Kiwi Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 Anthony Jackson and Billy Sheenan definitely impress me. Tom Jenkinson is technically proficient but his playing leaves me cold. Victor Wooten definitely grooves and there's no question he's a virtuoso but I'm probably in a minority in that I just don't get where he's coming from. By contrast, Sharay Reed's playing is deeply musical although he's not as technically gifted as Tom Jenkinson or Victor Wooten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visog Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 [quote name='White Cloud' timestamp='1363460567' post='2013079'] This is how to solo over chord changes. From 1983....a year before Hadrien Feraud was born! [media]http://youtu.be/5znQ30s01YA[/media] Jeff Berlin is hard to beat. [/quote] Well thank goodness HF was born 'cause JB's been harmonically correct but musically dull ever since this time. (This record is my favourite JB - particularly this tune and Tokyo Dream. The Bruford is good too. And I caught him live with John McLaughlin and Trilok Gurtu where he was amazing.) He's been boring since he got rid of that Fender Precision! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 This guy is definitely a gunslinger : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KalvRr4FMn0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 And this man isn't exactly lacking in self-confidence either : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3JKrv_Rak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZelNczldEo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 [quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1363439172' post='2012702'] Lots of great bassist being listed here (Mingus definitely gets my vote). Here's a curveball that the vast majority of you will [i]hate[/i] with a passion… Tom Jenkinson (aka Squarepusher) and 'The Modern Bass Guitar'. It blows my head that this track is played using a bass, albeit with a shedload of MIDI mojo going on. It's lightyears away from what most people consider to be 'musicianship', but for me, this guy is a modern-day gunslinger for sure. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUet8XYs5dg[/media] [/quote] Isn't this the noise Manic Miner makes whilst loading? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Cloud Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 [quote name='visog' timestamp='1363463827' post='2013135'] Well thank goodness HF was born 'cause JB's been harmonically correct but musically dull ever since this time. (This record is my favourite JB - particularly this tune and Tokyo Dream. The Bruford is good too. And I caught him live with John McLaughlin and Trilok Gurtu where he was amazing.) He's been boring since he got rid of that Fender Precision! [/quote] Its hard to argue with this; however his early material with Bruford and Holdsworth blew me away back in the day. Btw his Fender "Blondie" was stolen...he did'nt get rid of it by choice! His Peavey Palaedium was a killer axe. I owned one of the early early Dean JB models and it was sweet too...a real finger players dream. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stef030 Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 no love for alain caron I am suprised Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZenBasses Posted March 16, 2013 Share Posted March 16, 2013 (edited) For the Ultimate in [b] virtuoso[/b] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoLqaQmlx1Y[/url] Id go for Adam Nitti.....Love is technique and musicainship.. The space he puts between notes means every note has a purpose and a place.. Other lesser known people I'd vote for is Gustavo Del Farra www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy3V2Tl4g3s His album is on Youtube and is worth a listen And the Double Bass Player I am loving at the moment is from a band I've recently discovered called The Neil Cowley Trio [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2apVXsFXM[/media] Edited March 16, 2013 by ZenBasses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faithless Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Well, Feraud, according to the Mr. Jeff Berlin, is, at the moment, the cleanest & fastest player around, to which I certainly agree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9jDF01V7DE Enjoy. And go practice L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risingson Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 I struggle to think of any better bass player to have ever lived than Anthony Jackson. There's plenty of other bass players I really prefer listening to in most other contexts but for me the definition of virtuoso belongs to him so much more than any other player to have been mentioned in this thread so far, nothing constrains him technically or musically, he is in my mind the kind of bass player that [i]could[/i] be classed as the greatest of all time. Tom Jenkinson's bass playing bores me so much, but his music is some of my absolute favourite music of all time, I wouldn't care if he ever picked up a bass guitar ever again because he doesn't need it to translate his ideas and musicality. He is a genius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Michael manring, Sid vicious , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Has anyone mentioned the large haired one? http://youtu.be/vl9OKddQBRg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johngh Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Listening to some of this it quickly becomes apparent that one mans ripe banana's is another mans lemon. For me it's Buckethead, even breaks a string halfway through and still carries on.......true Gunsligeeeeeeee. [media]http://youtu.be/m8C8fD6zWXM[/media] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero9 Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 My vote goes to Avishai Cohen: [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjvE0scNI4Q"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjvE0scNI4Q[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhet Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 2 great bass players on the same track; Meshell NdegeOcello and david Dyson. Show me something funkier than this! