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    Sleepless cause that bass line makes the chicks groovin


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    Quote Originally Posted by walt View Post
    Weather Report - Cucumber Slumber

    Great Song!

    Although, If the thread title was "The most famous/recognisable bass line in Jazz?" that would probably be "Chameleon" by Herbie Hancock or "Birdland" by Weather Report or "All Blues" by Miles Davis. of course, ymmv

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    Chameleon, how could I forget!

    Though that's synth bass. Mr. Jackson is playing some bendy, bluesy stuff up around the 12th fret, actually, while that chromatic synth line is usually what "bass players" play.

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    Quote Originally Posted by klothos View Post
    "The most famous/recognisable bass line in Jazz?" that would probably be "Chameleon" by Herbie Hancock or "Birdland" by Weather Report or "All Blues" by Miles Davis. of course, ymmv
    Quote Originally Posted by wideopenears View Post
    Chameleon, how could I forget!

    Though that's synth bass.
    The thread title says "bassline" - it shouldn't matter what instrument played it, right?

    <---- awaits for somebody to post Leon Russell basslines done with Tuba

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    Quote Originally Posted by klothos View Post
    Great Song!

    Although, If the thread title was "The most famous/recognisable bass line in Jazz?" ymmv
    Must mention Mingus-Haitian Fight Song,Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting...........
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    "So What."

    [/Ends Jazz Basslines.]

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    I knew a guy who could play a very convincing Barney Miller on the tuba. And Chameloen, too.
    Love that Leon Russell stuff, too....but I don't think I'd recognize any of those tunes by "bass line" alone, regardless of what instrument supplied the low end.

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    Hit me with your rhythm stick

    straight root 8ths

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    Quote Originally Posted by wideopenears View Post
    "So What."

    [/Ends Jazz Basslines.]
    I'd go with Birdland... honestly if you pulled 100 random people off the street and started humming jazz basslines if any of them (who weren't into jazz) recognized anything I'd expect that to be it. That or Chameleon.

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    Sleepless cause that bass line makes the chicks groovin
    Two words: stock footage.

    I seriously doubt those ladies had ever even heard of King Crimson, much less ever actually grooved to them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gladiator1634 View Post
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    Are you talking about the bass line of the song itself, or the solo? Because the actual bass line is a bunch of pedal tones.


    Since everyone seems to be just naming random songs that they happen to like, as opposed to picking stuff that people outside of our little clubhouse here would recognize:

    Jean Luc Ponty: In Spite Of All (featuring future American Idol judge Randy Jackson on bass)


    Kiss: Torpedo Girl (that's Ace playing the bass)


    And for synth bass, it's hard to beat this dance floor classic:

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    And for synth bass, it's hard to beat this dance floor classic:
    Donna Summer - I Feel Love
    If we are moving into "R&B-oriented styles for most recognizeable synth bassline", this would be my pick:


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    Some 8 string bass lines:




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    And another synth bass line:


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    Quote Originally Posted by klothos View Post
    If we are moving into "R&B-oriented styles for most recognizeable synth bassline", this would be my pick:
    Well, I reckoned if we were gonna bring TV theme music and fusion stuff like Weather Report into it, than R&B related stuff was fair game. Good pick, btw, but if we're gonna bring P-Funk into it, we gotta talk about Bootsy:

    Last edited by GuitarGeek; 07-18-2013 at 02:35 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GuitarGeek View Post
    Well, I reckoned if we were gonna bring TV theme music and fusion stuff like Weather Report into it, than R&B related stuff was fair game. Good pick, btw, but if we're gonna bring P-Funk into it, we gotta talk about Bootsy
    I don't know if you knew this or not, but Bootsy played drums on "Flashlight" while Bernie Worrell did the synth bass parts. I remember reading the credits, laughing, and thinking "WTF?"

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    OK now, if we're going into funk the correct answer is Skintight by the Ohio Players. Or actually, maybe Brick House. The rest tend to be funky guitar riffs...

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    The most famous/recognizable bass line in Rock?

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    "Eruption" from Tarkus

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