Biggest Stingray Hit record?

[Lynottfan]

Allow me to expand anyone know and/or take a guess at what song featuring a Stingray or an EBMM bass has sold the most records?

It was a question that came up in my local shop with a load of fellow players, when I went to pick up my Ray after having a hipshot fitted.

My guess was Louis Johnson and something off Thriller, not 100% if Louis was still a Ray man then as he was dabbling with other stuff.

Anyone?

 

[bovinehost]

"Another One Bites The Dust" or "You Were Meant for Me" (that's Craig on the radio cut). Hah, and people say Stingrays aren't versatile.

 

[Oldtoe]

Maybe one of the tunes played by that dude named after a high-jumping parasite?

 

[njhammer]

Did Bernard Williams play a Stingray on "Good Times"? If so, that has to be up there (not to mention the subsequent uses of that bassline....).

 

[Holdsg]

I was thinking same as Lynottfan, Billie Jean?

 

[Aussie Mark]

Don't forget that Cliff Williams plays Stingrays, and AC/DC sell quite a lot of albums, given they don't distribute their music digitally.

 

[Aussie Mark]

Here you go, in terms of albums ..... List of best-selling albums - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1. Thriller 110million
2. Back in Black 49million

So it looks like the answer depends on whether a Stingray was played on Billie Jean or not.

 

[Aussie Mark]

You can wade through best selling singles here .... List of best-selling singles worldwide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Based on that list, if Craig was playing EBMM in the studio on Lady A's "Need You Now", it could well be the winner in the all time EBMM bass singles category.

 

[Jimmyb]

I reckon Bob Birch might be in with a shout...

 

[Aussie Mark]

I reckon Bob Birch might be in with a shout...

via his work with Elton John? Elton's albums haven't sold too well in the post-Dee Murray era.

 

[Jimmyb]

He played on 'Something about the way you look tonight'.

 

[Moose308]

Peter Gabriel has sold a couple albums. "So" seemed to be rather large.

 

[Holdsg]

You can wade through best selling singles here .... List of best-selling singles worldwide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Based on that list, if Craig was playing EBMM in the studio on Lady A's "Need You Now", it could well be the winner in the all time EBMM bass singles category.

From recollection, that was in Craig's pre-EBMM period, or before he saw the light wrapped up like a deuce another runner in the night.

 

[Thornton Davis]

So it looks like the answer depends on whether a Stingray was played on Billie Jean or not.

Mark, if you read the Wiki article on BJ, it say's that MJ had a particular tone he wanted in the bass riff of Billy Jean. So when Louis Johnson came into record the part, MJ wasn't happy with the tone of the basses he had brought with him. The next day Louis came back the with an old beat up Yamaha bass. He played the into for MJ who said that it was exactly the sound that he had in his head. The rest is history. Quincy Jones didn't know which model it was, just that it was a Yamaha bass.

TD

 

[bovinehost]

"Beat It" might be a Stingray - I think I know that bassist.

 

[TheAntMan]

hmmmmm, does anyone actually know the answer or is this just a SWAG fest

OK. I'm in. How about something by Sade? She's sold quite a bit across wide demographics. Everyone I know has a copy of Smooth Operator or at lease knows it.

--Ant

 

[jlepre]

John Deacon's, "Another one bites the dust."
Over 7 million copies sold.

 

[HornetAMX]

John Deacon's, "Another one bites the dust."
Over 7 million copies sold.

I'd have to agree. You'd have to give a big shout out to Bernard Edwards on this one.