Searcy Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Imposable to name one so I'll toss in a few you guys have missed. Maybe the worlds most perfect bass player. Tony Levin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Billy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Robert Trujillo back when he played for a good band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 The Master... Larry Graham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Michael Manring That's enough for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BT Bob Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 In no particular order: 1. Jack Bruce 2. Stanley Clarke 3. Tal Wilkenfeld 4. John Paul Jones but then, there's Chris Squire, Greg Lake, Norman Watt-Roy (Ian Dury & The Blockheads) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Imposable to name one so I'll toss in a few you guys have missed. Maybe the worlds most perfect bass player. Tony Levin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fuQBmi6Ca4 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Billy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lopEivpvqek +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Robert Trujillo back when he played for a good band. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ob3buKk6ALc +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 The Master... Larry Graham. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2w0dbTy2v8 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Bill Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Michael Manring http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eTBc7aWBGw That's enough for now. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Victor Wooton, plays with Bela Fleck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPguitarman Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 1. Geddy Lee (Anyone that can sing and play his style of playing at the same time is tops in my book). 2. Chris Squire 3. John Paul Jones 4. Roger Waters 5. Keith Entwistle 6. Roger Glover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Jonas Hellborg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Searcy Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Meshell Ndegeocello will kick your entire ***! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daryl M Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Victor Wooton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grampa Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Victor Wooton? Yeah, that guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff-7 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Paul D'Amour (Tool) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hglVqACd1C8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S t e v e Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W3NERMKIBM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 I'm still sticking with Duck Dunn. Who else has this resume? Muddy Waters, Freddie King, Albert King, Neil Young, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Wilson Pickett, Sam & Dave, Guy Sebastian, Rod Stewart, Bob Dylan and Roy Buchanan Who else has played at Monterey Pop in the 60s (backing Otis Redding), Live Aid in the 80s (backing Clapton) and backed everyone as house bassist in Clapton's 2004 Crossroads festival? At 69 he's still working for Neil Young. Here's a quick little bio... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 +1 McCartney (tone as well as riffs, especially when he got the Rickenbacker pumping in the mid sixties), Duck Dunn (yes Surfpup, and I almost forgot him too, but how could anybody do that? - couldn't forget Booker T, Colonel Cropper or any member of the MGs), Funk Brother Jamerson (his sound is not only the sound of Motown), Wrecker Kaye (early Beach Boys stuff would be enough for the list, but of course there is so much more without having to think about her claims to have played Jamerson's parts Jamerson Kaye Controversy, which may be grounded in her having played second parts on some of the same hits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrbrytKn08k), John Paul Jones (too easy to forget that he doubles so many of Page's greatest riffs, and that his playing turns Lemon Song from a great rip-off of everybody else's blues licks into something more), Danko (Ampeg fretless, yeah). I'd add Calvin 'Fuzz' Jones because he was probably playing the bass for Muddy Waters on the 1970s Buddha 'Blues: a Real Summit Meeting' album which set my expectations of what electric blues should ideally sound like. Not sure whether he can take credit for composing the classic Waters slow blues bass riffs (the triad-and-a-seventh-based ones, not the Mannish Boy variety), because in a way they're such a cliche, but he certainly laid them down thick and heavy in a live situation. BUT ONLY ONE MENTION OF ENTWHISTLE? Substitute him for many, I say, of whichever generation. John Entwhistle +3. Now here's the thing. Am I right in thinking that flatwound strings are crucial to the sound of many of the players most listed on this thread? (Not Lemmy's, obviously...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surfpup Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 BUT ONLY ONE MENTION OF ENTWHISTLE? Substitute him for many, I say, of whichever generation. John Entwhistle +3. No doubt. He was a beast! Pete could never had played so sparsely without the Ox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Rocco-Prestia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wineredrich Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 Can it be that no one has mentioned THIS maniac yet? C'mon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrNylon Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 The bands they played bass for is explanation enough. Felix Pappalardi - Mountain Jack Bruce - Cream Lee Dorman - Iron Butterfly Paul McCartney - The Beatles So many more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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