Everyone's favourite Bass Player??

[Aussie Mark]

In no particular order .....

Jack Bruce
James Jamerson
John Entwhistle
Sir Paul
John Paul Jones
John Wetton (King Crimson, Roxy Music, Uriah Heep)
Roger McLaughlin (Aussie: Little River Band, Stars)

 

[marshmellomann]

flea and jaco deffinetly

 

[nickdanger]

When talking about punk rock bass players, Matt Freeman of Rancid is the first to come to mind. I would say I like Fat Mike from NOFX much better than Freeman because he has more variety and makes use of bass chording much more. It's not the same pentatonic and blues riffs over and over again.

 

[scottbass71]

How could I forget thanks Aussie mark I have been fortunate enough to receive lessons from the Fabulous Mr McLaughlin
and he is a great player a nice guys as well. Vote 1 Roger McLaughlin

 

[Anti-Flag]

chris #2, from anti-flag, i dont care if you hate that band...you cant deny the outstanding bass!

 

[bigwig_nj]

matt freeman - rancid
fat mike - nofx
jesse buglione - lagwagon
roger ??? - less than jake
chris #2 - anti flag
the guy from reel big fish - reel big fish
tom/lex - frenzal rhomb
jay ??? - belvedere

 

[Pirate_Dan]

matt freeman - rancid
fat mike - nofx
jesse buglione - lagwagon
roger ??? - less than jake
chris #2 - anti flag
the guy from reel big fish - reel big fish
tom/lex - frenzal rhomb
jay ??? - belvedere

Roger Sixx, I'm pretty sure. And RBF's is Matt Wong.

My votes go to Jaco (I mean COME ON PEOPLE, HE's JACO) and Rog of Less Than Jake. Roger is my hero, period.

 

[maxschrek]

favorites

Heres mine:

Chris Squire

John Entwhistle

John Deacon

John Wetton

Mick Karn

Colin Moulding

Jeff Berlin

Tony Levin

Louis Johnson

In no particular order, of coarse.

 

[fifthorange]

hey, my favorites are all of your favorites. WHAT A COINSIDENCE!

but who is the bassists from the Cure, he is "smashing".

 

[maxschrek]

favorites

Not sure. Lots of chorus effect. Large hollow basses.
Strange approach. Thats all I remember about 'em.

 

[spectorbassguy]

Current fav: Keith Taylor - plays on all Kirk Franklin's stuff. Awesome phat Ken Smith tone and ultra tasteful gospel playing.

groovier - Yeah baby - Flim Johnson!!! I haven't thought about him since college - can you believe that those Flim & The BB's CD's were done 2 track live to digital? Now that takes solid playing!

Pino on Fretless

Tony Levin

John Patittucci (Especially when he played w/ Chick Corea)

McCartney - Especially on Abbey Road

BovineHost - Well I've never heard him play but he sure seems like a swell guy!

 

[bovinehost]

Ha! I'm telling you, I'm a bloody caveman!

But I do thank you.

Some misc clips are on my website. Prepare to be underwhelmed.

Jack

 

[jongitarz]

JACO...ROCCO(CAN'T THINK OF ANY MORE THAT RYHME...FLACO??) WOOTEN...PAUL Mc CARTNEY(I SET UP A STERLING FOR HIM) VERDINE WHITE...BOVINE!! ALSO I CAN'T FORGET PHIL CHEN OR MATT FREEMAN

 

[Creamsicle]

Since I've already seen the names of most of my favorites, I'll just post one name I havn't seen and see if anyone's familiar with him.

Lee Gorman from the band Bow Wow Wow. His work on thier rendition of "Fools Rush In" should get him mention alone. Plus he played the only bass I'd rather have than a Sting-Ray - a Wal.

If you've never heard of him, check him out. Don't stop at "I Want Candy" either, most of his best work is before that.

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Hey Jon,

>>>>PAUL Mc CARTNEY(I SET UP A STERLING FOR HIM)

I didn't realise he used a Sterling.

Did he give instructions on how he wanted it, or was it left to you?

 

[fire]

Flea
Dirk Lance
Stefan Lessard
Larry Graham
Bootsy
Paul McCartney
Jeff Ament
Muzz Skillings
Victor Wooten
Pnut

 

[jongitarz]

Gav...He was in L.A. recording and we sent him 2 Sterlings set up to factory specs.

 

[skabassist13]

jaco,
ryan martini,
les claypool,
chad ibison.

 

[jongitarz]

Hey fire..was Muzz Skillings the guy from Living Colour??

 

[Psychicpet]

Hey fire..was Muzz Skillings the guy from Living Colour??

ya, he was(and probably still is) amazing. Have never heard of anything he's done since leaving LC. Huge inspiration to my playing for sure. My first exposure to "jazz" concepts growing up in rural Alberta (the Texas of Canada) came from listening to the first two LC discs.