Best Bass Intro!

[Matt Till]

Oh and Ozzy's Crazy Train...so simple and lame, but it's like the rock version of beginning of Beethoven's 5th, one of the most widely recognized lines ever, but so simple.

Simple doesn't equal lame!

 

[Adam Barkley]

My Girl

 

[rockstarbassist]

Intro to "Two Step" by Stefan Lessard on the "Central Park Concert"... his fretless 5 Modulus solo is just... gorgeous to say the least.

 

[Adam Barkley]

Jungle Boogie - Kool and the Gang

 

[The Antipop]

Janie's got a gun!

don't know if it is MIDI or not though, but still sounds amazing

 

[Andy Brown]

Besides all the Steve Harris intros I like "Babaluwaie" as the intro to "Sunday Afternoon" on Vital Information's first album.

 

[Corwin]

"Cut Self Not" - Faraquet
"Go!" - Tones On Tail
"Double Dare" and "She's In Parties" - Bauhaus

 

[caesarbass]

I'm to lazy to read the entire thread...but I've always loved the intro to "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines.," from Joni Mitchell-Mingus.

 

[MikeT]

Victor Wooten and Marcus Miller
"Miller Time" on Vic's Live in America Album. This is by far my favorite song right now. The intro alone is amazing, and that's just about 10 seconds or so. They slowly progress into Teen Town and finish with the same harmonic from the intro bass line....very impressive.
Some of my other favs:
Sgt. Baker by Primus
Closure by Opeth (they start softly with this one and the bass is the first thing you hear besides drums.)
There's a song by Death that starts with a badass bass line, I think it's just descending octaves on the drop d and a strings. Can't remember the name.

I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Spirit Crusher.
Blood on the Worlds Hands is another great Maiden one.

 

[airderm]

Ain't giving up- Dsound

 

[pyrohr]

"Freddie's Dead" - Curtis Mayfield (not sure who played bass)

That would be Lucky Scott

 

[Rico_2212]

I can't believe that after 16 pages no one even mentioned "Dazed and Confused" by Led Zepplin or
"Echoes" from Pink Floyd. Killed off alot of brain cells
listening to those two songs as a teenager.

 

[bucephylus]

+1 for My Girl and Dry Cleaner...

 

[The_Ryst]

after seeing Megadeth live this past friday, I must say, again -
Peace Sells

 

[rhett]

after seeing Megadeth live this past friday, I must say, again -
Peace Sells

+1

 

[sheehan_17]

panther by marcus miller.

 

[jazzbasta]

It's barely a bassline at all, but it opens the song with a visceral impact that gets me every time:

New Order's "Ultraviolence"

 

[fleabee]

"THE ANALOG KID" -RUSH

 

[pianowire]

YAH SLAP! cant believe I couldnt think of that one since it was the first thing I learned to play still knoks me out to this day

who played that any way, ANYBODY???

Chuck Berghofer

 

[pianowire]

after seeing Megadeth live this past friday, I must say, again -
Peace Sells

my favorite as well

Dave Ellefson's playing on that entire album was great. the intro to "Devil's Island" is equally badass.