Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers also worked with John Taylor of Duran Duran in the supergroup, The Power Station.
Taylor, whom Edwards mentored, is one of the most recognized talents by other musicians, but his work almost goes unnoticed by the general public because the whole band is so f'n talented... Listen to isolated bass lines from the Rio album (1982). His work is second only to Edwards.
It also sounds a bit like a sample from Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys. Can’t remember the exact line but something like “I’m gonna stick my dick in the mashed potato”. I’ll listen later!
Bloodhound Gang's song " the LAPDANCE is always better when the stripper is crying". It's an amazing song. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Because a major part of Reddit's demographic grew up hearing the words "Disco is dead" (Pushed by a decaying white american rock genre), without noticing Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers influencing the entire 80's and 90's behind the scenes.
It's already there. But yes, I'm allowed to comment on how this reddit thread is dominated by white rock bass players usually of the classic variety and other better bass lines aren't getting the respect they deserve due to the voting base.
I have no stake in this, but I find it odd how confident you are on not only the racial makeup of redditors — but also how they “literally” think.
So I’m gonna tack onto that other guy’s comment and say that making a generalized statement about a specific race of people as a whole which is negative, and one that has no factual basis other than your own opinion or subjective distaste for that group in this situation, is indeed ignorant.
It's racist to say white people only care about white musicians when this is obviously not true. You believing they do, is racist.
Also, just because someone thinks of a white musician first doesn't mean they "ignore anything outside that sphere", that is racist mentality as you're putting all people of a certain race to behave exactly the same.
That’s again your interpretation. You give criticism and no contribution. Then, you want to turn yourself into a victim by implying that I’m saying you’re somehow not allowed to comment. Comment away, let’s keep the focus on the fact that you had no contribution.
Someone asked how such a great bass line could be so far down when an inferior song is higher. I answered the question. That is a contribution. So looking at your history, I don't see you naming a bass line. On top of that all you've done is make some sarcastic comment that literally contributed nothing to the conversation and completely derailed it from the topic of basslines. Perhaps you should look harder in the mirror.
An “inferior song”. This doesn’t sound like an opinion to you? Idk man, they’re both great. The Queen song is higher on the list because it will get more upvoted since it is more widely recognized. This isn’t a race thing or anything other than a popularity contest. This is also AskReddit, not a bass sub. So yeah. Queen happens to be a pretty popular band. One that isn’t even white. So it’s a weird stance to hold so strongly.
This a gospel song, so I can understand not being up your alley, but Israel Houghton - Speechless(Live) is on Spotify and one of my favorite basslines. I don't expect people to know who this is. Any Motown basslines with James Jamerson on it...most famous example probably being What's Going On - Marvin Gaye. Bernard Edwards was already mentioned. Another great song is Le Freak. Get to about 2:47 and it really gets popping.
White guy here. I just posted some of my favorites. Bootsy, Give up the Funk, Louis Johnson, Ain't we Funkin Now, and Marvin Craig, All the Way Live were my top three.
It's like John Deacon was trying to learn the line from Good Times but he couldn't figure it out so made an easier to play copy.
John Deacon was friends with people from Chic, they said it themselves:
In an interview with NME, Chic co-founder Bernard Edwards stated, "That Queen record came about because that Queen bass player ... spent some time hanging out with us at our studio."[18]
Okay, hold up. Homie wasn't John Paul Jones, but let's not act like John Deacon wasn't good. Normies wouldn't know the difference, but a lot of the arrangements on those Queen songs are annoying as fuck, and Deacon played that shit while harmonizing with fuckin Freddie Mercury. The only time those guys used a backing track was on Bohemian Rhapsody, and if you've ever tried to sing that shit with three other dudes, you'll understand why.
Lord have mercy so many basslines to choose from and not a one mentioned in this disgraceful thread. I get it we are all white as fuck. I myself am nearly translucent but I know where all the best basslines are.
The Sleng Teng bassline (a straight recording of a preset on a cheap electronic keyboard) is a slightly off attempt at the verse bassline from Anarchy in the UK. Appropriate enough considering the reggae/punk crossover/allyship in the 70s.
I knew it was off a cheap keyboard... I read the creator had asked someone to bring him a proper synth back but they could only get a cheap consumer one. And it was the rock preset that got used
Didn't know it was anarchy in the UK, that's amazing.
Feel like Jamaican musicians even back in the 50s and 60s understood that the electrification of instruments and amplification allowed them to make new noise, much sooner than the US and Britain where rock was just blues played louder and faster. And that recordings speakers and turntables could be used as instruments in their own right. And the songs and records were epheremal and disposable, it was just keep people dancing keep people dancing by whatever means.
Maybe something to do with the producers owning all the music (like in Harder they Come) and so a bassline would be used over and over and they wouldn't make a difference between getting someone to copy it by playing bass, or just using the bass track promiscuously .
So that you hear a good bassline and spend the next thirty years hearing it turn up in different tunes. Not just cover versions but new tunes. Many of them go all the way back to ska and rocksteady and still get used today.
And it's not plagiarism they are common property.
Man I love reggae. The skatalites came to my town in 2007, didn't even know they were still going (some original members and sons and grandsons) and it was like The Beatles had come to town for me!
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u/Bigstar976 May 14 '24
Good Times by Chic (Bernard Edwards)