17 Greatest Fretless Bassists - Scotts Bass Lessons

[Linus27]

Really good video by Scott on 17 greatest fretless bassists. Shame a few really key bassists were missed like John Giblin, Paul Webb and Sting but still really good and that Ibanez sounded so sweet.

 

 

[No lust in Jazz]

There are a couple of bassists that I like, missing from their list - Patrick O'Hearn & Alfonso Johnson

[Beedster]

There's simply not enough 'The 17 Best....' lists, so many default at 10 or 25, whereas 17 makes so much more sense 

[ezbass]

I need to watch this on the big machine with headphones. Given the horrible weather we’re expecting up here, this will pass half an hour nicely.

[ezbass]

Enjoyed that and Ian Allison's Ibanez on the front pickup sounds great. He's a great fretless player too, but he plays the intro to "Hat" wrong, he misses the double stop. That said, I wish I has his chops (and that Musician).

 

As has been said, it's a shame that the likes of John Giblin are missing (did you know that Rob Mullarkey is his son?) and I would have like to have seen Larry Klein in that too, but where do you stop? Anyone interested in hearing Tony Levin play lots of fretless (he certainly plays a lot more fretless with Peter Gabriel these days) check out his live album, Double Espresso, it's all fretless, when it's not Stick.