famous bass line intros

[Thump Jr.]

Hysteria - Muse
Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes (technically not a bass part as played on the record, but it's in the bass' tonal range)
Dragon Attack - Queen
Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
Livin' on a Prayer - Bon Jovi (arguably, the talk-boxed guitar is more memorable, but the bass starts the song, and the guitar's mirroring the bass anyway)
Dazed and Confused - Led Zeppelin
Slither - Velvet Revolver
Born Bad - The Gone Jackals
Cheap Sunglasses - ZZ Top
Money - Pink Floyd

 

[barebones]

Just thought of "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads. Simple but good.

 

[headtrip762]

lounge act Nirvana
trust megadeth
calm like a bomb RATM
schism tool

 

[barebones]

Ooh! Just thought of "Wake Up Dead" by Megadeth. Very cool!

 

[dj150888]

Anyone mentioned Dancing in the Moonlight by Thin Lizzy yet?

 

[artdrtr]

pump it up - e costello
big bottom - spinal tap
man on the moon - rem
send me forget me nots - patrice rushen
alright - jamiroquai
seven nation army - white stripe
silly love songs - mccartney
maneater - hall & oates
walking on the moon - police
hang on to your love - sade
paradise - sade
good times - chic
boogie oogie - taste of honey
lowrider - war
made to love - stevie wonder

 

[Montsegour]

Domination - Symphony x
Sea of lies - -||-
Maiden - Wrathchild
Metallica - For whom the bell tolls
Necrophagist - Only the ash remain
and so on..

 

[akane2]

Black Sabbath Bassically/N.I.B.

yes... and hysteria by Muse

 

[pinkzepphish]

crush - dave matthews band
forfeit - chevelle
tons of primus
tons of tool
money, let there be more light - pink floyd

 

[bggeezer]

Just thought of "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads. Simple but good.

+1

Neat Neat Neat- Damned :very cool
Bikini Girls With Machine Guns- Cramps :even cooler
Into The Valley - Skids: SO cool
Holiday In Cambodia- Dead Kennedys : OMFG

I could go on...

 

[Arpeggiator]

Sadistic Magician (Municipal Waste)
Elephant Talk (King Crimson) if you count a stick as a bass instrument
My Name Is Mud - Primus
Juicebox - The Strokes
Panic Attack - Dream Theater

not all famous but all good IMO

 

[barebones]

+1

Neat Neat Neat- Damned :very cool
Bikini Girls With Machine Guns- Cramps :even cooler
Into The Valley - Skids: SO cool
Holiday In Cambodia- Dead Kennedys : OMFG

I could go on...

"Neat, Neat, Neat." Damned if I haven't heard that song in a couple of decades. Great tune. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Jeremy - Pearl Jam

yeah, but that doesn't really sound right without and 8 or 12 string...

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Sadistic Magician (Municipal Waste)
Elephant Talk (King Crimson) if you count a stick as a bass instrument

To those of us who have done the stick thing, I think the stick IS a bass instrument...

Of course, to the folks at Chapman Stick, it isn't (as I found out when I called them once with some questions...) "Oh, you're one of those Tony Levin fans, huh... sigh..."

 

[barebones]

To those of us who have done the stick thing, I think the stick IS a bass instrument...

Of course, to the folks at Chapman Stick, it isn't (as I found out when I called them once with some questions...) "Oh, you're one of those Tony Levin fans, huh... sigh..."

Wow. That's too bad. He's done a lot to popularize that instrument.

 

[mikeluch]

Grand Funk, closer to home
Real me -who
midnight confessions-grass roots

 

[soong]

This has probably been said...

But Money from Pink Floyd.

You could try

Supersitition - Stevie Wonder..

or Seinfeld?

 

[fretlessman71]

http://www.google.com/search?q=bass...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

LOTS of books out there with JUST famous intros for bass. Might be worth your time.

 

[Mutato]

Detroit by Rancid
Milk by S.O.D.

 

[Obese Chess]

Ooh! Just thought of "Wake Up Dead" by Megadeth. Very cool!

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