Name 10 bass players...

[Frank Blank]

33 minutes ago, TimR said:

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

 

Nobby Stiles, I mean he didn't play drums or 'owt but... you know... Nobby Stiles.

[tegs07]

7 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

 

Nobby Stiles, I mean he didn't play drums or 'owt but... you know... Nobby Stiles.

The handsome one out of Take Direction? No need to call him a nob. You’re just jealous of his trousers and snake like hips.

[Frank Blank]

1. Ludovic Kennedy
2. Lord Lucan
3. Betty Boothroyd
4. Shep the dog
5. Timmy Mallett
6. That bloke off Daktari
7. Kirsty Wark
8. Ben Kingsley
9. Arthur Negus
10. Roobarb

[tegs07]

4 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

1. Ludovic Kennedy
2. Lord Lucan
3. Betty Boothroyd
4. Shep the dog
5. Timmy Mallett
6. That bloke off Daktari
7. Kirsty Wark
8. Ben Kingsley
9. Arthur Negus
10. Roobarb

You’re just being silly now. Ben Kingsley played the tenor banjo

[upside downer]

24 minutes ago, tegs07 said:

Ben Kingsley played the tenor banjo

 

No, he only paid a fiver for it.

[tegs07]

1 minute ago, upside downer said:

 

No, he only paid a fiver for it.

Yeah that whole Ghandi thing went too far, wandering around in flip flops, haggling in local music shops and so on.

[Frank Blank]

2 hours ago, tegs07 said:

Yeah that whole Ghandi thing went too far, wandering around in flip flops, haggling in local music shops and so on.

 

Gandhi made my top ten flautists, Ghandi, however, was arrested for impersonating G. Handi the infamous puppet thruster.

[Count Bassy]

15 hours ago, Dood said:

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

Your own family don't count as general public!

[12stringbassist]

Paul McCartney
Sting 
Lemmy
Mark KIng
Phil Lynott
John Entwistle
Sid Vicious

Oh yes it's hard to name 10 bassists that the man on the street would easily come up with...
Some of mine are probably a bit obscure to the younger end now.

[steve-bbb]

8 hours ago, 12stringbassist said:

Some of mine are probably a bit obscure to the younger end now.

the hip youngsters would probably say thundercat or mononeon

Edited November 20, 2024 by steve-bbb

[AMV001]

On 20/11/2024 at 09:03, steve-bbb said:

the hip youngsters would probably say...

I asked one yesterday (my daughter, 20, currently at college in Bristol) who recently expressed an interest in learning to play bass. She couldn't reach the full 10 and her reply is probably skewed by her current listening tastes but here's what she came up with-

 

Alex James

Kim Gordon

Chris Novoselic

Jennifer Fitch

Kim Deal

Theo Ellis

Eliana Sewell

 

She also expressed an interest in "the girl who plays for Primal Scream" and "the bassist in Khruangbin" but couldn't name either. So I think she's looking for role models. Doesn't know who Paul McCartney, Lemmy or Mark King are but agonised over who was the bassist was in Chic, eventually going for Nile Rogers. Close but no cigar. She does know who Flea is though, although he didn't occur to her when she was thinking of names. Make of that what you will.

She offered the theory that she (and most people of her age she knows) consume their music electronically or via streaming and therefore don't really read credits or sleevenotes and admitted that she had only seen most album covers as a thumbnail.