The Coolest P-Bass Solo?

[Dr. Cheese]

My finalists are: Byron Miller (Reach for It by George Duke,)
Willie Weeks (Everything is Everything, Donnie Hathaway)
Bob Babbitt (Scorpio, Denis Coffey)

 

[Aussie Player]

The Real Me.
John Entwhistle.

 

[Tanner5382]

The Real Me.
John Entwhistle.

You sure that wasn't a Thunderbird?

 

[RED J]

Willie Willie !

 

[billiam5billion]

Matt Freeman of Rancid on "Maxwell Murder." Seems pretty obvious.

 

[bassfiddlesteve]

I voted for Willie Weeks, but Robert Wilson's solos on in the intro and ending to The Gap Bands "Shake" are full of P-Bass goodness.

- Steve

 

[Jookbox]

 

[Hans Gruber]

I voted for Willie Weeks, but Robert Wilson's solos on in the intro and ending to The Gap Bands "Shake" are full of P-Bass goodness.

- Steve

+1. I love em both, but Shake is so quintessential P Bass soloing.

And The Real Me technically isn't a solo (though my favorite Ox performance), and that one was a Gibson, not a P-Bass. Anything from Live at Leeds though, THAT is some nasty P-Bassing.

 

[Stick_Player]

You sure that wasn't a Thunderbird?

 

[FunkyMcNasty]

I had always thought Willie played a jazz with flats on Everything is Everything, never really looked into it though. Great solo, gets my vote.

 

[bassfiddlesteve]

STOP THE PRESSES! I forgot about this one...James Jamerson's bass solo on Jr Walker and the All Stars "Mutiny"!

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- Steve

 

[20db pad]

Not a dead stock P-Bass, but...

 

[Dr. Cheese]

I voted for Willie Weeks, but Robert Wilson's solos on in the intro and ending to The Gap Bands "Shake" are full of P-Bass goodness.

- Steve

OOPS! That should have been on the list!

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Matt Freeman of Rancid on "Maxwell Murder." Seems pretty obvious.

Thanks! That's a new one for me.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Not a dead stock P-Bass, but...

Man, Sheehan sounds great clean!

 

[zawinals]

Anything played by Jamerson. A song within a song. Pure, unbridled genius, all with the apex of P-bass tone.

 

[M.R. Ogle]

Atlanta Rythm Section, Paul Goddard on "Another Man's Woman." About 6:15 in.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Atlanta Rythm Section, Paul Goddard on "Another Man's Woman." About 6:15 in.

Goddard played some great solos for sure. He used a Rickenbacker sometimes too, didn't he?

 

[Shakin-Slim]

Willie Weeks gets my vote. That's a killer solo, and amazing tone!

 

[M.R. Ogle]

Yes. But I remember him at the old Keil Auditorium doing that solo on a rather beat-up looking P.