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Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 1:36 pm**

wow, great responces:

Fish and Heart of the Sunrise (Squire), anything by Primus!, and EVERYTHING by Levin ('Sleepless' is another highlight)...

Yah, Geddy Lee has done some memorable bass stuff, as has the greatly underrated Paul McCartney ...
Oh, and 'National Anthem'.. !!!! my favourite by Radiohead...

And let's not forget Bootsy Collins during his stint in the strange, but musically feirce Praxis!...

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:02 pm**

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
For The Love Of Money - Ojays
What Is Hip = Tower Of Power
Coyote (heck, all of Hejira is awesome) - Joni Mitchell
Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
Watching The Detectives - Elvis Costello
Valley Girl - Frank Zappa
She's In Parties - Bauhaus
Got The Time - Joe Jackson
One Of These Days - Pink Floyd
My Generation - the Who
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
My City Was Gone - Pretenders
Meantime - Spacehog
YYZ - Rush
Taxman - Beatles

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 3:30 pm**

dANdeLION wrote:Coyote (heck, all of Hejira is awesome) - Joni Mitchell

thass cuz its all jaco

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:52 pm**

Another One Bites The Dust - Queen
For The Love Of Money - Ojays

Good ones!

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:09 pm**

Well, I am a bass player.....

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 5:39 pm**

New York Minute - Don Henley
Hotel California - Eagles

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:03 pm**

dANdeLION wrote:Well, I am a bass player.....

Large mouth?

Striped?

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:17 pm**

Yeah I know it's so 80's but what about....

Something About You....Level 42

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 9:49 pm**

dANdeLION wrote:Taxman - Beatles

I remember the first time that song burst through the speakers. It was the first CD I listened to. Revolver was my introduction to the compact disc way back in '87, on a Yamaha CD player. Should've kept it as a souvenir...

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:46 pm**

anything Mike Watt ver did. with the Minutemen, Firehose.

Dos is him and his wife (at the time) Kira on two basses, no other instruments.

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:18 pm**

Another unlikely one.....Rio by Duran Duran. John Taylor's playing his ass off on that one.

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 3:20 pm**

On a Metallica kick

First, and foremost, Anasthesia (Pulling Teeth). And to give Newstead some credit... eh, how about God That Failed.

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:17 pm**

Crazy Horses : the Osmond Brothers.

read an interview with the bass player who did that. she called it her favorite bass line she had ever played. (sorry, can't remember her name)

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 6:56 pm**

sgtnull wrote:Crazy Horses : the Osmond Brothers.

read an interview with the bass player who did that. she called it her favorite bass line she had ever played. (sorry, can't remember her name)

Wow. And hear I always thought Merril Osmond played the bass on that cut...

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 7:54 pm**

the Osmonds played live, but had studio help. my wife was/is a fan and saw them live. (twice i think) they were very underated as a band. they could all play multiple instruments and wrote quite a bit of their own stuff. it is too bad there hasn't been an honest critical review of them. and they get overshadowed by the Donny & Marie thing.

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:03 pm**

Lucimay wrote:
Matrixman wrote:
sgtnull wrote: John Lennon/Beatles : Helter Skelter
I had forgotten what a nice bass kick this song had. I just put it on and wallowed in it.
oh yeah!
it's also the song the nana party dances to...heh

I think another song off the White Album might be even more suitable for the nana party dance: Birthday. Its bass part is nothing to sneeze at either.

Birthday...
I would like you to dance!
Birthday...
Take a ch-ch-ch-chance!

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:18 pm**

Matrixman wrote:
Lucimay wrote:
Matrixman wrote: I had forgotten what a nice bass kick this song had. I just put it on and wallowed in it.
oh yeah!
it's also the song the nana party dances to...heh

I think another song off the White Album might be even more suitable for the nana party dance: Birthday. Its bass part is nothing to sneeze at either.

Birthday...
I would like you to dance!
Birthday...
Take a ch-ch-ch-chance!

agreed. either Helter Skelter or Birthday!! you're a genius!

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:10 am**

hard to believe that the guy who worte Martha My Dear or Maxwell's Silver Hammer also wrote Helter Skelter. take a bow Paul McCartney.

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:53 pm**

sgtnull wrote:the Osmonds played live, but had studio help. my wife was/is a fan and saw them live. (twice i think) they were very underated as a band. they could all play multiple instruments and wrote quite a bit of their own stuff. it is too bad there hasn't been an honest critical review of them. and they get overshadowed by the Donny & Marie thing.

I said it before and I'll say it again, Julie and I must be doppelgangers. I've been a diehard fan of the Osmond Brothers (original line-up with Donny, not the Osmonds line-up with Jimmy or Marie) since I was 12 years old (1972). Crazy Horses is a fantastic album, but I prefer The Plan.

And I'm doubly imporessed thta Julie has gotten you to listen to some of their stuff. Paul won't even give it a try. :::sigh:::

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:33 pm**

sgtnull wrote:Crazy Horses : the Osmond Brothers.

read an interview with the bass player who did that. she called it her favorite bass line she had ever played. (sorry, can't remember her name)

If it was a studio bassist, it was probably Carol Kaye. She did a lot of the Beach Boys bass lines, too.

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