Jaw droppingly good albums for bass players to hear

[Nail Soup]

19 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

It seems there's been more than one band called Om and the one I know of also has some brilliant bass playing.

Good stuff - leaning towards psych to my ears.

[Owno]

Hatfield and The North - The Rotters Club. Richard Sinclair’s tone is absolutely extraordinary and he sings beautiful while playing as well. Such a great band from the Canterbury scene.

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, Nail Soup said:

Good stuff - leaning towards psych to my ears.

 

Heavy psyche. The bassist, Al Cisneros has done some really good stuff with a few bands 

[paulo m]

Rapture'  Anita Baker. 

Little Feat' The last record Album. 

Weather Report' any of em. 

Victor Bailey' Low Blow

The Nightfly'  Donald Fagen

Graceland'  Paul Simon                        Prince Diamonds & Pearl's 

Tower of Power Soul Vaccination... & of course any Jaco Pastorius.. 

Motown Chart busters Vol 3.

Chic'  any of it. 

Edited January 16, 2022 by paulo m

[RhysP]

On 31/12/2021 at 18:11, Clarky said:

I suspect many bassists of my generation learned from Lemmy's propulsive playing on Hawkwind's 'Space Ritual'

 

 

Yep, this & the Sabbath compilation "We Sold Our Souls For Rock"N"Roll" is where it all began for me.

[chuckL]

Stanley Clarke - School Days

Stanley Clarke - Stanley Clarke

Jean Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger

[Doctor J]

 

 

[Grassie]

Level 42 - True Colours

MK at his most creative

 

RHCP - BSSM

Flea’s Wal tone and joyous lines

 

Brad - Shame

Jeremy Toback’s sublime playing on this - one of Seattle’s lost gems

 

Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet

Dan Roberts high in the mix and so melodic

 

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple or Tiny Music - Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop

Robert DeLeo is an absolute beast on these two albums

 

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[Frank Blank]

Bête Noire - Bryan Ferry

[Mudpup]

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Edited May 4 by Mudpup

[Lfalex v1.1]

7 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

Bête Noire - Bryan Ferry

 

Lil' bit of Marcus Miller in there.  On "Kiss and Tell" at the very least. 

[bubinga5]

Any bass player from Ozric Tentacles. Or Marcus's bass playing on any of Luther's records. His bass playing on this is the reason he is regarded so highly imo. It's just a masterclass in for the record understated slap. 

 

[Doc rock]

Joe Jackson's Look Sharpe! Because I really like Graham Maby playing. Pure pop goodness.

[JoeEvans]

In my early teens I heard a cassette copy of 'Green Bullfrog' and the bass playing on that was probably the single thing that most drove me to start playing the bass. 'Walk a mile in my shoes' in particular is just a pure exuberant blast. I only much later found out that it was Chas Hodges of Chas'n'Dave, which was unexpected to say the least.

I haven't listened to it in years though, tastes move on...

Edited May 5 by JoeEvans

[theplumber]

21 hours ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

 

Lil' bit of Marcus Miller in there.  On "Kiss and Tell" at the very least. 

It was Guy Pratt who played Kiss and Tell as seen on his lockdown videos!

[prowla]

Fly By Night, by Rush

 

 

[prowla]

Fragile and Close To The Edge by Yes feature the best bass playing ever recorded.

 

 

 

[prowla]

How to play it simple.

 

 

[prowla]

You don't need to do the flash stuff to be brilliant.

 

 

 

A few weeks ago I went to a Hi-Fi show where one of the rooms was playing this and it sounded great; I looked around and Mike Lindup had wandered into the room and sat down behind me!

Edited May 6 by prowla

[ickleben]

Baduizm Live - Erykah Badu 

The Roots - Come Alive 

Both are live albums and the bass on both... very nice. 

[Musicman666]

yellow brick road by elton john has some excellent playing and tones on it by dee murray.

[HeadlessBassist]

I've always looked to John 'Rhino' Edwards from Quo for excellent examples of how to build a bass line and vary your fills, all while keeping the fills very musical, so I'd go for "Ain't Complaining" by Status Quo and also maybe his latest solo album, "Just Sayin' ".

 

I also find myself listening to simpler stuff these days - The Blues Alive album by Gary Moore has some great playing from Andy Pyle, who previously played for Blodwyn Pig, Alvin Lee, The Kinks, and Wishbone Ash.

[prowla]

1 hour ago, HeadlessBassist said:

I've always looked to John 'Rhino' Edwards from Quo for excellent examples of how to build a bass line and vary your fills, all while keeping the fills very musical, so I'd go for "Ain't Complaining" by Status Quo and also maybe his latest solo album, "Just Sayin' ".

 

I also find myself listening to simpler stuff these days - The Blues Alive album by Gary Moore has some great playing from Andy Pyle, who previously played for Blodwyn Pig, Alvin Lee, The Kinks, and Wishbone Ash.

Well, I just can't listen to Status Quo, so they're out.

I bought a bass amp off Martin Turner's son-in-law on Wednesday.

[chris_b]

Road Tested - Bonnie Raitt with Hutch Hutchinson

Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat with Kenny Gradney

Rock Of Ages - The Band with Rick Danko

Slow Down - Keb Mo with Reggie McBride

Live in Austin - Delbert McClinton

Stax Records - Duck Dunn

Aretha Franklin - Chuck Rainey

 

[christhammer666]

for me got to be 

 

far beyond driven - pantera

death - individual thought patterns