"Hey dude, play something awesome!"

[Ski3223]

Every time you go to a gig, or a jam with some non-participants attending and you're a halfway decent bassist someone will inevitably walk up to you and say:

"DUDE! Play something crazy/awesome/*fill in the blank*!"

What is your go-to song(s)/riffs(s) when you get asked this question?

 

[douglasspears]

Bonanza

 

[robelinda2]

Mister Sandman!

 

[Grand Wazoo]

The neapolitan Tarantella played at warp speed, always works or.... Jaco's Teen Town

Come to think of it I heard Petrucci plays a version of the Tarantella too... hmmm

 

[beej]

The theme from Leave it to Beaver.

 

[brasco68]

Fruit Salad by The Wiggles

 

[Jack FFR1846]

On Bass?

Why....Phycho Killer....of course...

 

[adouglas]

Well, I'm not a halfway decent bass player so I never get asked that.

People like the band, though.

If somebody were to ask me that right now the first thing I'd probably play is Tony Levin's awesome vamp from the end of Peter Gabriel's "Don't Give Up."

When I get the blank "WTF?" look that would inevitably ensue, I'd probably just play some instantly recognizable thing like Rescue Me.

I would NOT play Money.

Seriously, my head just doesn't work like that. I've never done the Guitar Center wankfest at all well, and most basslines are meaningless outside the context of the song.

 

[Grand Wazoo]

.... and most basslines are meaningless outside the context of the song.

not true, it may be for you, but you can't seriosuly generalize that statement as correct, otherwise we as bass players would be all a bunch of bland and groove-less monkeys easily replaced by drum & bass machines.

 

[Jimmyb]

not true, it may be for you, but you can't seriosuly generalize that statement as correct, otherwise we as bass players would be all a bunch of bland and groove-less monkeys easily replaced by drum & bass machines.

Fran, at a stroke you have solved my band's problems!!!

 

[Spudmurphy]

"Tiptoe through the Tulips" or "Blowing Free" by Wishbone Ash

 

[Grand Wazoo]

Fran, at a stroke you have solved my band's problems!!!

Well here is your first free sample:

Walk This Way - Drums & Bass only

 

[PugNinjas]

Fruit Salad by The Wiggles

^ classic

I used to break into the Flintstones Theme, it worked especially well when this good ole boy wanted to trade harmonica vs guitar licks

 

[Bassmedic14]

"Mister Rogers!"