How 'bout Bass players?

[Matt303]

I noticed how the top 10 best guitarists thread seems to have attracted a lot of responses. Although I agree it’s essentially pointless they are good fun anyway. I thought it would be interesting to do the same thing for electric bass players, lets say Top 10 favourite rather than best because its less contentious. My guess is that many of them will correspond to bands with top 10 guitarists so I’m expecting to see Flea rather a lot.

Here’s my top 10

Jaco Pastorius
Anthony Jackson
Marcus Miller
Bernard Edwards
Nathan Watts
Chuck Rainey
Louis Johnson
Duck Dunn
Mark King (very 80’s I know but did a lot to raise the profile)
Lemmy (for being Lemmy)

 

[christiaan]

Les Claypool, how could you forget

Primus @ the Pinkpop festival '98.
Best concert I've ever seen. And the crowd jumped to an earthquake of 1.2 on the Richter scale.

 

[caretaker9]

Wow, I don't know if I can think of ten, but here goes...

Jaco Pastorius
Baron Brown
Billy Sheehan
John Pattitucci
Atom Ellis
Rocco Prestia
Gary Willis
Stu Hamm
Roger Waters
...And though he may be disqualified: Charlie Hunter
The man plays an 8 string guitar; 5 guitar strings and 3 bass strings! And neither suffer!

I guess I could think of ten!!!

 

[Wide Awake]

Chris Squire
Leland Sklar
Alphonso Johnson
Pete Trewavas
John Paul Jones
Michael Rutherford

......and of course myself

 

[Phildo]

Gail Ann Dorsey
Peter Hook
Paul McCartney
Me.

 

[B.SABBATH]

Geezer Butler..

Steve Harris..

Geddy Lee..

Doug Wimbush..

John Entwistle

 

[gjb3]

Hmmm...

Paul McCartney, Steve Harris, Geddy Lee, John Entwistle are easy choices...

I would definitely have Mark King on my list...very underrated.

also Doug Pinnick of King's X (good style, great sound)

-J

 

[B.SABBATH]

also Doug Pinnick of King's X (good style, great sound)
-J

word..

 

[Gidge]

besides Danny Partridge.......

MisterQ
Jason Newstead
Chris Squire
John Taylor
Geddy Lee
Rudy Sarzo
Billy Sheehan
Flea
Cliff Burton
Sting
Nathan East
Hugh MacDonald
Stevie Wonders left hand

to be continued......

 

[M.Brane]

Some more to think about....

In no particular order:

Paul Harwood
Peter "Mars" Cowling
Bill Church
Cliff Burton (RIP )
David Ellefson
Patrick O'Hearn
Tim Bogert

And I can't believe nobody yet mentioned Phil Lynott! (RIP )

 

[Lame Thrower]

Victor Wooten!

His style's not for everyone, but the guy can flat out play!

 

[Guernica]

.........man what is up.....??
I didnt see a Stanley Clark in there anywhere....

 

[Badger]

Victor Wooten!

His style's not for everyone, but the guy can flat out play!

Hell yeah....I cant believe that it took that long for him to get mentioned.
In no particular order....

1. floyd pepper http://www.muppets.com/profiles/floyd.htm
2. Les Claypool
3. Geddy Lee
4. Chris Squire
5. John Paul Jones
6. Sid Vicious
7. WILLIE DIXON
8. Donald Duck Dunn
9. Tina Weymouth
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[64Firebird]

Jaco Pastorius
Tommy Shanon
Dusty Hill
Bootsie Collins
Stanly Clark
Gene Simmons (I like showmanship and it's tough to beat a guy that spits blood and breaths fire)
and my buddy Aardvark

 

[Badger]

Jaco Pastorius
Tommy Shanon
Dusty Hill
Bootsie Collins
Stanly Clark
Gene Simmons (I like showmanship and it's tough to beat a guy that spits blood and breaths fire)
and my buddy Aardvark

How the hell did I miss Bootsie and Aardvark....Doh....

It is incredably sad that Aardvark has given up playing, I have never met his equal with 4,5 or 6 strings....Anybody in the DFW area who ever saw Daddys Soul Donut can testify to that...

 

[TexRoadkill]

James Jamerson(sp?) He invented the whole motown bass groove.

 

[Axis]

flea
paul mcartney
Chris Reardan (earthtoandy.com)
john paul jones

 

[CDT-sHaG]

in no particular order...

jaco
stanley clarke
flea
james jamerson
eric avery (style-wise)
victor wooten
Justin Chancellor

and....


bootsy collins!!

 

[Badger]

in no particular order...
flea

Now I'm really getting woried. I forgot Flea....What the hell....

 

[CDT-sHaG]

ever see flea live? omfg!

his energy level alone makes him amazing...

the fact he can play that hard and move around for 2 1/2 hours non-stop...sheesh..