Your favorite cover tune to play bass to?

#64
Here are a few of my favourite "fun to play" cover tunes: Living on prayer-Bon Jovi, Under my thumb-Streetheart, Day Tripper-Paul McCartney, Too much time on my hands-Styx, Don't be cruel-Cheap Trick and on the other end of the spectrum: Fly me to the moon- Micheal Bublé and Beyond the sea-Bobby Darin.
 
#65
Inara said:
I love playing anything with a fretless line by Pino Palladino - he's my number one influence and was my first "bass crush."
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Can't resist posting that Alan Partridge link again:


If my old band wasn't coming up with a tune, we'd sometimes clear the fug with a knockaround of King Crimson's Indiscipline. Stopped the drummer getting bored.
 
#74
The covers I most enjoy playing (as opposed to listening to) almost all fall into one of two camps:

1) medium-swing big band tunes with a "pop" vocalist; so
- "Fly Me To The Moon" - Frank Sinatra
- "Beyond The Sea" - Bobby Darin
- "Under My Skin" - Frank Sinatra again
- "Just A Gigolo" - whoever did the original, not David Lee Roth
etc.

And
2) old skool (1970s) Funk/R&B; so
- "Fight The Power" - Isley Brothers
- "Jungle Boogie" - Kool & The Gang
- "Fire" - Ohio Players
- "Thank You" - Sly & The Family Stone
- "Brick House" - Commodores
etc.
 
#75
Honestly, I cannot (re: will not) play "Brick House" or "Play That Funky Music"...no mas. Enjoyable in the '70s, yes.
Told one prospective band that the Commodores & Wild Cherry had other decent songs...blah. End of story.
:)
 
#76
JimK said:
Honestly, I cannot (re: will not) play "Brick House" or "Play That Funky Music"...no mas. Enjoyable in the '70s, yes.
Told one prospective band that the Commodores & Wild Cherry had other decent songs...blah. End of story.
:)
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I have never played Brick House in my bands. I never thought I would do Play That Funky Music in my bands until my current band members already knew it and we needed to fill in the song list when the band started. We do not do it very often though. Those and some other songs every band seems to play have never been on my lists. I have never played (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in a band either. Also, my current band is the first time I ever played Margaritaville and Sweet Caroline.
 
#78
JimK said:
I played "Margaritaville" for the 1st time in a band about 10 years back. Never played "Free Bird", either.
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The original studio version (Ed King on bass) of freebird is actually quite awesome, all 9 minutes of it. I hope to someday have the entire line committed to memory.
 
#80
JimK said:
Quite of bit of jamming...IIRC.
Nothing wrong with that.
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"As a matter of fact, the last two songs we recorded, “Free Bird” & “Simple Man” contain my bass parts that are very far removed from all of the other bass parts on that album. Mainly because I had caught the vision from Leon of how the bass should be played for this band."
THE ED KING INTERVIEW by Michael Buffalo Smith June 1999
 
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