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The coolest synth bass lines ever!
- Thread starter gleneg61
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Yes, I saw them in concert for the So tour. And yes, I'm that old. Anyway the first part is synth (Yamaha DX-1), then Levin switched to bass and back as the song required. He hadn't perfected the stick fingers as yet so wasn't using them live at the time. I recall he played that silver fretless MM of his. Nice bass.
You are correct about SledgeHammer though, it was all him on bass.
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Controll- Janet Jackson
great synth bassline! Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
bassline's on that whole album are very funky and hip...
of course all their stuff in the Morris day and the Time is great too where they cut their teeth as band members berfore moving into the producers seat of everybody and the grandmothers albums from that era!
LOL!
great synth bassline! Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis
bassline's on that whole album are very funky and hip...
of course all their stuff in the Morris day and the Time is great too where they cut their teeth as band members berfore moving into the producers seat of everybody and the grandmothers albums from that era!
LOL!
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Momma Coco - Gino Vanelli
Reach For It - George Duke (while Byron Miller solos)
Don't Disturb This Groove - The System
Reach For It - George Duke (while Byron Miller solos)
Don't Disturb This Groove - The System
This.
My 2 cents regarding Peter Gabriel's "Big Time."
All synth bass except 0:40 - 0:57, that's where you can hear his funky fingers. I remember reading an interview with Tony Levin and he said that he had recorded the complete song using his funky fingers and was a bit surprised to hear the final version on the album with a synth bass and only 20 seconds of his bass left in the song.
Btw, who directed this awful video?
My 2 cents regarding Peter Gabriel's "Big Time."
All synth bass except 0:40 - 0:57, that's where you can hear his funky fingers. I remember reading an interview with Tony Levin and he said that he had recorded the complete song using his funky fingers and was a bit surprised to hear the final version on the album with a synth bass and only 20 seconds of his bass left in the song.
Btw, who directed this awful video?
Wow! All sorts of win in this thread! Fad Gadget? Feggetaboudit! Haven't heard any FG in ages, thanks for posting.
As for Claypool playing the Seinfeld theme... Never, Never Ever, heard that 'til this thread. "It's always been about the sampled bass, all about the sampled bass, the sampled bass..."
Not a complicated line, but I dig the SOUND...
Loved Men Without Hats, but not the "Safety Dance" and hate(d) their later "pop" efforts.
Strange Advance had a mish-mash of synth and real bass (check out the fretless on "Worlds Away". Here again, the bass line is simplistic, but back in the day I loved the killer sounds (still do).
The Guys that started it all for me...
Kraftwerk I can still listen to after all these years without cringing at 80s' ostentatiousness — from the funky "It's More Fun to Compute" to single sound stabs of "Neon Lights" (a great song I'd like to cover with conventional instrumentation some day, yet it seems everyone always covers "The Model", which is a great track of course and why it gets covered).
A lot if not most of Gary Numan's music has bass guitar, but "Cars" is wonderfully bassted [sic] in the warm fuzzy goodness of analogue synth.
FM
Guilty pleasures
...
As for Claypool playing the Seinfeld theme... Never, Never Ever, heard that 'til this thread. "It's always been about the sampled bass, all about the sampled bass, the sampled bass..."
Not a complicated line, but I dig the SOUND...
Loved Men Without Hats, but not the "Safety Dance" and hate(d) their later "pop" efforts.
Strange Advance had a mish-mash of synth and real bass (check out the fretless on "Worlds Away". Here again, the bass line is simplistic, but back in the day I loved the killer sounds (still do).
The Guys that started it all for me...
Kraftwerk I can still listen to after all these years without cringing at 80s' ostentatiousness — from the funky "It's More Fun to Compute" to single sound stabs of "Neon Lights" (a great song I'd like to cover with conventional instrumentation some day, yet it seems everyone always covers "The Model", which is a great track of course and why it gets covered).
A lot if not most of Gary Numan's music has bass guitar, but "Cars" is wonderfully bassted [sic] in the warm fuzzy goodness of analogue synth.
FM
Guilty pleasures
...
Yazoo (Yaz)
Blancmange (video has a Duran Duran vibe to it, but I guess a lot of 80s vids tried for exotic locations etc)
Yello, Oh Yeah!
Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess, The Race...
Blancmange (video has a Duran Duran vibe to it, but I guess a lot of 80s vids tried for exotic locations etc)
Yello, Oh Yeah!
Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess, The Race...
Thomas Dolby's Hyperactive. Awesome bassline. And while you're at it, check out Adele Bertei's killer backing vocals. I think she's still around in a band today somewhere.
anything aggro-tech / harsh ebm.
Grendel
Combichrist
and one
gems all over the entire Peeping Tom album
Grendel
Combichrist
and one
gems all over the entire Peeping Tom album
