My Top 3 Flatwound Bass Lines

fran4001 · Post by **fran4001** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:24 am

Joe Osborn's "Aquarius", Macca on the Anthology version of "And Your Bird" and Roger Waters on "Money". As the wild card, Entwistle on P-Bass doing "My Generation".

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:25 am

My vote's for James Jamerson on "What's Goin' On", or for Macca on "Taxman" or "Come Together"...

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:40 am

taxman was George Harrison playing bass

shinynewtoy · Post by **shinynewtoy** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:46 am

In that case I have new respect for GH!!!!

rickfan60 · Post by **rickfan60** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 1:22 pm

Macca on "Rain".

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:28 pm

Hey Jeff...did you ever get the chance to see Roy Wood's Wizzard live? Yikes, what a band!

bee_atles · Post by **bee_atles** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:47 pm

"Macca on the Anthology version of "And Your Bird" "

I definitely have to agree with this.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:58 pm

Dane: ... nope ... sorry ... but I have a couple of old Move albums ... when they lost their bass player Roy Wood took it up and had an interesting distorted biting aggressive tone ...

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:00 pm

I remember in the early 70s I played one of the 60s fender 5 string basses ... tuned BEADG ... it had flats and I ran it into an acoustic 2x15 bass amp ... I turned the bass and treble up to 10 and it had a similar sound to Roy Wood playing bass ...

fireglo · Post by **fireglo** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:50 pm

I've always loved the first part of Band on the Run. I'd also say Silly Love Songs. For my third, I'll say Mrs. Vandebilt, which is two songs from Band on the Run. I've heard that album was recorded with a fender. Of course, The live Wings Over America was the Rick.

It's hard to pick just three. I like just about anything McCartney.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:36 pm

James Jamerson on I heard it through the Grapevine, Gladys Knight and The pips.
Baby You're a rich Man, my favorite Ric bass sound of all time.
The Ballad of John and Yoko (Lennon on the Hofner?)
Anything Chuck Rainey did on the Steeley Dan Albums.
Hip-hug-her: Booker T and The MG's, Duck Dunn on bass.
The bass on When a Man Loves a woman Percy Sledge (great great drummer too.)
Joey Spaminato, (of NRBQ) Hail Hail Rock n roll, Chuck Berry 60th birthday concert, Dan Electro long horn, flats and an SVT sounds exactly like an upright with his technique, also great great drummer on that one too. If you haven't gotten this CD it's the best Chuck Berry you'll ever see.

hieronymous · Post by **hieronymous** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 7:52 pm

I finally thought of some:

Miles Davis - "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" - Dave Holland & Harvey Brooks
Free - "Mr. Big" - Andy Fraser (I assume it's flatwounds)
James Brown - "Cold Sweat" - Bernard Odum (I think?)

The Bootsy w/James Brown stuff is amazing too, of course, and there are other great tunes from that era, but I think "Cold Sweat" is the penultimate one.

zoomduck · Post by **zoomduck** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:05 pm

Duck Dunn.....I was given my user name by a friend who knew I was a Duck Dunn fan . My friend also had a record with a song about an upright bass that went "zoom zoom zoom " hence...Zoomduck . Let us not forget David Hood with the Staple Singers . The bass line to James Browns " Lickin Stick " is in my head forever . Great stuff from everybody ,as usual on this forum !

More please .

jnbass · Post by **jnbass** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:37 pm

My Girl...

Temptations-Jamerson?

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:04 am

Bump City (Down To The Nightclub), Tower Of Power

But seriously, back to the thread drift...Jeff, I saw Wizzard in Phoenix in '74...outrageous...mindblowing and louder than f***...somewhere between Beefheart and George Clinton, except for with, like, a cannibalistic Druid for a frontman...Roy played tenor and bass saxes all night and tore the roof off...okay, back to flatwounds...

Back Seat Betty, Miles Davis