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 Posted: August 02 2010 at 20:08 |
I would have to go with Chris Squires - Fish
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off target here but also lots of John Giblin's bass on Kate Bush and Simple Minds
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 19:51 |
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^ Now that you mentioned Percy Jones, I think the reason why Euthanasia Waltz is one of my favourite tracks ever is his bass line!
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 19:49 |
Percy Jones--throughout Dance of the Illegal Aliens.
John Lodge--the riff in I'm Just A Singer in a Rock and Roll Band.
Chris Squire--the line in Perpetual Change before each verse.
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moshkito
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 19:29 |
Hi,
I still think that David Darling in EOS with Terje Rypdal is one of the prettiest things I have ever heard and (skip the first cut! - you have been warned!) ... and it is basically "chamber music" with an electric guitar and bass ... and there is nothing more lovely and beautifully done than that.
You can count the notes in Jaco, you can count the effects in Bootsie, you can count the scales in Stanley ... but you will never be able to describe the dreamy quality of this album and it's beautiful design.
Sadly, here, we're too stuck up on ideas and thoughts and styles, to the point where listening to something so different and neat ... is simply not going to happen.
For your information, to give you an idea of how strong and powerful the music is, it was coupled with Jan Garbarek's Album Eventyr and got the film maker an Oscar for best foreign film of the year ... and the way the music was used in there was not only scary ... it was dreamy, it was hopeful ... and you could not ask for a better image, and use of music in a film! Journey of Hope is the film's name!
And David Darling also played a couple of things with Kater/Nakai, and the two albums he is in are both excellent, the ones that he is not are ... average to say the nicest thing about it! David's solo albums are different and quite experimental with sounds and details.
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moshkito
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 19:18 |
 SaltyJon wrote:
No one has mentioned Jaco Pastorius yet. Many of the bass lines on his S/T are amazing (and tough to play, to boot). Stanley Clarke's "School Days" has an amazing bassline as well. Same goes for the multitude of other bassists I prefer to those two anymore. Oh, and the bassline in Can's Halleluhwah - not complicated, but gooooooooooooood. |
Jaco and Stanley certainly deserve some credit along the way ... too bad that we never even listended to Bootsie ... and he taught Stanley all he knows!
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AtlantisAgony
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 15:33 |
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This is hard. My choice of musicians were between (the obvious) Chris Squire and Mike Rutherford, in fact. While Squire has some amazing lines, in the end I feel Rutherford has something extra. He interacts with the band on a more complex level, and is a lot more varied in style, I think. It seems to me he's a bit overlooked as a bassist sometimes. "Get 'em out by Friday", "Can-utility and the Coastliners" (fantastic!), and the rest of the songs on Foxtrot, are amazing. SEBTP is also full of great lines, even if he sticks a bit more to the rest of the guys here. My favorite bass line, however, is the title track from The Lamb. It's just brilliant!
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Anthony
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 14:56 |
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The battle section of "Gates of Delirium".
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Gerinski
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 14:54 |
So much stuff from Geddy Lee...
John Entwistle in The Real Me, although it's one of the least prog songs of Quadrophenia his bass is stunning.
Obviously Squire, Pastorius, Tony Levin...
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 14:42 |
I choose Chris Squire's work in the song In The Presence Of, from the album Magnification (2001).
Interesting : your question about bass lines fits with the fact that yesterday I watched a live from Yes (Live at Montreux, 2003) in which Chris Squire releases an heavy bass solo...
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 09:56 |
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I know there are many others that I simply love, but Geddy's bass line during the ending guitar solo of The Camera Eye always hits a sweet spot with me.
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The Wrinkler
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 03:04 |
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Posted: August 02 2010 at 02:32 |
Imadofus wrote:
The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
The one that starts in the end of part IV and gets played throughout part V
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I have been listening to that non stop all weekend, I love it. Earphones pick up much clearer.
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Posted: August 01 2010 at 22:08 |
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The Mars Volta - Cassandra Gemini
The one that starts in the end of part IV and gets played throughout part V
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Posted: August 01 2010 at 20:35 |
Well I had to think about this one a lot but it would have to be Levin 'Sleepless'. That's just insane. What's amazing is when Crim toured briefly with Gavin Harrison I could swear they played it faster.
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Posted: August 01 2010 at 13:12 |
My Top 5 In No Particular Order
Greg Lake - Tarkus (ELP)
Richard Sinclair - Shaving Is Boring (Hatfield and The North)
Geddy Lee - Cygnus X-1 Book 1 (Rush)
Chris Squire - Siberian Khatru (Yes)
Greg Lake - Take A Pebble (ELP)
I seem a little biased towards Greg Lake there but thats because i, well am
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Posted: August 01 2010 at 11:14 |
moshkito wrote:
richardh wrote:
Sorry but I don't see why a great bassline has to be progressive. |
It doesn't.
The point was that too much of the stuff mentioned was way too conventional playing to be ... that good.
I might as well add John Paul Jones, since Led Zep 1 and 2 is one the best examples EVER of what a guitar and bass can do ... that almost no one is big enough to do ... and everyone is still copying them! |
Well, the question was " Favorite, not "most technically proficient". It is likely that people are going to list their "favourite". I'm gonna mention Richard Sinclair on "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road" from Wyatt's Rock Bottom.
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Posted: July 30 2010 at 09:02 |
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There's a bassline around the 2:30 minute mark of Schooldays by Gentle Giant that blows my mind!
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Posted: July 29 2010 at 12:14 |
Yes' Roudabout, or anything by Blotted Science.
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Posted: July 29 2010 at 11:49 |
BaldJean wrote:
I am surprised no-one mentioned the bass line from Gong's "Master Builder" so far; a snake like 6-tone intor, followed by a descending second which is being played 9-times
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Definitely!
One I've been enjoying lately is Roy Babbington's bass line on (the track) Bundles - especially the live versions!
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BaldJean
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Posted: July 29 2010 at 11:44 |
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I am surprised no-one mentioned the bass line from Gong's "Master Builder" so far; a snake like 6-tone intro followed by a descending second which is being played 9-times
Edited by BaldJean - July 29 2010 at 12:30
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