Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:27 am
by rickenbrother
Brian, if you can enough of fretless tones, I'm pretty sure all the bass guitar played by Stanley Sheldon on Peter Frampton's, Frampton Comes Alivewas fretless.
I can't think of fretless in R&B songs other than "Night Shift" by The Commodores.
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:16 pm
by nattiep
Bump.
I just got my fretless yesterday and I'm glad I found this thread. I guess I'll be learning more Pearl Jam now!
It's nice seeing a lot of Pino in these posts. Murder I learned before I got my fretless just for when I got it. Also, That Firm clip... I LOVE Tony Franklin. The man sold me on getting a fretless.
Here are some things I've been playing with that haven't been mentioned.
Pearl Jam - Oceans
Arcadia - The Promise (Guest spot for Mark Egan)
Pink Floyd - Poles Apart
Queensrÿche - Anybody Listening?
Queensrÿche - Out Of MInd
Rush - Malignant Narcissism
The Police - O My God
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:11 pm
by wints
Here's another beauty, from a beauty, who is the last truly great English female talent.
The phrasing from 1.20 to 1.30 is divine...
Much like her... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot3cVY1JESQ
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 7:53 pm
by jps
Is that Tony Levin?
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:44 pm
by windchimp
wints wrote:Here's another beauty, from a beauty, who is the last truly great English female talent.
The phrasing from 1.20 to 1.30 is divine...
Much like her... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot3cVY1JESQ
Wow.
Never paid much attention to Kate...yet another pitiful oversight on my part.
Oh, and the fretless is good too!
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:43 am
by wints
jps wrote:Is that Tony Levin?
No, John Giblin IIRC...
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:01 pm
by jps
Thanks. I know who JG is.
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 3:25 am
by xpitt
jps wrote:Thanks. I know who JG is.
Sorry Jeff ! No intention to teach a bass player about JG ! That was rather my own interest - went down, took out the old Kate Bush records and googled around about JG...
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:19 pm
by jps
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:38 pm
by janglerocker
Almost any song from XTC's English Settlement has Colin Moulding doing really excellent fretless bass work.
As an example:
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:46 am
by xpitt
Nice video ! Those black and white scenes were done for Jeff's delight !
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 6:27 am
by xpitt
Brian, I just pulled out that version of "Can't find my way home" by "spin 1ne 2wo" (P.Carrack, S.Ferrone, R.Hine, T.Levin, Ph.Palmer) from 1993. That bass Tony Levin is playing is just amazing, don't really know if it's a fretless or the stick.
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:44 pm
by shamustwin
Asleep by the Everly Brothers.
Re: Your Favourite Song That Features A Fretless Bass
Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:54 pm
by winston
Some great stuff on here. Thanks Dan, Alex and Jerry for your recent suggestions. Keep 'em coming. I never realised until recently that fretless basses were used in some really great tunes.
No intention to teach a bass player about JG ! 
That was rather my own interest - went down, took out the old Kate Bush records and googled around about JG...