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Could run off about 50 names off the top of me head but I might be biased towards Brit bassists who did a lot of their best stuff in the 80s - early 90s like Mick Karn, Pino Paladino, Leigh Gorman, Mark King, Stuart Morrow, Deon Estus...

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[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1466632479' post='3077513']
Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu mainly)

Toured with them back in the seventies. Great guys great band.[/quote]

Wow, that must have been awesome! I probably saw you then. I last saw Tony with Jon Langford's Ship and Pilot band in London - still competently doing his thing.

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Ooh, I like these!

Youth - everything rolled into one massive punkydubbyfunky racket!
Kim Clarke - never mentioned, but so great with Defunkt
Jah Wobble - so inspirational
Bill Laswell - to this day
Robbie Shakespeare - no explanation needed.

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Great to see Robert DeLeo mentioned a few times. He's definitely one of my favourites.

I think my top 5 bassists in the way they influenced me are:

- Paul McCartney
- James Jamerson
- John Paul Jones
- Bruce Thomas
- Robert DeLeo

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[quote name='lowhand_mike' timestamp='1466079345' post='3073214']

Linus Klausenitzer - Obscura (mind blowingly good)
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Absolutely!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesr2siegRg

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[quote name='Graham' timestamp='1466703085' post='3078057']
Absolutely!

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesr2siegRg[/media]
[/quote]

think in that video its Jeroen Paul Thesseling, he was replaced by Linus after the recording of Omnivium, so i should have mentioned Thesseling too

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My taste has changed over the years. I used to really detest bass players using a pick, but as you get older, you start to realise that this is a ridiculous point of view.

Ben Kenney
Marcus Miller
Justin Meldal-Johnson
Sam Rivers
Nick Fyffe

Kenney's punchy, flatwound tone takes the crown for me
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFhBlhGfGE4"]https://www.youtube....h?v=YFhBlhGfGE4[/url]

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In no particular order, the 5 bassists that have most influenced and inspired me:
Bernard Edwards
Derek Forbes
Simon Gallup (I think that's his first nomination so far)
John Taylor
Tony Pettit (again, a first time nomination I believe).

Posted (edited)

I've been giving this some more thought, and keeping the numbers down, I'd go with:

Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse, Blotted Science, Conquering Dystopia)
Bernie Edwards
Justin Chancellor (Tool)
Joe Lally (Fugazi)

Webster and Edwards because I want to sound like a cross between the two of them - disco and death metal may seem like an odd combination, but I think mixing the technicality of DM with the groove of disco makes a really good combination.

Chancellor because I really admire him for his creativity and tight playing in uncommon time signatures. Awesome tone too.

Lally, as his tone on Repeater is the best going; some cool, interesting playing on that record too.

Edit: forgot to say, that's four, with the last one a revolving door for whoever I'm loving at that moment

Edited by Graham
Posted (edited)

In no particular order:

Geddy Lee
Geezer Butler

The rest of the top5 change on a regular basis(t).

Jason Newstead (primarly for Voivod & Flotsam & Jetsom)
Youth & Raven
Lemmy
Scott Reeder
Steve DiGiorgio
Cliff Burton

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[quote name='el borracho' timestamp='1465398413' post='3067882']
Inspirations for me - probably the bass players I noticed before I ever thought of playing - were, in no order

John McCoy
Chris Glen
Alan Lancaster
Stephen Amazing (UPP)
Tim Bogert (particularly his albums with Boxer & Marcus)
[/quote]

I'm so glad somebody else has heard of Marcus! That has always been one of my fave albums ever and I agree there's some great bass playing on there.
I've met Marcus Malone a couple of times with his current band, he's a lovely fella.

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Posted (edited)

Tiran Porter (Doobie Brothers)
Peter Cetera (Chicago)
Rutger Gunnarsson (Abba)
Joe Puerta (Ambrosia)
David Paton (Alan Parsons Project etc)

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Fave 5 of today:
Michael League (Snarky Puppy)
Esperanza Spalding
Jon Stockman (Karnivool)
Chris Wolstenholme (Muse)
Justin Chancellor (Tool)

Posted

Jaco, Anthony Jackson, Steve Swallow, Jimmy Johnson and Richard Bona on electric.

On double bass it's Dave Holland, Marc Johnson, Charlie Haden, Edgar Meyer and Renaud Garcia-Fons.

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John Entwistle My all time favourite, been using RS swing bass strings for ever cos he used them (very very sad)
Leon Wilkeson
Norman Watt Roy
Alan Lancaster
Jim Lea

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