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Your Top 10 Favorite (not best) Bass Players

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Maybe a bit old school!!......again in no particular order
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Hey, there ain't no school like the old school!

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Baloney Balderdash Grand Master

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In no particular order:

 

:-: Victor Wooten  (Does he really need an introduction? But I guess Béla Fleck and the Flecktones :-: Bass Extremes, together with Steve Bailey as the other half)

 

:-: Chris Wood   (Medeski Martin & Wood  :-: The Wood Brothers) 

 

:-: Bill Laswel  (Massacre, the experimental rock band, not the metal band :-: Last Exit, the avantgarde/free jazz band, not the jazz fusion band :-: as well as countless of other projects, some featuring highly acclaimed and really famous musicians, though primarily in the more experimental and jazzy end of the spectrum)

 

:-: Trevor Dunn  (Mr. Bungle :-: Trevor Dunn's Trio-Convulsant) 

 

:-: Julie Slick  (Adrian Belew Power Trio :-: Crimson Project :-: EchoTest)

 

:-: Justin Chancellor  (Tool)

 

:-: Cliff Burton  (Metalica) 

 

:-: Lou Barlow  (Dinosaur Jr. :-: Folk Implosion :-: Sebadoh :-: Sentridoh) 

 

:-: Paz Lenchantin  (A Perfect Circle :-: Entrance :-: Pixies) 

 

:-: Peter Hook   (Joy Division :-: New Order :-: Peter Hook and The Light)

 

:-: Jack Casady   (Jefferson Airplane :-: Jefferson Starship :-: Hot Tuna)

 

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Fav/best, same really. Jamerson, Ronnie Baker, Macca. And I kid u not a guy called Keith who used to play in my local scene many yrs ago. Sublime touch and tone.....probably my biggest influence.

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This was more of a challenge than I originally anticipated when I thought I'd give it a go.

Some of these are here because they helped shape my musical tastes during my formative years, some are here because they help to shape my musical tastes at present.

 

John Deacon

Trevor Bolder (his Bowie stuff)

ELO, in its many forms, (there's been so many, I'm piling them together under the band name)

Suzie Quatro

John Entwistle

Rick Savage

Duff McKagen

Arnulf Lindner (for work with KT Tunstall)

 

And I'm leaving my list at 8, because there's always room for more (and I've likely forgotten someone as well).

 

Mark

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Ron Carter

Ray Brown

Stanley Clarke

Eberhard Weber

Charlie Haden

Janek Gwizdala 

Percy Jones

Brian Bromberg

Jonas Hellborg 

Christian McBride

 

All have been on albums and/or created music that has influenced me profoundly. 

nilorius Veteran

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I hope You will understand that there are NO best bass guitar players and good players. Each of them has their ego and teqnique, so the answer is zero. Each of us has their own list which is wrong, the best and the good - doesn't sound right to me.

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Sure I must have done this before, but fun to see how it changes.

 

Bruce Thomas

James Jamerson

John Entwistle

Joe Dart

Bruce Foxton

Kinga Głyk

Norman Watt-Roy

Paul McCartney

John Paul Jones

Nile Rogers

Baloney Balderdash Grand Master

Baloney Balderdash

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12 hours ago, nilorius said:

I hope You will understand that there are NO best bass guitar players and good players. Each of them has their ego and teqnique, so the answer is zero. Each of us has their own list which is wrong, the best and the good - doesn't sound right to me.

Uhm? :scratch_one-s_head:

 

The the title of this topic specifically says "Favorite (Not best)".

 

Favorite is not the same as best.

 

On 01/05/2023 at 22:40, greavesbass said:

Fav/best, same really.

Not to me, my favorite bass players play speaks to my soul, little to do with level of technical skillset. 

 

Music isn't sports.

 

My list would have been entirely different, with practically no names but Victor Wooten's remaining, if it was to consist of the top 10 bass players I'd consider the technically most proficient (though I would have a really hard time coming up with such a list, and I would have a hard time defending my choices as well as the whole concept of it, as it really does depend, best at what exactly, according to which criterias, in which context/aspect, which qualities would weight more than others, and why, and how to even measure that qualitatively to start with, e.t.c). 

 

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SumOne Grand Master

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Robbie Shakespeare

Bernard Edwards 

Flabba Holt 

Aston Barrett

Geezer Butler

Dennis Bovell 

Bootsy Collins 

Larry Graham

Stanley Clarke

James Jamerson 

 

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Aston Barrett 

Robbie Shakespeare 

Flabba Holt 

Leroy Sibbles 

Val Douglas 

Lloyd Parks

Boris Gardiner

Fully Fullwood 

Sean Hurley 

James Jamerson 

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18 hours ago, nilorius said:

I hope You will understand that there are NO best bass guitar players and good players. Each of them has their ego and teqnique, so the answer is zero. Each of us has their own list which is wrong, the best and the good - doesn't sound right to me.

Agreed :) 

The original post was for your favourites, not necessarily ‘best’. 
 

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Woah… zombie thread revival 🧟‍♀️🧟🧟‍♂️
 

One of my first threads I think - was selling some 60s Fenders and wanted to get stuck into BC… joined 10 years ago this month, it’s been expensive 😂

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nilorius Veteran

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3 hours ago, Chiliwailer said:

Agreed :) 

The original post was for your favourites, not necessarily ‘best’. 
 

OK, i agree - i missed the "favourites", but anyway the 100 lists could be different and anyway and doesn't prove anything, exept each opinion.

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34 minutes ago, nilorius said:

OK, i agree - i missed the "favourites", but anyway the 100 lists could be different and anyway and doesn't prove anything, exept each opinion.

The lists are all different, no one is trying to prove anything - just letting people know their personal favorites, for fun. 

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..which is all that's being asked for 🙄

ok, then i agree, i was wrong. Anyway i don't have such a list.

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I'd been thinking about this recently as it was doing the rounds on Twitter

 

Flea (RHCP/Mars Volta)

Bernie Edwards (Chic)

Jeff Caxide (ISIS)

Caleb Scofield (Cave In/Old Man Gloom)

Shane Embury (Napalm Death)

Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse 

/Conquering Dystopia)

Martin Mendez (Opeth/White Stones)

James Leach (SikTh)

Liam Wilson (The Dillinger Escape Plan/Azusa/John Frum)

Sean Malone (Cynic)

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Influencing an£ pleasing me through the years are…

  • Jean Jacques Burnel
  • Jaco Pastorius
  • Geddy Lee
  • Bruce Foxton
  • Lee Sklar
  • Paul McCartney
  • Donald Duck Dunn
  • Pino Palladino
  • James Jameson
  • John Paul Jones 

Ask me in a week and the list will change.

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