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Looking to make a cd of some of the best basslines around with an aim to learn them all. Any suggestions? It can be a riff or a solo, anything, not just the whole song.
This is open to everyone, not just bass players. As long as it sounds good, put it down. Don't really want a load of uber-technical jazz musicians or what have you...
Non-NO you mean?
Just a few to get the ball rolling:
Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect Placebo - You dont care about us Cure - Pictures of You
Steve Lea wrote: Non-NO you mean?
Just a few to get the ball rolling:
Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect Placebo - You dont care about us Cure - Pictures of You
cheers Steve. Yeah, I'm familiar with Hooky's basslines so don't worry about him. ;)
Just read this article... I Wanna Be Adored at 17 and LWTUA at 7....
ooooh Fleetwood Mac: The Chain (not at all influenced by my being up all night in anticipation of a mighty grand prix) Jeff Wayne: Horsell common and the heat ray Mettalica: anaethesia, pulling teeth Obviously Hooky's entire repertoire And for SERIOUS bass...check out Victor Wotten, in the dictionary under "scary motherfucker" there is just a pic of victor and the words "give up now" Propaganda: Frozen faces (12") Tho I STILl cannot work out if it's actually a bass. Art of Noise: Beat Box live 1986 Solo on Roland GR77 thru fairlight using classic "dum" noise. Primus, Tommy the cat, my name is mud,fish on, the ole diamond back sturgeon, is it luck......fuck it, most primus tracks that aren't shite are worth learning....cos les is no slouch. RHCP:suck my kiss (try that run without a pick, tricky stuff), give it away.
Orb: Blue Room, Pommes Fritz meat and veg (it's a 12 tone roll, if you know about that sort of shite), perpetual dawn, towers of dub I will think of more....but for now i'm off to malaysia for fast motor cars for a couple hours.
Grandmaster Flash: White Lines Leftfield: Phat Planet The Chemical Brothers: Leave Home
Although these may not be the most technically brilliant, they still crank my car's subby like nothing else. Too funky.
:\pimp3:
The Chain for me, also Possession by The Sisters of Mercy, Crocodiles by the Bunnymen, Lucifer Over Lancashire by The Fall.
for real bass I'm gonna go with pounding system by the dub syndicate, and for synthetic chime by orbital.
TRUST ME.
MAXWELL MURDER by RANCID. Amazing bassline all the way through, then the BEST solo I've EVER heard on a bass, check it out seriously.
Definitely one of the great bass lines is White Line, by Grand Master Flash - the bit that starts th song out.
Lots of ones from Hooky - Perfect Kiss, especially the extended one from Substance. Confusion too.
nothing beats the bassline and bass solo from maxwell murder by rancid, i'm tellin ya.
check it out
Desert Sessions - Subcutaneous Phat Desert Sessions - Teens of Thailand Kyuss, Jaco and Primus have some good ones that I can't think of right now Queens of the Stone Age - Mexicola Queens of the Stone Age - You Can't Quit Me Baby Rush - YYZ [!!!]
All I can think of right now
Black Sabbath - NIB The Cure - Fascination Street Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling The Fall - The Classical Hard Fi - Cash Machine Motorhead - Ace of Spades Killing Joke - Follow The Leader
State of Love and Trust wrote: ewwwwwww hard fi
youre right
sorry Chris, but hard fi is fookin boring
cheers everyone for the suggestions. A couple of them were already on my list, some of them I've never heard before. Gonna be fun trying to learn them all. :)
Fook me if Owens is old.....I must be friggin Jurassic.
I should have said
JEff Wayne: The artilleryman and the fighting machine...same bassline but it goes more places, FANTASTIC drumming too, and it'll make anyone who hears it want to hear the whole album.
I note a lack of Rush getting mentioned...and I thought about it, and despite Mr Lee being kick ass good, and despite me having heard a fair bit of Rush, I can't think of a single kick ass bassline.
Also, apart from a couple of the Orb tracks I mentioned, no one has namechecked Jah Wobble, there's A LOT to be learned about grooving from studying Jah.
Oh and if we're allowing electronic basslines...
Ron Grainer/Deliah Derbyshire: Dr Who theme.
Christopher Owens wrote:
State of Love and Trust wrote: hard fi suck
i'll take you, old man
Taken in the Shankhill Post-Natal clinic?
Steve Campbell wrote:
Christopher Owens wrote:
State of Love and Trust wrote: hard fi suck
i'll take you, old man
Taken in the Shankhill Post-Natal clinic?
a third vote for the chain by fleetwood mac. also:
knock me down--red hot chili peppers jerry was a race car driver--primus le freak--chic
angeldust_evildust wrote: bassline solo of the go-go's "head over heels" has always been a good one...
and it's recorded so there is no turning back...
what an article Wasim. . anything the has Hooky with his hands on a bass.
Just playing the outro to The Chain... good shout.
I'm wondering if he the first note is an open A or on the E string... stupid little things like that make me obsessed about getting it spot on with how the bassist himself plays it.
