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Great bassists

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  • 18-07-2011 11:14pm
    #1
    Miss Informed
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭


    Looking to discover great bassists or songs with great basslines. Genre isn't important. Any suggestions? :)


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    MightyMighty737
    Registered Users Posts: 338 ✭✭MightyMighty737


    I love Matt Freeman's stuff (Rancid, Op Ivy and Devil's Brigade). Having said that I know sweet F.A about the bass and what makes a good player, but he sounds good to me!


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    Owen
    Registered Users Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Jamiroquai, lots of 70's funk, Dream Theater, Jaco Pastorius ... there's a good forum called Talk Bass which probably has similar threads on there that you could search.


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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,392 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I63bOi477cA

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #5
    furiousox
    Registered Users Posts: 6,979 ✭✭✭furiousox


    Best bassist on the planet imo
    The Rhythm Stick bassline is just out of this world


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbfxZ23SdqU




    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3oaTnVMjsA

    CPL 593H



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    fruvai
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    Joe Lally



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    Tradbike
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    maybe a different type of bass than what you're thinking, but probably best bass player i've heard

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQsd2tAIgUE


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXt6htVi3C4


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    Rigsby
    Registered Users Posts: 4,452 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    Miss Informed wrote: »
    Looking to discover great bassists

    "Great bassists" !.... and not one mention yet of the greatest of them all...one James Jamerson. :eek: OP, check out You Tube for anything by this man.

    While you don't hear much about him these days, I always liked the original bassist in Jethro Tull, Glen Cornick. Here is a great track with a great bass line and short solo.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2RNe2jwHE0

    BTW, a big +1 to "Hit me with your rhythm stick," quoted earlier.


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    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    Kim Deal.



    Obviously I'm biased though.


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    #10
    GoldenTickets
    Closed Accounts Posts: 469 ✭✭GoldenTickets


    John Deacon

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    Demesneman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Demesneman


    Baselines I love

    Black Velvet - Alannah Miles
    UB 40 - Almost anything they did
    Horslips - Dearg Doom
    Thin Lizzy - Several
    Stevie Wonder - Various


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    fruvai
    Registered Users Posts: 836 ✭✭✭fruvai


    Paul McCartney

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Maz9ddxEQnM


    Jay Wobble

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnBq98uUJE4


    Andy Rourke

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHYt-GKzfF0


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    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bBb-c6IpEE


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppR6LcGnkUY


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594WLzzb3JI


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS1HGjIPQ1I


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q38F7_HSmss


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    Dr.Winston O'Boogie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Dr.Winston O'Boogie


    Paul McCartney has been mentioned already but have to agree, he was an amazingly talented bassist and didn't get enough credit as people focused on his songwriting more than his technique. Also he played the bass line in "I Will" using his mouth!

    I actually don't know this guys name, but he played with Rory Gallagher for years and this bass solo (around 2.38 in) and some of his other stuff is great.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GvQ5gNKsQ4


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    Mr. Presentable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Ox

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkKeZ1z8zGk


    McVie

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T0Dq_SXaWc


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    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Some basslines I enjoy playing:

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


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je8MXiwmNIk


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unnh0T2Ftro


    Also, has Flea been mentioned yet? It would be strange if he hasn't:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWSRDkaPro0


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    GoldenTickets
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    niallo24 wrote: »
    I actually don't know this guys name, but he played with Rory Gallagher for years and this bass solo (around 2.38 in) and some of his other stuff is great.

    That's Gerry McAvoy and you're right, he's a machine. When I saw this thread he was the first guy I thought of (after John Deacon). His bass on the live Rory Gallagher albums is amazing, Stage Struck chugs along non-stop because of his awesome bass playing!


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    Aldebaran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,053 ✭✭✭Aldebaran


    Rigsby wrote: »
    "Great bassists" !.... and not one mention yet of the greatest of them all...one James Jamerson. :eek: OP, check out You Tube for anything by this man.

    Yep, probably influenced more bassists than any other, check out this partial discography of his, it's unbelievable how many classic tracks he played on.

    One of my faves of his is 'I Can't Help Myself' by The Four Tops, it's tough enough to hear the bass on the original recording, but it's an absolute cracker of a bass line. Someone managed to isolate it here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZUFGe06Ylw


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    Rigsby
    Registered Users Posts: 4,452 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    Aldebaran wrote: »
    Yep, probably influenced more bassists than any other, check out this partial discography of his, it's unbelievable how many classic tracks he played on.

    One of my faves of his is 'I Can't Help Myself' by The Four Tops, it's tough enough to hear the bass on the original recording, but it's an absolute cracker of a bass line. Someone managed to isolate it here:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZUFGe06Ylw

    Great stuff all right. Macca is quoted as saying that Jamerson was a big influence on him in the early days. There is a book on Jamerson's life called "Standing in the Shadows of Motown". As well as his life satory, it also gives transcriptions of his bass lines. It comes with a cd which has famous bassists reproducing his lines to songs. The great thing is that on the cd, you can isolate the bass lines to really hear how much of a genius this man was.

