Greatest Rock Bass Players of all Time

[Gadianton]

That Osmond video is mind-blowing. I can't remember the last time I heard the song, I think I saw it performed live once at a theme park, but as a kid, I had the record. We used to blast Crazy Horses on the record player as it was our only chance to listen to rock music loudly. We got a free pass because it was the Osmonds, otherwise we'd never have been allowed to listen to rock music on the family stereo system. In fact, we blasted it once for the friend a couple houses down from us one day. We were given permission to do that because it could have been a missionary tool. That friend was slightly older, and he kind of laughed at it. I recall he was a huge Ozzy fan, even though I didn't know who Ozzy was at that time, but I've just read today that Ozzy was a fan of Crazy Horses. Poetic justice after all these years?

The biggest shock is that Donny wasn't singing all the parts and actually confined to the most dicey instrumentation -- but how to predict where synths would go back then? Next, now I know where Lars got the toms opening to Enter Sandman. Just listen to that intro. I'm not a big early rock fan so I wouldn't know, but if anyone else knows of a tribal tom intro that breaks into a heavy guitar riff prior to Crazy Horses, I'd be interested.

In the comments, it says that some countries banned the song because they thought it was about heroin. Context means a lot. imagine that you don't know who the Osmonds are and don't know what Mormonism is, and don't know that they perform with plastic smiles on their face, and a concerned parent friend brought the song to you as about heroin. Would you think it was any less heavy than other stuff from that time? The song was written in 1972.

Here is Black Sabbath in 1971:

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

Deep Purple 1972:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAKCR7kQMTQ

Judas Priest 1972:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTfD9219EQs

If you took the synth out and the brass, which gives it the showtune color, it's about as metal is it gets for back then. And the Osmond bassist, Vocal 2; he should have had his turn as front man for Van Halen.

[Dr Exiled]

Loved Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, not Judas Priest so much. Those were the days, days of rebellion, days of exploration. I don't know if anyone here used to go to the Indian Center across from the SL Bees baseball stadium back in the day, but there were some great Punk bands that played there like TSOL and the Dead Kennedys. Their bassists were pretty decent as far as I remember and the beats were fast and furious.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLC_Punk!

I used to party with this guy and knew a lot of the characters he portrayed in the movie. If you watch the movie, the guy that took too much LSD was a friend of mine since elementary school. His cousin had the hook up back in the day and used to take multiple hits prior to running marathons. I don't want to derail but acid was a big part of these bands.

[honorentheos]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLC_Punk!

I used to party with this guy and knew a lot of the characters he portrayed in the movie. If you watch the movie, the guy that took too much LSD was a friend of mine since elementary school. His cousin had the hook up back in the day and used to take multiple hits prior to running marathons. I don't want to derail but acid was a big part of these bands.

That's really interesting. I thought of SLC Punk! as a slightly campy portrayal of what felt familiar if cartoonist compared to my experiences in northern Utah in the 90s. More ska playing at the same venues and shows, cowboys in place of mods, lots of dudes looking for any excuse to punch someone showing up. Good times. I bought this movie soy daughter could watch it when she was in high school after she found out her trans friends parents also about my same age who were uber-religious had been punks when younger. When she expressed incredulity I laughed at it and told her assholes hyper-aware of image and concerned about what the right kind of people thought of them was how I'd describe a big chunk of the people I knew who were really, really into the scene. Of course they just changed uniforms while remaining the same kind of person.