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Do you have a favorite bass solo...?

Mine without doubt is this... Randy 'Hope' Taylor on Incognito's Tribes Vibes and Scribes..
A track called Magnetic Ocean...Just wonderful, amazing bass playing!!!!

This is why i love RHT..If you ever want to hear different dynamics in someones playing this is it..from lovely melodic lines to more aggressive digging in..

You need to hear it through headphones to get the best from this..

The solo is from 2.40 onwards...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upydbZNtR4s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upydbZNtR4s[/url]

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Great album and great playing from RHT. Love that bassline on Colibri.

Fave solo for me is Kim Stone on High-roller (Rippingtons live in L.A.) Old hat now that some will pooh-pooh but at the time, it was perfect for the number.

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+ 1 for that - Tribes is still one of my all time favourite albums and I have loved it since I first heard it in 1993! Timeless.

One of my favourite bass solos is in a track called Friends & Strangers by Dave Grusin. It is a fretless player (don't know who) but just a lovely solo. Would love to be able to play like that one day!!

[quote name='bubinga5' post='556659' date='Jul 30 2009, 10:46 PM']Do you have a favorite bass solo...?

Mine without doubt is this... Randy 'Hope' Taylor on Incognito's Tribes Vibes and Scribes..
A track called Magnetic Ocean...Just wonderful, amazing bass playing!!!!

This is why i love RHT..If you ever want to hear different dynamics in someones playing this is it..from lovely melodic lines to more aggressive digging in..

You need to hear it through headphones to get the best from this..

The solo is from 2.40 onwards...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upydbZNtR4s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upydbZNtR4s[/url][/quote]

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Oooooh I'll bite...

Flea - 12" version of Higher Ground - havent heard that version for nearly 20 yrs mind, but it was soooo good! (v grateful if anyone has a copy!!)

Michael Manhring - Adhan - totally blows my mind (along with Selene and Watson and Crick)

Les Claypool - Tommy The Cat - off Sailing The Seas, daft as a mudflap, love it!

there are plenty more but they are superb...

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Not really a solo as such but theres some beautifully melodic 'focus' playing a few minutes into 'We Stood Transfixed In Blank Devotion As Our Leader Spoke To Us, Looking Down On Our Mute Faces With A Great, Raging, And Unseeing Eye' (phew) by Red Sparowes, great use of bass chorus too.

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[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4Ra2KOyas"]Michael Manring - The Enormous Room[/url]
Gary Willis w/Tribal Tech - Canine
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE16l8wOl-k"]Level 42 - Dune Tune[/url]
Jeff Berlin w/Bill Bruford - Joe Frazier
Marcus Miller - Eric (towards the end, immediately after the key change, where he trades licks with Hiram Bullock)
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkZMlP7SRKk&feature=related"]Martin Motnik - Bach's Cello Suite #1 Prelude in G Major[/url] (there are various peoples' versions on youtube, including Patitucci's, but this is my favourite. I still hope to learn this some day!)

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[quote name='Gunsfreddy2003' post='556708' date='Jul 30 2009, 11:57 PM']One of my favourite bass solos is in a track called Friends & Strangers by Dave Grusin. It is a fretless player (don't know who) but just a lovely solo. Would love to be able to play like that one day!![/quote]

+1...a very lyrical solo indeed.
That player my friend was a very young Marcus Miller.
Marcus never seems to get much of a mention for his fretless playing [F.O.R]
But his fretless playing is up there for sure.


Garry

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I never knew that!

Now I know why it is so good! Killer slap player, killer fretless player - what a git!!

Mark

[quote name='lowdown' post='556810' date='Jul 31 2009, 09:07 AM']+1...a very lyrical solo indeed.
That player my friend was a very young Marcus Miller.
Marcus never seems to get much of a mention for his fretless playing [F.O.R]
But his fretless playing is up there for sure.


Garry[/quote]

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[quote name='beardybass' post='556753' date='Jul 31 2009, 05:27 AM']I've always loved Juan Nelson's solo from the live version of 'Steal my kisses' on Ben Hrper and the Innocent criminals [u]live from mars[/u] really cool![/quote]

Oh yeah! Juan is a monster!

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[quote name='bubinga5' post='556659' date='Jul 30 2009, 10:46 PM']Do you have a favorite bass solo...?

Mine without doubt is this... Randy 'Hope' Taylor on Incognito's Tribes Vibes and Scribes..
A track called Magnetic Ocean...Just wonderful, amazing bass playing!!!!

This is why i love RHT..If you ever want to hear different dynamics in someones playing this is it..from lovely melodic lines to more aggressive digging in..

You need to hear it through headphones to get the best from this..

The solo is from 2.40 onwards...

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upydbZNtR4s"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upydbZNtR4s[/url][/quote]

This kinda reminds me of the music from sims :)

+1 for metropolis part 1, and pull me under by dream theater aswell! Can NEARLY play that one!

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Les on Tommy the Cat is brilliant! Jaco on Havona. And Willie Weeks on Everything is Everything. Oh yeah.

Cliff Burton's solo on Orion is pretty great - most people mistake it for the very last guitar solo because he's using full-on metal distortion and wailing high up the neck.

I have to say though that a great bass solo is a rare thing, it's just not built for it!

Alex

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Julian Crampton's playing on Jacob's Ladder by Incognito. Not strictly a solo, more of a solo piece, but it has everything - the intro's fab, the main groove drives along and the outro finger-style riff is awesome.

+1 for Claypool on Tommy the Cat - still brings a smile to my face every time I hear it! Barking-mad bass from a complete genius!

The video for the single was great too - cool cartoon cats and a moustacioed Les playing the part of a weirdo barman with extending arms pouring milk cocktails whilst singing "Say baby do you wanna lay down with me..."!

Some nice b&w close-up footage of him slapping out on his famous Carl Thompson 6-string fretless rainbow bass too :)

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[quote name='51m0n' post='556732' date='Jul 31 2009, 01:07 AM']Oooooh I'll bite...

Flea - 12" version of Higher Ground - havent heard that version for nearly 20 yrs mind, but it was soooo good! (v grateful if anyone has a copy!!)[/quote]



This one?

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mWLQ8zJxhA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mWLQ8zJxhA[/url]

Solo at 4:10.

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[quote name='alexclaber' post='556929' date='Jul 31 2009, 10:48 AM']Les on Tommy the Cat is brilliant! Jaco on Havona. And Willie Weeks on Everything is Everything. Oh yeah.

Cliff Burton's solo on Orion is pretty great - most people mistake it for the very last guitar solo because he's using full-on metal distortion and wailing high up the neck.

I have to say though that a great bass solo is a rare thing, it's just not built for it!

Alex[/quote]

Got to agree with you about Cliff's solo on Orion. Truly a master at work.

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