{"id":6274,"date":"2014-09-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2018-03-25T14:08:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T19:08:30","slug":"duran-durans-rio-one-of-the-toughest-bass-lines-you-never-knew-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/duran-durans-rio-one-of-the-toughest-bass-lines-you-never-knew-about.html","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran&#8217;s &quot;Rio&quot; &#8211; One of the toughest bass lines you never knew about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duran Duran is not the first band you think of when it comes to bass lines. In fact, some of you might even think, &#8220;Duran Duran counts as a band?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, they do.<\/p>\n<p>Duran Duran&#8217;s bass player is John Taylor, and he did play the bass line for the song <em>Rio<\/em>. Unfortunately, that song, while hugely popular, was a bad mix where John&#8217;s bass could barely be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Below is <em>Rio<\/em> with the bass track isolated. Unless you knew beforehand, I guarantee you would never guess it was this complicated.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, it has a very Entwistle-esque vibe to it.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hr3HCNIgv40\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duran Duran is not the first band you think of when it comes to bass lines. In fact, some of you might even think, &#8220;Duran Duran counts as a band?&#8221; Oh yes, they do. Duran Duran&#8217;s bass player is John Taylor, and he did play the bass line for the song Rio. Unfortunately, that song, &#8230; <a title=\"Duran Duran&#8217;s &quot;Rio&quot; &#8211; One of the toughest bass lines you never knew about\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/article\/duran-durans-rio-one-of-the-toughest-bass-lines-you-never-knew-about.html\" aria-label=\"More on Duran Duran&#8217;s &quot;Rio&quot; &#8211; One of the toughest bass lines you never knew about\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6273,"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\/6274"}],"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=6274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}