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Your Top 10 Favorite (not best) Bass Players


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In no particular order

Geezer Butler (Sabbath)
Caleb Schofield (Cave In)
Troy Sanders (Mastodon)
Rex Brown (Pantera/Down)
Justin Chancellor (Tool)
Mike Flores (Origin)
Dave Edwardson (Neurosis)
Paul Turner (Jamiroquai)
Stuart Zender (Jamiroquai)
James Leach (SikTh)


Edit: Apologies to Jeff Caxide (Isis), I'd unaccountably forgotten SikTh

Edited by Graham
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Bruce Foxton
John Paul Jones
Jah Wobble
Ronald McQueen (steel pulse)
George Porter JR (meters)
Les Claypool
Tony Levin
Jack Bruce
Norman Watt Roy
Bootsy Collins, Billy"bass" Nelson ect, (Not quite sure who played on what in Parliament/Funkadelic

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[font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]in no particular order, and for various reasons,[/size][/b][/font]

[b][font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Jan Erik Tiwaz [/size][/b][/font][/b]
[b][font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Steve Harris[/size][/b][/font][/b]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Trevor Dunn[/size][/b][/font]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Les Claypool[/size][/b][/font]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Gunnar H. Thomsen[/size][/b][/font]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Geddy Lee[/size][/b][/font]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Leland Sklar[/size][/b][/font]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Michael Lepond[/size][/b][/font]
[b][font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Steve DiGiorgio[/size][/b][/font][/b]
[font=comic sans ms,cursive][b][size=4]Lemmy Kilmister[/size][/b][/font]

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As with others, in no particular order, my favourite 10 bassmen:

1. Norman Watt-Roy (The Blockheads)
2. JJ Burnel (The Stranglers)
3. Bruce Foxton (The Jam)
4. Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
5. Mark 'Bedders' Bedford (Madness)
6. Colin Moulding (XTC)
7. Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)
8. Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper)
9. Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings, on his tod)
10. James Jamerson (Motown)

I could probably have stretched another 10 easily but it's the fellows above that I played along to when I was learning.

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[quote name='Green Alsatian' timestamp='1387716758' post='2314803']
As with others, in no particular order, my favourite 10 bassmen:

1. Norman Watt-Roy (The Blockheads)
2. JJ Burnel (The Stranglers)
3. Bruce Foxton (The Jam)
4. Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
5. Mark 'Bedders' Bedford (Madness)
6. Colin Moulding (XTC)
7. Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)
8. Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper)
9. Paul McCartney (The Beatles, Wings, on his tod)
10. James Jamerson (Motown)

I could probably have stretched another 10 easily but it's the fellows above that I played along to when I was learning.
[/quote]

If the list could be longer, your 5 and 8 would be my 11 and 12!!!

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  • 3 months later...

[quote name='NoRhino' timestamp='1387539704' post='2313060']
[list=1]
[*]Jimmy Lea (Slade)
[*]James Dewar (Robin Trower)
[*]Jack Bruce
[*]Larry 'The Mole' Taylor (Canned Heat)
[*]Andy Fraser (Free)
[*]John B. Sparks (Dr Feelgood)
[*]Marshall Grant (Johnny Cash)
[*]Alan Lancaster (Status Quo)
[*]Les Claypool (Primus)
[*]The million others I don't know about yet who could blow me away.
[/list]
[/quote]
I like your list!

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[quote name='doctorbass' timestamp='1387584102' post='2313695']
Keith Ferguson
Johnny B Gayden
Norman Watt-Roy
Tommy Shannon
Dee Dee Ramone
Jack Newhouse
Billy Cox
Dusty Hill
Duck Dunn
Preston Hubbard
[/quote]
+1
Sorry for the duplicate post-bloody phone

Edited by AussieBassman
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  • 3 weeks later...

Not in any order;

Julan Nelson
Bernard Edwards
David Dyson
Oteil Burbridge
Chuck Rainey
Pino
Trevor Bolder
Roscoe Beck
Larry Graham
Lee Sklar

Hang on................Andy Fraser, Julian Crampton, James Jamerson, Jimmy Dewar

Nope! Can't do it in 10. Need about 40.

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Mike Watt
Billy Gould
Jason Newstead
Cliff Burton
John Entwistle
Steve Harris
Martyn P Casey
Tracy Pew
Lou Barlow
Karl Alvarez


bonus bassist: Joe Garcia!

Edited by bartelby
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