Name 10 bass players...

[Dad3353]

2 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Collar felt is absolutely useless for use on a shed roof. Ms Twelvetrees can supply the list of appropriate felts, along with the requisite forms for felting.

 

Feltham..? I used to live very near Feltha... Oh, sorry. Felting. My mistake; as you were. 

 

(Note to self : clean the felt out of my ears. )

Edited September 27, 2024 by Dad3353

[Stew]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Floyd Pepper or Wilbur Bascomb...surely everyone knows them 😁

[TimR]

"Sparko" Sparks - from the Dr Feltgood band. 

[Grahambythesea]

If the general public are over 40 they might know Macca. Under 40 they think music is generated by machines and no of no one who operates them!

[Frank Blank]

3 hours ago, tegs07 said:

Fettling Mr Blank. Felting a gazebo.

 

A little out of column a), a little out of column b).

 

3 hours ago, tegs07 said:

What kind of madness is this.

 

Type D.

 

3 hours ago, tegs07 said:

This is a sensible topic, for sensible people.

 

...and my arśe is a kipper.

[Frank Blank]

3 hours ago, Dad3353 said:

Or what..? I'll get my collar felt..? 

 

Oooohhh, collar felting now, quite the definitive felting compendium this thread.

[Frank Blank]

21 minutes ago, Stew said:

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Floyd Pepper or Wilbur Bascomb...surely everyone knows them 😁

 

Shed felters were they?

[prowla]

3 hours ago, Stew said:

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Floyd Pepper or Wilbur Bascomb...surely everyone knows them 😁

Led Boots. 

[Stew]

1 hour ago, prowla said:

Led Boots. 

👍👍

[snorkie635]

Just asked Mrs S.

 

Her 10 were:

 

Paul McCartney

 

Jack Bruce

 

Charlie Mingus

 

Flea

 

Mark King

 

John Entwistle

 

Nico Bruce

Lee Sklar

 

Jaco Pastorius

 

Pino Palladino

 

 

 

Seems impressive, but fails to record such comment as:

 

"Some woman with glasses, who looks like a geek. Her name is Carol somebody" (Carol Kay)

 

"The guy with the beard in ZZ Top whose name isn't Beard, because he doesn't have a beard and he plays the drums." (Dusty Hill)

 

"The really old one in the documentary in New York, who teaches everybody." (Ron Carter)

 

"The one whose name sounds like a pizza." (John Patitucci)

 

"Him who keeps marrying thirteen year olds". (Bill Wyman)

 

"The one who looks like a Malteser." (Tony Levin)

 

[paul_5]

Mrs_5 has contributed ‘that guy from Primus is the lead singer and bassist, and I know that’s quite unusual’,  ‘George Harrison - was he the bass player in the Beatles?’

 

Not looking good is it? 😄
 

After some gentle prompting we got to ‘Les Claypool’

Edited September 28, 2024 by paul_5

[Count Bassy]

General public?

 

Paul McCartney

Susi Quattro

Possibly Bill Wyman

Flea perhaps

........

 

err, that's it.

 

Much as bass players might dote on Jaco Pastorius (I don't), the general public would not a have clue who he was, and would probably think you were talking about the fella that shot his girlfriend through the bathroom door.

 

[OliverBlackman]

I’ve not seen much mention of the godfather of electric bass but that’s session life for you

[Guest]

Would be interesting to hear what these SOs would say if asked for their 5 favourite songs with great basslines. 

[Linus27]

I asked my wife today to name 10 bass players. She said, Jaco, Jamerson and me. I was impressed 🙂

[EssentialTension]

On 27/09/2024 at 09:44, diskwave said:

... The "Public" havent a  clue when it comes to bass...

My father didn't have a clue.

 

If it had strings he called it a banjo ... 'are you playing your banjo tonight?' he woudl say to me as I put my bass into its case.

 

If you had to blow into it he called it a trumpet ... 'it's a terrible noise when you blow in that trumpet' he would say as I learned the harmonica.

 

Name ten bass players? He couldn't name one instrument correctly. He wasn't stupid he just wasn't interested. And nonetheless he was a talented ballroom dancer.

[EssentialTension]

As I have pointed out several times before, if i ask Mrs ET to name any bass players, she will always respond with ...

 

'Is it Duck Duckerson?

 

... and carry on with the rest of her life..

[AndyTravis]

Bob Babbitt

Flea

James Jamerson

Marcus Miller

pino palladino

Nathan East

Jaco Pastorius

papa elf (Lee sklar)

The Queen guy, wears short shorts…Deacon, John Deacon

 

is he a bass player, the one I don’t like…Paul McCartney 

 

there you go…that’s Jenny’s answer.

 

Didn’t say me…

 

Edited November 18, 2024 by AndyTravis

[AndyTravis]

Victor Wooten…

 

Bootsy Collins he’s a bass player

 

Duck Dunn

 

Geddy Lee

 

shes now shouting bass players names at me in bed.

 

🙄

[AndyTravis]

 f***ing STING

 

YOU

 

Stanley Clarke…

 

there, how many’s that?

 

she’ll be at this for a while

[alyctes]

Err, what's a bass? 

...  Oh.  Do people still do that?

[itu]

Ten bass brands: easy!

Ten bassists, well now that you ask...

[prowla]

Ritchie Blackmore

George Harrison

John Lennon

Paul Gilbert

Eddie Van Halen

Jimi Hendrix

Jimmy Page

Keith Richards

Brian May

Dave Grohl

 

 

[TimR]

58 minutes ago, prowla said:

George Harrison

Didn't he play drums or was that George Best?

 

Edited November 19, 2024 by TimR

[Dood]

I was once recognised in a Morrison's supermarket. Does that count?