Best baseline ever.

[kiteless]

Justin Cyder said:

Only a leg pull, but Jazz funk, soul & black music in general has some of the killerest bass lines in creation

indeed

Just listen to the work of Bootsy Collins or Nathan East as examples.

[mp3manager]

My second nomination by Primus.......Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg

Edited by mp3manager on Saturday 3rd August 07:26

[darreni]

rover 623gsi said:

Some of my favourites

Derek Forbes, Simple Minds (they were never the same after he left)
Themes For Great Cities
The American
Someone Somewhere in Summertime

Mick Karn, (RIP) Japan
European Son
Swing
Visions of China

John Taylor, Duran Duran
Rio
Girls on Film
Planet Earth

Bernard Edwards (RIP), Chic (and others)
Le Freak
Thinking of You
Let’s Dance

Bruce Foxton, The Jam
Down in the Tubestation at Midnight
Eton Rifles
Funeral Pyre

that'll do for now...

Some great choices there.

Have a look at this-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOUdS_WnljQ

a chap posted a video of himself playing the I travel bassline - rather well i thought.
Then someone called hafferson adds a comment that he is not playing it quite right, & he'll post a video later to show how he thinks it should be played:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZs_l9hF8IY

You have to love the internet!

As for the best, for me, anything by Bernard Edwards/Chic, just superb.

For technical ability there can be only one (play loud):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80dsyo2Ox-0

[Justin Cyder]

That Derek Forbes thing is great. Love it when musicians do favours for their fans - I imagine the guy was thrilled.

[darreni]

Justin Cyder said:

That Derek Forbes thing is great. Love it when musicians do favours for their fans - I imagine the guy was thrilled.

Check the comment under Dereks vid:

"if this fella knew anything about simple minds he wouldn't be playing it that way"

[Justin Cyder]

Just spotted that. The trolling guy doesn't exactly take it on the chin either.

[Durruti]

Don't think anyone has mentioned three great bassists yet

JJ Burnel - Genetix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN93UJkiBao

Or anything by Jack Bruce

and Tony Levin is worth checking out for both bass and chapman stick work - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiu6RMMNERs

[central]

Ashley Ingram

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nXEXWlQ5Q

[audidoody]

Paul McCartney - Come Together

[audidoody]

Paul McCartney - Come Together

[Justin Cyder]

Norman Watt-Roy is responsible for some of the best bass playing I've ever heard.

[suthol]

Martin Turner has been responsible for some nice stuff over the years

Wishbone Ash - Handy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNJqVW2L5is

[droopsnoot]

Justin Cyder said:

Norman Watt-Roy is responsible for some of the best bass playing I've ever heard.

Yes, I'd forgotten Norman. Made much better by not looking anything like a bass player.

[droopsnoot]

Durruti said:

Don't think anyone has mentioned three great bassists yet

JJ Burnel - Genetix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN93UJkiBao

Yes, he's been in before, but I think I'd have put Genetix as more of an example of Jet Black's drums than JJB's bass, although the solo is great. As he started off playing Spanish guiter (JJB, not Jet) that comes through in the complexity of a lot of his bass lines.

[jamie w]

This thread's been quiet a while but shouldn't be left to slide away without a mention for the incomparable James Jamerson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson Check the list of bass players acknowledging his influence.

So many good tracks from this enormously influential and talented man, not sure I could pick a best one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND-iW51idC0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFZtKOp8AK4&lis...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pVM00eoohI

[soapystick]

Rappers Delight by The Sugarhill Gang is a pretty blummin' good bassline, i reckon.

[Justin Cyder]

Peter Maas was no slouch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwjEIur4t-Q

[JackP1]

Stone Roses- She bangs the drums. Really like that bassline!

[Z06George]

Anything James Jamerson played on.

[Pony]

Scientist - dance of the vampires