Favourite bass tones??

[funkyfraz]

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?

[Lixarto]

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.

[Not_the_DJ]

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)

[ICBM]

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

[jpfamps]

P-bass.

Flatwounds.

Ampeg B-15.

[alwoodcock]

Geddy Lee - A Farewell to Kings + Hemispheres albums

Jean Jacques Burnel - Peaches, Nice and Sleazy

[reverend]

Martin Turner - Wishbone Ash - The King Will Come - Argus. Best recorded bass tone ever.

It's the perfect album.

Another huge fan of the early Grand Funk bass sound.

Geezer
Stever Harris in the early years
The Ox

[BucketheadRules]

A bump from me here, but I can't believe I didn't add Billy Gould from Faith No More to this:



Awesome.

[Ramirez]

Billy Talbot - Crazy Horse (Neil Young) - Hey Hey, My My - Rust Never Sleeps. Possibly the most distorted bass ever put on record.

Isn't that Young himself with an octaver though? I think the bass just follows that awesome riff without being particularly distorted.

[ICBM]

Isn't that Young himself with an octaver though? I think the bass just follows that awesome riff without being particularly distorted.

No, I think the bass is playing the riff - Young plays the jagged chords over the top, and an octaved lead part later on where you can hear it quite separately from the (quite clean) rhythm guitar and the bass, which retains that incredible mangled sound. Billy Talbot used a Fender Twin turned into a head, for bass - that would certainly do the trick .