Best *one string* bass slides of all time?

[Mister Magic]

There is an art to a good bass slide. It's not just sliding to and from random notes, though that sometimes sounds awesome, too. I say Chuck Rainey has the baddest slide. His double stops also are ridiculous.

The first three that come to my mind are:

1) Lenny Kravitz at 2:27.




2) Robert Bell (Kool and the Gang) at the very beginning.




3) Nathan Lamar Watts at 0:44.




4) Chuck Rainey at the very beginning. Not sure this can be beaten. That touch!



Thoughts?

 

[stigbeve]

I had a really good one at my last band practice.

 

[lokikallas]

I've always felt Gene Simmons was the king of slides in Rock.
Some big signature slides I've played-
Electric Eye -Judas Priest
Two Princes- Spin Doctors

 

[consectaneus]

Sir Paul has fun on some epic single string bass slides on the live album, "Wings Over America". Check out the ending to "Time To Hide"!

 

[Bad Bob]

Larry Knechtel twice:
1. Mr. Tambourine Man (upward)
2. If I Can Dream by Elvis, live on the comeback special, the downward chromatic slide to the big finish.

 

[TN WOODMAN]

Mark Sandman on any Morphine track.

 

[StereoPlayer]

I do a slow double stop slide in some songs on my fretless. Nobody in band even notices it. It's sorta orchestral.

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

I've always felt Gene Simmons was the king of slides in Rock.
Some big signature slides I've played-
Electric Eye -Judas Priest
Two Princes- Spin Doctors

Yes. This one —

 

[Jazz Ad]

Gentlemen...

 

[r_bnks]

 

[Lenny JG]

The harmonic slide that leads into the breakdown in this song:
OR the slide that repeats IN the breakdown of this song:

 

[Bassaga]

There's a slide just after 5:35 in this song, moved me in remarkable ways long before I had any notion of ever playing bass myself. Still my favorite slide in recorded history.

Now that I do play, I'm shocked to discover how swankified the entire bassline is. Ye gods, what a song.

 

[kesslari]

Alphonso Johnson on "Cucumber Slumber "

 

[lokikallas]

Detroit rock city

 

[Lesfunk]

 

[dbsfgyd1]

There is an art to a good bass slide. It's not just sliding to and from random notes, though that sometimes sounds awesome, too. I say Chuck Rainey has the baddest slide. His double stops also are ridiculous.

The first three that come to my mind are:

1) Lenny Kravitz at 2:27.




2) Robert Bell (Kool and the Gang) at the very beginning.




3) Nathan Lamar Watts at 0:44.




4) Chuck Rainey at the very beginning. Not sure this can be beaten. That touch!



Thoughts?

For a rock example, on the Slade Alive LP on Born to be Wild, right after the siren goes off. Actually, Jimmy Lea has a bunch of slides on this LP, but the one on Born to Be Wild is a clincher.

 

[JimB52]

Digital Underground sample throughout on Humpty Dance

 

[GlennRH]

There is an art to a good bass slide. Thoughts?

The slide at 1:38 in this one works for me. Not sure who played the bass, but it strikes me as just right.

 

[Rib 13]

Mark Adams of Slave has a number of them, including the song Slide

 

[Wasnex]

Oscar Alston knows a lil somethin bout dis




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