{"id":10989,"date":"2017-04-12T09:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=10989"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:50:06","slug":"cult-of-personality-by-living-colour-isolated-bass-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/cult-of-personality-by-living-colour-isolated-bass-track.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Cult of Personality&quot; by Living Colour isolated bass track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite song of many bassists because of its groove, <em>Cult of Personality<\/em> is a staple rock song of the late 1980s. 1988, to be specific.<\/p>\n<p>This song is played using all fingers and requires accurate fretting to get it right. Also, atypical to most rock songs of the late &#8217;80s, the bass can be heard loud and clear, even in the original studio mix.<\/p>\n<p>Where tone is concerned, it edges more towards midrange punch rather than in-your-face low end. Having strings with a piano-like twang to them also helps (which is more or less the sound of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/strings.htm\">new roundwound strings<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Cult of Personality<\/em> sounds deceptively simple, and is a total groove monster.<\/p>\n<p>Isolated bass track (original studio recording below)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9wMnQUx6lu4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Original studio recording (full mix)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xxgRUyzgs0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A favorite song of many bassists because of its groove, Cult of Personality is a staple rock song of the late 1980s. 1988, to be specific. This song is played using all fingers and requires accurate fretting to get it right. Also, atypical to most rock songs of the late &#8217;80s, the bass can be &#8230; <a title=\"&quot;Cult of Personality&quot; by Living Colour isolated bass track\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/cult-of-personality-by-living-colour-isolated-bass-track.html\" aria-label=\"More on &quot;Cult of Personality&quot; by Living Colour isolated bass track\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}