Coolest of bass players

[Ghost_Bass]

You can't get any cooler than this:

http://youtu.be/m_84x4wFaoE

[lowhand_mike]

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You can't get any cooler than this:

[media]http://youtu.be/m_84x4wFaoE[/media]
[/quote]

yeah you can, you really can, i lasted 27 seconds

[Cato]

Anyone mentioned Larry Graham yet?

http://youtu.be/Z1IuD6F3R5I

[Barking Spiders]

Can you bee cool with a bassface?. You like?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7jGXf2NeO8[/media]

Edited January 27, 2017 by Barking Spiders

[yanto]

J J Burnell has to be up there

[Barking Spiders]

I'm a huge funk fan and a fan of P-Funk especially but I'm not sure Bootsy is cool as such. Unique, a one-off for sure but he's a bit too wacky to be cool. Of those suggested so far I'd have to give the top places to Ox, Tony Levin and Mick Karn

[Japhet]

Juan Nelson, although you'd never say he didn't break into a sweat.

[SpondonBassed]

Bill Wyman. Cool to the point of dead boredom perhaps.

[christhammer666]

LEMMY

[KevB]

John McCoy

[niagra]

Micki Steele.

[Dan Dare]

Norman, but don't know about the sweat...

[Cato]

Honourable mention for Yolanda Charles

http://youtu.be/pTvMoA1GyV4

[lojo]

https://youtu.be/BCNORo_tmKs

[Fred Leicester]

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1485529947' post='3224695']
Can you bee cool with a bassface?. You like?
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7jGXf2NeO8[/media]
[/quote]

On that note - this:

https://youtu.be/rSS4j6zUJgQ

😊

[ROConnell]

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Carol Kaye to be honest

[size=1]For the record I am being humorous... [/size]

Edited January 27, 2017 by ROConnell

[SpondonBassed]

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Can't believe nobody has mentioned Carol Kaye to be honest
[/quote]

Not cool. Not even. Very accomplished admittedly and I even like her stuff but the Jamerson controversy is anything but...

[spectoremg]

[quote name='Rexel Matador' timestamp='1485525487' post='3224638']
You beat me to it!

I find it's quite hard to [i]not[/i] look cool holding a bass. In terms of effortless chops I would go for Matt Freeman.
[/quote]This. I often warn Ms EMG if I'm gonna practice to sit down beforehand in case she swoons at the sight

[spectoremg]

Andrew Levy.

[Shaggy]

Possibly the most predictable reply; but I'd have to nominate John Entwhistle closely followed by Tony Levin
Of ones I've seen recently; Eddie Meyer of Turin Brakes

[Mykesbass]

Willie Dixon: http://modlock.co.uk/willie-dixon-giant-of-modern-music-a-blues-loving-bass-players-appreciation/

[spongebob]

Got beaten to it on Lemmy, so I'll add Kenny Gradney from Little Feat. Cool as the proverbial root vegetable.

[Funky Ghost]

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Andrew Levy.
[/quote]

One of my personal main influences along with Dee Murray.

[FinnDave]

[quote name='christhammer666' timestamp='1485531427' post='3224716']
LEMMY
[/quote]

This, x ten million, at least

[Leonard Smalls]

[quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1485530365' post='3224701']
I'm a huge funk fan and a fan of P-Funk especially but I'm not sure Bootsy is cool as such. Unique, a one-off for sure but he's a bit too wacky to be cool. Of those suggested so far I'd have to give the top places to Ox, Tony Levin and Mick Karn
[/quote]

Cool doesn't mean uninterested, or the best, just about being effortless...
Bootsy is just all The Funk - he can't even talk without being funky. Which is cool. But can you imagine Doobie-in your funk?

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHE6hZU72A4[/MEDIA]

Saying that, Lemmy was proper cool as well. And Big Tony Fisher from Trouble Funk...