Your classic

[ebe9]

A very simple goal with this thread. What is the one song that you keep coming back to in terms of one that you learned to play and no matter how your taste and skill in playing has evolved you return to for whatever reason, be it sheer enjoyment or the challenge to play it, it provides you.

Mine would have to be: Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato

Reason: Just a great song that i enjoy playing

[funkyhoney]

Mine: Ive got an ape drape, by the vandals
Reason: it kicks ***, and its easy





*runs and hides from flame about how **** punk bass is*

[sheephead]

The Chicken - Jaco Pastorius

If ever I feel I'm getting wrapped up in the technical side of things I just put this on an remember that it's all about the groove. Either this or The Meters.

[RoadGear]

Scar Tissue- RHCP i always improvise the solos and throughout the song.

[mister_tee]

Californication - RHCP, I never tire of the main riff and during the prechorus and solo you can do almost anything. I really enjoy playing it, every time.

[E_man]

Danzig/Metallica - Last Caress - 'cos I got something to say...

Metallica - The Four Horsemen - Fast and hyperactive

Metallica - Seek and Destroy - like you didn't see it coming...

Metallica - Oh **** it there whole catalogue

[E_man]

Metallica - Four Horsemen, Seek and Destroy erm, ok most of there stuff apart from st.anger. Like you didnt see that coming

Danzing/Metallica - Last Caress - 'cos I've got sumthing to say...

WTF??? two times the fun....

[BassPlayingPineapple]

Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin

Simple, yet brilliant.

[the101er]

Too Many Puppies or The Antipop by Primus

[JeBuSrOcKs]

enter sandman by metallica i love to play

also most of the suff primus that i know

[Charmand G]

3 first metallica-albums, and Bolt Thrower "IVth Crusade"!

[Machines]

Metallica - My Friend of Misery

[MM-Stingray5]

Coffee Shop (RHCP) if im in a crazy mood, The Lemon Song (Zeppelin) if im in a mellow mood. Just simply great bass solo's.....

[aks_29]

The Meters-Cissy Strut
or
The Meters-Funky Miracle

They're both fun, easy songs.

[Jimbobntnr]

hendrix's purple haze and misfit's skulls.

[The_Red_Death]

Coheed & Cambria - Time Consumer
Stu Hamm - Love Thing
Muse - Hysteria

[Munky_Jam]

Tom Waits - Step Right up (its groovy jazz lead bass - and i c an sing it while playing)
Pearl Jam - Jeremy, Rear View Mirror and Indifference (such great diversity but each one sounds like pearljam)
The Doors - Break on through (first song I ever really was more captivated in the bass than anything else.)

[groundzero]

Bombtrack by Rage Against the Machine.

I LOVE playing the intro. All that string switching just feels so good.

[Phalanx]

Either Teen Town or Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing

Every time I listen to those songs, it feels exactly like the first time I heard those songs - ****ing brilliant!

[Bass_swede]

the chicken

[Jahmez]

Schism, I've played it at least once a day since I learned it. Also, The Chicken, I haven't played that one in a while but I used to play it all the time. Learning a Jaco song made me feel like a really good bassist, even if I couldn't quite get all of it right.

[ignignok]

Classical Thump...I still haven't mastered it, and its so incredibly hard to play all the way through without bombing at least one part, and I just love the song.

[Chris K]

Distant Early Warning, Afterimage and Kid Gloves by Rush. My first Rush songs, and I still love playing them...

But I'm forever playing Rush stuff.

Throw in some Stu hamm stuff there and it's a wrap.

[Naminator]

anesthesia by metallica

its my test bass song

[Chris K]

anesthesia by metallica

its my test bass song

Urgh. Is that for testing how bad you can make a bass sound?

[FU.CKY.OU]

My friend of misery, hands down. Just because it's a damn good song.

[SLKBassist]

Rage Against the Machine- Bombtrack. I love it

[JDC III]

ebin - sublime its just so smooth sounding

[Psychopsilocybin]

look at my name (it's an incubus song)

[23fingersmcgee]

Soul to Squeeze- RHCP- it's one of my favorite basslines, its pretty easy but oh so much fun to play.

Stir it up-Bob Marley- another easier one thats got a great groove to it. I just close my eyes and..well...groove.

[e p]

Urgh. Is that for testing how bad you can make a bass sound?

I would ask you the same about Stu Hamm, but you know, to each his own.

[lifesavermike]

Mine is Xanadu by Rush. Seems I have always used that as a sound check.

[Left Shoe]

classical thump, its so annoying, but so much fun

[MuRd0K]

Coffee Shop - RHCP

The song is something I play at least twice a day

Schism - Tool
Forty six & 2 - Tool
Portrait of Tracy - Jaco

[vashts80]

A very simple goal with this thread. What is the one song that you keep coming back to in terms of one that you learned to play and no matter how your taste and skill in playing has evolved you return to for whatever reason, be it sheer enjoyment or the challenge to play it, it provides you.

Mine would have to be: Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato

Reason: Just a great song that i enjoy playing

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills

It's just a fun song to play...most of Maiden's stuff is fun as hell to play no matter how challenging or not challenging it is.

[neatobassman]

Tommy the Cat, for several reasons. It's a badass song and fun to play. I keep learning how to play it more correctly every year. People love to watch me play it. It kics ***

[zetabossio]

confurtubly numb-pink floyd
marooned-pink floy
what if?-coldplay
Easy songs but really cool to play.

[Saberpunk]

Otherside by RHCP when im not grooving enough
Rocket queen by GnR when i need to remember that pick playing can be funky too
Fall back down by Rancid when i need to work on elaborate sweep picking

[Jaded]

Lagwagon- Give it Back

[Jaded]

Urgh. Is that for testing how bad you can make a bass sound?
Maybe he plays it clean? Tard.

[Potatoe]

heaven is where the heart is-victor wooten

it is so beautifuly easy, a very lovely song

[Az_Holl]

Guns N Roses- Sweet Child O mine

First song i play when i pick it up usually

[Chris K]

Maybe he plays it clean? Tard.

I never said he didn't, you dickhead. :lol:

[:amaze:]

I don't have a real "classic," I usually get tired of playing songs over and over and they just fall out of rotation. Lately though, I've been playing A Show of Hands a lot, it's just so fluid and I definately feel accomplished when I play it.





:amaze:

[Oi_bass_77]

Rush-YYZ
Rush-Freewill
Black Sabbath-N.I.B
Black Sabbath-Paranoid

[Jaded]

I never said he didn't, you dickhead. :lol:
Hey, **** you, buddy.

:evil:

[The_Fender_Bender]

Any RATM.
Money - Pink Floyd
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
And others I can't think of

[The jazz metal flum]

Labirinthine (I hope thats spelled right!) by ephel duath