25 Величайших басовых партий
Группа Queen. Первое? что приходит на ум обывателя - великий вокалист Фредди Меркьюри и его музыканты. О таланте Брайана Мэя более наслышанными оказываются музыканты и фанаты группы. Роджер Тэйлор - популярен среди фанаток группы, Мэй и Меркьюри для которых не в их вкусе)))) Что же остается Джону? Те поклонники, которые смогли понять, что Queen, в отличии от многих это 4 талантливейших и харизматичных человека. Каждый из которых мог бы "наследить" в истории музыки самостоятельно. Однако, их союз дал невероятный по силе и разнообразию коллектив.
Фредди возглавляет многие рейтинги вокалистов и шоу-мэнов, Брайан не покидает десятку лучших гитаристов, Роджер не забыт в 50 лучших барабанщиках. Джон... если не изменяет память на bass-player.com занял аж 72 место. Причем по отзывам многих поклонников других басистов именно малая активность нас - куиноманов не сделала из него легенду. Ведь невозможно на самом деле сказать какой басист лучше, это не 100-метровка, чтобы возможно было сравнить результат. А значит легендарность музыканта "делают" его фанаты. Так что все зависит только от нас господа.
При всем при этом есть и хорошие новости. В проведенном опросе 25 величайших басовых партий Джон показал фантастический результат. Он единственный басист попавших в список аж с двумя песнями, да еще и места этих песен в рейтинге оказались высокими. Так он оставил многих легенд и виртуозов позади.
Информация: musicradar.com
1/Muse - Hysteria
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. A massive 23 percent of you voted Hysteria from Muse's 2003 album Absolution into first place. Bassist Chris Wolstenholme certainly takes centre stage on this track with his intricate, processed bass riff driving the song along and providing a fat bedrock for Matt Bellamy's guitar histrionics. Congratulations Muse!
2/Rush - YYZ
Rush fans voted in their thousands for this one, and they very nearly took the 1981 instrumental to the very top of the poll. A live staple in which all members excel, there's some seriously impressive bass work from Geddy Lee, not to mention simultaneous synth multitasking too.
3/Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
The only bassist to have two basslines in our rundown might have won the whole thing if Queen fans' votes hadn't been split between Under Pressure and this. Deacon was certainly influenced by Chic's Good Times but the lean, funky, bass-driven AOBTD has racked up an astonishing amount of airplay over the years and remains immensely popular.
4/Queen - Under Pressure
Under Pressure proves just how effective the simplest of rhythmic riffs can be. Vanilla Ice certainly agrees.
5/Pink Floyd - Money
7/4 isn't the exactly the most common time signature in rock but it certainly didn't stop the opening track on side two of The Dark Side Of The Moon from attaining classic status. We can't help thinking that David Gilmour was onto something when he insisted that the band shift to 4/4 for his guitar solo.
6/Metallica - Orion
Another huge bass talent with an all too brief recording career, Cliff Burton's outrageous lead bass work on Anaesthesia (Pulling Teeth) from Metallica's 1983 debut album marked him out as something special from the word go. 1986's Orion was his masterpiece.
7/Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
In hindsight, it's hard to believe that producer Quincy Jones felt that Billie Jean was too weak to be considered for inclusion on Thriller. The bassline went on to become one of the most recognisable in pop history, but it certainly still owes plenty to I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) by Hall & Oates.
8/YES - Roundabout
Co-written by Squire in 1971, after its moody acoustic guitar intro, Roundabout features a surprisingly funky bass riff from 0:44 onwards that is the dictionary definition of the Rickenbacker bass sound that the Yes bassist made his own.
9/The WHO - My Generation
The bass solo that it's cool to like was recorded on 13 October 1965, with John Entwistle turning to his Fender Jazz Bass after breaking a succession of strings on the Danelectro that he'd intended to use for the part. Alongside Moon's chaos, Townshend's aggression and Daltrey's amphetamine stutter, a classic statement of youth rebellion was born.
