I am supposedly writing a paper for particle physics. Since I have utterly no desire to learn more about the quark model or standard SU(3) symmetries and I've exhausted writing about the easy stuff, (like the discovery of the electron and Rutherford and the like) I am pretending to be the lead singer of Kansas while Carry On plays at a volume that will probably not wake my roommate.
Last night an argument arose over this commercial. I made the simple and clearly quite correct statement that the bass line in this song is the best ever recorded. One person agreed with me, the other yelled about Carry On and how it was obviously superior. In the interest of science, and of not getting any of the thirty thousand things I have to do before I graduate done, I have decided to listen to them both over and over and over until I can decide. If anyone has any other contenders, let me know!
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i hate to cause a problem but just because the bassist from deep purple at times minimics his guitarist, that hook is still, was always, and will ever be a 'guitar riff,' and not a bassline.
although many many bands simply use the bass guitar as a means to double the root chord (or in the case of 'smoke on the water' the riff) the differences between the instruments are enough to warrant separate titles.
a good example of a bassline used by a guitarist is in a song called "sgt. baker" by primus, where they switch when the song is almost 75% over with. that would be an example of an original bassline used for guitar, and not the other way around, like in 'smoke on the water.'
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i dont think i could pick the all time best, but some that come to mind are:
national anthem- radiohead
manic depression- hendrix
no shelter - rage against the machine
parallel universe- red hot chili peppers
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let us know what you decide
L,
Sean
I agree with the above statement. A bass line and a riff played by the guitars and bassist are very different things. It's always amusing when your initial reactions to a post are already stated for you in an existing comment.
Off the top of my head, no excellent bass lines come to mind. But 'Smoke on the Water' is definitely not one of them. Also not much of a Kansas fan. Just a personal preference, I suppose.
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