What happened to rock bassists? Serious question here. You listen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT5oHYnmrGw

>>51846623
Bassists remembered that they were just playing bass.

>>51846639
no fucking way man THAT is a bad example of how it progressed

>>51846639
That's pretty fucking tight.

>>51846649

So much fucking this.

I've had to remind myself throughout the years that less=more when it comes to the bass

>>51846699
how much did you listen to? he's certainly not avoiding root note thumps

>>51846743

What's wrong with root note thumps?

>>51846743
I dunno man, Death From Above is kinda pseudofunky. Real good bass example is Day of Baphomet by Mars Volta.

>>51846778
time time time
musics progression is too complicated for those types of judgments

>>51846758
its the opposite of what the thread is requesting

>>51846763
do you like the new antemasque? its got flea on bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE8Qe40PLPM

>>51846842
Yeah I really dig Antemasque but more for the hooks than anything. The whole thing is like a giant hook, which is cool because it's also proggy. It's interesting also how the production creates a sort of vacuum, like the first couple times I listened to it on headphones it created a sortof satisfying dissonance.

>>51846623
>octaves
that's some sophisticated shit right there bro

anyway long story short you probably don't listen to very much modern rock music, there's bass in your face for days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7MRZbG-tc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pncr-A-aGJg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts3YWVFUnvU

>>51846993
more.

these guys dont even have guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg6zeUvZS-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NZGbD236fw

>>51846623

pop punk and core happened.

Check out your local music scene, half the time you won't even see a bassist.

not rock (indie pop/rock), but listen to this bass line
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNzu25hZjA

>>51846623

Listen to more stoner rock OP, they're still around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-FjO3E8K-E

>>51846623
Most of the time everyone wants to be a guitarist and the shittiest guitarist gets shoved into playing bass.

Modern production allows the guitar tone to be heavy/loud enough to the point that it drowns out the bass. In modern power chord based mainstream rock, the bass would have to be annoyingly loud to have anything it's doing heard above the guitars.

>>51848561
>Check out your local music scene, half the time you won't even see a bassist.
I hate that this is true. Good bassists are so fucking hard to come by. And when a band actually does have a bass, it's practically always a guitar player that had to play bass for the band's sake

good bassists had better music to play

Post tracks with basslines you like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO3bW3XgQSA

>>51850114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyMg-SRIOdg
i know it's kinda doing a lot of just holding the chord, but i think it does it very well, and has its moments

>>51850159
I love hella so I'm really biased. I like it. Here's another one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBNjXbcGQ_Y

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>>51850114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjnFyk4Rmus

Had to post this.

>>51850114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb9aUOBLCTk

>>51850114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFAAFnRxK74

Love Don Cabs basslines

>>51850114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw4Kq-hr63Y

>>51846649
nice meme

>>51848618

RIDE THE DRAGON TOWARDS THE CRIMSON EYE

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>rock music
>complex chord structures

Radiohead is slightly overhyped but they have great basslines
>tfw jigsaw

Brian Cook is my favourite modern bassist, both in These Arms Are Snakes and Russian Circles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtpFOBJA7O8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmoRre9dAD0

>>51850114
bootsy is god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFalZJ5eEwY

>>51850114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84GEk4RUY3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-HQR2-s1J4

trout mask replica is full of great bass playing

>>51851052
too bad it was made 45 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX8AXsAQhLk

>>51846623
If you mean mainstream rock, it got dumbed down as a whole towards the end of the 70s.
But post-punk is full of prominent melodic bass playing.

Disco was the last bastion of bass

Deep Turtle has great basslines. They quit around 10 years ago though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ8mRPIC8Y4

>>51852338
NOFX's bassist is god-tier

I'd have to guess it was the bassist from AC/DC and Kim Deal that made super minimal bass playing popular.

>>51850114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD77IJXUPUE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdOLFtk9joI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ZVbw74OhU

>>51853893
First two are disgusting pleb shit, third one's pretty good.

>>51853913
Flea is overrated as fuck, but still pretty good.

>>51852533
well that's more pop punk lol but I completely agree Fat Mike is amazing

>>51850114
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej4FkpcQduw

>>51852262
Complete bullshit. Sounds like a guy who's listened to way too much Primus and has no idea what grooves are supposed to sound like.

I always like the bassline in A-Punk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w2LKz88-sM

>>51854078
Couldn't have said it better. Furthermore, who the fuck listens tho this unironically? or even ironically for that matter

>>51852533
>>51853969

Fat Mike is pretty mediocre, only good punk-rock bassist is Freeman from Rancid

>>51854143
If Minutemen count as punk rock, Mike Watt rules all.

>>51847062
lightning bolt uses two banjo strings or something on his bass, doesn't count

>>51854643
i use a bass string on my guitar and it's still a guitar you fucking nigger

>>51854711
post pics
the instrument he's playing is still a bass guitar yes, but it's not fair to compare other bassists' sound to his when he's doing something so unique. it's like saying cars today have no horsepower then citing a prius as my example despite the fact that that's a hybrid and not really representative of cars in general today

>>51850114
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtzEbEI2lEM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TjyLU0-9SE

>>51854143
Paul Simonon
Graham Lewis
Mike Watt
Rob Wright

also
>Rancid
>good

>>51850826
The bassline to Airbag is the dopest shit.

>>51849042
Bass isn't heard so much as felt in that case. Take out the bass track completely and you would almost always immediately be able to tell that something is missing/wrong.

>>51858237
Agree, but also, have the bass perform complex bass lines, and they'll just sound out of place in the power chord/heavy riff based music. The bass is better used in music where the guitar doesn't completely overpower the songs.