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Great synth bass lines.....
Sep. 8th, 2005 01:01 amNow that "Dr." John Filpus has joined the great filk circle in the sky, there's almost no one left to fill in the bass lines. :-( We got lots of guitarists in filk, but few bass guitarists.
What now? I guess I'll have to drop the oscillators down an octave or two, detune them slightly to get that Really Fat Sound, and funk out! (Now I really want to get a Moog Liberation. But the bidding's fast and furious on EBay.)
Some songs with have some really kick-ass bass synth lines:
- Stevie Wonder, "Livin' For The City". Stevie and his band did amazing things with that ARP 2600. Listen to the bass line just before the first chorus. You just can't do that on a bass guitar! Many other Stevie Wonder songs have hellacious-to-play-but-great-to-listen-to synth bass lines.
- Weather Report, "Birdland". Yeah, the late Jaco Pastorius was playing fretless bass on this number, but the opening is pure synth heaven for me.
- Gino Vannelli, "Love Me Now" and "People Gotta Move". I must be the only non-Canadian to have heard of Gino Vannelli. His brother Joe did all of the keyboard and string arrangements. On the early albums, all the lush polyphonic synth-string soundscapes were done entirely with overdubs. 64-track, painstaking, time-consuming overdubs. But it sounds fantastic.
- Gary Wright, "Dream Weaver". Another synth whiz. Probably his best-known song.
- Hot Butter, "Popcorn". Yet another showcase for the Minimoog (at least two of 'em). Although the ostinato bass line does get a little bnoring after a while.
- Yes, "Future Times". Was it Chris Squire's bass or Rick Wakeman's Birotron (think Mellotron with 8-track tape cartridges instead of a rack of tape loops), or both?
- Jean-Luc Ponty, "Demagomania". The electric violinist from France. Not the starship captain! :)
- Jean-Michel Jarre, "Chronologie part 2". This would work well as some mad-dash-chase-through-time music.
- Kraftwerk, "Autobahn". Very bouncy synth bass line. Perfect for driving on (where else?) the Autobahn. Or interstate highways with no traffic.
What now? I guess I'll have to drop the oscillators down an octave or two, detune them slightly to get that Really Fat Sound, and funk out! (Now I really want to get a Moog Liberation. But the bidding's fast and furious on EBay.)
Some songs with have some really kick-ass bass synth lines:
- Stevie Wonder, "Livin' For The City". Stevie and his band did amazing things with that ARP 2600. Listen to the bass line just before the first chorus. You just can't do that on a bass guitar! Many other Stevie Wonder songs have hellacious-to-play-but-great-to-listen-to synth bass lines.
- Weather Report, "Birdland". Yeah, the late Jaco Pastorius was playing fretless bass on this number, but the opening is pure synth heaven for me.
- Gino Vannelli, "Love Me Now" and "People Gotta Move". I must be the only non-Canadian to have heard of Gino Vannelli. His brother Joe did all of the keyboard and string arrangements. On the early albums, all the lush polyphonic synth-string soundscapes were done entirely with overdubs. 64-track, painstaking, time-consuming overdubs. But it sounds fantastic.
- Gary Wright, "Dream Weaver". Another synth whiz. Probably his best-known song.
- Hot Butter, "Popcorn". Yet another showcase for the Minimoog (at least two of 'em). Although the ostinato bass line does get a little bnoring after a while.
- Yes, "Future Times". Was it Chris Squire's bass or Rick Wakeman's Birotron (think Mellotron with 8-track tape cartridges instead of a rack of tape loops), or both?
- Jean-Luc Ponty, "Demagomania". The electric violinist from France. Not the starship captain! :)
- Jean-Michel Jarre, "Chronologie part 2". This would work well as some mad-dash-chase-through-time music.
- Kraftwerk, "Autobahn". Very bouncy synth bass line. Perfect for driving on (where else?) the Autobahn. Or interstate highways with no traffic.
