Top Covers Arranged for Bass

[Joesoef]

http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2010/12/02/top-10-cover-tunes-arranged-for-bass/

Amazing. Especially the Queen one, awesome..

Anyone else know other great solo bass covers like these?

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Michael Manring also did a terrific version of "Purple Haze":

 

[MrDOS]

Here's my arrangement of John Lennon's "Imagine"

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[frisbieinstein]

http://www.notreble.com/buzz/2010/12/02/top-10-cover-tunes-arranged-for-bass/

Amazing. Especially the Queen one, awesome..

Anyone else know other great solo bass covers like these?

I've listened to most of the tunes mentioned in this thread and mostly they bore me and I can't get through the whole thing. Sometimes the performance is flawed, sometimes I think, "this is really good, I SHOULD be liking this" but I don't. It's tough to compete with saxophones, pianos, violins, guitars, singers, etc, not to mention entire bands and orchestras. The only one I could get through was the string bass player going over the top with Purple Haze.

At its best the bass guitar has a sort of sad, mournful beauty that no other instrument can get, sort of like a basset hound. For bass guitar solo covers I'd go with Jeff Berlin. He has everything. Lots of classical guitar influence. I don't know why he isn't more famous than he is.

Star Spangled Banner

Tears In Heaven

Here's an amateur who plays beautifully. Darren Frate doing Kate Bush. Who would even think of this, much less pull it off. This, I can listen to over and over.

And Dream OF Sheep

 

[Icculus]

I'm a fan of this one as well

Marcus Miller - "Burning Down The House"

 

[JimK]

Victor Wooten covered "Norwegian Wood":

 

[AaronD]

Victor Wooten - Yesterday

 

[drpepper]

Uriah Duffy - Michael Jackson Human Nature

 

[Rush-2112]

I like this one:

Zander Zon- Stairway to Heaven

 

[Fetusyolk]

the dude playing 'voodoo power' is a forum member, i remember his bass and distinct playing style. that guy ROCKS it

 

[ilovenofrets]

Go to Youtube and find Tony Franklin covering Zeppelin's "The Rain Song" at an SWR clinic. Others would be Jaco's rendition of "Blackbird", Jeff Berlin's "Imagine" and "Tears In Heaven", and Michael Manring's "Purple Haze" and "Spirits In The Material World"

 

[Pedulla-Player]

I like this one:

Zander Zon- Stairway to Heaven