Way down in the bass!--favourite bass guitar moments

[Aum Bop Diddit]

Okay let's throw the Ox in the mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y08nK9DgB78

Love the whole song but he takes over.

[JK]

Okay let's throw the Ox in the mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y08nK9DgB78

Love the whole song but he takes over.

Thanks for that, ABD.  I included John Entwistle in this topic's equivalent on PSF but criminally forgot him this time round.

I've never heard this song before (I'm not familiar with this album as a whole). It's beautiful! Ye gods, what a player.    

[Aum Bop Diddit]

Okay let's throw the Ox in the mix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y08nK9DgB78

Love the whole song but he takes over.

Thanks for that, ABD.  I included John Entwistle in this topic's equivalent on PSF but criminally forgot him this time round.

I've never heard this song before (I'm not familiar with this album as a whole). It's beautiful! Ye gods, what a player.    

Glad you dig it -- "The Who by Numbers" I consider very underrated -- along with Quadrophenia my fave LP by them.

[JK]

How about this track by Kinga Glyk (a new name to me) for some amazing bass work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=206neF34_-g

http://kingaglyk.pl

[Joshilyn Hoisington]

How about this track by Kinga Glyk (a new name to me) for some amazing bass work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=206neF34_-g

http://kingaglyk.pl

She's quite good, isn't she?  I like her cover of Donna Lee on her little mini bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_onY_geaMs

[JK]

She's quite good, isn't she?  I like her cover of Donna Lee on her little mini bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_onY_geaMs

Yes she is. Thanks for that. I see commenters are describing her instrument as a "bass uke"...

I'm guessing there are quite a few different types of mini bass these days. Stanley Clarke on my Return to Forever LP (Romantic Warrior) is credited with playing, among other things, a piccolo bass. (That was 40 years ago.) Maybe it was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPWEKNtvr3U

[Joshilyn Hoisington]

She's quite good, isn't she?  I like her cover of Donna Lee on her little mini bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_onY_geaMs

Yes she is. Thanks for that. I see commenters are describing her instrument as a "bass uke"...

I'm guessing there are quite a few different types of mini bass these days. Stanley Clarke on my Return to Forever LP (Romantic Warrior) is credited with playing, among other things, a piccolo bass. (That was 40 years ago.) Maybe it was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPWEKNtvr3U

Yeah, I think alembic made Clarke all kinds of custom stuff.

The bass Kinga is playing is made by a primarily ukulele making company, but is tuned like a bass and has special rubber strings so it can play at normal bass pitch.  The company is called Kala.

[JK]

She's quite good, isn't she?  I like her cover of Donna Lee on her little mini bass.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_onY_geaMs

Yes she is. Thanks for that. I see commenters are describing her instrument as a "bass uke"...

I'm guessing there are quite a few different types of mini bass these days. Stanley Clarke on my Return to Forever LP (Romantic Warrior) is credited with playing, among other things, a piccolo bass. (That was 40 years ago.) Maybe it was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPWEKNtvr3U

Yeah, I think alembic made Clarke all kinds of custom stuff.

The bass Kinga is playing is made by a primarily ukulele making company, but is tuned like a bass and has special rubber strings so it can play at normal bass pitch.  The company is called Kala.

Now you mention it, Clarke is credited on the same album with playing an Alembic bass with instant flanger.

Ah, so bass uke is about right. Thank you for the information.

[JK]

Now that I'm posting again at Smiley (not quite sure why I stopped, actually), I just have to link one or two tracks by my now-favourite bass guitarist Nick Beggs.

This is the song that brought his prodigious technique into the public eye:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXndkQqosPY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kajagoogoo

[JK]

Grief can take one in unexpected directions. When my first pen pal passed, I turned to the instrumental music of Alice Coltrane. After Brian passed, I found the piece I kept returning to was also an instrumental, this time by the UK "prog-folk" band Iona.

It's a live performance of "A'mmachair" done in 1990 for Dutch TV with a lineup that includes Nick Beggs on Chapman Stick, an instrument he mastered in the shortest time.

It's not just the music that's consoling -- the video includes "stunning views of Iona and The Isle Of Mull". We passed through Mull on our way to Iona for a wonderful couple of days' stay during a tour of Scotland in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1TkZLBzKg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_(album)