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Can any of you play the bass passage to Tubular Bells? gotta be about 7-8 minutes long and surely dammed hard to play/keep going. Very evocative passage of the bass guitar (don't play the bass myself).
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
If we're talking legendary bass players (I'm hoping the thread goes that way tbh.... sorry Ted) I have to throw John Entistle into the mix! If Carlsberg made bass players.... etc. Even the really early stuff the Who did was amzingly tight and musical. Listen to the section about 55 seconds into My Generation. Entwistle would have been 20 when this track was recorded.
Also the fella was 100% percent rock'n'roll.... Here's a cut and paste from Wiki regarding how he passed away. "Entwistle died in Room 658 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, on 27 June 2002, one day before the scheduled first show of the Who's 2002 United States tour. He had gone to bed that night with a local stripper, who awoke the next morning to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Clark County medical examiner determined that his death was due to a heart attack induced by a cocaine overdose. Entwistle was 57 years old". If he could have planned his death I think it would have been this way!
I always thought McCartneys Bass playing on the 'White album', was to me, the ten commandments of the bass guitar and reached it's apex in the track below.
The man was/is a genius who gave us the gift of pure being through his music.
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"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
If we're talking legendary bass players (I'm hoping the thread goes that way tbh.... sorry Ted) I have to throw John Entistle into the mix! If Carlsberg made bass players.... etc. Even the really early stuff the Who did was amzingly tight and musical. Listen to the section about 55 seconds into My Generation. Entwistle would have been 20 when this track was recorded.
Also the fella was 100% percent rock'n'roll.... Here's a cut and paste from Wiki regarding how he passed away. "Entwistle died in Room 658 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, on 27 June 2002, one day before the scheduled first show of the Who's 2002 United States tour. He had gone to bed that night with a local stripper, who awoke the next morning to find Entwistle cold and unresponsive. The Clark County medical examiner determined that his death was due to a heart attack induced by a cocaine overdose. Entwistle was 57 years old". If he could have planned his death I think it would have been this way!
The stripper later spent a whole afternoon with the Coroner and when asked why so long she replied she was "Talking about my penetration"
Les Claypool - human beings should not be able to make those sounds on a Bass. My absolute hero. Full-on man-crush and I don't care who knows it. In the example below, he is playing a custom Chapman fretless six-string.
.... closely followed by Bootsy Collins and Geddy Lee.
Obviously people like Victor Wootten, Larry Graham (inventor of slap), Pino Paladino, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Levin, Chris Squire etc are right up there too but it's those three that really light me up.
In answer to the OP - yep, I can do that. That riff is lovely. First picked up a bass in 1988. Haven't put one down yet (even though I also drum and play guitar). Currently using a Schecter Omen 5-string with a Fender Jazz as back up. Still have my first ever new bass, a 1990 Hohner Jack. Actually gigged it last week!
'What do we want? We don't know! When do we want it? Now!'
John Wilson (who?). 17 years old when he played the bass on this. Didn't even consider bass his main thing. A left-hander who played the instrument upside-down (he was upright - the guitar was upside down). The guys from Heaven 17 say they've played with session musicians from all over the world and they all ask, "who TF played bass on Fascist Groove Thing?" Unbelievable he was a random friend of a friend non-muso shy kid who just happened to play the geetar like he was ringing-a-bell. No one's quite sure what happened to him.
I always thought McCartneys Bass playing on the 'White album', was to me, the ten commandments of the bass guitar and reached it's apex in the track below.
The man was/is a genius who gave us the gift of pure being through his music.
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If you love McCartney bass playing, check out Hey Bulldog remix on Vevo, which is relatively obscure. (Listen on headphones.)
I play lead — poorly — so I can’t answer the question really. Assorted ramblings on bassists:
Joey De Maio, once officially the fastest, doesn’t necessarily make him the best, of course
Sabbath’s Geezer has to be up there. Where do I start with him?
My favourite: Les Claypool. A case in point. I see I am not the only fan
Peter Hook is excellent too.
Tool’s Justin Chancellor is an amazing bassist.
Rush’s Geddy Lee: You get awesome bass playing, singing, oh, and we’ll throw in some keyboards while we’re at it.
I wouldn’t say Chris Squire (RIP) was the best but heck, the bass playing in this song is immense, not flashy, but just so catchy and utterly memorable. Saw it live donkey’s years ago, my first gig…
What a great bassline, you tell yourself, then stone me, you get to 4:08 and what the hell is that, that bassline is even better!
On the subject of playing stuff, my brother has grade 8 piano and he bought the music to this. He claimed it was virtually unplayable. Mind you, trying to play the lead line and the sequencer piece at the same time is challenging to say the least! Jarre’s best track?
RFA
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