Fretless bass in non jazz music.

[flipper_gv]

Every Cynic albums

sean malone is the bassist

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Pino Palladino...

Les Claypool

Roger Waters (on "The Wall")

 

[manic_mailman]

Sean Malone is also a great fretless player, and his basslines are the perfect complement to Cynic's jazz-influenced sound.

 

[dalkowski]

Sting often doubled the bass with the Police... Fretted with a fretless, fretless with his EUB etc...

Color me educated. I just remember seeing them on teevee (Don Kirchner's Rock Concert!) around "Regatta de Blanc" and he played a fretless. Saw them in 82 and he played a fretless. In all the pics around the time of the first LP, he's playing a red fretless P-Bass. Later he moved to an Ibanez Musician Series FL.

He played upright in jazz combos prior to the Police, so it all adds up.

BTW, looks like we've answered the OP's question.

 

[bassteban]

Wait for it- it's worth it:

 

[5StringBlues]

YES -The Remembering-Chris Squire on a fretless Guild.

YES -Run Thru the Light-Trevor Horn on fretless

Led Zep-In My Time of Dying

 

[BZadlo]

Jaco on Joni Mitchell's Don Juan's Reckless Daughter? Not quite jazz but close.

 

[lowendfriend]

Almost everything Jack Bruce did/does.

 

[Turock]

The Rolling Stones

 

[JohnnyPustular]

Gary Numan- I, Assassin. Great Pino work. Very lyrical use of the fretless.

 

[Goatman]

Devin Townsend's "Terria" album featured a fretless Zon -



Both pretty rockin

 

[MixBass]

IMO Pino set the standard on those Paul Young records. And the Gary Numan has some rare Pino slapping on fretless.

 

[Stickk]

Untill It Sleeps by Metallica, its the only metal song i know of that uses a fretless

All Cynic is fretless. There's some fretless in Opeth, and Steve DiGiorgio mostly uses fretless.

 

[Pacman]

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.

I'm more than a little doubtful that's the real track.


edit: I take that back.

And you can hear the ghost notes on the original.....

 

[mtshark]

I cant think of anything really, but I had a friend who used a fretless when his band covered Mr. Brownstone...

 

[Mr_Sore_Fingerz]

Anything that David J Haskins of Bauhaus played on =)

 

[Geddyleefan30]

Malignant Narcissism - by Rush.
Geddy lee recorded it with a fretless bass.

 

[bottomzone]

Fernando Saunders with Lou Reed:



A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

 

[Zanzibar Delgado]

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.

He played on Human as well.

 

[f'nar f'nar]

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