Posted on 02/28/2022 10:43:43 AM PST by mylife
Let’s face it: often, a good song is only as good as its bassline. In fact, there are times when the bass guitar player – so often the under-appreciated middle man or woman of music – steals the spotlight through their mountain-moving low-end activities.
In an age where it’s easy to debate and obsess over the greatest guitar solos of all time, the bassline can often fly under the radar. Yet there is an entire legion of bass hooks that deserve their rightful place in the annals of music history.
The breadth of style in the following list is a testament to both the instrument’s versatility and the creativity of those who wield it. Usually assumed to be a backline instrument, the bassline can be so much more than just a low-end linchpin: the track-carrying grooves of Town Called Malice immediately spring to mind, as does the famously filthy line in Ace of Spades.
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Jim Pons of The Leaves on “Hey Joe”. The original, and even better than the far more famous Hendrix version.
Pons went on to bigger things, playing bass for the Turtles and then designing the logo the New York Jets used in the late 70s and into the 80s.
Stanley Clarke, "Lopsy Lu", on his first album.
Doug Wimbish, "Open Letter to a Landlord" on Living Color's first album.
Jaco Pastorius, "Teen Town" on Weather Report's album Heavy Weather.
Paul McCartney, "Old Brown Shoe" on The Beatle's album "Hey Jude".
Geddy Lee, "YYZ" on Rush's album "Moving Pictures ".
Chris Squire, "Starship Trooper" on Yes's album "Keys to Ascension".
I really missed Terry Chambers when he left.
D'Arcy of Smashing Pumpkins in her day, was a total babe, but she totally wrecked herself.
That ‘Whipping Post’ is not on this list negates the entire thing. To me.
“Berry starts her off...”
Ya. Just Duane saying that for the recognition of it. List is not only incomplete but rather void. Top ten if not five
I’d add Mark Boston’s work on Troutmaskreplica
Yeah, me too, but he was there through my favorite albums of theirs. Drums and Wires, Black Sea and English Settlement were always my favorites.
Reformed as eXTC and on tour now. Damn, nothing close enough to me.
I enjoy Th’ Dudes an Auckland based band of the late 70s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks3R1gYEUAY
Bkmk
Bakithi Kumalo, bassist on Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al”.
Stevie Wonder, who played danged near everything INCLUDING the bass, on ‘”Superstition”.
Bridge of Sighs and For Earth Below were two of my most-listened-to albums back in high school. Dewar's basslines could definitely be described as funky .. and driving.
-PJ
Another more eclectic song is Anne of Cleves, by Rick Wakeman.
A guilty pleasure of mine is Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In (The Flesh Failures), by The Fifth Dimension.
-PJ
Better stock up on those tubes for your tube amps. Sovteck tubes will be hard to come by soon.
Yikes, I didn't think about that...
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