David Bowie – Fantastic Voyage (Bass Tab)
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Album: Lodger (1979)
Great song with epic vocals, the bassline was quite hard to figure out but it is pretty easy to play.
EDIT: I re-tabbed some things because the isolated bass track was uploaded to YouTube.
Tabbed by Leo Chiurco
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