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I've been listening to music pretty much all day today and it occurred to me that I've never heard a bass guitar intro that matches the one in "One of These Days" from the Pink Floyd album "Meddle". I'm sure you guys can think of some worthy competitors though.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
One Of These Days is always the first that comes to mind for me. Money has a great bass intro as well. A much slower tempo though, but very prominent. Seeing One of these Days live is a treat. I have a five times. I was disappointed that Roger did not play it last year. He did in 2017, it was great. Nick Mason's SOS band played it last year, Guy Pratt on Bass, fantastic. As most Pink Floyd fans know. OOTD is Nick Masons only vocal performance. The best performance I saw was in 1994. It was practically sensory overload (in a good way). It featured a much younger Guy Pratt. We were 12th row, close enough to feel the heat from the pyro.
I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad.
Black Sabbath's was most definitely more than Paranoid. The same can be said about Thin Lizzy. They were so much more than The Boys Are Back In Town and Jailbreak.
I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad.
Decent top 20. Wrathchild should be higher, he was right about that. I have no problem with his #1, it would make my top 5. Higher Ground is a great intro too, originally a Stevie Wonder song, but the RHCP did a fantastic cover of it. Runnin' With The Devil and Dazed And Confused would be high on my list as well.
I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad.
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Some excellent contributions here of bass guitar awesomeness. Thanks to all.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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Originally Posted by DBond
The Night Court theme song
That's some funky bass being slapped down.
Barney Miller too! The intro bass riff rocked.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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It's not widely publicized but the opening fuzz bass riff for "Think For Yourself" is quite good.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
