Favorite fretless songs?

[Ken Baker]

any of Bach's Brandenberg Concerto's, especially No. 4

#4 is good, but I really prefer #3.

OTOH...

How do you arco a Bongo?

Ken...

 

[Joe Nerve]

I love most of the stuff on Lou Reed's Blue Mask album. Especially "I Love Women."

Another great unkown song with simple but awesome fretless bass is Citizen Cope's, "If There's Love." I think Meshell D however you spell her name plays on it, not sure though.

 

[MingusBASS]

Meshell Ndegeocello?

 

[saxnbass]

I enjoy playing Rush on my fretless, especially Fly by Night and Passage to Bangkok.

Roundabout by Yes if fun on fretless too.

None of the 3 are played or recorded fretless, but I enjoy them more on my fretless than fretted.

 

[scottbass71]

Welcome Spanky(andy) another Aussie
Yeah I forgot about What about me and your the voice
Correction If I may Bass player from Skyhooks didn't play on Your the voice he just appeared in the film clip it was the original bassplayer from LRB who played on the track who is a great session player and played on alot of tracks in the 80s and 90s.

 

[Bartmanpdx]

Bakithi Kumalo on Paul Simon's Graceland album. Just fabulous tone and playing.

 

[Spanky(Andy)]

Welcome Spanky(andy) another Aussie
Yeah I forgot about What about me and your the voice
Correction If I may Bass player from Skyhooks didn't play on Your the voice he just appeared in the film clip it was the original bassplayer from LRB who played on the track who is a great session player and played on alot of tracks in the 80s and 90s.

Hey Scott, thanks for the welcome and correction. I was basing my assumption on recognising the Skyhooks bass player in the video clip. As he was in the clip I also assumed he was in John Farnham's lineup for the album.

Cheers

Andy

 

[Spanky(Andy)]

"Cars" from '79 was recorded by Numan's original bass player Paul Gardiner who probably used his sunburst precision for the part.
Komp

Komp, thanks for the correction

I thought I had read somewhere it was Pino, but am happy to be proven wrong.

Cheers

Andy

 

[TheDirtyMoocher]

Bakithi Kumalo on Paul Simon's Graceland album. Just fabulous tone and playing.

+1 especially diamonds on the souls of her shoes

 

[Aussie Mark]

Welcome Spanky(andy) another Aussie
Yeah I forgot about What about me and your the voice
Correction If I may Bass player from Skyhooks didn't play on Your the voice he just appeared in the film clip it was the original bassplayer from LRB who played on the track who is a great session player and played on alot of tracks in the 80s and 90s.

Roger McLachlan - also played with Stars. Roger gave me GAS for a Maton Jumbuck JB-4 real bad in the 80's. Killer player.

 

[Bassplyr]

Alz, Good choice. I absolutely love On the Turning Away!!

You need to check out one more Paul Young gem: I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down. If that song doesn;t want to make you play fretless, nothin will!

 

[scottbass71]

Roger McLachlan - also played with Stars. Roger gave me GAS for a Maton Jumbuck JB-4 real bad in the 80's. Killer player.

Yeah exactly mark yeah sensational player good mate of mine and taught me for a while unfortunately he plays War%^&k now but I am trying to get him playing stingrays. I love catching up with him all the old stories he tells me you sit there in awe of the guy.

 

[Trix]

I just watched the movie Midnight Run with Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin. Don't know who to credit, but the music and playing were exceptional. Great fretless stuff. Movie soundtracks are usually a good source. Another that comes to mind is Shawn Colvin performing All Would Envy with Christian McBride on bass.

 

[MrMusashi]

check out pino on nikita by elton john as well

MrM

 

[Kirby]

New York Minute & Boys of Summer by Don Henley

 

[ratfart]

Bakithi Kumalo on Paul Simon's Graceland album. Just fabulous tone and playing.

This is some tasty stuff!! I love Diamonds on the Soles of her Shoes and the bass solo in Call Me Al is awesome, but too short!

Also, saw Geddy rip it up on a fretless in concert this May and that was pretty fun!

BTW: I've never seen Geddy Lee play a MM, but I got the book about Rush's 30 years called "Countdown" and it has a pic on the back of the band mates standing in front of a large guitar rack, apparently on the stage and there are 2 MM basses right behind Geddy. Wish he would have played one when I saw them.

 

[Duarte]

'Tribal Dawn' - Mick Karn.

His sound is NICE.

Can emulate that sound pretty well with a fretless ray + roundwounds.

 

[strummer]

Any song with Pino Palladino on it, but especially Wherever I lay My Hat.

 

[RobertB]

Jaco - Continuum

 

[ngutenson]

Pain of Salvation's The Perfect Element is pretty awesome. Kristoffer Gildenlow really knows how to use fretless in rock.