konaman
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 00:53
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a good proportion of the above
+ will need to refresh Holger's lines
- gotta be some Stanley Clarke in there....Life Suite No ???
the A to E riff I always play when trying out basses in shops....
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Maldoror
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 01:29
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A veritable cornucopia of amazing bass lines:
Minutemen - Double Nickels on The Dime
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdGjdYQh4k)
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Kid Calamity
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 08:23
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Herbie Flowers. I would love to spend an afternoon in that guy's company. He comes across as one of the nicest people in the world. I'd settle for a read of an autobiography, though.
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garerama
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Edited Feb 14, 2014, 08:45
Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 08:42
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garerama wrote: elegant chaos wrote:
Love Lies Limp - Alternative TV
Doh! Of course! Nice one. How could I forget that one?
And a band I formed a long time ago Bloco Vomit who played "samba punk" covered this. We did covers of mostly punk songs using samba percussion and me on guitar (no bass - the bass surdo drums did that). We have a woman singing Love Lies Limp and me playing the bass line on guitar to a samba reggae rhythm here
http://www.radio.uol.com.br/#/letras-e-musicas/bloco-vomit/love-lies-limp/2334151
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elegant chaos
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 09:54
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I may be in the band now but I was only 10 when the flexi was released so I can't claim full bias! I'm guitarist now but I started as a substitute bassist in '99 - when the original bassist went to Sunderland games I was in! Felt really proud at my first ATV gig when I played the opening bassline and a cheer went up! Steve Carter plays it live now! Those in Brighton will find out next Friday 21st (plug plug LOL)
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elegant chaos
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Edited Feb 14, 2014, 09:56
Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 09:56
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Alex Ferguson wrote it but the bassist playing on the flexi was Tyrone Thomas - I have a catch up with him on occasion. He is playing with two bands in Deptford these days - The Olympic Clampdown and Paradise 9.
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SeriousMF
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 10:09
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Nile Rodgers all day long hence his recent resurgence in pop-u-larity
Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode
Precious - Bruce Foxton (The Jam)
For me though Mick Karn - The Dalis Car stuff but The Art of Parties is a killer as is much of the whole Tin drum album.
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Moon Cat
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 11:59
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School Days is a good one for a list.
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garerama
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 12:00
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Nice one! Not far behind you ... I was 11 when I purchased the "Life" single with "LLL" on the b-side (c 1979/1980). I did go to see ATV once at the Edinburgh Capital of Punk festival (1996 I think). They got attitude (love "Alternatives") and diverseness - "Vibing Up The Senileman" is up there - wonderful weirdness! Punk, dub, avant-garde.
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PMM
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Re: top 5 best bass lines of all time
Feb 14, 2014, 12:26
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some honorable mentions?
Riders on the storm would not be the atmospheric brooding beast that it is without that rolling undertone complementing Morrison's echoey, whispry vocals.
In a similar vein, Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. The bass really carries and drives the song.
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