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The video you are PROBABLY looking for is ZUMA! ‪Duran Duran - Rio - bass lesson‬‏ - YouTube He's the only person I've seen on YT that has got those ghost notes DOWN!

There are a lot of bassists I admire for different reasons but since this is about TONE only.. I'd have to say Paul McCartney John Taylor Those 2 may not always have the most exciting playing but their bass tones are always distinctive and gorgeous. and my third would have to be a...

How do we catagorize these bassists like that? Especially when they've had long and varied careers? John Taylor was with Power Station and Neurotic Outsiders... the latter being anything BUT a pop group.

On a seperate note, I just saw DD in May at the House of Blues in Chicago and in that small space you could hear EVERYTHING.. no room for error. The whole floor was vibrating with JT's bass and it certainly is the backbone of DD's sound. If anyone has seen them live they can attest to the fact...

JT never said that he didn't play the basslines for DD. What he DID say was that while they were in the writing and recording process he would frequently overdub lines and then have to learn to play them live later (which he always did) lol In the Classic Albums Rio episode he was...