Your Top 10 Favorite (not best) Bass Players

[lowhand_mike]

Duff McCagan (he started it for me)
Flea
Les Claypool
Trevor Dunn
Billy Gould
Geddy Lee
Dominic 'Forest' Lapointe
Sting
Linus Klausenitzer
Erlend Caspersen
Stuart Zender

could have added more but ten it is

[Rikki_Sixx]

In no particular order, some of my favourite players to listen to and/or copy![list]
[*]Mark Hoppus (Blink 182)
[*]Mike Dirnt (Green Day)
[*]Gene Simmons (KISS)
[*]Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue)
[*]Dan Andriano (Alkaline Trio)
[*]Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters)
[/list]

[Dandelion]

Craig Adams,
Michael Dempsey,
Glen Matlock,
Roly Wynne,
Kim Deal,
Rev Otis Elevator,
Alex Webster,
Paul Gray,
Conrad Lant (Cronos),
Phil Lynott.

[BILL POSTERS]

This week, but it varies with my mood.


Mike Dirnt
Graham Maby
Ernest Ranglin
Phil Mitchell
Rod Clements
Norman
Dave Pegg
Duck Dunn
J Entwhistle

Edited October 23, 2015 by BILL POSTERS

[william64]

There are so many great bassist so here are just some of them:
Jaco Pastorius
Victor Wooten
Leland Sklar

Also I was lucky enough to met face-to-face and exchange several words with:
Tony Levin
Marcus Miller
Vladimir Guma Kulhanek (Czech)

[vbance]

the one out of....
The Band,
U2,
Big Country,
The Police,
The Specials,
Eat,
Free,
The Cure,
Men At Work,
and The Smiths.

[grayn]

Chris Squire
Martin Turner
Danny Thompson
Paul Mccartney
Tony Levin
Andy Frazer
Tony reeves
Mick Karn
Jeff Berlin
Stanley clarke

[12stringbassist]

John Entwistle
Jim Lea
Colin Moulding
Tom Petersson
Paul McCartney
Justin Currie
Nick Seymour
Phil Lynott
Nick Lowe
Bruce Thomas
Bruce Foxton

Rt Honourable mentions to:
Chris Allen (Ultravox)
Matt Osman (Suede)

[JB2016]

Maybe a bit old school!!......again in no particular order

Carol Kaye
Carl Radle
Skip Battin ( Byrds)
John Entwhistle
Duck Dunn
John Mcvie
Andy Frazer
Emory Gordy (Elvis & Emmylou Hot Band)
James Jamerson
Randy Meisner

[40hz]

Oooh I haven't contributed to this!

Stuart Zender
Sting
Bernard Edwards
Kim Deal
Flea
Simon Gallup
Bruce Foxton
Krist Novoselic
Louis Johnson
John Taylor

[pmjos]

For a range of reasons

Bernard Edwards
Norman Watt Roy
Pino Paladino
Bobby Vega
Stuart Zender
Louis Johnson
Jaco
Federico Malaman
John Myung
Flea

[AlpherMako4]

Off the top of my head:

Nathan East
Jamerson
The guy from Deacon blue
John Deacon
The lad with Bruno Mars
John McVie
Marco Mendoza
Guy Pratt
Bernard Edward
Sir Paul


That's just today mind you.

[AlpherMako4]

I forgot Darryl Jones. Doh, that's eleven.

[SimonEdward]

In no particular order: -

- Mark King
- Pino Palladino
- Nathan East
- Doug Wimbish
- Steve Lawson (solo bass Steve)
- Stuart Zender
- Dougie Payne ('Travis')
- Andrew Levy
- Julian Crampton ('Incognito')
- Thomas Risell (a.k.a 'Marlow DK')

[DarkHeart]

No particular order,

Steve Harris,
Geezer Butler,
Lemmy,
Phil Lynott,
Neil Murray,
J P Jones,
Billy Sheehan,
Stu Hamm,
Pete Way,
Chris Glen.

[Swijn]

As with the others.. no particular order and all who have at some point influenced me in some way shape or form..

Chris Squier
J P Jones
Geddy Lee
Mic Todd
Chris Wolsenholme
Tony Levin
Colin Edwin
Guy Pratt
John Myung

[Harryburke14]

Bruce Foxton - first bassist I saw live with "From the Jam". Heard him playing Town called Malice and wanted to play bass. The rest, as they say, is history.
Geddy Lee
Flea
Mike Dirnt
John Paul Jones
Paul McCartney
Mani - Stone Roses
John Entwistle
John Deacon
Jared Followill

In no particular order

[mingsta]

In no particular order, bassist who's playing has really inspired me:

pino
Bobby vega
Mike visceglia
Jerry Meehan
Randy hope Taylor
Stuart zender
Stanley Clarke
Flea
Steve Harris
James jamerson

Flea and jamerson have been my greatest inspirations over the years.
I don't really go out of my way to seek out or listen to good bass playing music, it's more a case of sometimes finding music that I love which happens to have some fantastic bass.

[Tee]

Mike Watt
Charles Mingus
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Geezer Butler
Mark Sandman
John Entwistle
Les Claypool
Cris Kirkwood
Kim Deal
Lou Barlow
Eric Avery

[keefbaker]

In no order

Abraham Laboriel
Dr Das
Geddy Lee
Jaco Pastorius
Larry Graham
Steve Harris
Charles Mingus
Dean Garcia
James Jamerson
Geezer Butler

[keefbaker]

Missed Lemmy off but I don't honestly know who I'd replace. I'll have to cheat and go for 11

[colgraff]

John Deacon
Gail Ann Dorsey
Deon Estus
Bruce Foxton
Steve Harris
Rick James (not the dead one!)
Mark King
Roger Waters
Chris Wolstenholme

and someone else tba

[izustu]

My ten favourites for many different reasons......

Lemmy
Steve Harris
Norman Watt Roy
Roger Walters
John Paul Jones
John Entwhistle
Jack Bruce
Geezer Butler
Chris Wolstenholme
John Deacon

[Mike2tone]

In no particular order:

Aston Barret
Norwood Fisher
Stuart Zander
Nathan East
Roscoe Beck
Oscar Stagnaro
Pancho Tomaselli (philm)
Rex Brown
Luis Angel Pastor
Robbie Shakespeare

[merello]

No particular order:

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]1) Paul McCartney[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]2) JJ Burnell[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]3) Jaco[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]4) Geddy Lee[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]5) James Jamerson[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]6) Nathan Lemarr Watts[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]7) Tony Levin[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]8) Lee Sklaar[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]9) JP Jones[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]10) Duck Dunn[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Then I look a[/font][/color]t everyone else's lists......

Edited February 28, 2016 by merello