Any famous guitarists good at playing bass?

[Dood]

You could ask the same question of Bass Players on Guitar! John Deacon for example was a bit handy on the Guitar though you'd never have known on the face of it.

[Dood]

I guess my fellow D'Addario/Dingwall artist Nolly is known for his bass work in Periphery but he's a [i]great[/i] Guitarist.

Andy James usually plays all the bass on his solo albums (only cos he couldn't afford me lol)

[Dood]

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Ron Wood
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Ronnie Wood's playing on Maggie May is so tasty.

[EBS_freak]

This guys has had a bit of a turn with on bass...

Lets think....

Lets Spend The Night Together... Jumpin' Jack Flash, Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man... That's some impressive records to have a bass credit on. Oh, and he was the bass player in the Dirty Mac with John Lennon!

Edited May 8, 2017 by EBS_freak

[christhammer666]

Eric Gales

[casapete]

Sheryl Crow

[Conan]

Scott Gorham played bass on this lovely track...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKrYDJ20vfg

[Japhet]

Probably not too well known but Robbie MacIntosh (a proper guitarist's guitarist) is a great bass player. Does a lot of the bass work on his own albums, mainly when he can't get hold of Pino.

[dmccombe7]

[quote name='Conan' timestamp='1494254488' post='3294361']
Scott Gorham played bass on this lovely track...

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKrYDJ20vfg[/media]
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Wow not heard that song before. Nice one.
Dave

[Conan]

[quote name='dmccombe7' timestamp='1494255253' post='3294377']
Wow not heard that song before. Nice one.
Dave
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It is, isn't it?

[dmccombe7]

John Paul Jones did some Mandolin playing that was nice but that's round the wrong way i guess.
He was however multi instrumentalist.

Dave

[stingrayPete1977]

Steve Lukather played bass on Michael Jackson's beat it.

[stingrayPete1977]

Elvis Presley.

[leftybassman392]

Newton Faulkner[i].[/i] IIRC he plays all the instruments on his albums himself. A brilliant all-round musician IMHO.

Edited May 8, 2017 by leftybassman392

[EliasMooseblaster]

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Dave Gilmour, saw him play bass with Sam Brown in the mid 90's

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...and allegedly quite a dab hand with it on a lot of the mid-70s Pink Floyd albums!

[Funky Dunky]

Richie Kotzen. Otherworldly guitarist, and a really good bassist.

Stevie Salas is much the same.

I witnessed Bumblefoot dicking about on a bass on the Vigier stand at Music Live in 2002 and he was staggeringly good.

[Hobbayne]

George Harrison played bass on a few Beatle tracks.

Edit - Oh! and Adele is quite handy on the bass too.

Edited May 8, 2017 by Hobbayne

[yorks5stringer]

Aimee Mann

[Leonard Smalls]

Buckethead is a bit of a decent slapper...

[Jenny_Innie]

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Sting.
Very good at both.
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That's the other way 'round though!

[Jenny_Innie]

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1494248284' post='3294294']
You could ask the same question of Bass Players on Guitar! John Deacon for example was a bit handy on the Guitar though you'd never have known on the face of it.
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But I'm not asking that question.

[Jenny_Innie]

[indent=1]I'm not convinced by any of the comments so far. Maybe Paul McCartney. Otherwise ...... pfffft![/indent]

[Beer of the Bass]

Isn't Yngwie Malmsteen very much in the "transfer your widdly guitar chops across to bass" camp, capable though he is? Mike Oldfield is a good call (thinking of the old Kevin Ayers albums). Also, John Scofield is doubling on bass with the Brad Mehldau trio at the moment, playing a short-scale Mustang bass in a convincingly restrained, unflashy style.

[RhysP]

[quote name='Jenny_Innie' timestamp='1494267716' post='3294561']
That's the other way 'round though!
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I thought you might say that...

[RhysP]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1494255600' post='3294383']
Steve Lukather played bass on Michael Jackson's beat it.
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And all of the guitar stuff apart from the solo.