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Back Beach
06-18-2008, 09:37 AM
Not the fish silly, the instrument.

This morning as I was heading towards my favorite east coast UDL, I popped in Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp" followed by JJ's "I'm The Man". Both feature butt kicking bass. In additon, Rage's "Battle of Los Angeles" gets a lot of play in my vehicle. Its got mega bass. :lama:
Lets hear it from the S-B audiophiles. When you are looking to loosen some fillings,:nopain: what album do you reach for first?

Circlehook
06-18-2008, 09:42 AM
Old School RUSH

Clammer
06-18-2008, 10:15 AM
OLD >DEEP BLACK >>>>B L U E S ><><><

The Dad Fisherman
06-18-2008, 10:50 AM
The Who - Quadrophenia

The Real Me just kicks on the Bass

Look Sharp is a Kick A$$ Album

BigFish
06-18-2008, 11:16 AM
Anything by Cream! Anything! Jack Bruce is one of the most melodic bass players ever!:kewl:

RIJIMMY
06-18-2008, 11:46 AM
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic

Rappin Mikey
06-18-2008, 12:25 PM
Any project Les Claypool is working on. I love that slap and pop chit.
Flea is pretty cool too.

zacs
06-18-2008, 01:14 PM
for technical bass playing, anything claypool or wooten.

for a little cavity rattlin' there are some great tracks on beasty boys license to ill.

zacs
06-18-2008, 01:15 PM
and of course phil can drop BOMBS

Slingah
06-18-2008, 01:16 PM
Old School RUSH

The Who - Quadrophenia

The Real Me just kicks on the Bass



thats what I'd have to say..."The Real Me"...is a bass nugget
"Give it away"..R*H*C*P....I love BLOODSUGARSEXMAGIC

Slingah
06-18-2008, 02:02 PM
not an album....but ya gotta love Victor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9a4ThBNacY

RIJIMMY
06-18-2008, 02:04 PM
for technical bass playing, anything claypool or wooten.

for a little cavity rattlin' there are some great tracks on beasty boys license to ill.

good call on the BBs- although not "real" bass playing, Paul's Boutique is a speaker blower. I need to break that out. My kids will dig it.

fishbones
06-18-2008, 02:15 PM
Not an album, but the "Cliff Em All" video tribute to Cliff Burton is pretty cool and has some real nice bass playing. Another one who died way too young.

As mentioned before, anything by Les Claypool is good.

Nebe
06-18-2008, 03:02 PM
for technical bass playing, anything claypool or wooten.

for a little cavity rattlin' there are some great tracks on beasty boys license to ill.

couldnt have said it better myself.

jim sylvester
06-18-2008, 03:30 PM
allmans

The Iceman 6
06-18-2008, 03:39 PM
Old School RUSH

Ya beat me to it. Good ol' Geddy Lee.

afterhours
06-18-2008, 04:19 PM
and of course phil can drop BOMBS

:btu:

spence
06-18-2008, 04:19 PM
Better than the old Rush albums is the same music recorded from the last few tours. Geddy's bass sound is as evil as can be and the recordings are excellent. Check out R30 to see what I mean.

Old standards like 2112 and Working Man sound a lot better live.

-spence

basswipe
06-18-2008, 04:40 PM
Anything Maiden,not many out there better than Steve Harris.Cliff Burton(before his untimely death) from Metallica absolutely shreds the bass on "bass solo,take 1" off the Kill'em All album.

Back Beach
06-18-2008, 06:10 PM
and of course phil can drop BOMBS

No doubt. I have a bunch of the mid to late 70's wall of sound stuff and it really thumps.

Anything with Flea also kicks.

freebie
06-18-2008, 06:37 PM
gotta agree with the phil phans, he can knock you down live with some of his riffs, gonna try to go see him this weekend, Bootsie Collins can rip it up too

ProfessorM
06-18-2008, 07:12 PM
Joe Jackson's, Graham Maby is fantastic on bass. Check out this live album http://www.jj-archive.net/albums/sc.html

I absolutely love Quadrophenia, one of my top album's of all time. Highly underrated. Bass is awesome

For me anything Jaco Pastorius did was pretty darn impressive.

Jaco Pastorius Big Band album called The Word Is Out! is one of the best albums I have heard in the last few years. Unfortunetly he is dead and couldn't play on it but the who's who of bass players, Richard Bona, Jimmy Haslip, Victor Wooten, Will Lee, etc. payed homage to him and preformed the music Jaco composed and it is stellar stuff.
So many styles, so many albums, so little time :grins:

Tagger
06-19-2008, 02:58 PM
song is "Cold Cuts" Albert Collins band ,,killer bass solo...

did you ever really listen to James Brown's "Sex Machine " ? Bootsie Collins bass part is stop ,,go,, funky all over the place.. ears always focus on the bass on that one .. try following it ..

Brian L
06-19-2008, 03:53 PM
Fishbone- Truth and Soul

Led Zeppelin II- Lemon Song and WIAWSNB are ridiculous. Best rythym section in rock history.

Any Bob Marley disc, or any roots reggae for that matter will loosen the fillings.

Any GD Soundboard from May 1977 is a sure winner. Gimme the Scarlet intro from 5-8-77 Cornell all day!

Brian L
06-19-2008, 03:57 PM
too many to list... and my favorite,from waay back till now keeps changing... right now, that 21, or 22 year old girl, that Jeff Beck has playing bass for him, Tal Wilkenfeld... well... keep an eye on this youngster.... she plays a mean bass... I loved watching the look on Beck's face on the clapton crossroad special... his reputation for not being the nicest guy to play with, and such... you can tell he respects her abilities...

Big Block...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV7OAWs2Q30&feature=related


Tal's an absolute monster on the thunderbroom. Little %$%$%$%$'s 5 foot nuthin, a hundred and nuthin' and she brings it like nobody's business.

afterhours
06-19-2008, 05:01 PM
just love phil on "eyes" -wake of the flood album.....he goes ape at the very end.