Share Your Favorite Bass Lines!

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I don’t know I’ll ever play it, but if I ever get a Rick you’ll know why. The last movement, The Wurm, always gets me. In concert, on CD, it gets me. There’s no traditional 3 chord pattern, no blues or distortion; the rules are completely broken. All the while the bass plays a counter.

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exactly!

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Darkness and Walking on the Moon. Peanuts is an aspiration, someday!

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Great cover @Wombat-metal ,played with Chris Squire’s Ricky :+1:
I have every Yes Album, great band, :sunglasses:
Cheers Brian

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So, I had never heard this song before. But I was out and about browsing the net for stuff about my new bass - a Carvin X44 Xccelerator - and found this guy playing a cover of Steely Dan’s Chain Lighting. I’d never heard the song before (always appreciated Steely Dan, but from afar), but man, I dig it. The bassline is GREAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFSFkj3Wb5o

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Steely Dan has a lot of memorable bass lines. Check out the Aja album.

This song is off Katy Lied, and I don’t know who played it, but Chuck Rainey was on the album and he’s a fantastic session bass player

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Speaking of Chuck

https://youtu.be/u_pt3khMRFs

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Through my great powers of necromancy, I summon this thread back from the grave!

I have a new, favorite bassline to play. It’s not very complex or requires a lot of skill. It’s just a… damned rocking and fun to play bassline. It’s driving, and I like the changes. May I present:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etAIpkdhU9Q
Hell’s Bells by AC/DC.

So fun to play.

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