Maybe a bit off-topic, but are there any modern examples of tic tac bass on records? It would be nice to experiment with an EB3 and a Danelectro baritone (or so) for recordings.
Billy Jean's (Michael Jackson) signature bass run is doubled on guitar, so is the bass run on Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer. "Doubled" in a sense not that the lead guitar with its regular sound plays the bass run in synch, but doubled in a less noticeable way to make the bass run more "there". Lots of productions have that.
And there are always these countrymen of yours:
For the avoidance of doubt: As usual a German invention lurks behind all this. What you call tic tac bass is nothing else but the "Knackbass" as played by Ladi Geisler, Bert Kaempfert's longstanding guitarist/bassist of Czech origin (though he served in the German army and learned to play guitar in a Danish POW camp I think) who played an EB-1 with a Fender split coil for the bass tracks and then doubled everything on (palm-damped) guitar. And he trained for the Me 262 too!
http://www.spaceagepop.com/geisler.htmOriginally he doubled a doublebass with his guitar, then his EB-1 (he was the first guy in Germany to own one) and on late sixties recordings of Bert Kaempfert he used live a Jazz Bass for the "
Knackbass" and another bassplayer playing alongside him for the "Knack
bass". See here at 1.11:
And please,
meine lieben amerikanischen Freunde, pronounce it "Knucbuzz", not "Nacbass" like in knight, knickers or (Mark) Knopfler.
Uwe