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Bass Solo Nostalgia

phillybass101

phillybass101

Jan 12, 2011
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#1
What bass solo or solos encouraged you early in your development to step it up a notch? Before there was a Jaco. or Victor, or Stanley, or Marcus there was a thing such as a bass solo in a recorded piece. Rarely did they get air play but some did. The two that forever changed me are still classics to this day (I'm a slapper but these solos are fingerstyle and the bomb IMO)

Dennis Coffee--Scorpio (Bass solo Bob Babbitt I think)
Get Ready--Bass solo.

I don't know the bassist. But the group was one of the few white groups on the Motown label.

What's yours???
 
#2
The one's that really stood out to me are...

John Entwistle's bass solo, interlude, or whatever you call it, in the Real Me.

Chris Squire's Fish especially off of the Yessongs live album - absolutely blew my mind.

Jethro Tull's Bouree. I guess not really a solo but, to me, a real standout for the bass - really well done.
 
#3
I suppose it doesn't really count as nostalgia due to my age, but some of my favorites are in the following songs:
Pictures of home- Deep Purple
Spanish Boots-Jeff Beck Group
Lost Woman-James Gang(Yardbirds Cover)
Funk #48-James Gang
And of course My Generation
 
#4
Tanner5382 said:
I suppose it doesn't really count as nostalgia due to my age, but some of my favorites are in the following songs:
Pictures of home- Deep Purple
Spanish Boots-Jeff Beck Group
Lost Woman-James Gang(Yardbirds Cover)
Funk #48-James Gang
And of course My Generation
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It's Nostalgic in the sense that they occurred back in the past and that they have affected you almost permanently. James Gang is certainly not current :-).
 
#10
I believe John Persch, (also known as John Parrish) was the bass player when Rare Earth recorded "Get Ready."

They also used Mike Urso, Reggie McBride, Ken Johnston, Tim Ellsworth, and Andy Merrild. They are still out there today, and the bass player is Randy "Bird" Burghdoff. Of course, for me, they are only really Rare Earth when they have Peter Rivera as the singing drummer. That's the guy who I think of when I think of that band.

They were SMOKIN'!
 
#12
I started playing as a teenager in the mid 80s. My friends and I were all metalheads, so of course I got a lot of requests to learn Anesthesia, by Metallica's Cliff Burton.

Then one day, my friend, who was also kind of my bass rival, came over one day and played it for me note for note. I wasn't gonna have him one up me like that, so I spent probably four hours going over it one night until I had it learned and memorized. I remember my fingertips hurting *really* bad the next day.
 
#13
mellowinman said:
I believe John Persch, (also known as John Parrish) was the bass player when Rare Earth recorded "Get Ready."

They also used Mike Urso, Reggie McBride, Ken Johnston, Tim Ellsworth, and Andy Merrild. They are still out there today, and the bass player is Randy "Bird" Burghdoff. Of course, for me, they are only really Rare Earth when they have Peter Rivera as the singing drummer. That's the guy who I think of when I think of that band.

They were SMOKIN'!
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Ok thanks yes, Rare Earth. They were smokin. I can still hear that bass solo. And he kept the groove while he soloed. Today a lot of guys just play licks when they solo. no groove, flow or continuity. One of my major pet peeves with the way guys are slapping today. Just a few licks of giggity giggity. :-)

When I was growing up playing the Scorpio bass solo was the ticket. Guys from different neighborhoods would hear about you if you could get Scorpio. And just about every major neighborhood had a band and there was great competition between bands and bass players. Having grown up in the town that produced Stanley Clarke, Victor Bailey, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Gerald Veasley, Doc Murdock, Tony Jones, Christian McBride, Steve Green, Tyrone Brown, (for a little bit Jaco--Norrristown a suburb) For a little bit Stuart Zender (Norristown) and a cast of other great but lesser know artists to take up Bass is a hell of a decison. Not a place to be a weak or a timid player that's for sure.
 
#16
I started learning in the 80s. One of my biggest inspirations was Bakithi Kumalo's work on Paul Simon's Graceland album. There's the famous bass break on You Can Call Me Al, of course, as well as some really tasty licks on Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes. The reissue CD has a demo track of Diamonds that's just bass and vocals, groovy stuff!
 
#17
AuntieBeeb said:
Does it have to just be bass solos? Obviously Entwistle's breaks on My Generation set the bar pretty high, but I also had my eyes (well, my ears) opened the first time I heard The Doors' first LP. Realising that I could get a sound akin to Break on Through if I pushed the gain on my amp was an important lesson for me!
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Nope, I guess. It could have been the tune from deliverance :-)
 
#20
The first solo I ever heard was anesthesia (pulling teeth) by the great cliff burton...I was even more surprised to come to realize it had its own track number on kill em all...that solo really got me and its when I realized the bass could be so much more
 

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