    A "must have" for any aspiring bassist IMO.


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    delbertgrady
    Registered Users Posts: 4,737 ✭✭✭delbertgrady


    Since nobody seems to have mentioned any of the following yet...

    Geddy Lee.
    Chris Squire.
    Tina Weymouth.

    2024 Gigs and Events: David Suchet, Depeche Mode, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Smile, Pixies, Liam Gallagher John Squire/Jake Bugg, Kacey Musgraves (x2), Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Muireann Bradley, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Eric Clapton, Girls Aloud, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Rewind Festival, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Henry Winkler, P!nk, Pearl Jam/Richard Ashcroft, Taylor Swift/Paramore, Suede/Manic Street Preachers, Muireann Bradley, AC/DC, Deacon Blue/Altered Images, The The, blink-182, Coldplay, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Nick Lowe, David Gilmour, ABBA Voyage, St. Vincent, Public Service Broadcasting, Crash Test Dummies, Cassandra Jenkins.

    2025 Gigs and Events: Billie Eilish (x2)



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    smokedeels
    Registered Users Posts: 2,883 ✭✭✭smokedeels


    http://www.we7.com/#/song/fIREHOSE/Chemical-Wire


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    Rigsby
    Registered Users Posts: 4,452 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    Aldebaran wrote: »
    it's unbelievable how many classic tracks he played on.

    On this subject...another bassist who is among the most recorded, is Carol Kaye. That is her playing on the intro to the Beach Boy's "Good Vibrations". Apart from her work with this band, she has recorded lots of songs with Motown, worked with other famous bands/artists, played on maybe hundreds of film scores, including well known TV films and comedy series. Yet, she is relatively unknown.

    There's a lot more great bassists out there than the usual names rattled off.. Flea, Jaco, Wotton, etc. ;)


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    chughes
    Registered Users Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭chughes


    Has Phil Lynott been mentioned yet ?


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    #24
    Latchy
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    Of top of my head and already being mentioned, Paul McCartney and John Entwistle .Mark King of Level 42 is another ,love his slap bass and John Illsley of Dire Straits fame .
    Rigsby wrote: »
    On this subject...another bassist who is among the most recorded, is Carol Kaye. That is her playing on the intro to the Beach Boy's "Good Vibrations". Apart from her work with this band, she has recorded lots of songs with Motown, worked with other famous bands/artists, played on maybe hundreds of film scores, including well known TV films and comedy series. Yet, she is relatively unknown.
    Yes , she featured on a documentry a few years back about the making of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds and she was one of the great studio muscians who played bass on most of the songs including ,Sloop John B , God Only Knows , Wouldn't It Be Nice and Here Today .Also on the Pet Sounds box set which I have ,there's a tribute to her and all the great records and scores she played on .


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    Rigsby
    Registered Users Posts: 4,452 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    Latchy wrote: »
    Yes , she featured on a documentry a few years back about the making of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds and she was one of the great studio muscians who played bass on most of the songs including ,Sloop John B , God Only Knows , Wouldn't It Be Nice and Here Today .Also on the Pet Sounds box set which I have ,there's a tribute to her and all the great records and scores she played on .

    There is a film documentary on her life in music, due out soon. She is seventy six and still as busy as ever playing and mostly teaching. She has just bought a new bass.


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    Jordan 199
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    Pino Palladino, another great bassist. Replaced the late and great John Entwistle in The Who. Also worked for Gary Numan and was a member of the Royale Family.


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    Knifey Spoony
    Registered Users Posts: 1,557 ✭✭✭Knifey Spoony


    Something a little different:

    Al Cisneros - Sleep

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj9IAvv32wE


    Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytwY-atTfpM


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    arsenallegend
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgrOD4PZzuY


    Bootsy Collins was and is the man for the bass.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YXPJOUD7G0


    LARRY Graham, bought the funk to the Family stone.


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    PaulieBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 534 ✭✭✭PaulieBoy


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Edwards
    Who played with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chic_%28album%29
    Some fantastic bass lines.


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    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Rigsby wrote: »
    There is a film documentary on her life in music, due out soon. She is seventy six and still as busy as ever playing and mostly teaching. She has just bought a new bass.
    It must be great as a session muscian to leave your musical footprint on many records and albums by so many artists .Look foreward to the documentry .


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    Rigsby
    Registered Users Posts: 4,452 ✭✭✭Rigsby


    Latchy wrote: »
    It must be great as a session muscian to leave your musical footprint on many records and albums by so many artists .Look foreward to the documentry .

    Yeah, she is certainly a legend in the true sense of the word. Though there is some controversy as to who exactly played bass on some major Motown hits...Kaye or Jamerson. Kaye is adamant that it was she, and while Jamerson is obviously not around to defend himself, people who were actually at the recording claim it was Jamerson. Who to believe. :confused: We'll probably never know for sure at this stage.


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