Your Favorite Synth Bass Lines?

[Altitude]

The indefensible position: some of my favorite basslines are synth bass. I love:

• Hyperactive! by Thomas Dolby
• Black Man by Stevie Wonder
• LOTS of the cool Level 42 basslines had synth support underneath Mark King
• and of course the Seinfeld theme

any favorite synth bass lines, lines you wish were electric bass, or maybe lines you think are commonly thought of as electric bass that are in fact synth bass?

 

[ba-dum-ba-dum]

Billie Jean.

Thats synth right?

 

[droskobass]

do the Doors keyboard lines like Light my Fire and Soul Kitchen count?

 

[T-MOST]

Flashlight (Parliament)
One Nation Under A Groove (Funkadelic)
That Girl (Stevie Wonder)
Rain forrest (Paul Hardcastle)
PYT (Michael Jackson)
Ain't Nobody (Chaka Khan)

 

[ebozzz]

Anything with Bernie Worrell on the keys.....

Flashlight
Aqua Boogie

And, click the following link for a sample.....
Not Just Knee Deep

Bernie used every bit of space on that track!

 

[ebozzz]

Billie Jean.

Thats synth right?

Don't think so....

 

[Altitude]

Anything with Bernie Worrell on the keys...

+1 on Worrell. I loved what he did with the Talking Heads tunes a lot more than I liked the Heads in general.

 

[bottomzone]

"Boogie On Reggae Woman", Stevie Wonder (Nice woodshed article in Bass Player)
"Get Into The Groove", Maddona
"The Way That You Love Me", Paula Abdul
"Ain't Nobody" Rufus
"Birdland", Weather Report. Joe Zawinul was a genius with an insane left hand!!!


A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste!

 

[BigSwami]

* Parliament-Funkadelic
* Zapp & Roger (More Bouce To The Ounce)
* The Gap Band (You Dropped A Bomb On Me is sick)
* Anything featuring Giorgio Moroder - like Donna Summer's Shudder / I Feel Love

 

[bigbassman]

Stanley Clarke- self named 2nd album
Song- Life Suite, synth bass by Jan Hammer

 

[Altitude]

"The Way That You Love Me", Paula Abdul

Some of the music behind the Paula Abdul stuff was sick. Could have been anybody singing, but the grooves were there for sure.

 

[sethlow3]

Anything by the talking heads with synth bass.

 

[JimK]

"We Can Work It Out"-Chaka Khan (Greg Philliganes on synth bass)

"Ya Mo B There"-James Ingram (Michael O'Martian on synth bass)

There's some stuff by The System ,too...drawing a blank on some of the titles, though. David Frank was bad.

 

[JimK]

"Boogie On Reggae Woman", Stevie Wonder (Nice woodshed article in Bass Player)
"Get Into The Groove", Maddona

Bryan Beller's "Boogie On, Reggae Woman" transcrition was just plain ill.

We used to play that Madonna tune back in the day...we did the song 2x as long as the single (maybe 6+ minutes?).
I was a hurting bastid...blood on the bass, IIRC.

 

[Dee Dubya]

Love and Peace or Else - U2

 

[anyonefortennis]

'High Times' and 'Deeper Underground' by Jamiroquai

 

[Dellers]

Boogie On Reggae Woman by Stevie Wonder, no other song comes even close. Al Jarreau - Boogie Down also rocks

 

[Altitude]

'High Times' and 'Deeper Underground' by Jamiroquai

I believe that High Times was in fact played on an electric bass. IIRC, he used an ME-8 multi effects unit that has stereo capability, and he has straight bass in the center, synth on one side, and maybe a wah on the other. We cover that tune in the band I play in; I use an octave divider first, followed by an EHX Bass Micro Synth.

Great bassline!

 

[silen7ce]

madonna - like a prayer has my favorite synth bass part

 

[Infernal Affair]

"Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins.