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Your secret song
- Thread starter Chris cook
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I gotta go with 4 songs
Get Down Tonight - KC & TSB
Brickhouse - Commadores
Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror PS
Time Warp - Rocky Horror PS
Get Down Tonight - KC & TSB
Brickhouse - Commadores
Sweet Transvestite - Rocky Horror PS
Time Warp - Rocky Horror PS
The 1961 version of “The Christmas Song.” Very mellow and jazzy-sounding although I normally don’t like jazz.
"Live with Me", as played by one of my fave bassists, Keef.
And, "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin", bass by Larry Graham.
And, "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin", bass by Larry Graham.
WOW! I have a bunch of "secret songs" but I can hardly think of any of them right now.
These 2 come to mind.
These 2 come to mind.
Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
I don't even know. My tastes have evolved so much over the years that on my current "keep up the chops" play includes some unlikely (for me) stuff like Abba, Hall & Oates, Sade, Huey Lewis, and other late 70s/ early 80s music. Those basslines are just FUN to play.
I wasn’t too caught up in that ‘rockers hating disco’ thing myself, but Disco was “that which cannot be discussed” among most of the people I knew at the time. Prog fans were the worst about it. However…
This bassline is so wicked that I had to get into it…
Similarly, Tom Jones is just as polarizing…everyone I’ve known either hated him or loved him. I’m in the latter camp, one of the greatest voices ever, and I was into his old TV show as a kid, a lot hipper than you might think.
While Alex Harvey did his goofy version of it, which has its own merits, the over the top melodrama of the original and that riff(which I love to play on fuzz bass)after the verse phrases just kills…
Who else could turn a song about betrayal, rage, and murder into a singalong?
This bassline is so wicked that I had to get into it…
Similarly, Tom Jones is just as polarizing…everyone I’ve known either hated him or loved him. I’m in the latter camp, one of the greatest voices ever, and I was into his old TV show as a kid, a lot hipper than you might think.
While Alex Harvey did his goofy version of it, which has its own merits, the over the top melodrama of the original and that riff(which I love to play on fuzz bass)after the verse phrases just kills…
Who else could turn a song about betrayal, rage, and murder into a singalong?
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Back in the 70s and 80s (mostly, the 80s), we used call them "guilty pleasure songs".
I'm not sure if I want to "out myself", but I have been a hard rock/heavy metal guy for most of my playing days, except for the fact I played in a second band (when the main band was starting to get some real traction) which played Motown and R&B (I always hid my hair and dressed in a sports coat and slacks with a collared shirt).
Also during those days, it was "fashionable" for bass players to do a rather elongated solo (the rest of the band would leave the stage for some kind of "comfort stop") and because I listened to a lot of classical music (and still do), I used to work the 1812 Overture and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik into my solo.
I guess today, people would be most surprised to hear me break into a little Chattanooga Cho-Choo or I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo. Big bands was about the most modern music grandma and grandpa listened to around the house.
I'm not sure if I want to "out myself", but I have been a hard rock/heavy metal guy for most of my playing days, except for the fact I played in a second band (when the main band was starting to get some real traction) which played Motown and R&B (I always hid my hair and dressed in a sports coat and slacks with a collared shirt).
Also during those days, it was "fashionable" for bass players to do a rather elongated solo (the rest of the band would leave the stage for some kind of "comfort stop") and because I listened to a lot of classical music (and still do), I used to work the 1812 Overture and Eine Kleine Nachtmusik into my solo.
I guess today, people would be most surprised to hear me break into a little Chattanooga Cho-Choo or I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo. Big bands was about the most modern music grandma and grandpa listened to around the house.
