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Offline Aramatheis

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Your Favourite Bass Line?
« on: April 11, 2011, 06:16:26 PM »
Fairly straightforward question. What's your favourite?

For me, it's gotta be the bass line from "Roundabout" by Yes. My god is it ever awesome  :metal
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2011, 06:23:27 PM »
Roundabout, most Rush songs.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2011, 06:24:08 PM »
Not really a riff, but the little bass lick in PF's The Thin Ice right before the ooohs.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2011, 06:24:32 PM »
Oh God there are so many.  Here are some favorites off the top of my head.

Iron Maiden-Revelations chorus
Iron Maiden-Powerslave solos
Iron Maiden-The Number of the Beast intro
Porcupine Tree-Hatesong
Porcupine Tree-.3
Porcupine Tree-Slave Called Shiver
Porcupine Tree-Halo
Radiohead-Separator
Radiohead-Bloom
Radiohead-Nude
Peter Gabriel-Red Rain
Peter Gabriel-Secret World
Muse-Hysteria
Cream-Badge
The Beatles-Something
Yes-Roundabout
dredg-Same 'Ol Road
Thrice-Doublespeak
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Higher Ground (classic)
Coheed & Cambria-Time Consumer intro
Coheed & Cambria-Here We Are Juggernaut
Coheed & Cambria-The Willing Well I: Fuel for the Feeding End outro
Coheed & Cambria-Apollo I: The Writing Writer
Dream Theater-Take the Time
And pretty much every Rush song ever
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2011, 06:25:35 PM »
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't it be Nice
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2011, 06:32:17 PM »
Quote from: skydivingninja on April 11, 2011, 06:24:32 PM
Here are some favorites off the top of my head.

Only some? :lol
Good list though!
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2011, 06:37:39 PM »
Aside from the "Roundabout" and every Rush songs mentions, which I second, third or whatever :P, I'll take:

Peter Gabriel - "Big Time" (Tony Levin)
The Who - "The Real Me" (John Entwistle)
Led Zeppelin - "Immigrant Song" (John Paul Jones)
U2 - "Until the End of the World (Adam Clayton)
Radiohead - "The National Anthem" (Thom Yorke with a rare bass appearance)
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2011, 06:49:35 PM »
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (in the middle, before the guitar solo)
Porcupine Tree - Hatesong
Muse - Hysteria
Radiohead - Paranoid Android (around the middle)
Karnivool - Simple Boy
Dream Theater - Medicate me
Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
Opeth - Baying of the Hounds (during the middle part. It's only the root note and the octave, really simple but effective).

and two subsequent songs from Metallica's 'The Black Album': 'The God that Failed' and 'My Friend of Misery'. Jason's absence from AJFA was kind of redeemed here.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2011, 06:52:04 PM »
Hmm hard to tell but one I like really much these days is the bass line during the funky section on Orange Vigilantes by Unexpect.  :metal
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2011, 07:05:00 PM »
The New Caledonia - Electro Legs
Porcupine Tree - Hatesong, Dark Matter
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2011, 07:07:43 PM »
Quote from: PixelDream on April 11, 2011, 06:49:35 PM
and two subsequent songs from Metallica's 'The Black Album': 'The God that Failed' and 'My Friend of Misery'. Jason's absence from AJFA was kind of redeemed here.

Jason actually laid down some above decent bass tracks for that album. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvx1M4-A6lE here's the title track's original isolated bass recording as an example.
dat tone


I still have 5 tracks of that album remixed with the original bass guitar, all DIY by me. Was really fun making those at the time.
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Countless number of jazz songs/recordings. Many metal band stuff, have to mention I Am The Law by Anthrax for the moment.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2011, 07:15:31 PM »
Porcupine Tree - Hatesong

Easily.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2011, 09:07:56 PM »
K.A. I - Magma
Evermore - Transatlantic
Elohim's Voyage - Weidorje
Caution Congregates and Forms A Storm - Birds and Buildings

Really hard between those four. K.A. I is actually many basslines, but each one is amazing as shit. Evermore is just cool sounding. Elohim's Voyage is pretty much the same basic structure for 14 minutes of the 16 and a half minute song, but holy shit does it go by fast. And it's so awesome, and the bass has this fuzzy awesome sound and it's awesome. CCaFaS I'm referring to the middle section, although it's more of a bass solo it's still kickass.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2011, 12:40:50 AM »
Avenged Sevenfold - End of 'Blinded in Chains'

Dream Theater - Several bass lines in 'Trial of Tears'

Porcupine Tree - The high bass lick in the 'Anesthetize' instrumental

Steven Wilson - No Twilight Within the Courts of the Sun

Pink Floyd - Pigs
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #14 on: April 12, 2011, 03:44:46 AM »
Cake - "Never There"
Stolen Babies - "Awful Fall"
DragonForce - "Body Breakdown" (After Bass Solo)
Anything by Mudvayne
Iced Earth - "Damien"
Miles Davis - "So What"
No Doubt - "Hella Good"
Ozzy Osbourne - "No More Tears"
Queen - "Another One Bites the Dust"
Queen - "Under Pressure"
Seventh Wonder - "Unbreakable"
Anything by Tool
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2011, 04:33:46 AM »
Porcupine Tree - Tinto Brass
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2011, 04:48:36 AM »
Rush--Marathon
Yes--Roundabout
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - The Sinister Minister

The last I have to show you if you've never seen it.

