Bassline

[Ex-Staffs Gull]

Longview - greenday
YYZ - Rush
Guns of Brixton - The Clash

 

[gravnast]

The bass on Ian Dury's " Hit me with your rhythm stick" is awesome. Norman Watts Roy is a very underrated Bass player.

 

[Maccabist]

Can I please bump this thread?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2mybZ3KT2E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_-QGNUYL5g

Who else plays bass here?

 

[Surf's Up]

The bass on "Go Deep" by Janet Jackson is a personal favourite as is pretty much any Andy Fraser bass line.

 

[Buzzer]

Not sure I could give a definitive personal favourite. There's a few that spring to mind Blue Oyster Cult's 'Don't Fear The Reaper', Kinks 'You Really Got Me', Creedence 'Round The Bend' but right now I'd go for Taste of Honey 'Boogie Oogie Oogie' made all the better by the fact that the 2 bass players in that were the women singers.

 

[Buzzer]

And Felix 'Don't You Want Me' is pretty compelling with a bassline to die for and this effort by Thugf**ker is superb. Just wait until it kicks in properly.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

White Lines has a great bass line. Blur's Girls and Boys as well. Neither are too complicated either.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

 

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[Gregory2Smith1]

 

[BN9 BHA]

Police and thieves, white man in the Hammersmith Palais, London calling and Guns of Brixton all by The CLASH.

Nice n sleezy, walk on by and Peaches by The STRANGLERS

 

[smillie's garden]

No Larry Graham yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ooI4j3xaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck4AlFfu5pM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKBnR_8LIM

 

[smillie's garden]

Or Mike Watt?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDr25zjd4yM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2BtgmawhCw

 

[Seagull kimchi]

Lemmy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p02-77XI1Gs

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

I would say the bass line on the Hendrix version of 'All along the watchtower'. Quite bouncy and bootiful.

Also love Holger's bass line on Can's 'Vitimin C' from the eponimous 'Ege Bamyasi' album. Worth a listen.

TNBA

TTF

 

[Mr Banana]

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[WATFORD zero]

Nice and simple, but effective



And an ongoing dispute about who played it. Could have been Leroy Taylor, Eddie Watkins, James Jamerson or Bob Babbit. Think it's been narrowed down to James Jamerson or Bob Babbit (and Bob claims not to know !)

 

[willyfantastic]

https://soundcloud.com/nickleon/coco-butter

love the bassline on this track

 

[Norman Potting]

Someone Somewhere (In Summertime) - Simple Minds

Just played it on R2 - excellent bassline by Derek Forbes (according to Wikipedia), sadly not the most rock'n'roll of names.