hey anyone out there know any killer bassists and can u mention their songs please!!!! The bassists can be from whatever music genre there is, i really don't care, i just want a lot of good bass songs.

thanks in advance!!!!!

marcus miller
"phish"'s bassist
stanley clarke

Hi there,
Hope to see y'all in Bassists when GM sends this thread my way.

Chris A. http://www.talkbass.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

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"I have all my own teeth!"--Jenn Scott Poulin

Nathan East in Fourplay

101 Eastbound
Bali Run

Jaco-with Weather Report...Black Market, Heavy Weather
solo...his first one
WOM...Word Of Mouth
Joni Mitchell-Mingus
Live in NY vol7 with Stern on guitar

Alain Caron on UZEB's World Tour 90
or solo on Rhythm'Jazz

Gary Willis-tribal Tech...the first and Thick
also both his solo CDs...Chambers on drums

any Victa

any Manring

Oteil Burbridge...Aqarium rescue Unit

Bakiti Kumalo...San Bonan

Wolfgang Schmid- Cobham-paradox

Adam Nitti-Balance

Rocco Prestia-Tower Of Power

Larry graham-any

Melvin davis on larry and Lee (Carlton and Ritenaur)

Tony Levin

Jonas Hellborg

Jimmy Johnson

Matt Garrison

Anthony Jackson

and just for the scary ass double neck...gotta toss John turner in as well

that oughta keep you in the woodshed for a few minutes http://www.talkbass.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Ed http://www.geocities.com/~nudeguitars

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Nothing in music is difficult...only unfamiliar.-Ken Werner

Letyoursoulfly:

Dude, welcome to Talkbass. Make sure you read the "Bass Forum Housecleaning" thread that I'm about to toss back to the top here.

This thread is being moved to the "Bassist" forum.

-GM

ok here we go

karl alvarez of the descendents
tommy stinson of the replacements
darryl jenifer of the bad brains
mike watt of the minutemen
jayce fincher of the marvelous 3

take a listen to
pushmonkey
husker du
the meatpuppets

loudfunk - GREAT list guy!!! Glad to see you included Adam Nitti - got a chance to see him last week at a local MARS. He was playing with with a Jazz fusion trio - he absolutely tore-up his custom curbow 6 string. Very wooten-like, but still a monster in his own right! Anything on his "Liquid Blue" disc will put a smile http://www.talkbass.com/ubb/biggrin.gif on your face!

Jack Bruce, anything from Cream... But Sitting on top of the world ( Goodbye Cream ) Politician ( Cream Live 2 ) Deserted Cities of the Heart ( Live Cream 2 ) Tales of Brave Ulyssess ( Cream Live 2 ) In fact Cream Live 2 !

John Myung from Dream Theater! The bass solo from Metropolis is one of the coolest bass solos ever..

Cant say much more than loudfunk did! Wowzas...

For some more commercial (and not as killer) players:

P-nut (311)
Dirk Lance (Incubus)
Rob DeLeo (STP)
Les Claypool (Primus)
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
The dude from Days of the New
The dude from Faith No More (very good!)
Rob Merril (i think) of Godsmack isnt too shabby
The guy from Jane's Addiction (old J's A) wrote VERY catchy stuff
Stuart Zender and Nick Fyffe of Jamiroquai
Mike Bradford (great player, though you cant tell by the singles)
Sam Rivers of Limp Biskit is actually quite good, IF you listen to their old stuff
NOT FIELDY!
Dave Ellefson of Megadeth
Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted of Metallica are KILLLLER! (You gotta hear their solos to see why)
Blahblahblahblah

Cliff Burton and Jason Newstead are my to favorites, if you can find the tower of strength bass solo by newstead , good luck learning it!!!!!! i like Anesthesia- pulling teeth, and orion by Cliff, and check out geezer Butler, flea, Primus, a lot of good stuff to keep you busy for a while!!!!!!

i like Mike Dirnt of Greenday too, if you like punk?

Tony Levin with King Crimson.

Twiggy from Manson

Originally posted by DownCaster
Twiggy from Manson

Twiggy is a babe! (just kidding)
I abhor Manson but,"Dope show" is actually a cool song. It reminds me of Dio and the Scorpions with the 4 to the bar feel. <p>
My favorite solo bass artist is Marcus Miller. Expand your mind, Downcaster. Don't just listen to popular music. (Yes, Manson is popular)

My favorite bass players have all been narrowed down to Yngwie Malmsteen. Hes basically the only reason and influence I have on bass. Oh yeah, i also like Marcus Miller..


