Barking Spiders Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Could run off about 50 names off the top of me head but I might be biased towards Brit bassists who did a lot of their best stuff in the 80s - early 90s like Mick Karn, Pino Paladino, Leigh Gorman, Mark King, Stuart Morrow, Deon Estus... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troubadour Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 [quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1466632479' post='3077513'] Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu mainly) Toured with them back in the seventies. Great guys great band.[/quote] Wow, that must have been awesome! I probably saw you then. I last saw Tony with Jon Langford's Ship and Pilot band in London - still competently doing his thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPCustomdubwise Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Ooh, I like these! Youth - everything rolled into one massive punkydubbyfunky racket! Kim Clarke - never mentioned, but so great with Defunkt Jah Wobble - so inspirational Bill Laswell - to this day Robbie Shakespeare - no explanation needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiehoffmann Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Great to see Robert DeLeo mentioned a few times. He's definitely one of my favourites. I think my top 5 bassists in the way they influenced me are: - Paul McCartney - James Jamerson - John Paul Jones - Bruce Thomas - Robert DeLeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 I also have to nom funk maestros like Larry Graham, Louis Johnson, Paul Jackson, Marcus Miller, Bootsy and Rocco Prestia. All major sources of inspiration to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 [quote name='lowhand_mike' timestamp='1466079345' post='3073214'] Linus Klausenitzer - Obscura (mind blowingly good) [/quote] Absolutely! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesr2siegRg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzjames Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Jaco James Jamerson Pino Palladino Willie Weeks John Patitucci Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowhand_mike Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 [quote name='Graham' timestamp='1466703085' post='3078057'] Absolutely! [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesr2siegRg[/media] [/quote] think in that video its Jeroen Paul Thesseling, he was replaced by Linus after the recording of Omnivium, so i should have mentioned Thesseling too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Light Grenade Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 (edited) My taste has changed over the years. I used to really detest bass players using a pick, but as you get older, you start to realise that this is a ridiculous point of view. Ben Kenney Marcus Miller Justin Meldal-Johnson Sam Rivers Nick Fyffe Kenney's punchy, flatwound tone takes the crown for me [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFhBlhGfGE4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=YFhBlhGfGE4[/url] Edited June 27, 2016 by Light Grenade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 Francis Rocco Prestia, Tower Of Power The king of ghosting notes, Blue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkandrew Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 In no particular order, the 5 bassists that have most influenced and inspired me: Bernard Edwards Derek Forbes Simon Gallup (I think that's his first nomination so far) John Taylor Tony Pettit (again, a first time nomination I believe). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoBass Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 My 5 favourite bass guitarists: Paul McCartney Paul Simonon Chris Wolstenholme John Paul Jones Mani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noise_art Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 I have my top also: Jamerson Wooten Sklar Victor Bailey Jon Reshard There are some types of bassplayers but I prefer a lot of calm and I found it above Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 (edited) I've been giving this some more thought, and keeping the numbers down, I'd go with: Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse, Blotted Science, Conquering Dystopia) Bernie Edwards Justin Chancellor (Tool) Joe Lally (Fugazi) Webster and Edwards because I want to sound like a cross between the two of them - disco and death metal may seem like an odd combination, but I think mixing the technicality of DM with the groove of disco makes a really good combination. Chancellor because I really admire him for his creativity and tight playing in uncommon time signatures. Awesome tone too. Lally, as his tone on Repeater is the best going; some cool, interesting playing on that record too. Edit: forgot to say, that's four, with the last one a revolving door for whoever I'm loving at that moment Edited June 29, 2016 by Graham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 (edited) In no particular order: Geddy Lee Geezer Butler The rest of the top5 change on a regular basis(t). Jason Newstead (primarly for Voivod & Flotsam & Jetsom) Youth & Raven Lemmy Scott Reeder Steve DiGiorgio Cliff Burton Edited July 1, 2016 by Skybone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeeBop Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Bobby Chariot (top warm up man) Brian Potter Paul Daniels (oh he's deed) Rupert the Bear ...everyone knows his name Boyzone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkpegasus4001 Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 [quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1465398413' post='3067882'] Inspirations for me - probably the bass players I noticed before I ever thought of playing - were, in no order John McCoy Chris Glen Alan Lancaster Stephen Amazing (UPP) Tim Bogert (particularly his albums with Boxer & Marcus) [/quote] I'm so glad somebody else has heard of Marcus! That has always been one of my fave albums ever and I agree there's some great bass playing on there. I've met Marcus Malone a couple of times with his current band, he's a lovely fella. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morsefull Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Meshell Ndegeocello. Sharay Reed. David Dyson. Mark King. Jaco. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Are we really doing this?? OK, then... Paul Chambers Holger Czukay Charles Mingus James Jamerson McCartney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 (edited) Tiran Porter (Doobie Brothers) Peter Cetera (Chicago) Rutger Gunnarsson (Abba) Joe Puerta (Ambrosia) David Paton (Alan Parsons Project etc) Edited January 23, 2018 by cetera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazBeen Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Fave 5 of today: Michael League (Snarky Puppy) Esperanza Spalding Jon Stockman (Karnivool) Chris Wolstenholme (Muse) Justin Chancellor (Tool) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted July 16, 2016 Share Posted July 16, 2016 Jaco, Anthony Jackson, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Johnson and Richard Bona on electric. On double bass it's Dave Holland, Marc Johnson, Charlie Haden, Edgar Meyer and Renaud Garcia-Fons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Dean Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Has anyone put themselves 5 times ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieJJ Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Mine would be Jean-Jacques Burnel Bruce Foxton Duff McKagan Phil Lynott Paul Simonon and plenty of others who would arguably come close Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pastor Posted July 26, 2016 Share Posted July 26, 2016 John Entwistle My all time favourite, been using RS swing bass strings for ever cos he used them (very very sad) Leon Wilkeson Norman Watt Roy Alan Lancaster Jim Lea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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