Cosmo Valdemar

If you're after something Muff-flavoured the EHX Green Russian is fantastic - HUGE bottom end and not very expensive. As always with these threads though I would say, please post a song with the kind of distortion you're after, it makes it easier to make suggestions 😁

Material - Devin Townsend

Is that bass at the start of Cannonball a mistake, really?

I Love My Dog - Cat Stevens

It's not a Bass Balls, they gurgle. If you listen at :30 you can hear a uniform phase or flange effect - a Bass Balls would respond to each note.

It's Hard - The Who

Lily of the Valley - Queen

Candlelight - Wishbone Ash

Just checked - £569 😖

Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James - Manfred Mann

Chouxs - King's X

Sweet Pain - KISS

Dirty Women - Black Sabbath

Now I'm A Farmer - The Who

Better Than You - 'tallica

The Carpenter - Clouds

I'm Going To Spain - Steve Bent

Christmas In Me Car - Pat And The Patios

Ten Ton Hammer - Machine Head

I Believe In Everything - Entwistle

I think the Quadrophenia bass tone is absolutely beautiful. I'd love to hear an isolated track. There's an awful isolated Real Me on YouTube but it sounds like one of those dodgy ones where the individual tracks have been picked out by computer rather than the actual track, it's extremely poor quality and not what we hear on the album. Mind you, the mix on Quadrophenia is so biased toward the bass (at least on the vinyl) that there isn't that much mystery as to what he sounds like.

Pinch - Can

The Winkle - Arthur Askey

The World’s My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum - King Crimson

I think John's memory was tricking him, Who's Next sounds totally like a Thunderbird to me. He might have used Frankenstein for some of it, but I can't think where. Maybe on WGFA as the recording quality isn't as good as the rest of the album, he could be playing anything... although on the other New York sessions of the time it still sounds like a Thunderbird to me. Listen to this - a Thunderbird without a doubt (ignore the pic! 😆)