "Take It As It Comes") |
02-07-2013, 04:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: charles town, wv | | | I always though Danny Bonaduce sounded a lot like Carol Kaye!
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02-07-2013, 04:55 PM
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02-07-2013, 04:56 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Something told me Jermaine Jackson couldn't pull off those lines ... I always thought the Jackson 5 songs had wonderful bass lines , now I know why. |
02-07-2013, 04:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Georgia, USA | | | To be fair, Peter Tork did actually play bass on a few studio tracks and live. He usually played guitar or keyboards though.
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02-07-2013, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Peoria, AZ | | | I played on the show The Other Half and Danny Bonaduce walked up to me, introduced himself, pointed down at my bass and said "I used to know how to hold one of those things." My brush with greatness! |
02-07-2013, 05:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis | | | What about William murder face of deathklok fame or murdoc from the gorillaz.
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02-07-2013, 05:18 PM
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Endorsing artist: Lakland basses | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Chicago | | | Don't forget my fave- Samuel L. Jackson as "B-Bop" working faking it out on DB in the 1991 flick "Johnny Suede".
(Re; Partridge Family- I had me a serious crush on Susan Dey.) |
02-07-2013, 05:27 PM
|  | Non Serviam | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Schenectady NY | | I remember reading an interview with some famous bassist (Stu Hamm maybe?) who said Danny Bonaduce was his favorite bass player, because he can change notes without moving his hand at all. 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Wilton Felder played the bass parts for Jackson 5.
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02-07-2013, 05:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Enchanted Mitten, USA | | How about Irving the kick-ass bass player from the band "the Mosquitos", the band that was stranded on Gilligans Island. He had so much mojo he didn't even need electricity to play his bass! 
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02-07-2013, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by qervo  Something told me Jermaine Jackson couldn't pull off those lines ... I always thought the Jackson 5 songs had wonderful bass lines , now I know why. | Not all of them were Jamerson. "I Want You Back" was Wilton Felder on bass.
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02-07-2013, 05:36 PM
| | | | MURDERFACE,MURDERFACE,MURDERFACE!!!!!!
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02-07-2013, 05:40 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Halifax | | | Floyd Pepper, bass player for the Electric Mayhem band on The Muppet Show.
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02-07-2013, 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by mogpipe MURDERFACE,MURDERFACE,MURDERFACE!!!!!! | I assume that's Bryan Beller
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02-07-2013, 06:08 PM
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Originally Posted by bassfran .................
(Re; Partridge Family- I had me a serious crush on Susan Dey.) | You and me, both, brother.
I think Bonaduce used to tell the story that when he first, ahem, played, the bass, he was strumming it like a guitar and David Cassidy stopped the take and at least corrected that.
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02-07-2013, 06:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Hollywood, CA | | | 'Cause David Cassidy is good like that. |
02-07-2013, 06:15 PM
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02-07-2013, 06:19 PM
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