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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #45 on: March 29, 2010, 03:25:18 PM »
Yeah!!! Lots more outstanding choices!!!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr06qBvRvn4&feature=related

Some of these riffs are guitar & bass together, like this song.
Ain't it great when they go different directions tho??

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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #46 on: March 29, 2010, 09:01:18 PM »
This thread is pretty rockin' ... but it needs more FUNK!



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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #47 on: March 30, 2010, 05:29:42 AM »
It may be done on a Kurzweil, but it's funky and one of my favorites...

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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #48 on: March 30, 2010, 02:44:59 PM »
I remember playing along with that Thomas Dolby track.  From "The Flat Earth" LP.
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #49 on: March 30, 2010, 03:52:16 PM »
I like:

- just about anything Geezer played with Sabbath

- Dennis Dunaway, especially on "Gutter Cat vs. the Jets", but plenty of others also

- Jamerson (Bernadette has always been my fave)

- Flea on "Higher Ground"

- "Superstition" (all versions are cool but BBA stands out for me)

- Larry Graham on "If You Want Me to Stay" & "Let Me Entertain You"

- Ronnie Wood w/JBG on "Around the Plynth" & "All Shook Up"

Probably a million others but I'm gonna quit for now.
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #50 on: March 30, 2010, 04:06:40 PM »
How could I have forgotten this...!



Dunaway with the FROG BASS...!

and Halo Of Flies...!!!

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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #51 on: March 30, 2010, 04:27:48 PM »


I love this one!
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #53 on: April 01, 2010, 06:26:39 PM »
Quote from: Hörnisse on April 01, 2010, 04:17:53 PM

Oh man I just love this Tom & Jerry short !
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #54 on: April 02, 2010, 12:17:14 PM »
It don't get much better than this:



David Brown on da Bass!
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #55 on: April 02, 2010, 12:57:23 PM »
I had forgotten how in-freakin'-credible that performance was.  One of the real highlights of a marvelous documentary.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that bass line!!!

And..... "We gotcha showmanship right'cheer!"
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #56 on: April 03, 2010, 05:27:39 AM »
Ah Santana ;D. Before their first album hit the stores I caught them ay the Eastown Ballroom in Detroit. Spooky Tooth opened  and lit the place up. Edgar Winter came on next and really lit the place up, then Johny Winter came on and joined in and REALLY lit the place up. Then the unknown Santana band came on and absolutely BLEW THE HOUSE DOWN. No one knew anything about Santana , in fact most of the people there , including myself, thought Santana was the keyboard player. It was impossible to pick out the star in that show, everyone was a standout. I believe the ticket price was something like $2.50 or $3.00 for one of the greates shows that ever happened.
 About a month later when the album hit the stores I found out Santana was the guitar player. I wore out two 8 track tapes of that first album ;D
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #57 on: April 11, 2010, 06:28:03 AM »
The Stranglers - Nice 'n Sleazy. Awesome tone & riff. P Bass, rotos & Hiwatts.

WARNING- The opposite of safe for work. Intended for mature audiences only.


Elbow - Grounds For Divorce. Jazz Bass


And of course-
Beastie Boys - Sabotage riff at about 1:40 - simple, yet effective. Jazz Bass again.


The Who My Generation. John's Riff  with a Vox Bass.
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Re: Best Bass Riffs of All Time
« Reply #58 on: April 11, 2010, 06:50:56 AM »
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