Dirty, Filthy, Rock and Roll Bass

[NorthTexasBass]

What is your favorite dirty, filthy, rock and roll bass line to play?

Not the fastest or most technical. Not the coolest groove. Not your favorite song. What just screams bad ass rock and roll bass line?

For me it is "Should I Stay or Should I Go". Even with my bass unplugged it just feels like Rock and Roll to me.

 

[Dr. Toboggan]

without a doubt.

 

[bassman275]

Believer-Ozzy.

 

[Muddslide]

Simple and caveman-like to the point of absurdity, but this is a K I L L E R opening bass salvo to a great song off a great album by one of THE dirtiest, filthiest rock and roll bands ever.

It's not their best album. It's not their best song. Maybe not even their best bassline in a song, but it's the first one that came to mind when I read the thread title.

(The fuzzed-out wah-explosion guitar towards the end is also quite bone-shakingly evil.)

RIP, Dave Alexander.

 

[UncleFluffy]

For me, gotta be:

 

[JosephJavorsky]

I'm going to say 1969 by the Stooges.

 

[UncleFluffy]

Stooges might just have it, though I'd say "Loose" instead of either "1969" or "Little Doll"

 

[seanm]

Neil Young "Into the Black" (Hey hey, my my)



When we played this I would crank up the Torn's Peaker and get a truly nasty bass tone.

 

[bobsacamano]

Paranoid... mix of punk and metal.

 

[phatbass]

For me it is "Should I Stay or Should I Go". Even with my bass unplugged it just feels like Rock and Roll to me.

By sheer coincidence, this is the song I immediately thought of when I saw the thread title without even reading the post. I just love the filthy tone.

 

[bassingeorge]

"Sadistic Magician" by Municipal Waste!



IN YOUR FACE!

 

[klaus486]

Them Crooked Vultures

 

[honeyiscool]

My Generation.

 

[onosson]

Interstellar Overdrive -Pink Floyd ... hands down.

 

[LowBC]

MOTORHEAD.

 

[Joe Gress]

Death from Above 1979:

 

[EdHunter]

Motorhead - Hawkwind
Rocket Queen - GnR

So filthy they need a bath.

 

[dannster]

Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys

 

[Plays_For_Dog]

Back when Incubus was cool.

 

[Korladis]

I always love really beating the crap out of my strings playing this bass line:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nkun78T1y4


Also this. It just feels so wonderfully nasty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwWMKC3U01w