Song you like where the bass player used a pick

Rush. Distant Early Warning
It’s kinda more fun finger style but Geddy picking this line is bass heaven to me

 

I just don’t groove with picks. I was a bass player back in my day, and being a big Steve Harris fan I just gravitated to using my fingers right from the off. I even play guitar with my fingers.

But back to the OP question - pretty much anything by Thin Lizzy (Phil Lynott), but in particular their song Emerald.

 

Atomic Rooster: "a spoonful of bromide helps the pulse rate go down."

 

In addition to those mentioned so far, everything by Bill Wyman and Rick Danko.

I could list 40 or 50 more.

 

most if not every song by nirvava

 

Yes: South Side of the Sky.

 

I've been playing bass for 42 years. When I played professionally it's what played. This pick vs. whatever is a stupid argument. It's like saying only true guitarists use there fingers, teeth, or whatever. Playing with a pick should be just one technique to arrive at a particular tone required for a given song. PERIOD!

Favorite pick used song other than those mentioned is "Round About"

 

John Deacon's bass playing on "Under Pressure." He plays the opening and bass throughout.
Interestingly, David Bowie had a part in writing this song with Freddie and Brian May.

 

Anything by the Doobie Brothers with Tiran Porter on bass.

 

"Down in the Tube Station at Midnight" by the Jam.

 

Some of my favorite bass lines were played on Motown records. I don't know if the bass players used a pick or not. It seems like the important thing is to get the sound you want out of your bass (or instrument in general)...pick, no pick, bow, slap your ding-dong on it, etc.

 

James Jamerson primarily used his index finger, referring to it as “the hook”.
Joe Osborn mostly used a pick on his concentric knob Jazz Bass.

 

Most Beatles songs

 

Doobie Brothers...good call. I like “For Someone Special” off the “Takin’ it to the Streets” album. That was a cool bass line in a cool moody song...and some great textural Rhodes electric piano too:



Doug Pinnick had some cool picked basslines in Kings X stuff. Examples abound but to get a real face full of his weird-ass sorta bi-amped distorted-highs picked tone you can listen to “What I Know About Love:”

 

Bill plays with a pick.

More pick players, off the top of my head:

Ben Orr
Peter Hook
Andy Shernoff
Kim Gordon
Kim Deal
Pete Quaife
Phil Lesh
Mike Gordon
Allen Woody
Berry Oakley
Chas Chandler
Paul Samwell-Smith
Jerry Casale
Bruce Foxton
Brian Ritchie
Burke Shelley (Budgie)
Michael Bradley (Undertones)
Steve Garvey (Buzzcocks)
Ali McMordie (Stiff Little Fingers)
Tom Petersson
Noel Redding

 

Is it strange that I almost always play bass with a pick, but almost never play guitar with one? I think as doing it for years and years before I even noticed.

 

Anything Greg Lake has ever played. The man (& ELP) had NO peers.