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.
Lets hear it from the S-B audiophiles. When you are looking to loosen some fillings, what album do you reach for first?
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. ~Ernest Hemingway
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.
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.
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.
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
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
"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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 ..
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...
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.
what album do you reach for first?
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