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Your Top 10 Favorite (not best) Bass Players

Chiliwailer

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Paul S Grand Master

Paul S

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Hmm. Tough call. Favourite not best, so here are mine in no order.

Roger Glover
Glenn Hughes
Chris Glen
Mark King
Louis Johnson
John Deacon
Bernard Edwards
Geezer Butler
Bruce Foxton
John Paul Jones.

Graham Mentor

Graham

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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
tom skool Explorer

tom skool

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Mike watt (firehose, minutemen&laterly the stooges.
Colin greenwood (radiohead)
John paul jones, where it all started for me.
Kim deal.
Norman watt roy.
+1 for mike howlet, love his lines on gongs 'you' album

Scrubnut Newbie

Scrubnut

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Norman Watt-Roy
Geezer Butler
Alex Al
Geddy Lee
Tal Wilkenfeld
Rhino Edwards (Quo)
John Deacon
John Entwistle
Dusty Hill
Richard Jones (Stereophonics)

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Alex B Contributor

Alex B

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Also in no particular order, and choosing just ten was tricky!

Donald "Duck" Dunn
Les Claypool
Stu Hamm
Jaco Pastorius
Bernard Edwards
Francis "Rocco" Prestia
Stuart Zender
Flea
Billy Sheehan
Victor Wooten

Tdw Proficient

Tdw

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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

winterfire666 Enthusiast

winterfire666

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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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Green Alsatian Enthusiast

Green Alsatian

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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.

doctorbass Enthusiast

doctorbass

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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!!!

  • 3 months later...
AussieBassman Contributor

AussieBassman

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[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!

AussieBassman Contributor

AussieBassman

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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

AussieBassman Contributor

AussieBassman

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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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skywalker Enthusiast

skywalker

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Nils Henning Pederson
John Entwistle
Sting
Jack Bruce
and very surprised not see so far....
Tal Winkenfield (not only talented but easy on the eye)

Japhet Grand Master

Japhet

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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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bartelby Grand Master

bartelby

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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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