Your secret song

[RelentlessRick1]

Drift Away by Dobie Gray! The bassline moves and motivates the whole tune! It's the dynamic basis of the tune!

 

[teh-slb]

 

[roccobass]

Lol! This one. I also used to pull some of of this off during bass sound checks at my live gigs years ago. It got a few laughs.

 

[Just go for it]

 

[MrB64]

Smackwater Jack by Carole King. Great bass line.

 

[Danny O Danny]

In the 70's I was part of the "Disco sucks!" crowd, and have mostly done Americana and Classic Rock music. But nowadays I have a lot of fun playing along at home to disco songs. Case in point:

 

[Iroquoisroadwarrior]

Passionate kisses by Mary Chapin Carpenter

 

[dave64o]

I Want You Back - Jackson 5

You're the One That I Want - Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta, Grease soundtrack

Boogie Oogie Oogie - A Taste of Honey

Get Down Tonight - KC and The Sunshine Band

Le Freak - Chic


I play classic rock and blues, but these are just fun songs to play

 

[juancaminos]

LOVE CATS the Cure...

 

[rtslinger]

I listen to hard rock and metal for pleasure \m/, but being in a classic rock cover band I have covered many songs and artist that are not normally in my wheelhouse. I have taken a liking to Elton John's Funeral for a friend/ Loves lies bleeding in my hands. fun bass line............. this message will self destruct in 10 seconds

 

[scuzzy]

"love is an open door" from Frozen

 

[ThudThudThud]

Fabulous bass line.

 

[ThudThudThud]

Ernie: Benny Hill.
Alley Cat: Captain Beefheart
Nelly the Elephant... Toy Dolls

Ernie......and now I have tea on my keyboard.

 

[Plectrum72]

I'm in a cover band that plays all genres from Johnny Cash to Dua Lipa to Billy Joel to Linkin Park to Bruno Mars to Poison to Grand Funk Railroad to Neil Diamond. We're all over the place, but it's always stuff the audience wants to hear. So, often playing outside my preferred listening tastes. I guess the melody from Henry Mancini's Pink Panther Theme would surprise many that know me.

 

[reno88]

I play in a riffy power trio. We can get pretty heavy and weird sometimes. Occasionally we'll break this out:
George Michael - Freedom! ’90 (Official Video) - YouTube
We don't play it ironically - we play it straight, and people love it! Fun bass line, too.

 

[dbsfgyd1]

I've played at one time or another
Almost every genre of music
I'm a prog/metal/thrash bassist etc. etc.
What's the one song people would be surprised you play on bass.
It shouldn't be a song even remotely tied to your preferred genre .

Mine is
Maggie May by Rod Stewart
Bass in M. M. is greater than greater
: ?)

She’s Too Fat polka.. 100% 1-5 The bass in STF is mind numbingly repetitive…

 

[Robert B]

These guys were like the Beatles of the Francophone world. They sang in Creole, just to make things even more incomprehensible for English speakers. Basically unknown in the US. It's my secret song because nobody I know has ever heard of them, much less heard them. Also because Georges Decimus wears a helmet with horns.

edit: The older white guy playing trumpet is Steve Madaio, who also played with Stevie Wonder and a lot of other artists. I first heard him on a Paul Butterfield album! He died in 2019.

Wow! Awesome energy!

 

[PiquetBass]

It has to be one particular song..... on an acoustic / open mic evening a long time ago.....
4 grown men (2 guitar/vox, 1 cajon, plus me on the bass) banging out Dolly's inimitable Jolene!

My normal habit is 80s and 90s rock, today I'm in a Grunge covers band.

 

[Robert B]

I play in a riffy power trio. We can get pretty heavy and weird sometimes. Occasionally we'll break this out:
George Michael - Freedom! ’90 (Official Video) - YouTube
We don't play it ironically - we play it straight, and people love it! Fun bass line, too.

I can see that working. Would love to hear it, if possible!

 

[Spidey2112]