Listen to Prince's bass licks on first two Time albums.

Prince created great bass lines with great sound very funky with a lot of ghost notes.

Prince played a lot of nice bass lines on his official records

but nothing as good and memorable as the bass lines of Cool,the Stick,the Walk,777-9311,Chocolate,Jerk Out...

My favorite is 777-9311 & Cool

Funky, and nasty, just the way I like it~~~~~

That was a such a great period!

I playing it.

Those were some of his best lines. Wish he would get back to these

Chocolate has bass on it that is UNREAL

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You might just be right on this...

Well, yeah.

Doing The Time records allowed him to do more straightforward 80s funk when he was exploring new things under his own name. He did say that he considered the bass line of "777-9311" the best bass line he's ever created when asked about it in an interview (1999 or 2000, I believe).

those are all great and funky, but i still think Lets Work is his best.

His bass playing on "Le Grind" is pretty awesome too. I don't see it mentioned much here.

His best bass playing is on Play in the Sunshine IMO.

You can definitely hear Andre's influence in Prince's bass playing on The Time albums. And it was a good thing.