Fav Riffs To Play

[lowend1]

When it comes to the Peter Gunn theme I always liked the "Crime Medley" version by The Tubes on What Do You Want From Live".

My personal fave riffs (as opposed to complete songs or actual bass lines):
The Barney Miller theme
"Gutter Cat vs The Jets" - Alice Cooper
"Maybe I'm A Leo", "Into The Fire" & "Black Night"- Deep Purple
"The Man With The Golden Arm" - Sweet
"Superstition" - Stevie Wonder
"Wrathchild" - Iron Maiden
"Whipping Post" - Allmans
Although I haven't completely mastered it yet, I also love "Linus and Lucy" from the Peanuts cartoons.

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

Got my Surf City studio pretty well soundproofed now so tonight I cranked the ol' amp up good & played the Smokestack Lightning riff a lot along with some other Blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1FK620bS7A

Willie Dixon on URB!

I got a good GROWL outa my Hot Rod P playin' this riff.
I gotta humbly tell y'all...It was SMOKIN'!!!
Gonna work it up with my bud Steve & make it a TigerShark boogie!!
SOUNDGARDEN did it a little METAL style:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdI0iFAVoZM

I dig it!!!

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When it comes to the Peter Gunn theme I always liked the "Crime Medley" version by The Tubes on What Do You Want From Live".

My personal fave riffs (as opposed to complete songs or actual bass lines):
The Barney Miller theme
"Gutter Cat vs The Jets" - Alice Cooper
"Maybe I'm A Leo", "Into The Fire" & "Black Night"- Deep Purple
"The Man With The Golden Arm" - Sweet
"Superstition" - Stevie Wonder
"Wrathchild" - Iron Maiden
"Whipping Post" - Allmans
Although I haven't completely mastered it yet, I also love "Linus and Lucy" from the Peanuts cartoons.

Coool riffs! Saw Gary Hoey & his band in Dec. 2008 featuring Erik Kondz on Bass do their  SMOKIN' version of Linus & Lucy.

http://www.myspace.com/kondz

Erik ROCKS! LOVE his playing!!! Matt Scurfield is a great Single Bass Drummer too!!

Here's a glimpse of their take on Linus & Lucy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLPxy2hdeNY

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 Besides Whippin' Post, lots of the Allman Bros. other riffs are great!
Trouble No More, You Don't Love Me, One Way Out, Jessica, etc.

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I Love the 2 pronged attack of those Yamaha SG 3000's Mark. Beautiful guitars IMHO.

My fav guitarplayer--Dave Meniketti of Y&T-- has a gorgeous Yamaha SG 1000 in Sunburst & just got another Black 2000 sent to him by Yamaha free, must be nice!
They sure sound fokken KILLER when HE plays 'em!!
I didn't know they made 3000s too, Verry Coool!

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Calling Card~Rory Gallagher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uUN9PBA4vQ

Simple but effective!

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I'm lovin' the White Stripes!! I know, no bass...but I could be their bassplayer.
More Simple But Effective stuff:

7 Nation Army: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7huh5Egew
AUDIOSLAVE doin' it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmVPD1qak2c&feature=related
THERE'S some Bass for ya!

Cold, Cold Night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RB2BvvByUo

Prickly Thorn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHgtwMiRNG4

[Pilgrim]

I've always played it in E, too, but I play it E E   F# E   G E  A G#. 

Actually, I think you have it right.

My fingers remember better than my brain does.

As one of the Pythons said in a "twit" sketch, "My brain hurts!"

I really like the riffs from 'Green Onions" and "Time is Tight" , both by the Duck in his Booker T. days.  (I could KILL the idiot cameraman for carefully avoiding showing the Duck's left hand throughout most of the number...and there's a long lead-in...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5j8JPsS7Q8

And check this out - the Duck actually gets camera time in this clip from the 60's....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-7QSMyz5rg&feature=related

Here's a current "green Onions with a good luck at the Duck...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrUkQlt0UPw&feature=related

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Those riffs are the shizzle!!
That's what I'm talkin' about. 

Man~ that took me back to the 60s.
Now those guys are in their 60s! lol

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Here's a good one for the current econony:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkhX5W7JoWI

Billion Dollar Babies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ROhVyA-SjM

[felig]

For my gig my faves are:
Come Together
Hey Bulldog
Day Tripper
I Saw Her Standing There

Yes, to all of those.   When I'm checking a bass's intonation--or, my own intonation on a fretless--I like to do both of the basses on "Walk on the Wild Side"; "Silly Putty", or the guitar hook from "3rd Stone From the Sun"--i.e. the root on the 4 & the 3rd on the 1.

I also like to roll a G pentonic around the neck a la "Tighten Up" or the Beatles "Two of Us".  Start off low on the E string & then roll it up to the octave G on the A string.  Either of those make me smile every time.

Willie Dixon's original line on "Backdoor Man" and the guitar patterns to the Beatles "I Feel Fine" are also smile inducers.

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What & who is Silly Putty?

I know it's this bouncy stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxdfoJoWNE4

[chromium]

I was in a band that covered "Climbing the Ladder" - cool riff:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLN5FXKSdNk

...and most anything by The Meters is fun to play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HVFZtfTKJQ

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Good Mornin' Little Schoolgirl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr06qBvRvn4

At 2:48 Wavy Gravy says "Good Morning". That's pretty damn cool. lol

[gweimer]

I tend to vacillate between the TYA and Johnny Winter versions of "Good Morning Little School Girl".  Both are really cool in my book.  This song was one of my first lessons in opening up the flood gates on bass (TYA version).