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Bass Influences for a not so well rounded player...

#21
Originally posted by Ryan Berry
Its weird how whenever i mention Cake, people say "oh yeah, Cake's great, i love them!" but still nobody ever seems to mention them. Oh well.
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:hmm: Cake would most likely be my favorite band if McCrea didn't seem to be baiting me to find and hurt him :mad:
That guy just pisses me off!

I own every disk they've put out....Victor Damiani is a monster (w/ Roper & Brown) on Fashion Nugget, but I can't take it or the others for too long.
 
#23
Try playing things that normally are not associated with the bass at all. I learned the Ko-kyu part from Incubus' "Aqueous Transmission" on my bass, and I had to work around the bass in terms of the best manner of fingering to get the line to flow properly. A lot of times, putting yourself in a different head space makes you look at your instrument very differently.

Also, play any melody that you hear on TV, movies, video games, etc.
 
#24
Originally posted by Ryan Berry
Ever notice how he says "Oh yeah", "Alright", and "Oh no" in ever Cake song?
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most of Brassy's songs are like this- I think one of their songs consists almost soley of the words "yeah" and "right" :p

Reef's another- the singer manages to say "alright now" in every song- possibly a reference to their name being an anagram of Free?
 
#26
Sean Malone - check him out in Cynic, Aghora, and Gordian Knot. Too technical for you to play right now, but you should give him a listen anyway.

John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin. He never played anything very technical but always had great bass lines.

Tim C - Rage Against The Machine. simple but funky

P-Nut - 311. simple and funky again

And like DigMe said, 70s funk.
 
#28
even though they're best known as fretless players, check out the tasty lines by Pino Palladino and Mick Karn.

Pino's early work with Paul Young, Jools Holland, and Gary Numan is mixed right out front, it grooves, and the lines are cool. I'd recommend No Parlez with Young, *anything* with Holland, and I Assassin with Numan.

Karn's stuff with Japan, particularly on the albums Tin Drum and Oil On Canvas, is very bold and unusual but totally playable!

they both contributed cool lines to Joan Armatrading's stuff. I'm fond of their playing on her album Hearts And Flowers.

from the low end,


Stew
 
#29
Originally posted by Stewmc5222
even though they're best known as fretless players, check out the tasty lines by Pino Palladino and Mick Karn.

Pino's early work with Paul Young, Jools Holland, and Gary Numan is mixed right out front, it grooves, and the lines are cool. I'd recommend No Parlez with Young, *anything* with Holland, and I Assassin with Numan.

Karn's stuff with Japan, particularly on the albums Tin Drum and Oil On Canvas, is very bold and unusual but totally playable!

they both contributed cool lines to Joan Armatrading's stuff. I'm fond of their playing on her album Hearts And Flowers.

from the low end,


Stew
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Listen to this man! I would recommend the very same two bassists. They are my main influences.
 
#31
Originally posted by Turock
Listen to James Jamerson. Great lines.
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I would also check out [plug] Ed Friedland's Building Walking Bass Lines book [/plug] too if you can't walk. I used to play along with the Commitments soundtrack but never really understood how to improvise and bring it alive. After reading the book, playing Jamerson became really fun.

And I believe the Crash Test Dummies is Dan Roberts, the brother of the singer - Brad Roberts.
 

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