Barking Spiders

Yeah I take your point. Some threads start off being deliberately subjective but they end up drifting into 'there are only two types of music, good and bad' blah blah. This one is about songs one might really dislike (and be entitled to do so) except for what you think is a cracker of a bassline. I'm not sure some people always read OPs properly but just pick up on a sentence and run with it. So please peeps, let's not let it turn into a 'songs I hate' thread.

We've probably done this before but whatevah. Early this morning I was practising the bassline to Money Go Round by The Style Council. While Weller's vocals on this are pretty woeful and the female backing vocals are bluddy atrocious, they're worth enduring for the bass. So, what bassline would you like to figure out but your dislike of the song get's in the way or you've somehow managed to overcome it. Next up for me, Club Tropicana. Terrible, trite song but the bassline is top notch.

I also play guitar, being most partial to the Telecaster chickin' pickin style. Johnny Hiland is indeed a fine player. If you like his stuff I also recommend Albert Lee, Brent Mason, Brad Paisley, Vince Gil, Danny Gatton and The Hellecasters

Here's one band I'd have loved to have seen live in their heyday and this is why

yesss. in ya face slap haters😁😉. Actually I was more innerested in his playing than to check whether his flies were up or down!

I find Scott an affable bloke and easy to watch. I like his chatty approach and find he's good at explaining techniques etc. But not being a pro I'm not bothered about a bass education as such. At 50 I know what I like and like what I know. I primarily like playing slap and fingerstyle funk bass with a lump or two of reggae and disco thrown in. So I won't be shelling out any moolah on Player's Path. It's probably a good idea for younger newbies and intermediates wanting to go pro but for old lags I'd say hold onto your dosh. After checking out many online bass teachers, for my money Mark Smith's Talking Bass is the best for me, esp for his slap lessons. Don't get me wrong, there are some very good guys from the US and other countries but I connect more easily with Mark's Leeds accent and his explanations are crisp and easy to follow.

Actually I've forgotten several DP albums other than Machine Head, which is still 👌. I remember buying WDYTWA blind thinking it might nearly be as good. I've just had another listen and it still sucks and probably explains why DP never hit the heights again in the US and while they're not revered as led Zep. Still it's better than Stormbringer

Well worth getting their Master Plan compilation which has early Kool and the Gang all over it, not surprising when the band featured the younger brother of Ronald and Kool and Ronald, with the latter doing the arrangements and production

I was never a fan of the more prog lite elements but Crime has some great moments like the more commercial/poppy Dreamer and Bloody Well Right. Great arrangement and production throughout

I used aspire to having either a US Stingray or a US Jazz, both in natural finishes. Having also had a go on both a Ray 34 and a 90s MIJ Jazz as well as the top end models I no longer see any point in shelling out top end wonga when these mid -priced versions are just as good to play

Well, the reviews I read all give the 👍 big time. I assume it's great for slapping considering Marcus Miller was involved in its design. Now I've got to work out how to quietly take delivery and then sneak it into the house during lockdown

I think I know of you mean. You might see some of them at Musikmesse vids on YT. I'm a mahoosive fan of Miller. Remember seeing him play a Cheltenham Jazz Festival a fair few years ago. A great gig which I remember well. Not only was he playing some triffic bass but he also had a huge saxophone or was it a bass clarinet? And he has an impressive pedigree in his role as a sideman.

Just browsing the Andertons site, carefully keeping Tinder open in another window so when she comes over the mrs wont see what I'm really up to. And that is I've a few grand in my savings account and for the last few days I've had a severe attack of GAS and am rather liking the look of this. Just wondrin' if anyone here owns a Sire?

Go on, go on, go on, go on..name and shame the guilty parties 😁

I was more interested in what he is saying about not allowing Canada to be a temp member of the security council. The Canadian government is complicit as the Trump one when it come to desecrating wilderness in the name of making money

And slapping is so much fun..

some good stuff here from Scott explaining why Hair by Larry Graham is his fave slap bassline and that it's got nowt to do with the rata-tat-tat style

I've been a bit slap heavy in recent years and am now focusing more on fingerstyle funk. Over the last few weeks I've been refining several Jamiroquai lines including Too Young to Die, Virtual Insanity, Travelling Without Moving, Runaway and You Give Me Something. Since then I've moved onto Mark Smith's lesson viz Vulfpeck's Dean Town.

I suspect you could be right. No doubting Nigel Clutterbuck has technical skill by the shedload. Sometimes I see buskers doing this sort of thing and usually people just walk by, including myself.

except it's actually the bassline for a song by Incognito, called er.. Jacob's Ladder

I know this clip has been posted here before but's worth putting it up again as IMO it's a classic example of tasteful and purposeful slapping at its best, as well as being one of the best bits of bass playing I've ever come across.

Damn right. I'm a big fan of MK's guitar style so much so I've nicked many of his chops over the years. However, those two singles are fvkin atrocious. Up until Little Creatures I had been a mahoosive fan of Talking Heads. It wall went south from there esp with Road and She Was. Hard to believe it was the same band who made a run of three cracking albums from Songs About to Remain in Light

As i was trawling YT looking form some tasty slapping I came come across this chappie, one Federico Malaman. Don't tremble anti-slap heads, this clip is a groovy jazz type thing with nary a slap or pop to be heard!😁

Dunno the cardiacs but I'm with your wife (so to speak) viz Kate Bush. Mrs Spiders mkII was a mega fan. This would have me running out of the house, into the hills, across the seas and far into the deep blue yonder

I don't think the worst excesses of slapping are to be found on albums but among the ranks of full-time You Tube merchants. Seem to be loads of plankspankers of both the 4 and 6 string variety that spend most of their playing time thrapping their strings in front of a laptop in their bedrooms etc rather than making.. erm.. proper music. I see nowt excessive in Mark King's lines in Level 42. They all drive the songs and all have melodic edges that stick in the memory.