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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2011, 06:12:07 AM »
Pretty much any Dan Briggs Between The Buried & Me bass bits. Most notably on TGM though.

End of Blinded in Chains, intro to The Wicked End and Streets by A7X.

Can I count New Millennium? So much Myung work comes to mind...

Anything off LD 50.

Blackwater Park (the song) has some awesome bits as well.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2011, 10:24:53 AM »
Quote from: KevShmev on April 11, 2011, 06:37:39 PM

Radiohead - "The National Anthem" (Thom Yorke with a rare bass appearance)

 :hefdaddy  Great pick here!
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2011, 10:26:15 AM »
Transatlantic - On the prowl

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Quote from: ThroughHerEyesDude6 on April 12, 2011, 03:44:46 AM
Anything by Tool

This too.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2011, 11:07:48 AM »
My favorite basslines could fill several pages, but here are a few I'm currently into:

Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Billy Joel - My Life
Led Zeppelin - Ramble On (SO fun to groove to)
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2011, 11:10:37 AM »
Tool - Disposition, Intension
Opeth - Nectar
Any Mudvayne song(the best metal bassist)
Slipknot - Gently
Bob Marley - Coming In From The Cold
Stephen Marley - Hey Baby
IQ - You Never Will
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2011, 11:11:16 AM »
Roundabout is godly  :hefdaddy

Also, Anathema - Hindsight  :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2011, 12:08:46 PM »
Right now it's Rush - Open Secrets.

The bass on HYF is great sounding in general, but this song  :hefdaddy
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2011, 12:13:50 PM »
Stevie Wonder - I Wish
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
DT - Learning to Live final bassline
DT - Octavarium II. Medicate
DT - Trial of Tears, ever single bass note
John Coltrane - Acknowledgement
Yes - Roundabout
Yes - Long Distance Runaround
A bunch of other Yes songs
Pretty much all Rush songs.
Red Hot Chili Peppers-Higher Ground (classic)... Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground (not so much focus on bass, but a better song overall)
Lee Ritenour - Rio Funk
Al di Meola - Flight over Rio
Brian Culberson - The Groove (SUCH AN EPIC SONG!!! One of the best funk-jazz songs ever)

And my ALLTIME FAVORITE BASSLINE:
Jaco Pastorius - Chicken[/b]

I'm forgetting a LOT of basslines here, but w/e.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2011, 12:25:44 PM »
Here's a few I can think of right this second:

SRV - Crossfire
Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Deja Voodoo
Michal Jackson - Billy Jean
Primus - Laquer Head
Primus - Tommy the Cat
Metallica - The God that Failed

Lot more primus ones for sure.  But this is all I got for now.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #26 on: April 12, 2011, 12:35:46 PM »
Have to agree with Kevshmev on The Who-The Real Me, doesn't get better than that.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #27 on: April 12, 2011, 12:44:43 PM »
 :facepalm: Can't believe I forgot about that one.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #28 on: April 12, 2011, 12:50:48 PM »
Entwistle has too many awesome bass lines to list them all, but "The Real One" is the first one that came to mind.  It reminds me of "Roundabout," in that it is so overpowering, it is almost like the bass line is strangling you.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2011, 01:00:43 PM »
Quote from: jsem on April 12, 2011, 12:13:50 PM
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
I was hoping someone would have said it before I got here.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #30 on: April 12, 2011, 01:34:38 PM »
Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on April 12, 2011, 01:00:43 PM
Quote from: jsem on April 12, 2011, 12:13:50 PM
Herbie Hancock - Chameleon
I was hoping someone would have said it before I got here.
One of the epicest basslines in world history. Such a groovy tune.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #31 on: April 12, 2011, 01:40:19 PM »
Quote from: PixelDream on April 11, 2011, 06:49:35 PM
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain (in the middle, before the guitar solo)

Did you ever notice how you can tell that they had old f*cked up strings on his bass?  Sounds like they'd been on there for years.  He hits that last E note in the riff and it dies away almost instantly.  :lol

I like the bass line in Zep's "Ramble On".  Also, I dig pretty much anything Billy Sheehan does.  Yes, he may wildly overplay by some peoples' standarads, but I love his playing.  Old Talas stuff like King of the World or Hit and Run were great, and Mr. Big stuff, like Merciless or Rock and Roll Over.  I just love the stuff he does.
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #32 on: April 12, 2011, 02:16:14 PM »
Quote from: PlaysLikeMyung on April 12, 2011, 11:07:48 AM
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Billy Joel - My Life
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #33 on: April 12, 2011, 02:27:23 PM »
Quote from: jsem on April 12, 2011, 12:13:50 PM

And my ALLTIME FAVORITE BASSLINE:[/b]
Jaco Pastorius - Chicken

Talk about a fun line to play :heart

Soul Intro/The Chicken is one of the greatest pieces of music ever
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Re: Your Favourite Bass Line?
« Reply #34 on: April 12, 2011, 02:37:34 PM »
PLM.  Check out this guy from Tower Of Power.  He'll blow you away with his picking fingers.


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