Walk On The Wild Side - The story behind the classic bass intro featuring Herbie Flowers. video free download

chrisofnottingham

Except that on the recording of the intro, the double bass goes down from the C to a low F, not up. He plays it all sorts of ways in the song and my guess is that the producer kept one particular version that he liked for the into.

Frank Sells

That is one expensive stack knob jazz bass Herbie owns there!

Richard Goffin-Lecar

This is a classic example of great musicianship. The bass line is what really makes it work. Totally inspired - I love it!!!

Philip Robinson

Spoken to Mr. Flowers on a few occasions now, and he is THE nicest most amiable bloke Ive ever known, a true gent and a musical legend.

SpiRos Ontic

My all time favorite bass line of his is Space Oddity, I recommend searching here on youtube for space oddity drums and bass and giving it a listen. It's so off-beat and weird, but absolutely perfect at the same time. And it's straight hell to learn lol, but I'm still trying.

Guillaume MAURIN

*Walk On The Wild Side* - The story behind the classic bass intro

Jamie Robertson

Herbie is very humble as you have to be to play as a Session Musician but it was no accident he made a career out of composing amazing bass lines.)

Vassilis Lazouras

really nice

Tim Webb

Fantastic! One of the greatest bass lines ever.

Tim Harder

Breakfast of Bassists. Chew on this for a while. 

Karl Freudenreich

Breakfast of Bassists. Chew on this for a while. 

Barbara Saunders

Herbie Flowers shares the story of the session where he created the remarkable "Walk on the Wild Side" bass line.

Jan Landy

RIP Lou

skaizun

I love stories like this! Thanks!

Robyn McIntyre

Very cool

Les Bell

Great session musicians, a great song, the taste of a great songwriter. Genius.

Robert Pearce

Very cool, what a great slice of music history.

Rebecca

Excellent :)

Niko IkonMusic

Brilliant!!!

Ronan Kearney

Amazing insight to a brilliant song. R.I.P Lou Reed