Weekly Basslines #192: Think (Mick Jagger)

Today Mick Jagger turns 73.
Besides singing with the Rolling Stones he released 4 solo albums so far. The 1993 album "Wandering Spirit" is my favorite one.

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The song "Think" is a cover song originally written by Lowman Pauling  and recorded by his band the "5 Royales" in 1957. (This song is not to be confused with the tune done by Aretha Franklin, which is a different composition.)
In 1960 James Brown did a radical rework of the tune, turning it from R&B into funk.
And finally Mick did another rework by turning it into a driving rock song:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mick Jagger! 

Here's the original version by the The "5 Royales".

And here James Brown's funky version:

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Weekly Basslines #191: '39 (Queen)

Today is Brian May's 69th birthday and for this reason I bring to you the transcription of one of my favorite Brian-May-penned Queen songs.

'39 is the fifth track on the famous "Night at the Opera" album from 1975 and is also sung by Brian.

He joked with John Deacon that the most suitable sound for this tune would be a double-bass which John at that time didn't know to play. But a few days later when Brian came to the studio he found John there with a double-bass and he already had learned how to play it.

So Happy Birthday to Brian May and thanks for that wonderful tune.

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Weekly Basslines #190: Look On (John Frusciante)

A lot of requests keep coming in lately. Seems like I'm going to be very busy transcribing for the next few weeks.
This weeks bassline had been requested by Gerhard. Thanks for the donation Gerhard :-)

John Frusciante is best known as former guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, but he also has a very active solo career having released 11 solo albums so far. The song "Look on" can be found on the 2004 release "Inside of emptiness". The bass is played by multi-instrumentalist Josh Klinghoffer, who is the Chili-Pepper's current guitarist.

Weekly Basslines #189: Fools In Love (Joe Jackson)

A while ago I posted a series of transcriptions from my personal bassheroes. Joe Jackson's longtime bassplayer Graham Maby is definitely one of my big idols in his creativity of building interesting basslines while always supporting the song. So of course in the past years I transcribed a lot of his basslines to analyse his playing.

This weeks bassline is "Fools In Love" from the debut album "Look Sharp" (1979):

Here's an interesting cover version of that song, recorded by Inara George for the TV series "Grey's anatomy":