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Originally posted by T. Alan Smith

Tony Levin on Peter Gabriel's So, Doug Pinnick on King's X's Dogman

 

Two good ones. Tony's tone is amazing. I especially dig the bass work in "Sledgehammer". Cool as hell.

 

Doug's tone on that CD is so thick it's basically on the verge of distortion. My first band called themselves Sunshine Rain.;)

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Ya, Dogman. The first time I played that album in my car, I thought my car was going to shake itself apart. That was fun.

 

McCartney - Penny Lane. That was the first thing I thought of.

 

Roger Glover - the whole Machine Head album

 

...jeez, maybe I should get a Ric. :D

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Adam Clayton on "Love and Peace or Else"

Bass: 1964 Fender Jazz through an Ashdown rig (I think)

 

Adam Clayton on "With or Without You"

Bass: 1972 Fender Precision through Ampeg SVT

 

Jason Newstead on "Whiskey in the Jar"

Bass: Sadowsky through Ampeg SVT

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Originally posted by bnyswonger

I'll save the Ox some time and say Entwistle on
Live at Leeds


 

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I liked Jack Bruce's live tone on the bootlegs, but it's not for everyone.

 

Bob Nyswonger's tone on The Bear's "Mr. Bonaparte" is pretty killer too. ;)

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Originally posted by THX1138


Dave Ellefson

Megadeth

Countdown to Extinction

 

 

Ellefson has the first track on the sampler CD that comes with D'Addario Strings. Simply an absolutely great rock bass tone!

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Originally posted by Bass8987

Adam Clayton on "Love and Peace or Else"

Bass: 1964 Fender Jazz through an Ashdown rig (I think)


Adam Clayton on "With or Without You"

Bass: 1972 Fender Precision through Ampeg SVT


Jason Newstead on "Whiskey in the Jar"

Bass: Sadowsky through Ampeg SVT

 

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I really dig that song, Love and Peace or Else.

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I get excited about this stuff, and I can't list just one.

 

I've always liked everything I heard from James Jamerson. The weird thing is that there's a lot of heavy limiting and dirt in his sound that I usually try to avoid when I'm playing.

 

On the more modern tip, I'd say Nathan East's sound on Anita Baker's "Compostions", Pino Palladino on Paul Young's "The Secret of Association", and Marcus Miller on Miles' "Amandla" album. Special mention to Mario Cippolina on Huey Lewis' "Sports" album.

 

If I had to say just one record, it'd be Nathan East on Michael McDonald's "Motown" CD - it don't get no better than that......

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Way too many to list, but here's a couple that I haven't noticed already listed:

 

Band: Death

Album: Individual Thought Patterns

Bassist: Steve DiGiorgio

Gear: Some fretless, not sure what

 

This dude has one of the best fretless sounds I've ever heard. When I get really into fretles, I hope I can be half as good as this guy.

 

Band: Cannibal Corpse

Album: The Wretched Spawn Bonus DVD

Bassist: Alex Webster

Gear: Spector bass through Ampeg SVT

 

This is a DVD that came with special copies of their last album, and is basically a Making Of the album DVD. There's a part in there when Alex goes into a wild ass solo and it sounds {censored}ing amazing.

 

There are more, I'll probably add later.

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Originally posted by FreestyleIntruder



I think you'll find on those albums Mike used a Danelectro, and Matt used a Fenfer J.

 

 

fat mike only started using the dano on pump up the valuum.

he used a P bass on and that weird looking headless bass (steinway?) on earlier stuff.

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I don't like to blow my own trumpet, but the last song I recorded with my old band, before I left, had fucking awesome bass tone - that was just a Fenfer P through an Apeg pre straight into the desk=happy intruder :cool:

 

Other than that, I like Josh Paul's tone on 'Su Casa Es Mi Casa' Rob Trujillo's on 'Good Times Are Out To Get You' and JPJ's on ' Celebration Day'

 

And Gary Willis' on...well just about anything I have heard :)

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Band: Suffocation

Album:Pierced from Within

Bassist:Chris Richards

Gear: Haven't the slightest clue, but damn, his tone is brilliant.

 

Band: Iniquity

Album: Grime

Bassist: Thomas Fagerlind

 

Band: Atheist

Albums: Unquestionable Presence

Bassist: Tony Choy

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Originally posted by Mudbass

Ric Fierabracci on the Yanni - Live at the Acropolis album.

 

 

i am gonna have to agree with this. Im not a huge new age fan, but step brother is and he's gotten me into it a little. anywho, i cant remember the album, maybe its ethnicity, but it comes with a dvd. The bassist playing on that gig sounded pretty bad ass. the first track was desire BTW. not to mention he was playing an old fender p. it looked modded though. good stuff.

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Originally posted by TheDude15k



i am gonna have to agree with this. Im not a huge new age fan, but step brother is and he's gotten me into it a little. anywho, i cant remember the album, maybe its ethnicity, but it comes with a dvd. The bassist playing on that gig sounded pretty bad ass. the first track was desire BTW. not to mention he was playing an old fender p. it looked modded though. good stuff.

 

 

Ric Fierabracci is an extreme badass on bass.

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