I was already playing when that album came out but what great bass lines on that album, How Many More Times was my favorite, I even saw them in Boston in 1969 doing that album. JPJ is a great player.
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What riff hooked you on bass?
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I was already playing when that album came out but what great bass lines on that album, How Many More Times was my favorite, I even saw them in Boston in 1969 doing that album. JPJ is a great player.
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Agree with much of the above.
Not riffs per se, but bass that’s loud and proud, mixed way in the front and arguably driving and dominating the songs.
Grand Funk, Mel Schacher on I’m Your Captain (Closer To Home). That there bass power and playing is something special.
Have always loved Randy Meisner’s playing on the first Eagles album.
Not riffs per se, but bass that’s loud and proud, mixed way in the front and arguably driving and dominating the songs.
Grand Funk, Mel Schacher on I’m Your Captain (Closer To Home). That there bass power and playing is something special.
Have always loved Randy Meisner’s playing on the first Eagles album.
This one. I was already starting to learn but this sealed the deal. This is when I bought into bass.
First 4 albums I mastered were GFR 's red album, Paranoid, Closer to to Home, and Humble Pie Live at the Fillmore .
I heard this and I was destined to play the bass.
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For me it was the opening bass line to "Let's Hang On" by The Four Seasons. I think this was in 1963 or 1964. It was one of the first licks I learned on bass when I picked up the instrument in late "65. Amazingly enough , the first time I got to play it on stage in a band setting was probably around 2012.
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I grew up on Motown, but it was Tom Hamilton's chugging, rolling sixteenth notes and the doubling of the famous "Walk This Way" guitar riff -- and of course "Sweet Emotion." The day my ears tuned in to what was happening on those tracks was the day I decided to get my first bass, a Harmony short scale out of the J.C. Penney Catalog.
Simple but it hooked me in about 1972 Ten Years After - Love like a man
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Entwistle's solos on My Generation.
What riff hooked you on bass?
i can't say it was the riff (there are a bunch of them), but here are a couple iconic (and cool!) riffs:
i can't say it was the riff (there are a bunch of them), but here are a couple iconic (and cool!) riffs:
Two songs from roughly the same period...for the longest time I didin’t hear bass as a distinct instrument, it was just a part of the overall wall/wash of sound. On my school bus, the driver would pump the local top 40 station through the speakers, and as the racket of all us brats would eat up the high and mid frequencies, all that came through was the low end. On this track, although the drums are at a frantic shuffle pace, the bass moves slow, and it really stood out...
...plus it’s a classic meat and potatoes line, it should be a part of every player’s vocabulary.
The other was a situation was where there was space for the bass, a cool riff unto itself, and during the sitar solo(at 2:46), it’s like there’s a tandem bass solo going on as well. It’s too bad Danny McCulloch didn’t do much beyond his time in the band...
I got a laugh when XTC, as the Dukes Of The Stratophear, quoted the line in their spoof/homage to 60’s psychedelia mashup of that song and the Byrds’ “So You Want To Be A Rock’n’Roll Star. Colin knew.
...plus it’s a classic meat and potatoes line, it should be a part of every player’s vocabulary.
The other was a situation was where there was space for the bass, a cool riff unto itself, and during the sitar solo(at 2:46), it’s like there’s a tandem bass solo going on as well. It’s too bad Danny McCulloch didn’t do much beyond his time in the band...
I got a laugh when XTC, as the Dukes Of The Stratophear, quoted the line in their spoof/homage to 60’s psychedelia mashup of that song and the Byrds’ “So You Want To Be A Rock’n’Roll Star. Colin knew.
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