Respected or fave bass players but with a small body of work

[Doctor J]

You can also hear him with Kyuss, Masters of Reality, Mondo Generator, Vista Chino, Dwarves, Stöner and more. Not a small body of work by any means.

[Grimalkin]

Andy Rourke.

[Bassassin]

14 hours ago, Grimalkin said:

Tony Butler who played for Big Country. 

 

Tony played on 8 BC albums & dozens of non-album tracks. Great player (and certainly an influence of mine) but that's a significant output.

[Grimalkin]

10 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

 

Tony played on 8 BC albums & dozens of non-album tracks. Great player (and certainly an influence of mine) but that's a significant output.

 

With Big Country I suppose.

[toneknob]

Justin Chancellor

 

[Grimalkin]

Anthony Wall, now a policeman apparently.

 

 

[miles'tone]

11 hours ago, Doctor J said:

You can also hear him with Kyuss, Masters of Reality, Mondo Generator, Vista Chino, Dwarves, Stöner and more. Not a small body of work by any means.

Thanks again Dr. J. I did go and listen to the latest Stöner album (Totally...) today. Loved it! 👊

 

[SteveXFR]

On 17/10/2022 at 18:48, Vin Venal said:

I mean obviously there's Cliff Burton, cuz he dead. Do dead people count?

 

He's on three albums and most people still think of him as the god of metal bass.

 

Jason Newstead could get a mention as well. He's only on 2 records and you can't hear him on one. He's a solid bassist and deserved better

[Doctor J]

And one with Flotsam and Jetsam, three with Voivod, two with Echobrain, his own Newsted stuff, plus lots of guest appearances with the likes of Sepultura... Jason has been around.

[Bassybert]

Tim Drummond. Played on a huge amount of records and toured with 70’s/80’s icons like CSNY, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and more. Was James Brown’s bass player for a while too, that’s no mean feat. 

[miles'tone]

On 19/10/2022 at 10:47, Grimalkin said:

Andy Rourke.

I love the guy! He does have quite a body of work up his quiet sleeves though...

6 released albums with The Smiths, loads of singles and a couple of albums with Morrissey, he's recorded an album each with The Pretenders, Sinead O'connor, D.A.R.K., Freebass and Ian Brown. He's also still active with his latest project Blitz Vega. Good lad! 👍 

[clarkpegasus4001]

Dave Myles formerly of Max Webster. 

[Nebadon2000]

Tal WIlkenfeld 

 

 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

16 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Jason Newstead could get a mention as well. He's only on 2 records and you can't hear him on one. He's a solid bassist and deserved better

Eh?

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Eh?

 

I was wrong, he played on four records.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Count again... 😉

[Nail Soup]

On 19/10/2022 at 11:59, Bassassin said:

 

Tony played on 8 BC albums & dozens of non-album tracks. Great player (and certainly an influence of mine) but that's a significant output.

Wasn’t Tony Butler a session player when not in Big Country? In which case he could have large body of work … albeit  anonymous .

[SteveXFR]

2 hours ago, Cosmo Valdemar said:

Count again... 😉

 

Justice, Black  Load and Reload. 

I guess Justice doesn't count because you can't hear the bass and Load & Reload just sucked

[paul_5]

Also S&M. 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

5 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Justice, Black  Load and Reload. 

I guess Justice doesn't count because you can't hear the bass and Load & Reload just sucked

S&M, Cunning Stunts, Garage Inc, Live S***, plus EPs.

And that's just his work with Metallica.

[mikel]

Glen Cornick, Jethro Tull. Played on the first three Tull albums, but "Replaced" cos he liked to party more than playing. When you consider how many albums and Tours Tull went to do its a comparatively small body of work for one of my all time favorite bassists. He played with a band called Paris but I never caught up with them. 

[nige1968]

I used to like the guy from Culture Shock who left after two albums to get a proper job. 

 

 

[Misdee]

Doug Rauch.

 

 He is best known for his playing in Santana in the early to mid,1970s. Also played with Carly Simon Betty Davis, Lenny White, Billy Cobham and very briefly with David Bowie.

 

A superb player and highly original bass player who was ahead of his time.  He had the whole funky 16th note thing going long before the wider world was aware of Jaco, and he did some double thumping too.

 

Unfortunately Doug became overwhelmed by drug problems and depression by the time he was 26, dropped out of the music business and died at 28 years old in 1979.  One of the very best players of that era, for sure.

 

 By way of contrast, another one would be Chris Bostock who played with the JoBoxers in the early 1980s and a few other notables during that decade. Always liked his playing but he didn't go on to make very many more recordings.

 

 

Edited October 23, 2022 by Misdee