What was the peak bass "performance" in SP 1

[Modern90's]

I think the gish 88-91 era was the peak of the bass playing. After that for the most part is lackluster. Most likely because of belly himself.

[Modern90's]

I think the Gish era was when the bass playing was at its prime. After that it became (for the most part) lackluster. Mostly because of belly himself.

[Modern90's]

Mods could you delete this thread. I didn't see the last one go through.

[Lt_Beans_McGood]

the peak of SP bass playing is the first song on their first album

[iPumpkin]

Luna or Disarm

[dreams of glass]

Crush, Blue, the breakdown in Siva, Rhinoceros, Bury Me

[SP MediaMilitia]

I always thought it was Tribute to Johnny

[Funbags]

Originally Posted by SP MediaMilitia

I always thought it was Tribute to Johnny

It has a pretty rad bass break. Guessing it's Boz playing

[juliana]

Stuff in 1988 was really good, watch the basement jams video.

[Grox]

crush

[vajohna]

Blue Skies has weird thing going on. Glass and the Ghost Children, too.

[HereIsNoWhy4U]

Really enjoy the bass on 'Hummer', 'Galapogos' and 'By Starlight'.
Overall, Mellon Collie probably has the most outstanding basslines.

[redbull]

Moleasskiss
Blue

[sjpaterra]

Suffer! The bass riff during the flute solo... It's like a bass line ray manzerek could envy

[Rider]

Landslide.

[Shallowed]

Originally Posted by Modern90's

I think the gish 88-91 era was the peak of the bass playing. After that for the most part is lackluster. Most likely because of belly himself.

Interesting call on that one. D'arcy didn't have much experience behind her, but the bass parts for that era are more melodic than later eras.

[slunken]

yea its almost as if she wasn't playing on the recordings

[Order 66]

gish and pre-gish is pretty much the only bass focused stuff. i'd have to have multi-tracks to really distinguish anything else

[The exploding boy]

Originally Posted by slunken

yea its almost as if she wasn't playing on the recordings

david gilmour recorded those parts.

[Disco King]

I probably haven't been cognizant enough of what the bass is doing to judge bass performances in recordings. I should probably start thinking about that, instead of being to focused on the guitar. I think most SP songs probably just have the bass playing the root note of the guitar chords, anyways.

Originally Posted by vajohna

Blue Skies has weird thing going on. Glass and the Ghost Children, too.

I like songs with droning guitar chords where the bass guitar is responsible for melodic movement. Gives them this sort of dark psychedelic feel.

[vajohna]

Pale Scales was trippy.

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I like songs with droning guitar chords where the bass guitar is responsible for melodic movement. Gives them this sort of dark psychedelic feel.

u shud move on to this:

http://www.trakmarx.com/2006_05/a/02-boris-360.jpg

[Grox]

pale scales rules

[redbull]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I like songs with droning guitar chords where the bass guitar is responsible for melodic movement. Gives them this sort of dark psychedelic feel.

check out Warpaint

[dodoz]

I like "daughter" a lot.

I think there's some good stuff later on too, but D'Arcy was often buried in the mix. This show is nice because the bass is up there for a change.

https://archive.org/details/tsp1996-04-19.fm.flac16#

By the way, it's funny how Billy (most probably) picked up the bass at the end of "Farewell and Goodnight" and attempted to play "Mellon Collie" (7:20).

[dodoz]

Originally Posted by Disco King

I think most SP songs probably just have the bass playing the root note of the guitar chords, anyways.

You probably were thinking of this lot. Quite handy to have a bass player that sticks to the root note when you have a singer/guitar player who can't play the chords properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSKvFnqAS3E

All kidding aside : worst bass player in a "professional" band that i've ever seen.

[Mals Marola]

the bassline for the verses on try x3 is pretty cool, & due to the relatively sparse instrumentation of the song ends up pretty much being the driving element of the tune - despite its simplicity - along with the drums; noticed this in particular while listening to a coupla live performances of it

[Ram27]

Which show was it where Jim played an electric kit on Try?

[jakobtheliar]

The American 2000 dates with the mid show acoustic sets. Most notably any sbd recording from archive.org from that time. Like 5.23.2000

[houseofglass11]

Originally Posted by dodoz

You probably were thinking of this lot. Quite handy to have a bass player that sticks to the root note when you have a singer/guitar player who can't play the chords properly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSKvFnqAS3E

All kidding aside : worst bass player in a "professional" band that i've ever seen.

Dave Parsons seemed like a pretty solid bassist to me. Bush didn't have complex bass parts but he held it down well.