Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?

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Your favorite songs to play on Ric bass?

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Which song(s) do you LOVE playing on your Ric?

I don't play bass, but I'd like to hear some answers from people... :)
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Deep Purple's Pictures of Home.
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Pretty much anything with a decent bass line!
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Money and Happy Jack. :D
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I enjoy playing lots of pieces of music, and it's really hard to narrow it all down, but the ones that most often bring a smile to my face would be:

Rush - Xanadu
Rush - Jacob's Ladder
Yes - Something's Coming
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Soundchaser
Genesis - Watcher of the Skies

'Mainstream' is my middle name, of course. :roll:
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Black And Blue
Anarchy
Into The Darkness
Confessional
Slash My Wrists 4U
The Longest of Nights
Toxicant
Ich Glaube
Beloved Dead

:roll: Yeah, they're all my band's songs, that's all I have time for anymore...well, we did a version of Country Roads, but that's another story... :twisted:
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it depends on the mood...this afternoon I wanted to play this :D :

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Tori Amos, "Professional Widow"... for some reason that was the first song I busted out on my first Ric and I IMMEDIATELY knew this was the bass for me. It sounded perfect.
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The next one I'm getting paid to play - THAT'S my favorite one! :mrgreen:
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When I'm noodling or warming up, I usually end up playing Roundabout or some Zeppelin (Ten Years Gone or What Is And What Should Never Be).
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Never been any reason-Headeast , N.I.B.-Sabbath,My Sharona-The Knack,lessons-Rush.
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cjj wrote:Pretty much anything with a decent bass line!
OK, I'll be a little more specific.

Rush has a lot of fun stuff, Distant Early Warning, YYZ, The Trees, Tom Sawyer
Lots of stuff by Yes, Roundabout is great
Various stuff by Pink Floyd, One of These Days (playing with the echo is great fun!)
A bit more modern would be Third Eye Blind - Semi-charmed life
Numerous Tom Petty tunes

Uh, this could take WAY too long...
I have NO idea what to do with those skinny stringed things... I'm just a bass player...
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brontosaurus/the move
what is life/george harrison
i want you-she's so heavy/beatles
rain/beatles
our song/yes
new years eve/van duren (slippin the memphis reference in,if you've never heard the song,you should check it out)
comfortably numb/pink floyd
plus any songs written by my friends dave crowder and maria spence here in memphistofeles...
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The Band on the Run album and Wings Over America.
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South Side of the Sky has always been a favorite of mine, as well as Yours is No Disgrace.

I've been brushing up on early REM tunes like Can't Get There From Here and Fall on Me...

Of course there are all those Beatles tunes also.
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