10/TOOL - Schism
Released in 2001, Schism was the first single from their album of the following year, Lateralus. An incredibly complex piece of work from a meter standpoint, it also sees Justin Chancellor more than earn his money during that intro.
11/RHCP- Give it away
The lead single from 1991's multi-million selling Blood Sugar Sex Magik was largely the result of Flea and John Fruciante's jam sessions during their time in post-Mother's Milk side project H.A.T.E. Once Anthony Kiedis heard it, he was sold: "I was so struck by Flea's bass part, which covered the whole length of the instrument's neck, that I jumped up and marched over to the mic, my notebook in tow."
12/Led Zeppelin - The Lemon Song
Borrowing heavily from Howlin' Wolf's Killing Floor, The Lemon Song saw Zeppelin perform virtually live in Hollywood's Mystic Studios in 1969, with Jones pulling an intricate bass take out of the bag that was apparently almost entirely improvised.
13/The Beatles - Taxmen
As Paul McCartney's bass playing became more adventurous and drew on the transatlantic soul influence of Motown and Stax recordings he hit upon a style that is one of the most recognisable in the history of the instrument. His bass work on George Harrison's wonderful Revolver opener is among his best and its influence would continue to resonate in the decades that followed.
14/Chic - Good Times
Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards' 1979 composition was a huge disco hit but that's only half the story. One of the most-sampled records in history, an onstage jam at Bonds nightclub in NYC would spawn Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight, while the bassline was a huge influence on Queen's Another One Bites The Dust, released the following year.
15/Jaco Pastorious - The Chicken
Bass Week has already seen us look back on the all too brief career of the hugely talented Pastorius, and his appearance in this rundown was always a certainty. Here's one of many stellar performances of this live favourite...
16/Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
One of the standout tracks from Lou Reed's incredible 1972 album Transformer, this David Bowie-produced classic saw bassist Herbie Flowers scoop a double session fee when he overdubbed his upright line with a fretless electric.
17/Marvin Gaye -What's going on
We could happily compile a top 25 greatest basslines of all time and only include Jamerson basslines, but this 1971 masterpiece is wonderful even by his incomparably high standards. Read our James Jamerson profile to find out how this part came into existence.
18/Ben E King - Stand by me
If any bassline in this rundown can make the hair stand up on the back of your neck then it's this. Written by King with Leiber and Stoller, it was Mike Stoller who sat down at the piano and picked out the bass part as King sang the beginnings of the melody. The lovely upright line on the recording was performed with consummate feel by Wendell Marshall.
19/The Clash - the guns of Brixton
Clash bassist Paul Simonon wrote and sung this claustrophobic, reggae-influenced cut from 1979 and it was later covered extensively and sampled to great effect.
20/Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
One might imagine that it's hard to get much attention when you are in a band with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, but for once it's Tom Hamilton in the spotlight in this classic from 1975.
21/Rick James - Super Freak
From Super Fly to Super Freak. Rick James may have done plenty of posing with basses been a capable all-rounder, but it was Oscar Alston who laid down this cheeky groove in 1981, later the inspiration for a man with some of the baggiest trousers in living memory.
22/Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
There's cool and then there's ice cold. From Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly soundtrack in 1972, Pusherman is underpinned beautifully by Joseph 'Lucky' Scott, the man you voted as the 25th greatest bassist of all time back in 2010.
23/Nancy Sinatra - These boots are made for walkin'
This Lee Hazlewood-penned Nancy Sinatra smash hit from 1966 features one of the most distinctive bass intros in history. Read the story of how it went down in our exclusive interview with Carol Kaye.
24/Wilson Pickett - In the midnight hour
This much-covered Atlantic Records soul classic from Wilson Pickett was born in '65 but has never stopped getting heavy rotation. 'Duck' Dunn's killer bassline was a huge influence on Paul McCartney as his style developed.
25/James Brown - Make It Funky
Released as a two-part single in 1971, then followed up with Make It Funky Parts 3 & 4 on Brown's Get On The Good Foot album a year later, this stoned and sexy groove is in many a hip-hop classic's DNA.