Every Friday we give away a plump 25 EURO Golden Discs voucher to spend at any of the 13 Golden Discs stores nationwide.
All we ask from you is a tune we can play on Monday.
This week’s theme: Bass guitar
What underappreciated bassist slaps and thumps your ears while plucking your heart?
To enter, please complete this simple sentence:
‘The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be_______________________especially during_____________________________’
Lines stay open all weekend.
Any excuse.
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Carole Kaye part of The Wrecking Crew is one of the most significant contributors to popular music in the 20th century, the list of amazing songs and albums she played bass (and sometimes guitar) on is extraordinary but thinking in the more contemporary context I think the finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Justin Chancellor of Tool especially during Schism.
‘The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be John Taylor of Duran Duran especially during Rio’. Recorded when he was 21 years old.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr3HCNIgv40
Tasty. Never picked up that there was so much going on with the bass in that tune. Durty tape era punch in at 2:27.
Bakithi Kumalo – you can call me al
https://youtu.be/uq-gYOrU8bA
Jinx!
+1 only thing I thought of really
The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Bakithi Kumalo, especially during Paul Simon’s Graceland. You Can Call Me Al contains a palindromic bass line where the second half is the first half’s recording played backwards. And Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes simply has the most beautiful bass melody ever recorded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmf9ZJ_Yn0A
You can call me jinx :)
That’s glorious isn’t it. Just makes you glad to be alive.
Well Nevan- I’d agree – I’d go with the lad from the Boyoyo boys! Dyl
https://youtu.be/Yp1Z9bvy3p8
Do people still use guitars to make bass sounds?
No, they use bass guitars.
The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Gary “Mani” Mounfield especially during “I am the Resurrection”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbU7oVz0Uq0
I was going to say Waterfall but this too
‘The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Mick Karn especially during Japan’s “Still Life in Mobile Homes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf12rSZVb0k
But he’s deaded sadly.
I agree. I just couldn’t choose a song.
May he rest in peace.
Some of these are not contemporary (otherwise i’d pick James Jamerson on ‘What’s going on’
…this is:
The finest exponent of the Fender Precision bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be_____Michael League of Snarky Puppy especially during ‘Lingus’
https://youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc
Bit of a cliché. But Adam Claytons bass on where the streets have no name is absolutely epic. Him and Larry live playing that is what makes u2
this is not true
‘The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads especially during her whole career with Talking Heads…
“The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Victor Wooten of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones especially during Amazing Grace. Showing mastery of technique while transforming the song from sonic bliss to infectious grove and everywhere between.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp2vmxTy7OI
All so eighties up in here…
It has to be “Walk on the Wild Side” by Lou Reed. Produced by David Bowie.
Two legends, sadly gone.
and Mick Ronson…that makes three legends! Herbie Flowers is one of the great bassists.
True
I love Spandau Ballet but it’s not a great bassline to be fair…
Charlie McCoy’s bass guitar on the whole of the John Wesley Harding LP is brilliant.
Larry Graham on this
https://youtu.be/WqXbIXfmH3g
or Paul Jackson on this
https://youtu.be/8Y4yf_-eQjo
Alan Partridge’s air-bass playing on Music for Chameleons by Gary Numan is second to none!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VokAbAfTfCc
Not a band known for their funkiness but a fine groove here by Andy Rourke on the Smiths “Barbarism begins at home” (particularly the final minute).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDkDiC0BxGQ
and not a bob did he get
That’s a good one. I remember a joke from viz (I think) about the smiths being a potentially good band ruined by the singing of morrissey and the guitar playing of marr.
Jaco Pastorius: Weather Report – Birdland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8q6sR6yZCE
A great Irish band that are sadly no longer together gets my vote..MrNorth ‘Waking the dead’ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQDtehHaolQ
Underrated band, great musicians
Stuart zender. That is all
Kill slap bass with fire.
‘The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Geddy Lee of Rush especially during Digital Man from the Signals album”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIN6Yt6iV3U
‘The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Geddy Lee of Rush especially during Digital Man from the Signals album”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIN6Yt6iV3U
Actually this guy wasn’t too bad either..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vKPyTyYO0M
Guto from Super furry animals! Especially on Bing Bong.
The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Jaco Pastorius especially during his life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3tLLzSGd2o
Squarepusher: https://youtu.be/xTDe5i6JA6g?t=19s
The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music is Geddy Lee from RUSH especially in Spirit of the Radio. Slappa da Bass!
The filthy bass break in QOTSA’s ‘No One Knows’ does it for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE
Can I just say something, please?
– I’ve noticed that the theme of all these competitions veers very heavily in favour of the chronologically-challenged. It’s like an old-man’s club, from like starting at the end of the 20th century and going backwards, or something. Like hello???
…Whatever…
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What I mean is that there’s very little opportunity for the younger readers to enter.
I’m in my mid-50s myself, and even I find it hard to regress that far back every Friday.
– What do you expect the hip (modern) kids know about guitars, or ‘progressive’ Rock, or lyrics, or playing ‘instruments’, etc?
I suggest the following themes, just off the top me head. Fun for all ages.
1. My favourite song by a band playing outside their usual genre.
2. My favourite cover-version (that isn’t sung by Johnny Cash, or written by Leonard Cohen.)
3. I don’t know why I like ****, but I do. Is there something wrong with me? (Yes.)
4. The song that made me buy **** by **** was ****. I feel like a proper ****.
5. The song I want played at my funeral, and I want proper BASS… None of that ‘guitar’ nonsAnd the old classic….
5. If I won a €25 voucher for Golden Discs I would spend it on…*******
by The Fall.Think of the children, please.
Kill all Hippies.
In fairness, BAM, if I was writing questions we’d be arguing over sub-genres and other obscurities and what have you til the cows came home. Bodger has this in hand. :-)
John Entwistle. Any Who song.
‘The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be James Jamerson especially during the Motown era of Marvin Gaye. His playing is the stuff of legend, and not something that they teach in no fancy music schools. Listen to the way he carves out his own space by shifting ahead of the beat or behind it, or sitting on a note unexpectedly, while never sacrificing the groove or taking away from Marvin Gaye’s vocal (as if that was possible). An extremely influential musician who unfortunately never got the recognition he deserved and lived a poor, hard life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M
*teach in no fancy music schools.
Stephen Morris, amazing. Bernard Sumner, terrible lyricist, amazing guitarist. Ian Curtis, one of the greatest. Peter Hook; nuff said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dBt3mJtgJc
The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Flea, especially during Give It Away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr_uHJPUlO8
Ah lads, who won the folk one from the week before?
I demand answers!
Woozie, we’ll announce the winner today. Sorry for the delay.
Announced yesterday amid much folking around.
what the honest to jaysus fupp – no bernard edwards up in here?
shame on ye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1qQ1SKNlgY
Bertie liked the aul’ Bass. Total legend.
The finest exponent of the bass guitar in contemporary music would have to be Andy Rourke, especially during This Charming Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOPoH0KNA9E