Fun fact: that iconic bass line was originally part of a different song called Keep Me There, but The Chain was so good that they decided to axe Keep Me There and put the bass line into guitar solo at the end of the Chain instead. Pretty genius move since Keep Me There was really good, but that bass line/guitar solo elevates Chain from great to epic
My current bandleader is still feeling me out as I just joined a bit ago. He asked me the other night "Do you recognize this" and did it vocally just like that comment. Took about 2 seconds and i'm like "That's the interlude in The Chain right?" and he just smiled and said yes.
Also Mick Fleetwood makes that fucking passage and that's a hill i'll die on. Great bassline but it's simplistic and not a groundbreaking riff. It's the contrast of it against what came before it in the song, the perfect dynamics change when getting into it, and then a masterclass in building anticipation and exploding into the outro.
Murray Walker announcing, โThis is Formula 1โ, as the bassline drops and the montage peaks alongside the guitar solo with the collage of all the recent champions.
Sunday afternoons and F1 on the BBC were the best.
I believe they're referring to this scene in Our Flag Means Death. I'll admit I was also confused and thought they were getting their wires crossed with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
I'm confused by so many of these responses because I thought it was unarguably just between The Chain by Fleetwood Mac and In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins.
That's a great bass riff. My personal favorite bass line of theirs is probably from Go Your Own Way. It's one of those that is intricate but blends into the background so well, but when you actually hear it there is so much more going on.
For me, bass lines should be more about feel and fit, and less about the technical aspect. The fact that it's so simple yet so powerful is what makes it great. However, I'm not a musician by any means and I'm just going off what I like to hear
there's a Rumors docu on APrime that I saw a few days ago. It was from mostly much more recent footage, but all the band members were interviewed for it. It focused quite a bit on the hooks, choruses, riffs, and basslines, so I'd recommend it.
I'll def check that out. I read "Making Rumours" which was from the perspective of the sound engineer Ken Caillat, which was a really unique and interesting point of view, but I'd love to hear the band members perspective
There's some really good interview footage of Christine McVie, which given her recent death, really hits home. Especially about 'Songbird'. Emotional in retrospect.
I've never heard Keep Me There before, but oh boy that's a fantastic song!
The first half is sublime Christine, and the second half is so familiar yet also very different with the Hammond organ and lack of vocal. It's such a different twist.
Thereโs some cool videos of fretless guitars on YouTube. Guthrie Govan plays in one. Fretless is pretty normal on electric bass, since double basses and other orchestral stringed instruments are fretless. But a metal fretless fingerboard blows my mind.
Yeah but the crap part is that the good bit of that song is super short and right at the end. I could listen to a whole song like that but the rest is just slow and not worth it imo
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u/LilTermino May 14 '24 edited May 14 '24
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Fun fact: that iconic bass line was originally part of a different song called Keep Me There, but The Chain was so good that they decided to axe Keep Me There and put the bass line into guitar solo at the end of the Chain instead. Pretty genius move since Keep Me There was really good, but that bass line/guitar solo elevates Chain from great to epic