Sorry if this has been brought up before. Some of the most interesting bass work on Stones records has been done by their guitarists.

My vote for number one is Fingerprint File by Mick Taylor; melodic, fluid playing. Close runner up is Ronnie on Emotional Rescue.

Others of note: Keith on SFTD, JJF, and Live with Me and MT on Tumbling Dice and Shine a Light. There are others too...

What are your favorites?

well.. sounds like it is Keith on Live with me.

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Mick Taylor´s bass on Coming Down Again and Time Waits For No One is very nice.

Keith on Casino Boogie

Keith on Little T + A

Whoever did the bass for If You Can't Rock Me (could be Bill). Top notch

Paul Mc. on I Wanna Be Your Man...........

Mr.Mustard

Has to be Keith on Sympathy. (Though Bill does it better on Ya Yas!)

Hide Your Love is worth a mention - not sure if that's Keith or MickT.

Def Keith on Sympathy

Live with me!!! and i also like Bill's bass as the end of
19th nervous breakdown! Very cool part.

Still Life

No difficult question: Ronnie on "Break the Spell" on "Steel Wheels".

My vote for number one is Fingerprint File by Mick Taylor

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Keef on Lennon's "Yer Blues" was pretty nice re:RnR Circus

Ronnie on "Summer Romance"!!!!!!!!!

As much as I love Bill Wyman's bass playing ("Slave" and "Start Me Up" being particular favourites of mine...those are Bill, aren't they???), ironically, my favourite Stones bass lines were played by the guitarists!

(Although, if you really wanted to get nitpicky, Wyman started off as a guitarist and switched to bass...)

If I had to pick one...Mick Taylor's bass on "Fingerprint File" makes the song IMO.

Ditto for Ronnie on "Emotional Rescue". Always liked his bass part on "Tie You Up" as well. "Fight" too, for that matter.

Keith? "Sympathy", of course, with "Flash" and "Live With Me" not too far behind (when I first saw the song-by-song credits on the "Let It Bleed" LP I was like, "That was KEEF?!" ) "Crazy Mama" for a Keith "Deep Bass Cut".

"Goats Head Soup" is probably my favourite album for Stones BASS...and, again, Bill's only on about half the album or so...

Why is that, anyway? After "Sticky Fingers", Bill only plays on half the tunes, it seems. Did they not like his original parts, and redid 'em, or was he just not in the studio at the time? Fortunately they needed him for concerts, where he kicked ass. I mean, Darryl Jones is great, and a more than worthy successor, but he ain't Bill...

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After "Sticky Fingers", Bill only plays on half the tunes, it seems. Did they not like his original parts, and redid 'em, or was he just not in the studio at the time? Fortunately they needed him for concerts, where he kicked ass. I mean, Darryl Jones is great, and a more than worthy successor, but he ain't Bill...

Bill didn't do coke and wouldn't keep Keith's hours, so very often he just wasn't there, so Keith (or whoever) would do the bass. I don't know of an incident after "Sympathy" where someone simply took the bass away from him while he was there to play it. From then on it would simply be a matter of him not being there at the time.

It also didn't help that the others (Charlie excluded) plain didn't like Bill. I can only imagine that made it hard for him being in the studio (or anywhere) with them. Nobody likes to be someplace where they're not wanted.

Tommy

IMO Keith with SFTD, looks great also in One+One to see him playin'

.....and i still don't know who played the bass solo on the "One hit to the body"
12"???
I've asked fot that in another thread, but get no answers

So once again

Bill or Keith ?

I couldn't believe that nobody here knows!

HMN

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i still don't know who played the bass solo on the "One hit to the body"
12"???
I've asked fot that in another thread, but get no answers

So once again

Bill or Keith ?

I couldn't believe that nobody here knows!

'Educated' guess on my part, but I want to say it's Bill on "One Hit". Bill on bass; Ronnie on acoustic (and possible electric rhythm); Keith on rhythm and 2nd lead; Jimmy Page did the main solos.

Not sure if Keith played any bass at all on "Dirty Work". I always reckoned it's Bill on "One Hit", "Harlem Shuffle", "Winning Ugly", "Dirty Work" and "Sleep Tonight". Ronnie on "Fight", "Too Rude" and "Back To Zero" and Ivan Neville on "Hold Back". No bass on "Had It With You", of course.

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Honestman
i still don't know who played the bass solo on the "One hit to the body"
12"???
I've asked fot that in another thread, but get no answers

So once again

Bill or Keith ?

I couldn't believe that nobody here knows!

'Educated' guess on my part, but I want to say it's Bill on "One Hit". Bill on bass; Ronnie on acoustic (and possible electric rhythm); Keith on rhythm and 2nd lead; Jimmy Page did the main solos.

Not sure if Keith played any bass at all on "Dirty Work". I always reckoned it's Bill on "One Hit", "Harlem Shuffle", "Winning Ugly", "Dirty Work" and "Sleep Tonight". Ronnie on "Fight", "Too Rude" and "Back To Zero" and Ivan Neville on "Hold Back". No bass on "Had It With You", of course.

Keith plays bass on Sleep Tonight.

Mathijs

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Honestman
IMO Keith with SFTD, looks great also in One+One to see him playin'

.....and i still don't know who played the bass solo on the "One hit to the body"
12"???
I've asked fot that in another thread, but get no answers

So once again

Bill or Keith ?

I couldn't believe that nobody here knows!

Bill plays bass on One Hit.

Mathijs

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It also didn't help that the others (Charlie excluded) plain didn't like Bill. I can only imagine that made it hard for him being in the studio (or anywhere) with them. Nobody likes to be someplace where they're not wanted.

Tommy

This is pure speculation, and actually bollocks. Bill is always present during the main recording and rehearsel sessions. The problem for him is that the tapes then are sent around the world to wherever Mick and Keith are for mixing, editing and overdubs, and this is when many final bass parts are recorded. For most of these sessions Charlie and Bill are not present for various reasons.

Mathijs

Thanks Mathijs

HMN

ps the best bass by a guitarist of course is Keith on Pretty Beat up.

Mathijs

Bill Wyman JMI and SMU on Still Life. Also LWM on GYYYO.

Keith on Silver Train

Keith plays great on Pretty Beat Up indeed, Ronnie does a fine job on Break the Spell.

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Keith on Silver Train

That's Taylor.

Mathijs

Bill has too many to mention so my fave (outside of Bill) is Ronnie on "Emotional rescue". Simply superb.

Man I miss Bill....