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Best Bass Line? the Nominees are:


Jay J.

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Fun topic -- all the suggestions make you want to strap it up and lay down a lick. Two off-the-top adds:

 

So What (Miles Davis)

Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed) --vabass

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Money-Pink Floyd

Breath/Breath Reprise/Breath In The Air-Pink Floyd

Young Lust-Pink Floyd

Another Brick In the Wall Part 2-Pink Floyd

Comfortably Numb-Pink Floyd

Hey You-Pink Floyd

Schism-Tool

Tick and Leeches-Tool

I Just Want You-Ozzy Osbourne

No More Tears-Ozzy Osbourne

Heart Breaker-Led Zeppelin

Dazed and Confused-Led Zeppelin

N.I.B.-Black Sabbath

Sabbra Cadabra-Black Sabbath

Detroit Rock City-KISS

 

My all time favorite bass line:

Ramble On---Led Zeppelin!!!

"If only I had HIS chops!"
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Most of mine have been mentioned repeatedly already:

 

"Money" by Pink Floyd

"Foreplay" by Boston

"Message in a Bottle" by the Police (Although Sting's slow version is really my favorite.)

"Brick House" by the Commodores

"Chameleon" by just about everybody

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Pshyco - System of a down ...

Running to the hills - Iron Maiden...

 

there is so many ...... Sting/flea/Cliff burton all wrote some very good bass lines..

but there is many :)

There is only two kinds of music , good music and bad music ....oooh and drugs is bad mmmmkay :)
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My faves are all over the 80's musical map...

 

Faye Hunter from Let's Active - "Every Word Means No"

 

Steve Harris from Iron Maiden - "Run To The Hills" (This is the song that made me a bass player!)

 

Terry Lewis from The Time- "777-9311" Extra Funky

 

Bernard Edwards (Chic) Good Times

 

there's so many more I can't think of now. I'll post more later. :D

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"Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"- Duck Dunn

 

"So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star"--Chris Hillman

 

"Lost Woman"--Paul Samwell-Smith

 

"Somebody To Love"--Jack Casady

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The first song on the Oysterhead CD, I think it's called "little faces".

Bass players name is not neccessary everyone knows who I'm talking about. :cool:

"I'd like to have an argument"

"Ah yes indeed, is that the full half hour or just five minutes?"

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