One of my top 5 (in no particular order as that would be unfair, like having a favorite son/daughter) fave bands right there. The Hooky head butt is key to the Hooky sound 
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So good. They have been more or less my favorite band since the '80s.
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First full song: Save A Prayer, Duran Duran
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Toto - Africa
It took me 2-3 weeks to learn. Sort of. 
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Then “come on come over” with sam&dave, jaco and herbie. Still trying lol.
You bass wonders like it fat ? Try Holly-wuud, Turn around and U-turn around (miles davis complete on the corner sessions), and maybe MD, third number of Miles in Montreal 1973 DVD: Bob Berg soprano chorus makes me cry each and every time (Darryl Jones and John Scoffield too ^_^)
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You guys might like George Duke’s Reach for it and Son of reach for it as well 
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Everything on this recommended list is so, so sick. Great shouts here.
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You mean something like duck my sick ?
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Hello everyone. Dancing to Stevie Wonder’s “I wish” bass line sounded like a good exercise to start practicing and get familiar with the neck although 40 years after the album was released (my response time was always very slow 
). Then, Jaco’s Come on come over. Funny how 40 years later Josh funk box lessons recommend to bang on the one 
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Fleetwood Mac, Go your own Way.
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Them Changes, by Buddy Miles.
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My first 3 songs I learnt properly were Teenage Kicks, Cocaine and Hey Joe. Played them all in my first ever live performance at a local jam night…the. Lockdown happened 
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Ironically my first song on bass was an original. The scariest part is the fact that I was a lead guitarist for our band and we were in the studio in 2003 when our bassist quit the night before we went into record. I used the bass from the producer learned our songs in the studio and then recording. It was a bit rushed lol
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Yes! +1 A great first song and I play it all the time, never bores me!
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Well, if it counts, it was the first song I “mastered” on Rocksmith (you play along with the track, but the “note indicators” (which are their equivalent of tab) go away) - Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones. 95-98% of it is on the 5th and 7th frets of the E and A strings. I haven’t yet learned a song all the way through via a more “traditional” method…
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Zombie by The Cranberries ,this live version is spine chillingly good
https://youtu.be/7nKZt8uz9ZM
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If we’re talking bass guitar; I’ll let you know when it happens. 
Probably the first song I could play cleanly on a six string acoustic was “Night Moves” by Bob Segar.
The last one I learned before I took a long break was ‘1979’ by Smashing Pumpkins. That one was a real workout for me because I was losing my motivation to play.
I always felt that with anything, if you’re not enjoying what you do, the work becomes arduous and insufferable. 
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Agree 100%
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Chameleon by Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters.
I’m a huge fan of funk and fusion, this tune is like the ultimate funkiness you can play and somehow I always felt it shouldn’t be that difficult to play, so I went for it. Now, after some 9 months of toying with my bass I can approximately play it with all the syncopation, mutings and riffs involved (this includes bass and keyboard parts, as the main synth bass riff is quite simple).
I love playing it every day before taking the next B2B lesson, and somehow aim at one day being able to do something like this… :
Here in a simpler b&d version, but funkier all the way! 
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I just stumbled upon this trio bass version, love it! 
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