Greatest Bass Solos

[Sailboat339]

If you're gonna pick Entwistle, do it properly...

+ another one.

 

[randyripoff]

I really don't know if I think "Call Me Al" is a real bass solo, maybe just a break.

I would respectfully disagree. True, it's not a lengthy solo, but he is playing by himself, and he's not just playing the regular phrases of the song.

 

[bggeezer]

isn't the 2nd half of the solo just an engineered inversion of the 1st half?

thats what i heard

 

[GtenderG]

Ralphe Armstrong - Egocentric Molecules

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The live version isn't the best IMHO, but it's still freakin awesome!

+1

Man, Ralphe Armstrong is a monster! Patricularly on Egocentic Molecules.... I only got to see him w/Ponty once and he blew me away - (unlined fretless Gibson RD Artist)...

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

isn't the 2nd half of the solo just an engineered inversion of the 1st half?

thats what i heard

Meanwhile, the distinctive bass solo that Simon is seen playing in the aforementioned video was actually recorded by Baghiti Khumalo on his own birthday: a one-measure descending line that, in order to extend the break, was later reversed and played backwards in order to add the ascending line.

"I simply copied the line as originally played to a mono machine and then sync'ed it backwards into the multitrack," Halee explains. "That kind of thing was always happening — 'Let's try it in reverse.' We would wild-track all the time. Anything to make it sound more interesting."

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[Stingray_EB]

This video is what made me take my bass playing intp a totally new dimension.

 

[pacojas]

Wow on the Jeff Andrews.

+1 fo' shizzle

 

[tomas_almeida]

Link Removed, definitely. I like it do much and consider it such a beautiful solo that I practiced it and recorded a humble rendition on video.

Really nice melodic sense!! Really really good!! I don't really think that was improvised, but it doesn't take away from the quality of course!

For the guy who posted some Jeff Andrews stuff, that guy is such a monster player, but I always find funny that he always seems to have his face itchy!


Also, on topic, I vote on the recorded version of The Big Wave, on Tribal Techs' Illicit. A really great one by Gary Willis, and the walking he does on that track too is so tasteful, I really love those first bars in the walk.

Oh, and my +1 for Havona, really great one too.

 

[Labi]

Dave Weckl Band - The Chicken
Tom Kennedy on bass.
Bass solo starts at 6:13

 

[EdHunter]

I'm gonna have to throw Steve Harris in here. Blood on the World's Hands is a great piece of playing:

 

[cnltb]

Wow on the Jeff Andrews.

+1

Thanks for posting that Jeff Andrews clip!!!

 

[Beginner Bass]

I thought Robert Trujillio's pre-song solo for For Whom the Bell Tolls was pretty good, if it counts.

 

[DONZI97]

+1 on the Lemon song

 

[vidamour]

Jimmy Johnson - Pud Wud.

Jeff Berlin - Water on the Brain pt2.

 

[MixBass]

Marcus- Run for cover
The somewhat early days of Marcus doing his patented slap theme.

 

[Thankful birds]

It's incredibly simple, but I always liked Roger Water's solo at teh beginning of "Hey You". It's very well suited to the song.

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

It's incredibly simple, but I always liked Roger Water's solo at teh beginning of "Hey You". It's very well suited to the song.

That's not Roger Waters but David Gilmour.

CD: Was Roger an effective bassist back then?

DG: He had developed his own limited, or very simple style. He was never very keen on improving himself as a bass player and half the time I would play bass on the records because I would tend to do it quicker. Right back to those early records; I mean, at least half the bass on all recorded output is me anyway.

CD: This is not a widely acknowledged fact.

DG: Well, I think it's been said, but it's certainly not something we go around advertising. Rog used to come in and say, "Thank you very much" to me once in a while for winning him bass- playing polls.

CD: Did you play the fretless bass on "Hey You"?

DG: Yeah. Hmm. Roger playing fretless bass? Please! (laughs)

 

[Phalex]

My Bro-in-law sent me a link to this, and I think it's pretty darned awesome!

 

[markkoelsch]

Billy Sheehan NV43345

+1 to that. Billy is amazing. This solo is pretty much the bass equivalent of Eruption. It opened a lot fo folks eyes, that is for sure.

 

[markkoelsch]

I also have to vote for Stu Hamm's Kings of Sleep. While not technically a solo, the song is a a bass masterpiece. In my opinion, it is a top 5 bass song of all time.