Alt-Rocks Great Bass Players

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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With over 300 OGH podcasts to choose from, we know that sometimes older episodes get lost in the library. So, here is a topic we had a request to dig up again...and this episode first aired on radio in November of 2010 as we look at one of the most under appreciated and underrated members of any rock band...the bass player. These are the most influential bass players in the history of alt-rock. Next week...it's the 1000th episode of the Ongoing History of New Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. If I get my kid a phone, I'll be able to keep in touch with them all the time. They'll be on it all the time. He could walk to school by himself. She could see something, she shouldn't. He could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls? They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet.
0:22.3	So, should I give my kid a phone? I could chat with grandma. Friends, trolls? They can access anything on the internet. They can access anything on the internet.
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0:39.3	When it comes to jokes about musicians, bass players have to be in the top three, right behind accordionists and drummers.
0:47.3	Example, what do you call a beautiful woman on a bass player's arm? A tattoo.
0:53.3	What's the difference between a vacuum
0:55.4	cleaner and a drunken bass player? You have to plug one in before it sucks. What do you throw
1:00.8	a drowning bassist? He is amp. Thank you. I'll be here all week. Yes, it's true that rock and roll
1:07.1	really took off with the invention of the electric guitar, but can you imagine it becoming
1:11.2	what it has today without the low, steadying thump of an electric bass played through big cabinets
1:17.8	powered by warm-sounding tube amplifiers? I can't. And would rock have become what it has without
1:24.9	the lockstep rhythms produced by the bass player and the drummer?
1:28.6	Uh-uh. That's why we should step back and offer some respect to those who advance the cause
1:34.1	and appreciation of low notes. These are the most influential bass players in the history
1:39.9	of alt rock. This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.
1:49.2	Welcome again, I'm Alan Cross, and today we're going to give bass players their due.
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