I agree with this. Jeff is a great player, but that clacky pick tone is way out of vibe with the rest of the song. For a guy known to rock a fretless or a UEB, one would thing this would be a perfect tune for those basses.
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The worst basslines ever....
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I agree with this. Jeff is a great player, but that clacky pick tone is way out of vibe with the rest of the song. For a guy known to rock a fretless or a UEB, one would thing this would be a perfect tune for those basses.
The song was a hit back in the 80s but The Price by Twisted Sister was really bad. Probably the most simple bass line ever.
Check it out on Youtube..
Check it out on Youtube..
really? that's one of the reasons i picked up a bass in the first place. it was a moving driving line behind an otherwise boring song.
however, i'm with the dude on the seven nation army stuff... that ***** terrible.
This is so subjective. If a bassline is played in tune, with the right time, feel and the right notes, how can it be bad?
Maybe the question should be to identify the most uncreative basslines, but even that is subjective.
Maybe someone should start a thread about what constitutes a bad bassline. I suggest posting it in "General Instruction".
Maybe the question should be to identify the most uncreative basslines, but even that is subjective.
Maybe someone should start a thread about what constitutes a bad bassline. I suggest posting it in "General Instruction".
I am refering to that, to think about basslines with not right time or feel or too many notes
Lennon on Helter Skelter. Fits the song (which still rocks out), but is so out of time, and "domo-arrigato-mr.-roboto" stiff that it really is quite horrible.
Not quite sure about your grammar there?
"...as all get out"?
But Longview is a great line, and was what made me start playing bass. Which also made it the first song I learnt.
Could you give me some examples of what you think are the worst ones? Are you saying on all ~130 album songs, there is not one good bassline?
Mike generally plays what's good for the songs and in my opinion is a good bassist. Also, the OP never said anything about boring, he said bad.
Does being simple, and working with the song make a bassline bad?
Worst basslines ever? Thats easy, any classic jazz song that has been arranged for a big band. The basslines that some of these arrangers come up with are beyond terrible and just painful to play.
For all styles and types of music, I give credit where credit is due.
However, I must painfully admit, the majority of the basslines I hate, are mostly due to the fact that I have not yet been able to play them.
A prime example is a lot of (most) Jazz basslines. Although Jazz is not my favorite type of music, I still try to play some of those basslines, and it just kills me. I normally give up and practice something else and come back to it time and time again with no luck. So to all you Jazz players, hats off to you.
Alvaro Martín Gómez A.
TalkBass' resident Bongo + cowbell player
Please accept my apologies. Without trying to dismiss your statement, I must say that I don't hear the bass playing the third. What I hear at that specific spot ("Home" after "ate up all of my corn") is an Ab (moderately staccato quarter notes), and that's not the third but the root. The chord progression from 2:22 to 2:30 is I - IV - ii - I, and the bass plays just roots there as far as I can hear."William's Tale" as played by Joey Dimaio of Manowar. I really love Battle Hymns as an album but everything about this song (re: more of a self-indulgent bass solo) just makes me cringe. The playing just sounds really sloppy to me and it's probably THE WORST tone I've heard from a Ric...
Also, I remember playing a piece in high school concert band (never said it had to be a POPULAR song...) that was entirely tied whole notes over 4+ bars at a slow tempo, and the notes rarely changed... I don't think I've even owned a bass that can sustain for that long, but I wish I could find one. Suddenly, right in the middle, there was a legato septuplet run consisting of awkward intervals before returning to the tied whole notes for the rest of the piece. I think the composition was supposed to sound like whale songs adapted for a concert band... I don't remember what it was called, but I'm glad I'll never see it again.
Also, I remember playing a piece in high school concert band (never said it had to be a POPULAR song...) that was entirely tied whole notes over 4+ bars at a slow tempo, and the notes rarely changed... I don't think I've even owned a bass that can sustain for that long, but I wish I could find one. Suddenly, right in the middle, there was a legato septuplet run consisting of awkward intervals before returning to the tied whole notes for the rest of the piece. I think the composition was supposed to sound like whale songs adapted for a concert band... I don't remember what it was called, but I'm glad I'll never see it again.
My vote is for ANY of the hair metal bands from the late 80's, early 90's. Terrible, terrible music and even worse bass playing....totally lacking in groove or soul, IMHO.
