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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 4915
    edited February 2021
    Rio - Duran Duran
    Roundabout - Yes
    Something - The Beatles
    Red Barchetta - Rush
    Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
    Blue Wind - Jeff Beck
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  • UnclePsychosisUnclePsychosis Frets: 12886
    My trading feedback
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  • blobbblobb Frets: 2933
    edited February 2021
    Ooh. What's the best Canterbury bass line ............

    Rich Sinclair's bass riff 'For Richard' (4:00)


    or Hugh Hopper 'Out-Bloody-Rageous'


    A debate which will run and run...

    Feelin' Reelin' & Squeelin'
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  • SRD81SRD81 Frets: 310
    And Your Bird Can Sing - The Beatles
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 72259
    Simple Minds - Waterfront.

    It’s the same note throughout the song - D, I think the open string - the bass starts it, and you’ll know what song it is after the first three notes.

    Greatest bassline of all time... because less is more.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

    "Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

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  • ColsCols Frets: 6989
    And for sheer funkiness, there’s always Ida Nielsen.

    https://youtu.be/NCE08JsFeLo 

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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3288
    tFB Trader
    Pointer sisters goin down slowly
    betcha gotta chick on the side

    Love those bass lines 
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    (formerly customkits)
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  • phil_bphil_b Frets: 2010
    The chain? 
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  • MagicPigDetectiveMagicPigDetective Frets: 3018
    My personal favourite is Slide Away by Verve, so simple yet glorious.

    https://youtu.be/X45hWP_QKt0
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  • LogieLogie Frets: 443
    I really like the bass on Good Times Bad Times 

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  • GizmoGizmo Frets: 1075
    Alain Caron - D-code + slam the clown

    Level 42 - Lessons in love + something about you

    Brian Bromberg's version of Purple haze

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  • ColsCols Frets: 6989
    Logie said:
    I really like the bass on Good Times Bad Times 

    Amen.  2 minutes in cements John Paul Jones’s place in the pantheon of Bass Gods.

    https://youtu.be/TA9Rec1qAFQ 

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  • LastMantraLastMantra Frets: 3822
    Maybe not the best but when I pick up my bass I usually have to play some stone roses.
    MYMUSIC
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  • SPECTRUM001SPECTRUM001 Frets: 1556
    Joy Division - Transmission 
    Pink Floyd - Money
    Devo - Gut Feeling
    The Beatles - Helter Skelter
    Echo and the Bunnymen - No Dark Things
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  • WoodenheadWoodenhead Frets: 123
    edited February 2021
    Queen - Another One Bites The Dust, wouldn't even call myself a fan but it's a great bassline

    also, Fat Larry's Band - Act Like You Know

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  • DrBobDrBob Frets: 3003
    Most of the classics already mentioned above but one that always get me is Leaders Of The Free World, by Elbow. It’s not a massive technical tour de force or anything but it’s got a lovely, greasy swagger to it 
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  • DrJazzTapDrJazzTap Frets: 2168


    And the sod is singing at the same time!


    I would love to change my username, but I fully understand the T&C's (it was an old band nickname). So please feel free to call me Dave.
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14412
    Pump It Up
    The Imposter
    Give Me Everything
    Machine Gun
    Peaches En Regalia
    Rip This Joint
    Elephant Talk
    Politician
    The Boy In The Bubble
    You say, atom bomb. I say, tin of corned beef.
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  • thefezthefez Frets: 131
    Chic - I want your love
    Chic - Good times
    Brothers Johnson - Stomp
    Fleetwood Mac - The chain
    Jackson 5  -I want you back
    The Beatles - Come together

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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 18689
    Motörhead - Ace of Spades.
    Thin Lizzy- Dancing in the moonlight
    Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel - White Lines 
    Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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