I'm not gonna scroll back to see if this has been mentioned, but listening to it yesterday, I realized I wanted to mention "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash.
Hell to the yea, always loved that one! Free Base! Free Base! Don't do it!
I'm not gonna scroll back to see if this has been mentioned, but listening to it yesterday, I realized I wanted to mention "White Lines" by Grandmaster Flash.
Nathan Watts outstanding work on Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke". (even though the song's listing on RP has a lot of negative commentary, apparently due to "blinkered, philistine pig-ignorance")
That was one of my favorite songs as a little boy, it has a special place for me and has always been one of my Stevie favs.
Nathan Watts' outstanding work on Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke". (even though the song's listing on RP has a lot of negative commentary, apparently due to "blinkered, philistine pig-ignorance")
It might not be anything spectacular, but I sure would love to be able to play the bass line in Wilco's "Handshake Drugs." It travels around a lot and sounds like FUN.
I am watching "Ashes of American Flags" right now.
That is actually probably my favorite Wilco tune, love it!
It might not be anything spectacular, but I sure would love to be able to play the bass line in Wilco's "Handshake Drugs." It travels around a lot and sounds like FUN.
I am watching "Ashes of American Flags" right now.
Phil Lynott on just about any Thin Lizzy track, but especially "The boys are back in town"...
Tony Levin with Peter Gabriel on "Downside Up" from the Milan concert.
Jaco is just phenomenal but his predecessor in Weather Report, Alphonso Johnson, was no slouch either... One of my favourite numbers from Black Market, on which they both contributed to different tracks, was "Herandnu", which was Johnson's composition.
Footnote: that there are even now only TWO Weather Report tracks in the entire RP library is one of the great tragedies of this radio station. Yes I know it's eclectic rock not jazz, but come ON...
Don't forget Jeff Berlin's "Joe Frazier". I really dig the way Tony Levin makes the Chapman Stick sound... just wickedly cool.
I've always really liked Chris Squire's bass line for the song "I'm Running" (Big Generator - 1987) I'm a fickle Yes fan, at best but, there are pieces here & that that I thought were quite fine.
I've been listening to my Sound of Philadelphia CD all afternoon.
Just about anything Mike Mills plays. His bass is such a driving force of R.E.M.