Conference napalm::guitar

        I know what you mean. . .one's that stick in my mind are. . .
        
        `No Rest For the Wicked' - Ozzy Osbourne
        Anything by Stuart Hamm
        
        There's so  many  that  I acknowledge when I hear them, but I
        just can't think of them now.  I guess one would have to know
        what the bassist has  for  equipment  to be able to reproduce
        such a sound, since it  seems  to  be  in  the EQ alot of the
        times.  (i.e.  - throaty  bottom  end, verses the funky style
        slap top end.)
        
        I'll drop a few more in when  I  can  get  rid  of this brain
        cramp. :^)
        
        Matt

    
    
    
    	Damn, good topic!  I have to admit that I've always taken bass for
    granted and rarely even listened to it (or I'm just not capable of
    hearing the phrasing of the bass part), but lately since I've taken up
    the bass myself (and hanging around tattoo parlors) I've been EQing my
    listening down into the lower tones and I'm amazed at how creative bass
    parts are... I love KD Langs bassist and anything behind my Albert King
    records kills me... Wish I could hear it better!  
    
    Gree Vee

    Use the tone controls on your stereo to hear the bass parts better, or
    better yet, get a nice EQ and trim off that annoying midrange (where
    guitars and vocals generally live).
    
    Greg

    I have a 7-band equalizer on my amp,laney pro-linebacker,and on my
    stereo which I couldn't live without.There's no doubt though if you 
    don't have some top class equipment then there's some sounds you can't
    touch.I love turning the gain up to get that deep throated,ooooh errrr,
    growl for some bite.
    One sound I can't get near is a small slow bit in Floyd's On The
    Turning Away,it's a very slow sliding,fretless,bit that to me is
    extremley difficult to play.I think this slow sliding bit is probrably
    harder to play than a lot of fast intricate scales.
    
    I have noticed recently that a lot of bands as in Happy Mondays,Soup
    Dragons ect. all use almost exactly the same bass sound - quite muddy
    
    
    
    
    
    
    				stuart.

    Some favorites:
    
    Pete Townshend on the Thunderclap Newman album (Danelectro played with
    a pick)
    
    Jack Bruce on Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe" (Dan Armstrong fretless)
    
    Tony Levin on Joan Armatrading's "Walk Under Ladders" album
    (Steinberger fretless)
    
    Dave Holland on his quintet releases on ECM 
    
    Steve Swallow on John Scofield's "Shinola" (customized Precision played
    with a pick)
    
    						Brian

    I think I get the gist of this note now.  A real cool bass sound,
    live no less, is Martin Turner on Wishbone Ash's "Live Dates" album
    (any cut will do).  It's the classic Gibson Thunderbird sound, like
    a Rickenbacker on top with a big woody bottom.  I think the amp was
    just a straight Orange stack.
    
    Another great one, Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisted from the Move's
    "Shazam".  Can't seem to remember the bass player's name (help Brian!);
    I believe he was only on that one album.  One of the most sinister
    bass sounds on record; spooky.
    
    /rick

    Re: .6, Move
    
    Rick Price played on "Shazam", he was also on "Looking On" but out of
    the band by the time of "Message From the Country", then joined back up
    with Roy Wood in Wizzard.
    
    A lot of that sound is apparently Wood's production preferences, as
    it's heard all over the last three Move albums, Wood's solo "Boulders"
    as well.
    
    						Brian

re: .7 

>    Rick Price played on "Shazam", he was also on "Looking On" but out of
>    the band by the time of "Message From the Country", then joined back up
>    with Roy Wood in Wizzard.

Say, is that the same Rick Price who used to play bass in The Brains ("Money 
Changes Everything") and is now in the Georgia Satellites???

alan