Your favourite bass tones?

Bucket

Let's have a thread for all the most mouth-wateringly awesome bass tones you've ever heard.

I'll start with my all-time favourite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDKsosOvVmw

These are pretty cool too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCp8vE1ZT0g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfWPxJsO3AY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o43qnkKCNms

4 minutes in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8

25 seconds in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W5V2fSUMxc

Yours?

ChristophEar

Something a little different. What inspired me to pick up bass:

Maddy Prior – What You Had For Supper

(unfortunately not on the YouTubes)

ICBM

Still this.

Where the bass really kicks in at 1'14".

This for making me find out what a bass guitar was in the first place.

And this for showing that bass could be the melody instrument, not just rhythm.

chrispy108

About 25 secs in

Deadman

Fretwired

iwishiwaspino

Ha ha that's my door bell chime....seriously!!!

Awesome sound, its all in the preamp, big ass bridge and Marcus of course!!

spacecadet

Anything by Justin Meldal-Johnsen.

iwishiwaspino

For me it has to be Pastorius - this album especially when he was at the top of his game. The bass playing and tone on this album for Michel Colombier is extrordinary! I must listen to this atleast once a week. Helped by Steve Gadd, Herbie Check it out!!

OilCityPickups

I always loved Bruce Foxton's tone in the Jam. Down in a Tube Station, Eaton Rifles etc ... classic 'driving' bass playing.

PolarityMan

Are the multi clip posts all screwed up on anyone else's browser? I can only see the top fifth or so of every you tube video except the first one in a post.

monquixote

PolarityMan said:

Are the multi clip posts all screwed up on anyone else's browser? I can only see the top fifth or so of every you tube video except the first one in a post.

They pop out when you hover.

PolarityMan

Actually i take it back, if you mouse over they enlarge..that's pretty cool.

mike_l

Steve Harris - Iron Maiden 

Eddie Jackson - Queensryche

Honourable mentions to

Jason Newsted and Cliff Burton (RIP) both formerly Metallica

David Ellefson Megadeth

Ian Hill - Judas Priest

 

goldtop

Hooky. Not a conventional tone, but utterly compelling:

Drew_TNBD

Bellycaster

A bit of mixed genre here, but I do think the same tones sometimes appear in different genres but played differently giving them slightly different nuances. A hell of a lot of difference from the fingers or thumbs involved.

Here we go anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love Rob Trujillos Fills at 1:38 and 1:51 in that S.T one.

 

Good that Bruce Foxton has been mentioned too, he is one of my Faves. I always thought Steve Harris had a Foxton-esque tone on Iron Maiden's first album too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

geepers0677

Billy Sheehan in Winery Dogs: 

How do you insert s youtube link?

ChristophEar

@geepers0677: Just paste the web address, it gets automagically transformed.

geepers0677

okies thanks - will have a go!

geepers0677

woohoo!