Bass Players You Can Spot A Mile Off......

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

...just played 'Why' by Carly Simon. Loved the bass on it and without looking it up, you can just tell it's Bernard Edward's magic touch again.....and I was correct.

Are there any other bassists that are so obvious you can tell them without looking?

[coasterbass]

Flea - On You Oughta Know, Alanis Morrisette; and again on Butterfly by CrazyTown

[umph]

joe preston on anything he does, because its ussually accompenied by some really bad drum machines

[Dood]

Billy Sheehan.. that middly compressed tone is a signature sound, no doubt..

Actually, I doubt myself now. If you listen to Paul Gilbert's 'Get Out Of My Yard' - the bass is very much the Sheehan-esque tone, but bass duties were taken up by the equally dextrous Mike Szuter.

[SJA]

Mick Karn- the fretless tone, attack and the way he does slides.

a funny aside-
on Derek Forbes' new band Four Good Men's forum, there was a discussion of the current Simple Minds
album-
I remarked that Eddie Duffy's bassline on "stay visible" sounded a lot like Derek-
he replied-"if it sounds like me, that's because it IS me!" - he played on a couple of tracks, only they didn't credit him.
-it's the way he plays with a pick- rhythmically busy with lots of dead notes.

Edited March 5, 2008 by SJA

[Bass_In_Yer_Face]

[quote name='SJA' post='151640' date='Mar 5 2008, 12:25 PM']Mick Karn- the fretless tone, attack and the way he does slides.

a funny aside-
on Derek Forbes' new band Four Good Men's forum, there was a discussion of the current Simple Minds
album-
I remarked that Eddie Duffy's bassline on "stay visible" sounded a lot like Derek-
he replied-"if it sounds like me, that's because it IS me!" - he played on a couple of tracks, only they didn't credit him.
-it's the way he plays with a pick- rhythmically busy with lots of dead notes.[/quote]

I was going to say Mick Karn but I mention him all the time so I didn't!...some of the mid -eighties Pino stuff sounds a lot like MK.

Are Derek Forbe's new outfit any good?...i love that early simple minds stuff

[Kiwi]

Mark King - I can't think why though...

[Bilbo]

Steve Swallow, Jaco, Anthony Jackson, Jeff Berlin, Percy Jones, Jimmy Johnson, Ron Carter, Dave Holland, Charlie Haden, Steve Swallow, Paul Chambers, Niels Henning Orsted Pederson, Ron Carter, Marc Johnson, John Patitucci, Chris Squire and Steve Swallow.

[josh3184]

[quote name='coasterbass' post='151619' date='Mar 5 2008, 11:54 AM']Flea - On You Oughta Know, Alanis Morrisette; and again on [b]Butterfly by CrazyTown[/b][/quote]


I KNEW IT. Thought a bassist that good couldnt be in a band that ass...

[SJA]

[quote name='Bass_In_Yer_Face' post='151713' date='Mar 5 2008, 01:48 PM']Are Derek Forbe's new outfit any good?...i love that early simple minds stuff[/quote]
it's mainly Minds and Big Country covers, but they're working on new material too-
[url="http://www.fourgoodmen.com"]http://www.fourgoodmen.com[/url]

[SJA]

[quote name='josh3184' post='151820' date='Mar 5 2008, 04:11 PM']I KNEW IT. Thought a bassist that good couldnt be in a band that ass...[/quote]
-it's "pretty little ditty" (on Mother's milk) sampled for Butterfly.

[bnt]

It's sometimes difficult to separate the band from the bassist, so I might think I'm recognising the bassist when I'm recognising the band. I think this list has to be about session players, and Pino has already been mentioned... TLev is the only other example I can think of.
Edit: oh yes: Eberhard Weber too.

Edited March 5, 2008 by bnt

[bassace]

Ray Brown............... and Jim Fielder (who's Jim Fielder?)

[Old Horse Murphy]

Danny Thompson

[BigBeefChief]

Theodore Spinkle

[peteb]

Tony Franklin comes to mind

[Thunderthumbs]

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='151715' date='Mar 5 2008, 01:50 PM']Mark King - I can't think why though...[/quote]
But would you have guessed he was playing on "If I Was" by Midge Ure if you didn't already know?

I can generally spot Marcus Miller.

[BigBeefChief]

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='151944' date='Mar 5 2008, 07:01 PM']I can generally spot Marcus Miller.[/quote]


It's the hat.

[Thunderthumbs]

[quote name='BigBeefChief' post='151947' date='Mar 5 2008, 07:04 PM']It's the hat.[/quote]
Ba-dum-tish

[tombboy]

Steve Harris

And Michael Anthony.... because he's always drunk!!!

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Bill Wyman - especially when he mumbles along only occasionally hitting an actual note.

[Kiwi]

[quote name='Thunderthumbs' post='151944' date='Mar 5 2008, 07:01 PM']But would you have guessed he was playing on "If I Was" by Midge Ure if you didn't already know?[/quote]

I haven't actually heard the original of that, only the version that was played at the 1987 Princes Trust Gala by...

...mmm, Mark King of all people.

[silverfoxnik]

A few spring to mind, some more well known than others:

Robbie Shakespeare (Sly & Robbie)
James Jamerson
McCartney
John Entwhistle
Leigh Gorman (BowWowWow)
Justin Chancellor
Dennis Dunnaway (Alice Cooper)

The guy from Muse is pretty distictive too and that guy who plays solo and does loads of super-fast slapping on a MusicMan SR4 who's name I can't remember for the life of me..

[acidbass]

[quote name='silverfoxnik' post='152097' date='Mar 5 2008, 11:19 PM']McCartney
John Entwistle[/quote]

+2

[Thunderthumbs]

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='152086' date='Mar 5 2008, 10:44 PM']I haven't actually heard the original of that, only the version that was played at the 1987 Princes Trust Gala by...

...mmm, Mark King of all people.[/quote]
Aah...so it sort of gave the game away then!

I also remember hearing a track called "Easy" by Nik Kershaw many years ago, and knowing instantly it was Mark King. It was all slapping, so it was a lot more obvious.