Bass lines that almost everybody plays wrong...

[Socrates]

I'll go first...

The unequivocal #1 all-time misplayed bass line is "I Feel Good" (it's a half step, not a whole step)

#2 "Sweet Emotion" (it's tricky)
#3 "Superstition" (simple, but somehow this always gets destroyed)

What else?

 

[Matt R.]

Believe it or not... Mustang Sally (why does every band think it turns around to the 5 chord after verses?)

Brown Eyed Girl.

 

[JonnyAngle]

Under Pressure. They're really playing Ice Ice Baby, there's a little ding ding ding didi that makes it different.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Oh, the irony of this thread being started in the wrong forum.....

 

[Socrates]

Sorry, I'm new 'round here.

 

[Phalex]

Anything Skynyrd... May I submit the ubiquitous Sweet Home Alabama?

 

[Blacke]

Pig Brag Crak by Ruins

 

[lousybassplayer]

Pig Brag Crak by Ruins

In all fairness, if almost everyone who plays this plays it wrong, that's probably 3 people. Not a large enough data set I suspect.

 

[mccartneyman]

Smoke on the Water -- it doesn't follow Blackmore's chords
Satisfaction -- it's not the same as the guitar intro
Ain't Too Proud to Beg -- it's not the same pattern all the way through the chorus

 

[M0ses]

"I Feel Good" (it's a half step, not a whole step)

People play that WRONG?!?! Sheesh, open your ears!

 

[Socrates]

Mccartneyman-that is soo true. Very astute of you.
MOses-I have NEVER heard anyone play that bass line right.

 

[Matt R.]

The common thing- the most ironic thing- about all these songs is that they're pretty much all "standards" that have bee played and certainly heard to death. You'd think these would be the songs that people play correctly...

 

[John Wentzien]

Tush
Crazy-train

 

[retardedpossum]

Tush
Crazy-train

indeed

 

[ogrossman]

Whipping Post

 

[John Wentzien]

"The Ocean" Led Zep

 

[NKUSigEp]

Smoke on the Water -- it doesn't follow Blackmore's chords

+1 for this!

Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" suite - I don't hear it often but when I do hear it, it's always butchered.

Just about anything by Tool, Pantera, and 80% of the crap on youtube.

 

[Mike Shevlin]

YYZ gets it pretty bad

 

[John Wentzien]

Speaking of Rush.."Tom Sawyer"
Gets butchered like a hog most of the time!

 

[bassgruvn]

PLay that Funky Music. Listen to the bass line in the original recording.