bubinga5 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Of course we dont just like bass do we. My favorite musicians are not bass players. A thread for your favourite musicians who dont play bass because we are mature and appreciate music as a whole. Anything from brass, drums, piano, guitar, synth or any stringed instrument. Anything that makes noise well.... Is all good here. This guy is just a MONSTER. Ive yet to see or witness a guitar player who has this much on the guitar.There is no doubt Norman Brown could probably play anything written down in front of him. Of course its subjective.But his feel and touch. James Ross is his bass player who is also a MONSTER... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 For me it’s Larry LaLonde from Primus; his guitar parts are so unorthodox and creative. and Björk. Always Björk. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassfinger Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 Mark Knopflers playing is, to my ear, simply magical. I'm also a fan of Ricky Scaggs on guitar and mandolin, an incredible flat picker. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bubinga5 Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 This..... I will never ever forget listening to Setting me Up on their first album on random play, then this played. It was a magic moment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Rich Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 45 minutes ago, bubinga5 said: Oh good choice. The first thing of his I ever heard was Trashman, love it. https://youtu.be/wKMbKxsSrp4?si=nPDnGDTzCPPxevQ5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediocre Polymath Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 (edited) I'm always in awe of the sheer speed of bluegrass players. This is a lovely little phone recording of three of the best around today – particularly Noam Pickleny (banjo) and Brittany Haas (fiddle) – roaring through an old folksong and managing to sound like a band twice the size. Edited April 24 by Mediocre Polymath 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted April 24 Author Share Posted April 24 38 minutes ago, Rich said: Oh good choice. The first thing of his I ever heard was Trashman, love it. https://youtu.be/wKMbKxsSrp4?si=nPDnGDTzCPPxevQ5 He plays that bass line on a Lakland 5594. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mediocre Polymath Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 1 hour ago, bubinga5 said: This..... I will never ever forget listening to Setting me Up on their first album on random play, then this played. It was a magic moment. Huh. So, this is weird. I've been ambiently aware of that song for as long as I can remember – just as something that gets played on oldies stations. I don't think I've ever seriously listened to it, and definitely not noticed how good the guitar playing is. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OliverBlackman Posted April 24 Share Posted April 24 A lot of guitar players influenced my younger years - mainly Angus Young but also Nile Rogers. These days I love a good horn section and favourite sax player is Bob Reynolds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowdown Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 I have been a life long fan of Dave Grusin. A top, top keyboard player who just happened to compose knock out Film Scores and very memorable TV Themes. His bands and Orchestras were often filled with a lot of my favourite musicians as well - A win win for me. I just so happened to watch a film last night called 'Havana' and Dave Grusin composed the score. A mixture of Latin Music and Orchestral cues. This piece below 'Cuba Libra (Se Fue) is from that film. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 This could end up being neverending. I'll just suggest one young multi-instrumentalist, although for me his real talent is his guitar playing - Tom Misch. Great jazz chops, a lovely feel. Not 100% convinced by his finished productions, but his playing is sublime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Two of my favourites together here - Hiromi Uehara and Dave Fiucyznski... And on the sax, James Carter! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhet Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Shout out to some drummers. David Garibaldi, Gavin Harrison and Dennis Chambers spring to mind as absolute monsters behind the kit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upside downer Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 These two brothers from Egypt are fantastic musicians. Mohamad and Abdallah Abozekry. Mohamad is the oud dude and Abdallah plays the bağlama. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus27 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Mine has to be Bill Evans and Miles Davis. Here they are together performing an amazing version of, 'On Green Dolphin Street'. I'm also going to have to add Lisa Germano, the super talented violinist who played with John Mellencamp, Simple Minds and many other artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 And while we're talking about Primus, some more of my fave musos - Buckethead and The Wizard of Woo, Mr. Bernie Worrell! Brain's not bad either... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Smalls Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 And love Ernest Ranglin's playing too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicbassman Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said: Two of my favourites together here - Hiromi Uehara and Dave Fiucyznski... And on the sax, James Carter! Hiromi's Sonic Bloom with the great Tony Grey on bass and Dave Fiucyznski breaking lots of rules with his guitar playing was her best band in my opinion. Her later line ups never had the same sense of immediacy and risk taking Edited April 25 by musicbassman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barking Spiders Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 I play guitar and drums as well as bass and viz guitar I really like a lot of post-punk/New Wave players such as Will Sergeant, John McGeoch, James Honeyman Scott etc and a whole bunch of acoustic fingerstyle, bluegrass and country Tele players e.g. Leo Kottke, Scotty Anderson, Brent Mason, Tommy Emmanuel, Tony Rice...there's loads. As for drums there's a lot from greats from the heyday of jazz e.g. the Jones's (Jo and Elvin), Gene Krupa , etc to funkers like Dennis Chambers, Ziggy Modeliste, Mike Clarke, Jabo Starks,. Clyde Stubblefield etc. Away from drums and guitar big faves are Dobro meister Jerry Douglas, bluegrass banjo players Earl Scruggs and Bela Fleck, loads of jazz trumpeters like Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Donald Byrd and Randy Brecker. My first instrument was alto sax so I've loads of time for the great jazzers from Coltrane, Parker, Rollins to Michael Brecker. Here's a clip of Randy and Michael Brecker doing their thing.. BTW check out the ace bass playing (James Genus) and drumming (Dennis Chambers) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
police squad Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 17 hours ago, bubinga5 said: Of course we dont just like bass do we. My favorite musicians are not bass players. A thread for your favourite musicians who dont play bass because we are mature and appreciate music as a whole. Anything from brass, drums, piano, guitar, synth or any stringed instrument. Anything that makes noise well.... Is all good here. This guy is just a MONSTER. Ive yet to see or witness a guitar player who has this much on the guitar.There is no doubt Norman Brown could probably play anything written down in front of him. Of course its subjective.But his feel and touch. James Ross is his bass player who is also a MONSTER... very nice, very george benson, lovely feel too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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