Household names?

[James Nada]

[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1449939860' post='2928229']

Brian May?
[/quote]

Ahh. Yes, I think you're right. There can't be anyone else though. Animal from the Muppets?

[Dad3353]

Acker Bilk..?

[RhysP]

A large majority of people who aren't musicians aren't even aware there is an instrument called a bass guitar, so to expect there to be bass players who are household names is just unrealistic.

[timmo]

[quote name='bassace' timestamp='1449940238' post='2928236']
Jack Bruce, surely.

And for those of a certain age, Jet Harris.
[/quote]Jack Bruce was a singer

[HowieBass]

Bill Wyman
John Entwistle

[Number6]

John Entwistle ?
Bill Wyman ?

[Number6]

[quote name='HowieBass' timestamp='1449941145' post='2928251']
Bill Wyman
John Entwistle
[/quote]

Snap!

[sunburstjazz1967]

Did anyone read my OP? I did say that knowing what a bass guitar was or indeed that is what they played was secondary, Kim Kardashian is a household name and she does nothing at all!

[Number6]

Derek Smalls ?

😆

[sunburstjazz1967]

[quote name='James Nada' timestamp='1449939284' post='2928216']
I can't think of a guitarist or drummer (who isnt a also a singer) who I think would be recognised either.
[/quote]

Slash
Hank Marvin
Keith Richards

[Number6]

Floyd Pepper ?

[RhysP]

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1449941438' post='2928256']
Did anyone read my OP? I did say that knowing what a bass guitar was or indeed that is what they played was secondary, Kim Kardashian is a household name and she does nothing at all!
[/quote]

Going by your criteria I would say the only 'bass player' who is genuinely a household name would be Keanu Reeves.

Do people really think that Jack Bruce, John Entwhistle or John Deacon are names that would familiar to the majority of the population?

Edited December 12, 2015 by RhysP

[timmo]

Perhaps the title should be household names of people who are interested and like music.

[discreet]

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1449942336' post='2928269']
Perhaps the title should be household names of people who are interested and like music.
[/quote]

Stockhausen.

[timmo]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1449942400' post='2928270']
Stockhausen.
[/quote] Sounds like a syndrome

[HowieBass]

When it comes to household names it's shocked me when I've seen surveys that claim that sizeable percentages of the UK population don't even know who the current Prime Minister is... so expecting that many people who are non-musicians and/or uninterested in music would know bass players by name is probably expecting way too much...

[Dandelion]

Jim Tavare'

[Graham]

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1449942081' post='2928265']


Going by your criteria I would say the only 'bass player' who is genuinely a household name would be Keanu Reeves.
[/quote]

Richard Hammond would fall into the same category

[lowdown]

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1449944799' post='2928287']
Jim Tavare'
[/quote]

Lol....
I have done gigs/shows in far flung corners of the Earth with him.
Indeed, a very, very funny man.

[Dandelion]

Look! A Dwarf with a violin.

[EssentialTension]

Some of the people being named I am wholly unfamiliar with.

And as for Brian May, surely at best (or at worst) he would be 'the other bloke in Queen' because there is only the two of them.

Edited December 12, 2015 by EssentialTension

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1449945623' post='2928299']
Look! A Dwarf with a violin.
[/quote]

No, I don't know that one either.

[lowdown]

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1449945623' post='2928299']
Look! A Dwarf with a violin.
[/quote]

Where are we going tonight, sir?
It will have to be your place officer...my parents are a bit old.

[walshy]

Flea?

[sykilz]

My generation ( I'm 45 😫) may recognise the name Mark King ( Level 42) as he did a lot of t.v back in the mid eighties, and was the one well known bass player from the era. Doubt they'd recognise him in a photo though...!!