Famous Monotonous Bass Lines

[Rocinante_x1]

Another one bites the dust. Man in the box. Feel like makin love.

 

[FrenchBassQC]

Inagodadavida | Iron Butterfly

Close but no cigar

Let me google that for you

 

[lsabina]

Chameleon.

 

[SlugThrower]

Anything by Michael Anthony

 

[FrenchBassQC]

Every breath you take - the police

 

[kleinenenten]

This far in, and I'm the first to say it: Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood. One bass riff the entire time.

 

[Nev375]

It friggin hurts my hands playing it. I have to break it up otherwise my hand will fall off. Such a sick line.

Also, "With or Without You." The song just floats on that bassline. Perfect example of simplicity and how to be musical for beginning players.

I had a drummer friend (deceased now) who had met Billy Cobham and bought one of his old custom Mapex drum kits. They even had a little engraved silver badge on top of the bass drums "Custom made for Billy Cobham" That guy wanted to record that song and asked me to play on it.

That session hurt like hell. I had cramps in my left hand for days because we had to do repeated takes. Because although the drummer was a very nice and generous guy with apparently more money than he could spend, he was no Billy Cobham himself.

But yeah, I know exactly what you are talking about with Stratus.


I like With or Without You too. Adam Clayton gets a lot of hate around here, but he is a perfect example of a player who plays for the song.

 

[wmhill]

Stealin- Uriah Heep

 

[FilterFunk]

"Hollywood Swinging" - Kool and the Gang

"More Bounce to the Ounce" - Zapp

 

[Kukulkan61]

Cocaine
Brickhhouse
Loui louii
Twist and shout

 

[GregT]

Green Onions. Bass by the late genius of simplicity Donald "Duck" Dunn.

 

[cheapo]

"Sex Bomb" by Flipper

Yeah! That one song made me take up bass! The stupidest, grooviest, punk tune of 'em all. Though I was also impressed with PIL's Jah Wobble: He often needed only 3 notes for his tunes, and he grooved for days...

 

[sprag]

you can't hurry love - the supremes
dumbed down for…
lust for life - iggy pop
chorus added for…
are you gonna be my girl - Jet

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Inagodadavida | Iron Butterfly

Inagoddavida-Slayer

 

[covermego]

And I can't believe anybody hasn't said:

ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY by Joe Walsh.
Dut, da-dut, da-dut, da-dut, da-dut.
I must say Joes slide guitar and chick'n pick'n really sounds like the bray of a donkey in some parts.

 

[BPhillips]

I always loved how such an incredible song could be built over the top of such a monotonous and cool bass line as heard here:

 

[/\/\3phist0]

I think someone already mentioned 'Under Pressure'.

But it's "different" according to the court case.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

The zoo- scorpions

 

[BassFishingInAmerica]

And I can't believe anybody hasn't said:

ROCKY MOUNTAIN WAY by Joe Walsh.
Dut, da-dut, da-dut, da-dut, da-dut.
I must say Joes slide guitar and chick'n pick'n really sounds like the bray of a donkey in some parts.

I thought it was, Dum da-dut

 

[Juan Hiribarren]

This far in, and I'm the first to say it: Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood. One bass riff the entire time.

I was about to post the same song, but with the track, because I love it.