Name your top 10!

[chrisd783]

Not sure if this has been done before as I'm relatively new to the site. But I'd be interested to know who people would place in their top-10 best players of all time!?

Try and post IN RANK ORDER if you can, although I've found this exercise VERY tricky in the past!

3...2...1...

GO!

[chrisd783]

Here's my offering to get the ball rolling:

1) John Entwistle
2) Pino Palladino
3) Jaco Pastorius
4) John Paul Jones
5) Flea
6) Tal Wilkenfield
7) Nathan East
8) Duck Dunn
9) Marcus Miller
10) Esparenza Spalding

[spectoremg]

This should be good...

[MarkJB]

Fun... Not necessarily the "best" but the ones who have been important to me...

1- James Jamerson
2- Duck Dunn
3- John Entwistle
4- Jaco
5- Pino
6- Robbie Shakespeare
7- Carole Kaye
8- Jack Bruce
9- Bruce Foxton
10- got to leave a slot for my mate Steve Lawson - who I would/could never play like but he blows my mind with what he does with the Bass!

[chris_b]

I love these guys.
Duck Dunn, John McVie, Bill Wyman, Willie Dixon, Tommy Cogbill, Willie Weeks, Chuck Rainey, Reggie McBride, Nathan East and Wilton Felder.

[Kiwi]

In no particular order there are bassists I admire but, due to a lack of technical ability (i.e. practice) have no realistic hope of emulating...like Esperanza, Pino, John Patitucci and Sharay Reed.

Then there are players whose bass lines I enjoy playing like Bernard Edwards, Gene Perez, Mark King (yes, I'll put my hand up), Herbie Flowers, Rutger Gunnarsson, James Jamerson and Meshell Ndegeocello. So I guess that's 11 in total...but I play guitar more these days anyway.

[christhammer666]

1.Lemmy
2.John myung
3.David ellefson
4.matin mendez
5.michael lepond
6.steve harris
7.geddy lee
8.tom araya
9.duff mckagan
10.troy sanders

Positioning changes daily

[Barking Spiders]

Depends if I'm in a funky mood, an 80s poppy one or a post punky one. Currently it's a funkadelic one so in a kinda rough order and best known for

1. Louis Johnson - Jacko's Off The Wall and Thriller albumens
2. Larry Graham - Sly & The Family Stone
3. Mark King - any need to explain?
4. Marcus Miller - ditto
5. Bernard Edwards - and he
6. Rocco Prestia - Tower of Power
7. Stuart Zender - Jamiroquai, 2 three albums
8. Julian Crampton - Incognito, also been on Heaven 17's recent tours
9. Paul Jackson - Herbie Hancocks's Headhunters
10. Joe Dworniak - some Style Council, I Level

Edited December 9, 2016 by Barking Spiders

[ivansc]

Heh - never heard of half those guys.
Is this supposed to be just bass GUITAR, or can we put in upright players as welL?

[Leen2112]

1 Geddy Lee
2 Chris Squire
3 Randy Coven
4 Bryan Beller (the aristocrats)
5 John Myung
6 Dave Larue
7 Tony Levin
8 Stu Hamm
9 Thomas Maclean (Haken)
10 Billy Sheehan

[Johnny Wishbone]

Geezer Butler, Billy Gould, Jason Newsted, Justin Chancellor, Tim Commerford, MCA, Andy Fraser, Rex Brown, Eric Avery, Ben Shepherd. In no particular order.

Edited December 9, 2016 by Johnny Wishbone

[ras52]

The top 10 whose lines I wanted to copy (with varying degrees of success!), in strictly alphabetical order:

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[Coilte]

1. James Jamerson
2. Jack Bruce
3. Chuck Rainey
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[thebigyin]

Geezer Butler
Neil Murray
Tommy Shannon
Dennis Dunnaway
Roger Glover
Andy Fraser
Boz Burrell
Pete Way
Jimmy Bain
Phil Lynott

The list would be endless

[Skybone]

Geddy
Geezer
Lemmy
Guy Pinhas
Ron Holzner
Youth and Raven
Scott Reeder
Phil Lynot
This space subject to change without prior notice
Ditto

[Barking Spiders]

In a post punk/80s pop frame of mind and in no order

Mick Karn - Japan stuff
Pino Palladino -mostly for his fretless work on Paul Young's No Parlez
Deon Estus - various Wham tunage
Dave Allen - Gang of Four and Shriekback
Stuart Morrow - first two New Model Army albums
Michael Dempsey - mostly for his playing on Sulk by The Associates
JJ Burnel - for Stranglers albums up to The Raven
Mick Anker - The Blow Monkeys..a very overlooked player
Horace Panter -The Specials
Norman Watt Roy

[Raslee]

Mike Howlett
Roly Wynn
Bootsy Collins
Aston Familyman Barrett
Jaco Pastorius
Louis Johnson
Larry Graham
Victor Wooten
Marcus Miller
Flea

[josie]

Top ten would take more time than I have, but top is Carmine Rojas.

[mikel]

1, Chris Squire. Yes.
2. Glen Cornick. Tull.
3. John Glasscock. Tull.
4. Andy Frazer. Free
5. Robbie Breakspear. Sly and Robbie
6. Mike Rutherford. Genesis
7. Nathan East. Everyone
8. Roger Glover. Deep Purple
9. Bert Ruiter. Focus
10. Jim Lea. Slade

[RickyV]

Norman Watt Roy
Horace Panter
Dave Holland
Joe Dart
Pino
JJ Burnel
Stuart Zender
Andy Rourke
Paz Lenchantin
Duff Mckagan

Edited December 9, 2016 by RickyV

[jazzyvee]

I don't do best but my favourites are.
1 - (Stanley Clarke & Aston Barrett) - I can't split these two as they are equally major influences to me and I have enjoyed their bass playing more than any others.
The rest are the ones I like equally not ordered by rank.
2- Victor Bailey
3-Chuck Rainey
4-Marcus Miller
5-Nathan East
6-Gary Willis
7-John Pattitucci
8-Richard Cousins
9-Ron Carter

[louisthebass]

This is going to be difficult, but I'll go with this collection:

Jaco Pastorius
Pino Palladino
James Jamerson
Donald "Duck" Dunn
Bruce Foxton
Carol Kaye
John Paul Jones
Jeff Andrews
Paul Turner
Sean Hurley

[Bo0tsy]

Funk bassists top ten...

Bootsy Collins
Cordell 'Boogie' Mosson
Billy 'Bass' Nelson
Rodney 'Skeet' Curtis
Larry Graham
Andrew 'Love' Levy
Stuart Zender
Rick James
Prince
Aaron Mills

[Graham]

Putting them in order is painful

Geezer Butler
Bernie Edwards
Martin Mendez
Alex Webster
Jeff Caxide
Justin Chancellor
Paul Turner
Caleb Schofield
James Leach
Stuart Zender

Edited December 10, 2016 by Graham

[ryan0583]

Larry Graham
Victor Wooten
Jaco
Prince
Marcus Miller
Stuart Zender
Tim Commerford
Joe Dart
Flea
Michael League