{"id":3342,"date":"2013-03-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2013-02-27T17:29:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T22:29:31","slug":"peace-love-and-bass-five-1960s-era-songs-to-add-to-your-bass-repertoire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/peace-love-and-bass-five-1960s-era-songs-to-add-to-your-bass-repertoire.html","title":{"rendered":"Peace, Love and Bass: Five 1960s-Era Songs To Add To Your Bass Repertoire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many songs of the 1960s featured the bass guitar very prominently. Good to know, good to learn, and if you&#8217;re in a band, these can easily expand your set list to include stuff that&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221; and different.<\/p>\n<p>I did my best here <strong>not<\/strong> to go with the songs everyone knows and pick some lesser-known tracks.<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Little Green Bag<\/em> by George Baker Selection<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever seen the movie <em>Reservoir Dogs<\/em>, you know this song. The bass is the first instrument heard, loud and proud.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ixrvc-YDI0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2. <em>Blue&#8217;s Theme<\/em> by Davie Allan and the Arrows<\/p>\n<p>Some consider this to the &#8220;the first heavy metal song&#8221;. Is it? That&#8217;s debatable. But what isn&#8217;t debatable is that it&#8217;s very easy to play but at the same time has a good groove to it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0UBZdrJJEwQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>3. <em>Psychotic Reaction<\/em> by Count Five<\/p>\n<p>This song has a good-and-loud bass track that can be heard start to finish, and is very clearly separated from the guitars. <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-9a4W2FZnpc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>4. <em>Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)<\/em> by John Fred and His Playboy Band<\/p>\n<p>This tune is admittedly a total pop song from the era. But it&#8217;s also very fun to play.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqU_ts_C0NU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>5. <em>Here Comes the Judge<\/em> by Pigmeat Markham<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;weird song&#8221;, but when you hear that bass kick up at 40 seconds in, <strong>it&#8217;s incredibly groovy<\/strong>. You will love learning this one.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qvPkWwXIVhk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many songs of the 1960s featured the bass guitar very prominently. Good to know, good to learn, and if you&#8217;re in a band, these can easily expand your set list to include stuff that&#8217;s &#8220;new&#8221; and different. I did my best here not to go with the songs everyone knows and pick some lesser-known tracks. &#8230; <a title=\"Peace, Love and Bass: Five 1960s-Era Songs To Add To Your Bass Repertoire\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/peace-love-and-bass-five-1960s-era-songs-to-add-to-your-bass-repertoire.html\" aria-label=\"More on Peace, Love and Bass: Five 1960s-Era Songs To Add To Your Bass Repertoire\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3345,"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\/3342"}],"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=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}