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiBzYckcYI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiBzYckcYI[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynottfan Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Marcel Jacob, I will all ways champion this man, a great loss, a great bloke and great bass player, the man could groove and he had all the tricks down, PLUS he could do it in the context of a song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sausage Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 [quote name='Japhet' timestamp='1363523111' post='2013559'] 2 great bass players on the same track; Meshell NdegeOcello and david Dyson. Show me something funkier than this! [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiBzYckcYI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiBzYckcYI[/url] [/quote]here you go http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ixv82FFRbNc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 [quote name='Johngh' timestamp='1363512948' post='2013417'] Listening to some of this it quickly becomes apparent that one mans ripe banana's is another mans lemon. For me it's Buckethead, evern breaks a string halfway through and still carries on.......true Gunsligeeeeeeee. [media]http://youtu.be/m8C8fD6zWXM[/media] [/quote] Wow , he calls himself Buckethead ... and he's got a bucket on his head ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 [quote name='Lord Sausage' timestamp='1363506180' post='2013368'] Has anyone mentioned the large haired one? [media]http://youtu.be/vl9OKddQBRg[/media] [/quote] That mullet that Tony Franklin is rocking in this video is currently under investegation by the U.N's War Crimes Comission . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dingus Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 (edited) [quote name='risingson' timestamp='1363480227' post='2013313'] I struggle to think of any better bass player to have ever lived than Anthony Jackson. There's plenty of other bass players I really prefer listening to in most other contexts but for me the definition of virtuoso belongs to him so much more than any other player to have been mentioned in this thread so far, nothing constrains him technically or musically, he is in my mind the kind of bass player that [i]could[/i] be classed as the greatest of all time. Tom Jenkinson's bass playing bores me so much, but his music is some of my absolute favourite music of all time, I wouldn't care if he ever picked up a bass guitar ever again because he doesn't need it to translate his ideas and musicality. He is a genius. [/quote] +1 on those sentiments about Anthony Jackson . He's the guv'nor in my book , a kind of Pope for bass players . He thinks differently than anyone else , and he thinks better than anyone else . A true master , easily equal in stature and importance to Stanley Clarke or Jaco Pastorius , who are far more widely celebrated than Anthony . I'm not just talking about his work on the six string contrabass either - I love his work in the 1970s when he just played a Fender but with a sound and a style that was all his own : [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbD0gvaVGWI[/media] Also interesting that you don't like Tom Jenkinson's bass playing but you do like Squarepusher's music . I think his bass playing is o.k and he is obviously a very capable player at what he does but at the same time I don't think he is anything special in the scheme of things . I wouldn't describe him as a virtuoso . Squarepusher, on the other hand , is not my cup of tea at all . I've tried hard to like it , but it's just not my thing . Edited March 17, 2013 by Dingus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Anthony Jackson just does everything right [for me] Over the years he has just sat with everything he has played, Funk, Soul, Jazz, Latin, Big Band. He just seems to be at home with any situation, and with very little noticable effort. True master. Garry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Academy Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Marcus Miller, Chuck Rainey, Victor Wooten, Richard Bona. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urb Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Big +1s for Marcus, Vic and AJ too - all different all brilliant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 [quote name='John Cellario' timestamp='1363441953' post='2012766'] ... I read somewhere Berlin was the one guy who introduced slapping as a technique ... [/quote] Wasn't Larry Graham slapping while Berlin was still in his early teens? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkHeart Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 at the risk of being shot down how about Brad Russell? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZMaGex14kg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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