Killer Bass Lines

Killer Bass Lines

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gazza285

9,780 posts

207 months

Tuesday 24th May 2022
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NMNeil said:
Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM46WAY6MIc
I don’t know what it is, but nothing the Chilli Peppers do has ever appealed to me.

jet_noise

5,630 posts

181 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Zad said:
jet_noise said:
Norman Watt-Roy out of Dury's Blockheads - Rhythm Stick
Like on page 1
hehe
Arse!

MrCheese

335 posts

182 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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https://youtu.be/AbCEF4sYSiY

Welcome to the pleasuredome

Louis Balfour

26,271 posts

221 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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How do people rate Davide Biale (Davey 504)?

My son is a bassist and watches a lot of his stuff. I initially dismissed him, but having seen him play some more complex stuff I wonder whether I was hasty.


conkerman

3,298 posts

134 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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I like him. He's a pretty funny guy.



slopes

38,748 posts

186 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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gazza285 said:
NMNeil said:
Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM46WAY6MIc
I don’t know what it is, but nothing the Chilli Peppers do has ever appealed to me.
Technically, all three of the musicians are great players and personally, i don't mind the Chilli Peppers but i can understand your apathy towards them. They are a marmite group

Louis Balfour

26,271 posts

221 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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conkerman said:
I like him. He's a pretty funny guy.
His delivery becomes a little wearing after a while. That is not to diminish his skill however.

southendpier

5,254 posts

228 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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slopes said:
gazza285 said:
NMNeil said:
Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM46WAY6MIc
I don’t know what it is, but nothing the Chilli Peppers do has ever appealed to me.
Technically, all three of the musicians are great players and personally, i don't mind the Chilli Peppers but i can understand your apathy towards them. They are a marmite group
thoughts?- Flea isolated bass line from You Outta Know - Alanis Morrisette.

NMNeil

5,860 posts

49 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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gazza285 said:
NMNeil said:
Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM46WAY6MIc
I don’t know what it is, but nothing the Chilli Peppers do has ever appealed to me.
Not a great fan either, but damn, Flea can play that bass biggrin

The Surveyor

7,576 posts

236 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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No mention of Ronnie Lane yet ?

His base on this Faces cover of Maybe I’m amazed is superb,

https://youtu.be/SLhoLkTyNkM


longblackcoat

5,047 posts

182 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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gazza285 said:
NMNeil said:
Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM46WAY6MIc
I don’t know what it is, but nothing the Chilli Peppers do has ever appealed to me.
I’m the same with Weather Report. If I never hear Birdland again it’ll be too soon. Full respect to the musicians, obviously, but not my sort of thing.

rjfp1962

7,611 posts

72 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Peter Hook of Joy Division - The bass leads many of their songs..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHC2ozNKfYA

darreni

3,759 posts

269 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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The amazing Bernard Edwards again, Sister Sledge - we are family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVe_HcyP9Y

cherryowen

Original Poster:

11,683 posts

203 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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darreni said:
The amazing Bernard Edwards again, Sister Sledge - we are family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVe_HcyP9Y
Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards? Kings of classic disco!

Edwards driving the tune again, here:-




Simes205

4,528 posts

227 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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cherryowen said:
darreni said:
The amazing Bernard Edwards again, Sister Sledge - we are family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMVe_HcyP9Y
Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards? Kings of classic disco!

Edwards driving the tune again, here:-

Mentioned this one earlier on, very interesting technique he used on the opening part of the line.

underwhelmist

1,852 posts

133 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Mick Karn and Hooky are the main reasons I started playing bass, both brilliant and innovative in their own way. Mathew Seligman played many brilliant bass lines for Thomas Dolby, like Screen Kiss on the Flat Earth album...



I saw this when it was first broadcast, I love this fretless performance bu Paul Bushnell.



Swervin_Mervin

4,429 posts

237 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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slopes said:
gazza285 said:
NMNeil said:
Flea, of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM46WAY6MIc
I don’t know what it is, but nothing the Chilli Peppers do has ever appealed to me.
Technically, all three of the musicians are great players and personally, i don't mind the Chilli Peppers but i can understand your apathy towards them. They are a marmite group
The last decent album of theirs was One Hot Minute. I love their back catalogue before that, in particular the Hilel Slovak era. I'm very much not a fan of the Frusciante era...

Zad

12,695 posts

235 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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MrCheese said:
https://youtu.be/AbCEF4sYSiY

Welcome to the pleasuredome
The same video from the same post I mentioned Norman Watt-Roy in hehe

So lets add another and see if anyone notices biggrin

Muse - Hysteria. Chris Wolstenholme on bass. Epic intro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqCOzgYQsKI
Stripped out bass-only track here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1cSLmKUYak

Thanks for the heads-up on Guy Pratt's Lockdown Licks, its always good to get the real, personal view like these, rather than sanitised interviews. He is the sort of chap who I wouldn't be totally surprised to find out that he hangs around on here.



This is probably where I post something from page 2...

Simes205

4,528 posts

227 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Rocco Prestia - any Tower of Power tune!

https://youtu.be/SN8pWdZhVaM

And analysed

https://youtu.be/I88QbOPEBrs


Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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David Essex's eerie 'Rock On', just drums and Herbie Flowers' double-tracked bass (for which he then got paid double his usual fee - he did the same trick on Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side').