Roger's best bass work

Gilmour plays the fretless bass on Hey You, just read the Echoes liner notes!

No one has playing credits on Animals, it just says "Produced by Pink Floyd."

I like the bass work on 'One of These Days'.

breathe and eclipse have some great bass playing. Its hard to hear the bass line on eclipse but you can see him play on the pomeii dvd.

yes the bass work is terrific on Dave's part excellent playing small credit for Roger with his little eighth note thing he's got going on...

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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:46:04 -0700
From: KCoryat [at] mfi.com (Karl Coryat)
Subject: Roger Waters

Karl Coryat from Bass Player here. I wrote a retrospective on Pink Floyd's
Animals several issues ago and was surprised to hear from David Gilmour himself.
I had mentioned Gilmour's bass playing on "Sheep" (which is fairly well known)
but thought Roger Waters had played on "Sheep." I also mentioned that David had
dissed Roger's playing in the press several times before. I agree "Pigs" is a
great line well performed, but sadly it isn't Roger. (Funny that Gilmour
describes bass playing as a "chore.")

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About your Classic Revisited piece on Pink Floyd's Animals [March '98]: I don't
think I ever described Roger Waters's bass playing as "horrible." If I did I
must have been having a bad day. He was a good bass player when he wanted to be - which he often didn't - and when he didn't he often asked me to take over
the chore. On Animals Roger played bass on "Dogs" and I played bass on "Sheep"
and "Pigs." Most of the bass line on "Sheep" (apart from the ending) was what
Roger had been playing onstage, as we had been performing it as "Raving and
Drooling" for a couple of years. However, in the studio Roger had a rhythm
guitar part he wanted to play, so we swapped roles. On "Pigs" the part and the
playing are mine.

I'm not Karl Coryat, if anyone thought that. I just found the article on the web.

Do not question me!

Thanks WG, I always suspected "Dogs" had Rogerish bass.

Why , Gerald?

If rumour doens't hold true... i think his best bass piece is Pigs (Three diff Ones)

I never really heard any bass playing from Roger that would rank as extraordinary. The line from "Set the Controls" was of course infectious, and there was some good bass sounds on "One of These Days" and "Sheep" but I never really heard any flexible or notable bass work on a Floyd recording until "Delicate Sound of Thunder." Sorry.

It's maybe not his best bass work, but I like the Roger provides the rhythm on "The Gnome". I think Roger strength as a bass player was when he made easy and catchy bass riffs like "Money", "Set The Controls", "Another Brick in the wall II" and "Dramatic Theme". I also like his performance on "Breathe" on Live 8. He did a few mistakes, but I've never heard and seen him enjoy his instrument in the same way before.

Dave's best bass performance IMO is "Pigs". He also plays "Not Now John" well, but I don't like the bass sound on that song.

Sheep has very simple bass but it is incredible. Dno if its dave or rog tho

It used to be Roger, back when the song was called "Raving and Drooling," then Dave (and in 1977, Snowy White) started playing it when they changed the name.

Personally, I really like the bass work in "The Gnome".