Please give examples of albums or songs where the fretless bass is present but is not jazz music. I think now Frances the Mute and Octahedorn albums from the Mars Volta.
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Fretless bass in non jazz music.
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Here's an obvious answer.... Anything Les Claypool does... Definitely far from what Juan Alderete is doing. 311, here and there... tons of other stuff, just too lazy to think of it right now, lol.
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Just about anything that Jack Bruce has recorded in the last 25 years has been fretless, including some of the Cream reunion songs.
Steve DiGiorgio on Sebastian Bach's Angel Down--absolutely not jazz...
Tony Franklin on the first Blue Murder
Tony Franklin on the first Blue Murder
True, but I'm not sure about the early ones. Take "Roxanne", for example. In the two music videos I've seen for the song, Sting poses with a fretless P bass which led me to think the bass on the recording sounded "kinda" like a fretless. However, thanks to the magic of Rock Band, Guitar Hero and company, I finally stumbled upon the isolated bass track (which has to be real, the tone's just like on the recording) which definitely sounds like a fretted. Plus, I had no idea those dead notes were there, live and learn.
Steve DiGiorgio on Quo Vadis' Defiant Imagination and Death's Individual Thought Patterns.
Two great fretless bass records.
Two great fretless bass records.
Damn Sam! We posted about the same record at the same time.
I might add that Individual Thought Patterns is the only album Steve recorded with Death.
Also, Jeroen Paul Thesseling's fretless sixer on Obscura's album Cosmogenesis is mindblowing.
I might add that Individual Thought Patterns is the only album Steve recorded with Death.
Also, Jeroen Paul Thesseling's fretless sixer on Obscura's album Cosmogenesis is mindblowing.
True, but I'm not sure about the early ones. Take "Roxanne", for example. In the two music videos I've seen for the song, Sting poses with a fretless P bass which led me to think the bass on the recording sounded "kinda" like a fretless. However, thanks to the magic of Rock Band, Guitar Hero and company, I finally stumbled upon the isolated bass track (which has to be real, the tone's just like on the recording) which definitely sounds like a fretted. Plus, I had no idea those dead notes were there, live and learn.
Sting often doubled the bass with the Police... Fretted with a fretless, fretless with his EUB etc...
