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Bass. How hard can it be ?
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Edited Aug 12, 2008, 21:35
Re: Bass solos that don't suck
Aug 12, 2008, 21:33
I'm not generally a big fan of bass solos but John Cale's at the end of "Waiting For the Man " springs to mind because you can tell he's straining at the leash and wants to start improvising but the track fades out before we hear the full result ... classy exercise in self-restraint by thre band and/or the producer! There are some good ones littered throughout Miles' Davis discography too.

And speaking of records that would fall apart if there was no bass . could you imagine what would be left of "There's a Riot Going On"? Not that it has any solos as such, just that the bass is the solar plexus that all the other instruments seem to orbit around. Which leads me to ... Lee Perry's "Arkology" box or either of the Trojan Dub Boxes. For tectatonic-plate shifting subsonic physicality you can't beat late 60s /early 70s dubplates cranked up through a pumping outdoor sound system. To my ears that's the genre where the bass stands out as the predominant instrument more than any other.
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