What do you play when someone asks you to play some bass?

[specs]

Another one bites the dust.

 

[0--+LoveBass]

-Portrait of Trace (jaco)
-America (jaco)
-Classical Thump (wooten)
-Bach Cello Suites (bach)

 

[tmw]

The theme to Barney Miller

+1

 

[jmattbassplaya]

Seinfeld theme....

 

[Cyber Soda]

-Portrait of Trace (jaco)
-America (jaco)
-Classical Thump (wooten)
-Bach Cello Suites (bach)

I was just about to say the exact same thing... Except Amerika. I don't know that.

 

[dmrogers]

If it's someone that really gets music, I'll play Thorazine Shuffle by Government Mule, especially if my son is around and has his drums setup.

That's a pretty good tune.

 

[erigod23]

Sunshine of your Love or the intro to the "Night Court" theme.

 

[vbasscustom]

i usually play my favorite things, just cause it was the first full song i ever learned and ive gotten really really good at it, and added in a bunch of stuff to make it sound cooler.

 

[skulletwhip]

usually Mr. Bungle's "Girls of Porn" or Faith No More's "Land of Sunshine"

those riffs are played everyday over here.

 

[Thangfish]

If it's someone that really gets music, I'll play Thorazine Shuffle by Government Mule

Hah... me too.

 

[DRafalske]

If it's someone that really gets music, I'll play Thorazine Shuffle by Government Mule, especially if my son is around and has his drums setup.

That's a pretty good tune.

GREAT song!

Dave

 

[two fingers]

I give them a shameless plug for my next show and explain to them that setting up an Ampeg stack in the house (condo) just ain't practical.

 

[Godbody]

Usually I play this while progressively switching on more and more effects and raising the volume, until they ask me to stop/start bleeding.

 

[Phalex]

1 5 1 5 1 5

 

[denhou1974]

Funk

 

[Lenam909]

The verse to Communication Breakdown by Led Zeppelin, or just fiddle around with the blues scale, or Dani California by RHCP, or Rain by the Beatles, or Hey Bulldog also by The Beatles.

 

[crayzee]

I'll usually play some basslines from old originals that my ex-band did. Or I'll go way back and play 'em Hot Hot Hot or the theme from the Twilight Zone. Last time it was my little cousins, so I played them all that and then they started pillowfighting/wrestling. That's when I launched into the cheezy 70's chase music.

 

[gregoire1]

Warpigs, Les Claypool style

 

[baba]

Inspector Gadget.

 

[RexNFX79]

Money

+1 That seems to impress people more than any of the complicated stuff! When my band is playing out sometimes I play the opening of schism by Tool just to see how many yells is gets. It never fails.