Your 10 Favorite Bass Players

[The Bat]

Seeing how Bass is my primary instrument, I thought I'd start this thread. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order:

Paul McCartney
John Paul Jones (Zeppelin)
Jaco Pastorious (Weather Report)
Stanley Clarke (Jazz)
Flea (Red Hot Chilli Pepers)
Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)
Victor Wooten
Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
Leland Sklar (session payer)
... and of course Bootsy Collins!

Honorable Mention:
Sid Viscous (not really, he stunk but I had to add 1 punk rocker)
Stu Sutcliffe (Beatles original bass player, couldn't play a lick but here for the pop culture reference...)

[Rayne]

Seeing how Bass is my primary instrument, I thought I'd start this thread. Here are some of my favorites, in no particular order:

Paul McCartney
John Paul Jones (Zeppelin)
Jaco Pastorious (Weather Report)
Stanley Clarke (Jazz)
Flea (Red Hot Chilli Pepers)
Colin Greenwood (Radiohead)
Victor Wooten
Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
Leland Sklar (session payer)
... and of course Bootsy Collins!

Honorable Mention:
Sid Viscous (not really, he stunk but I had to add 1 punk rocker)
Stu Sutcliffe (Beatles original bass player, couldn't play a lick but here for the pop culture reference...)

Bass? You mean like the fish?!

[kywcat]

When I was a teenager I went to see KISS and the hair band that opened for them had an amazing Bass player who performed a solo that left me stunned. However I can't remeber the name of the band or him. [B]
Gene Simmons had a solo that was not good and all of us in the front started booing until he shot fire about 10 feet over our heads. We all had a little more respect for his performance after that. [:$]

[BornBengalFan]

kris noveselic

[The Bat]

Bass? You mean like the fish?!

Don't make a bass out of yourself... (remove the b)

[Mountaineer Bengal]

Les Claypool from Primus not only is the guy an extremely gifted bass player...he's quite...a...ummm...character

[Bengaltime]

I've posted part of this in another thread...but here goes:
1) Geddy Lee (Rush)
2) Chris Squire (Yes)
3) Flea (RHCP)
4) John Entwhistle (The Who)

[toyota24]

Flea. The Chili Peppers' instrumentalists are overshadowed by their eccentricities as people. All three of them are great, and would probably be a sick group without Anthony's goofy lyrics They are professional musicians in every sense of the word and can hang with just about anyone. I saw them last year and man, can they jam.
Les Claypool
Johnny Greenwood(I love the end of the song "Optimistic") good call, Bat.
John Paul Jones
Jaco
Bela Fleck
Matt Freeman (of Rancid) for a guy in a punk band he really goes off. Very Impressive.
Sting
Stefan Lessard(Love or hate Dave Matthews, he's a talented guy.
Geddy Lee

[The Bat]

Flea. The Chili Peppers' instrumentalists are overshadowed by their eccentricities as people. All three of them are great, and would probably be a sick group without Anthony's goofy lyrics They are professional musicians in every sense of the word and can hang with just about anyone. I saw them last year and man, can they jam.
Les Claypool
Johnny Greenwood(I love the end of the song "Optimistic") good call, Bat.
John Paul Jones
Jaco
Bela Fleck
Matt Freeman (of Rancid) for a guy in a punk band he really goes off. Very Impressive.
Sting
Stefan Lessard(Love or hate Dave Matthews, he's a talented guy.
Geddy Lee


Yeah, you meant Colin Greenwood (Jonny plays guitar), but I feel ya. "Airbag" from OK Computer is one of my favorite basslines. His timing on that song is off the chain!

[Pezmerga]

10.Roger Waters (Pink Floyd and Solo)
9.John Deacon (Queen)
8.John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
7.John Entwistle (The Who)
6.Greg Lake (ELP)
5.John Wetton (King Crimson)
4.John Myung (Dream Theater)
3. Chris Squire (Yes)
2. Tony Levin (King Crimson and others.)
1. Geddy Lee (Rush)

[Turk88]

Flea
Les Claypool
Jimbo ( Rev. Horton Heat, plays upright bass)

[BFan71]

Gentlemen, I introduce to you, Victor Wooten.
http://www.victorwooten.com/
Listen to "A Show of Hands" album and then please add him to your list.

[ThePekoSquad]

Gentlemen, I introduce to you, Victor Wooten.
http://www.victorwooten.com/
Listen to "A Show of Hands" album and then please add him to your list.

I have seen Victor live and a great bassist he is.
Come on people no BOOTSY COLLINS?
Ok do yourself all a favor go to your myspace or youtube and type in King's X. Dug the bassist from this band not only a incredible singer, he is a AMAZING bassists, possibly the most unknown bassist, but he is INCREDIBLE.
the whole band is incredible.

[The Bat]

Come on people no BOOTSY COLLINS?


Umm, look at my original post to start the thread... of course Bootsy is on my list.

[toyota24]

Flea
Les Claypool
Jimbo ( Rev. Horton Heat, plays upright bass)

J-I-M-B-O! Natureboy Jimbo Wallace rules. How could I forget. It's fun to watch him go off on a five minute solo while the Reverend downs a few shots. I love that band.

[Turk88]

Flea
Les Claypool
Jimbo ( Rev. Horton Heat, plays upright bass)

J-I-M-B-O! Natureboy Jimbo Wallace rules. How could I forget. It's fun to watch him go off on a five minute solo while the Reverend downs a few shots. I love that band.


WOW...someoen that has real good taste...I know Jimbo personally...he has played in my home towna few times and we have hung out..plus he played a motorcycle event I was at two years ago and he walked up to me and said "hey ****er, you from Dayton?" I said yeah..he says..Turk right?...Yup!! Wanna get ****ed up!! Yup...and it was on!!! That guy has the best solos!! And incredible looking stand ups!

[toyota24]

Flea
Les Claypool
Jimbo ( Rev. Horton Heat, plays upright bass)

J-I-M-B-O! Natureboy Jimbo Wallace rules. How could I forget. It's fun to watch him go off on a five minute solo while the Reverend downs a few shots. I love that band.


WOW...someoen that has real good taste...I know Jimbo personally...he has played in my home towna few times and we have hung out..plus he played a motorcycle event I was at two years ago and he walked up to me and said "hey ****er, you from Dayton?" I said yeah..he says..Turk right?...Yup!! Wanna get ****ed up!! Yup...and it was on!!! That guy has the best solos!! And incredible looking stand ups!

I've seen them six or seven times. They seem to tour constantly. I've met him once, but I was like 19. He told me stories about getting messed up and playing steel guitar with Al Jourgensen from Ministry. He also told us about an incident where they ran into Marilyn Manson in a bar and started making fun of his punk a**. Very personable, down to earth guy. I last saw him at Lollapalooza last summer. It was funny b/c all of the old people like me (old as in 30 which is old for that festival) were rocking out to the Reverend while all the youngsters were out watching the other bands. They never disappoint and I even managed to convert a kid that works with me. The Reverend sure is showing his age, man.

[Turk88]

Yes the Rev. is showing his age but I will continue to go see them. I love watching them preform. I can't say enough about how fun their live shows are!!

[BFan71]

Speaking of fun live shows - Leftover Salmon and Southern Culture on the Skids - are my favorites.

[Turk88]

I have seen Southern Culture.....That was a pretty decent show...not bad at all!

[Phall2112]

1 James jamerson (motown)
2 Geddy Lee
3 John entwistle
4 Chris Squire
5 Jaco
6 victor wooten
7 Nathan watts (Stevie wonder)
8 billy sheehan
9 Paul McCartney
10 Jeff Berlin