{"id":14040,"date":"2012-06-21T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14040"},"modified":"2012-06-22T16:29:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T20:29:07","slug":"the-money-shot-bass-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-money-shot-bass-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Money Shot: Bass Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;money shot,&#8221; that big payoff moment&#8230; In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-money-shot-vocals\/\" target=\"_blank\">first installment of our Money Shot series<\/a> we examined rock&#8217;s most influential vocal money shot moments. While we await the return of\u00a0<strong>Townsman tonyola<\/strong> before exploring mellotron money shot moments, let&#8217;s turn our attention to the bass guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Putting aside outright bass solos (sorry, John Entwistle on &#8220;My Generation&#8221;), what brief, shining moments in a song are brought to new heights by something as simple as a bass lick. I will suggest\u00a0<strong>John Paul Jones<\/strong>&#8216; measure-long bass fill following the first chorus in &#8220;Good Times Bad Times,&#8221; heard at the <strong>54-second mark<\/strong> of the following clip.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6TdDqv0qRqw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Imagine how many kids bought a bass guitar in hopes of learning that lick. Now what&#8217;s your bass guitar money shot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;money shot,&#8221; that big payoff moment&#8230; In the first installment of our Money Shot series we examined rock&#8217;s most influential vocal money shot moments. While we await the return of\u00a0Townsman tonyola before exploring mellotron money shot moments, let&#8217;s turn our attention to the bass guitar. Putting aside outright bass solos (sorry, John Entwistle on <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-money-shot-bass-guitar\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[70,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}