Archive for December 31st, 2009
As with the previous blog this blog deals with riffs played on an electric bass guitar. I will start this list with a classic song by Pink Floyd “Money. Roger Waters plays a great bass riff in the beginning of the song that everybody is familiar with. The next song is a bit of a contradiction because it was played first on a stand up bass then overdubbed on a fretless bass guitar by Herbie Flowers, the song is from 1962 and is sung by Lou Reed and that song is “Walk On The Wild Side”.
Next up is “Penny Lane” a song by my favorite band of all time The Beatles. Paul McCartney has left us so many great bass guitar riffs it is hard to single just one out, but for this blog I chose Penny Lane. To me this is a great example of a song that is existing around the bass line, to listen to it one has to be in awe of this great bass players talent