I should also mention Giuseppe's basslines from my old band Lazar Wolf. Click the link below and listen to "Catalogue of Devils" (or "Willoughby") to see what I'm talking about.

Christ, he's good. I shit you not.

7 pages and no one has mentioned

T H E M E T E R S

come on people!!!!

honeyisfunny wrote:7 pages and no one has mentioned

T H E M E T E R S

come on people!!!!

No, someone did. "Cissy Strut" I believe.

Carol Kaye is completely amazing. She has played on so many classics by so many different people and her tone, note selection, and insticts are/ were fantastic. Her and James Jamerson, they had it all figured out. One day I hope to also.

GARGGGH, ARGH, UH NURGH

I can't believe I forgot

MANIC DEPRESSION by the Jimi Hendrix Experience! That is the shit.

Not to mention anything by Can, Bootsy (all of it), John Paul Jones, Dusty Hill, Jo Wiggs for the Breeders, ESG...

Duck Dunn is pretty amazing the bass and drums are just a machine with perfect sound.

Big John wrote:Duck Dunn is pretty amazing the bass and drums are just a machine with perfect sound.

don't forget Cropper but good call!

Off the top of my head:

Final Solution - Pere Ubu. Why was the bass never this good in any of their other songs? Or anyone elses songs for that matter. I have never heard rock bass swing like this anywhere else.

Nasty Dogs and Funky Kings - ZZ Top. Seeing them play this live on the Jools Holland TV show about a decade ago was one the defining moments in rock for me. What I would to get my hands on for a video of that performance. Thing is I taped it as well.

Most of the bass on the Rapeman record, but the distorted bits on Trouser Minnow stand out in particular.

69 Année Érotique - Serge Gainsbourg. I would have loved to hear a version of this by the Jesus Lizard.

Funhouse - Stooges

Public Image - PIL

Ride On - Parliament

Song from under the Floorboards - Magazine.

Nobody's Fault But Mine - Led Zeppelin.

felicito wrote:MONKEY TRICK - JESUS LIZARD GOAT

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actually, no. anything david sims played bass on. one evening and, well yeah, all of them. rapemen too. best bassist ever. you might disagree but you would be wrong. sorry.

the entire reason i ever played the bass.

fargokamikaze wrote:I don't know if too many people here have heard of this band Massacre that had Fred Frith and Bill Laswell in it, but Bill's bass work on "Legs" is fucking badass!

Yeah, Massacre were great. Too bad they were just one of the thousands of little projects Laswell played in; to me that was some of his best work.

Oh yeah, a cool bassline: "We'll make a lover of you" by Les Savy Fav is one of the newer awesome basslines on my mind right now.