Favourite bass tones??
A thread in the listening lounge got me thinking.... whats your favourite bass tones out there? who plays them, and what tracks best shows them off? I'l start with a few favourites.
Flea - Aeroplane
nick fyffe - canned heat
les claypool - tommy the cat.
Those three tunes I love the tone for completely different reasons. What about you lot?
Neil Murray on those early Whitesnake records. Try "Love To Keep You Warm" for one.
Edit - it's only partly the tone; it's also the note choice: so musical and fitting the song.
Last edited by Lixarto; 13th September 2012 at 08:15 PM.
Originally Posted by jalapeno
John Paul Jones (Led Zep) - Ramble On
Danny Thompson (with John Martyn) - Bless the Weather and Solid Air
Andy Fraser (Free) - Fire and Water (the album)
Martin Turner - Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come - Argus. Best recorded bass tone ever.
Roger Glover - Deep Purple - Black Night - Made In Japan
Billy Talbot - Crazy Horse (Neil Young) - Hey Hey, My My - Rust Never Sleeps. Possibly the most distorted bass ever put on record.
Paul McCartney - The Beatles - She's So Heavy - Abbey Road
Tetsu Yamauchi - Free - Wishing Well - Heartbreaker
(Andy Fraser is one of my favourite ever bass players for his playing, but not his tone as much... Tetsu was nowhere near the bass player that he was, but his *tone* on Heartbreaker, and Wishing Well especially, is fantastic.)
Fretless:
John Giblin - Kate Bush - Breathing - Never For Ever
Last edited by ICBM; 13th September 2012 at 10:39 PM.
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P-bass.
Flatwounds.
Ampeg B-15.
Geddy Lee - A Farewell to Kings + Hemispheres albums
Jean Jacques Burnel - Peaches, Nice and Sleazy
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I'm finding it hard to think of my favourite bass tones- Maybe Pat Badger on the first 3 Extreme albums. Anything on the Graceland album is superb- perfect and rhythmically out there but fitting the songs wonderfully, with a super tone.
It's far easier saying what I don't like- for all of his great playing I don't like Geddy Lee's tone, I don't like the bass tone on My Generation- despite the rock solid playing. And I can't stand Lemmy's tone.
Barry Adamson in Magazine (eg The Light Pours Out Of Me).
Paul McCartney (The Beatles!) Rain/ Paperback Writer onwards.
JJ Burnel
Jack Casady
Jon Camp out of Renaissance
Justin Chancellor on Tool's 10,000 Days. Such a beastly tone.
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