favorite Bass Player

DerekD Goldfish · 24-06-2005 5:54pm #1

Bass players are often overlooked members of bands I was wondering who people favorite bass players are

My nomination would go to Dave Allen
Played bass on the first 2 Gang of Four albums before joining shreikback

Karl Hungus · 24-06-2005 7:06pm

John Myung maybe.

Sweetness! · 24-06-2005 7:42pm

Flea

fjon · 24-06-2005 7:50pm

Aston "Family Man" Barrett
Sting (I'm serious - Police era though)
Stuart Zender
Paul McCartney (Beatles era)
And Flea of course...

Creamy Goodness · 24-06-2005 11:54pm

Matt Sharp - Ex. Weezer
James Johnston - Biffy Clyro

dead air · 25-06-2005 12:10pm

in no order...

John Paul Jones (Led Zep)
Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie)
Paul McCartney (The Beatles)
Andy Rourke (The Smiths)
Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)
Damon Minchella (Paul Weller/ ex-ocean colour scene -this guy always gets overlooked but he's a great musician with perfect basslines)

25-06-2005 12:17pm

Carlos D from Interpol,plays some cracking bass lines!Also Chris Wolfenstom from muse.

Doctor J · 25-06-2005 1:35pm

At the moment I just can't get enough of Bernard Edwards

rabbitinlights · 25-06-2005 2:23pm

Matt Freeman - Rancid

He made me wanna play bass.

S.

DerekD Goldfish · 25-06-2005 2:40pm

Sweetness! wrote:

Flea

Flea is a massive Gang of Four fan
Andy Gill the guitarist produced some of the chillies early albums

you should check out some of their stuff if you havent already done so

dimerocks · 25-06-2005 3:09pm

les claypool......eh nicky wire(hehehe)

Jonny Arson · 25-06-2005 3:42pm

Mark King!

No really I would have to go for........... Nick Olivieri. He is one of the very few bassists that makes the instrument come to life. A pleasure to listen to.

Other faves of mine are Nicky Wire from the Manics (esp. on The Holy Bible), John Hassall from The Libertines and Yeti and of course the legend that is Flea

honru · 25-06-2005 3:47pm

Les Claypool probably, and Mike Watt.

sinjin_smythe · 25-06-2005 3:53pm

Yep Nick Olivieri does it for me songs for the deaf was his best stuff

dregin · 25-06-2005 3:54pm

rabbitinlights wrote:

Matt Freeman - Rancid

He made me wanna play bass.

S.

The man.

dimerocks · 25-06-2005 7:23pm

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Mark King!

No really I would have to go for........... Nick Olivieri. He is one of the very few bassists that makes the instrument come to life. A pleasure to listen to.

Other faves of mine are Nicky Wire from the Manics (esp. on The Holy Bible), John Hassall from The Libertines and Yeti and of course the legend that is Flea

nicky is probably the laziest bassist ever. he recorded the bass line for if you tolerate.....once and told dave erigna that he had a headache and ****ed of.

Lowfive · 27-06-2005 10:03am

Jaco Pastorius
Charles Mingus
Stanley Clarke
Victor Wooten
Michael Manring
Les Claypool

magpie · 27-06-2005 3:04pm

Ravelleman · 27-06-2005 8:27pm

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

Bass players are often overlooked members of bands

I'd say that's only true of crap or boring bass players. If they try playing more than root notes then they're hard to miss.

Geddy Lee - Rush
Chris Squire - Yes
Tom Hamilton - Aerosmith

spiderlegs · 28-06-2005 2:46pm

Flea is really the man,I read once he played so much his fingers started to bleed on stage but he was too into playing to notice,that's one man who loves to play bass! He is sooo cool :rolleyes:

Dont be at yourself · 28-06-2005 5:59pm

Kim Deal, natch.

overhere · 28-06-2005 11:58pm

dimerocks wrote:

les claypool......eh nicky wire(hehehe)

defo second that.

winonas big brown beaver .

Nuff said.

Serbian · 29-06-2005 10:11am

John Paul Jones fan here, though his solo stuff was a bit crazy.

Rozie · 29-06-2005 10:36pm

D'Arcy.

Myung has some nice licks, but not much else. D'Arcy, while technically not as good, was very involved in how the songs were written, she was a real driving force, which every musician should be.

Altheus · 30-06-2005 6:26pm

... Sting ...

Board@Work · 30-06-2005 6:29pm

Pual Mc Cartney..

Maybe not the coolest but in beatles era was consistently good..

30-06-2005 6:36pm

Easy:

Les Claypool,
Jaco Pastorius,
Brian Ritchie (Violent Femmes)
Bill Gould (FNM)

...aaaaannndddddd....

Mike Dirnt (Green Day)

smackbunnybaby · 30-06-2005 7:13pm

yer man from no doubt is brilliant.

magpie · 01-07-2005 5:16pm

Tis true, you can't front on Macca. Have a listen to 'Hey Bulldog' off Yellow Submarine for some Ricky 4001 riff madness.

thomas.oleary · 01-07-2005 11:21pm

*Cough!"Robert, Clif, Jason"!Cough*

Ravelleman · 03-07-2005 3:56pm

magpie wrote:

Tis true, you can't front on Macca. Have a listen to 'Hey Bulldog' off Yellow Submarine for some Ricky 4001 riff madness.

With every great bassist comes a Ric - McCartney, Lemmy, Geddy Lee, Chris Squire etc.

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