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Father Time
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10/7/2016 12:19:13 PM
my alltime favorite bass line in a song
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Hop On Pop
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10/7/2016 12:55:37 PM
Not a bad choice. Not a bad choice at all. And it is absolutely right up there for me, too. Definitely. Might be my #1, as well.
But this one is also up there for me:
The whole song, not just the first part. There is some really excellent higher-register stuff that she plays later on in the tune that I adore.
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Hop On Pop
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10/7/2016 12:58:49 PM
And, for my decidedly non-funky entry, there is this wonderful bit of bass-ing from Peter Hook.
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Father Time
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10/7/2016 1:10:42 PM
Like them both a lot!
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Steve White
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10/7/2016 2:25:12 PM
---- Updated 10/7/2016 2:35:54 PM
Oh so many I can't count em!
Ramble On. I used to play that to warm up before practice.
Shake the Devil. Anyone know who did this? I do, just wanna see if you do.
Floating. Another great song written by another great bass player. Another one for you to guess at. No cheating.
Actually although I really loved Floating? It was and is the theme to the movie that I still play today.
Steve
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Larree
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10/7/2016 2:28:51 PM
So many great bass lines. Here is one of my favorites.
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Richard Scotti
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10/7/2016 3:29:16 PM
One of my favorite bass lines (and also written by a bass player) is Silly Love Songs by Paul McCartney. That brass ain't bad either!
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Hop On Pop
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10/7/2016 5:21:15 PM
And, this one...
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Larree
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10/7/2016 5:32:24 PM
Anything Jack Bruce or Chris Squire ever put down. And Bootsy Collins.
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The Jay Dyall Project
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10/7/2016 9:02:58 PM
Yes Larree, to Bootsy Collins
His Bassline on the Dee-Lite's song "Groove Is In The Heart" is timeless!
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Stoneman
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10/26/2016 11:36:53 PM
Agree 100%
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10/27/2016 9:09:33 AM
Oh Heavens to Mergatroid.
There's a bunch. That I really really like to where, forget it,
I'll sing the bassline before I sing along with the actual song?
Hmmm...
"I Heard It Through The Grapevine" by Gladys Knight and the Pips...
"Good Times" by, who is it, Le Freak? No that's a song.
Chic? I think that's their name.
Oh there's so many, and now I can't think of any,
"All My Loving" is simple but mathematically perfect as a melody can be
"She's A Woman" is even simpler yet compelling,
there's so many others, can't think of 'em right now...
Oh yeah, that's why.
I'm recording at the moment,
but I stopped in to release one.
Only I still got songs being listened to,
so I won't put the new one out yet,
just work on more...
verbose. shhh.
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10/28/2016 4:03:57 AM
Oh alright, two others....
Favorite bass lines, not played, by bass proper.
By that I mean, either an electric bass guitar,
or one of those huge-ass stand up basses, looks like fun to play, huh?
Try taking one on the subway.
Well, Eleanor Rigby, (being Father Mackenzie I know her personally
more than she dare knows herself, and I bought her batteries too!)
has an interesting bass line, played with Contrabass,
although Contrabassoon also sounds promising if wrong for the song.
Didn't even know there was one of them. I mean, at all, anywhere.
Obviously there is none of that nonsense in Eleanor Rigby,
and not a speck of abandon either, she's a level headed girl, I know her well.
Yes, and she doesn't pay attention, see why we have to keep the crest
punched up so that everyone else doesn't fall into their own navel and die yet?
Oh. I'm not in that post anymore. I think I got up too early. Nevermind.
Right,
and the Ultimate,
Ultimate So Cool it's stupid,
bassline, not played with a bass?
"I WILL" by The BEATLES.
from the album with the white cover
sometimes referred to as the white album,
called just The BEATLES.
That is not a bass, on I WILL.
No, no, it's not. You may think it is. But you'd be wrong if you thought that.
It's Paul. Yes.
He's not playing the bass.
He is, in fact, singing the bass line.
Oh but he is, go discover one of life's great mysteries.
Cheers. Chipper and Upbeat all day. More coffee, yeah that'll do.
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Bob Elliott
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10/28/2016 3:52:36 PM
Yes, If You Want Me to Stay is a thing of soul beauty.
Larry Graham was the bassist for Sly and the Family Stone, and he was amazing, the inventor of slap bass even, yet he is not playing that bass line. Most everything on that album Fresh is played by Sly himself (not the horns). Such a great band he had, and yet he still wanted it a certain way. I guess there are band recordings of everything on that album, and Sly decided to redo just about everything by himself.
Hard to argue with the result.
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Bob Elliott
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10/28/2016 3:56:14 PM
I used to be endlessly fascinated by the simple perfection of the keyboard baseline on Prince's song Sign of the Times.
Sort of effortless and perfect.
Same could be said of Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime.
Sex Machine....look out!
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Bob Elliott
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10/28/2016 3:59:14 PM
Pretty sure the bass on I Will is both Paul singing and playing. Think he sang what he wanted and then played it, but they used both.
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10/30/2016 7:07:57 AM
I stand in disagreement with that assertion.
You may say it's otherwise. That's not what I hear though.
It is Paul singing, EQed in such a way as to sound like a bass...
but there is no instrument 'played' in I WILL, save the human voice.
We can agree to disagree on that. That's fine.
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Larree
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10/30/2016 5:00:52 PM
ALJ is correct. No bass guitar on I Will. Just a 'vocal bass'.
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Hop On Pop
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10/31/2016 11:43:05 AM
This has always been a pretty great bass line, too:
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Richard Scotti
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10/31/2016 11:56:26 AM
Recorded in India and finished in London, the song "I Will" was done in 67 takes.
The official credits for instruments played by Paul on that song are acoustic guitars
and "vocal bass".
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Father Time
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10/31/2016 12:19:59 PM
yeah Todd, I had that 45.
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