Barnet Seagull
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Greatest bass lines in popular music
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. The original I got this from had to have an explanation on it - I think it was too subtle for many Saffers!
Another shout for your avatar
Brighton Mackem
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Pink Floyd - One of these days.
The Truth
Banned
- Jul 10, 2003
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This was Babbitt's memory of it
"Hey Guys.....The Undisputed Truth version was yours truly....I had first been told that the Temptations version was Leroy Taylor but then Eddie Watkins name was also mentioned to me..
Recently Wah Wah Watkins and I had a discussion about the Papa Was a Rolling Stone session and he told me that Jamerson and myself were both on the session but when producer Norman Whitfield asked Jamerson to just keep reapting the Bass line that Jamerson got up and walked out of the session...Wah Wah said that Norman ahd me play the line...I tolf this to Wah Wah that I did not remember this but he insisted that is what happened?
As a result if several versions were recorded and the credits had three or four Bass players on the album but did not list who is playing on each cut then there would be confusion as to who played on what?"
It's incredible that even the musicians on the sessions don't know who it was.
Not Andy Naylor
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Not Andy Naylor
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Jamerson used to get up and walk out if he thought the Funk bros were being asked to do too many takes of the same track and say that "rig" (rigor mortis) was setting in...
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
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That is a cracking bass line. It really is incredible to think of all the players that man influenced and who they went on to influence.
Leighgull
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- Dec 27, 2012
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Saw them do a version of "ticket to ride" in Hammersmith. Absolutely immense.
Anyway...has anyone mentioned Chic?...
Since1982
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Oh yes! I recently purchased a (Greco) copy of a Gibson bass in order to sound like Mr Bruce. It hasn't worked!
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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There was a suggestion in the music press when Cream broke up that one of the reasons that Clapton and his ego were feeling threatened by the fact that the bass guitar in the band was taking away his lead guitar thunder. Probably bollocks but I found it interesting
- Jan 3, 2012
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Very much this. Nobody else comes close.
- Jan 3, 2012
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To back up Previous post, Crossroads by Cream. I believe it was after playing this that John Peel famously said "and now tell me there are only three of them"
To back up Previous post, Crossroads by Cream. I believe it was after playing this that John Peel famously said "and now tell me there are only three of them"
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Paul McCartney - The Frog Chorus or have I got something wrong!
Seriously though, O Jays - Money gets my vote.
Seriously though, O Jays - Money gets my vote.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Brighton Mod
Its All Too Beautiful
Bruce Foxton ' A Town Called Malice'
The driving but relatively simple bassline of the original becomes a synthesized monster in the remix below it. The original's video is suitably bonkers as a bonus.