Edited for: Stupidity, typos,horrible spelling/grammar/punctuation, and shortened for bandwith.:cool:

Hey!! No one said Robert Trujillo, formerly of Infectious Grooves!! I love that music...anyone know of any other bands that play in that style?

Jack Casady
Oteil Burbridge

check out Maxwell Murder by Rancid... It's a short song, but the bass solo is killer

who is rancids bass player??

oh yeah anyone know who beaver felton is??????

Dave LaRue on Stressfest
Stu Hamm on Radio Free Albemuth, Kings of sleep

Ray Riendeau (Machines of Loving Grace, Gary Hoey)
Matthew Garrison (John McLaughlin)
Hellmut Hattler (Kraan, Tab Two)
Carlos Benavent (Pace de Lucia)
Jonas Hellborg
Dave Carpenter (live w/ Alan Holdsworth)
Rick Skatore (24-7-SPYZ)
Percy Jones (Brand X, solo)
Andy West (Dixie Dregs, The Mistakes)
Victor Bailey (Weather Report, solo)
Sean Malone (Death, Cynic, Gordian Knot)
Doug Keyser (Watchtower)

Yeah, Robert Trujillo of Infectious Grooves!!!!
I haven't listened to that in years - I'm off to a record store to hear it NOW!!

I remember an article in BP about a guy who actually killed somebody with his bass guitar...

cousin randy???

Anything by the WHO..John Entwistle is a killer bassist. Live at Leeds is my favorite. And another vote for Jack Bruce.

Hey now. Haven't we overlooked something?

Geddy Lee - Rush

Killer man...to be able to write the music he does, to play and sing what he does? Who cares if he sounded like a girl. Amazing man. Simply amazing.

Rancid's bass player is Matt freeman. He is truly an awesome bass player. He is just great, words really can't describe it.

Here's a track listin' of awesome bass tracks,
Rancid:
Detroit(awesome lines throughout)
The Bottle
Hyena
Sidekick
Maxwell Murder (yea you knew it was commin')
Life Won't Wait (real solid line)
Axiom (off the new record, the solo is crazy)
Not to Regret (off new album, awesome line)
Radio
Radio Havana

Operation Ivy (matt was the bass player too :-)
Unity
Take Warning
The Crowd
These boots are made for walkin(i don't know the song name)
About every song on the cd
One op ivy song with an awsome solo is "left behind"
it's unreleased get it on mp3 the solo is awsome.

The Vandals:
Lady Killer ( a catchy line)

Save Ferris:
Goodbye
I'm not crying for you
The world is new
Lies
Bill Uechi is an awsome bass player

Sincerely,
Greg P

THE extreme metal bassist is Steve Digiorgio...check out his works with Sadus,and the latest Testament album "The Gathering"...I think he's played with Death as well.

[Edited by Dragonlord on 10-03-2000 at 03:30 PM]

Hmm I dont think I saw John Patitucci up there... but he is good although his music is kind of "pornoesque" at times. ;)

Originally posted by Mesa Man
Hmm I dont think I saw John Patitucci up there... but he is good although his music is kind of "pornoesque" at times. ;)
You find Patitucci's jazzy upper register solos "pornoesque"? Explain, please. I haven't heard anything that good in a John Holmes film.

Helmutt Hattler of Kraan is simply awesome. Squire's tone in a jazz funk fusion thang. I highly recommend anyone who has not heard him to take the time and find the music.

Chris Squire. Such tone, wonderful counter melody, great time.

Jaco - heavy heavy sigh....

Bootsy. Makin the Bass the life of the par-tay!

Kool of Kool and the Gang - Jungle Boogie, Hollywood Swinging, Get down on it.. Infectious Grooves indeed.

Larry Graham - Makin the bottom move.

Glenn Hughes - The "Burn" album slayed me. He's got a bit o' the funk in him.

John Paul Jones - I don't think any other bassist is emulated more than this guy, whether players know it or not!

Rachel Bolan of Skid Row
Duff "Rose" McKagan of Guns n' Roses
Jerry Dixon of Warrant
Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue
Jason Newsted of Ozzy Osbourne

Hey-If we're talkin' "killer bass players"
what about Sid Vicious? (well- he was charged
with being a killer- he didn't live long enough
for the trial).

http://medieteknik.bth.se/joba01/overview.html - Has plenty of good bassplayers and soundclips are included for all of them.

Theres a whole FAQ thread of killer bassists, take a peek in there too.

phil lesh - grateful dead
mike gordon - phish
david schools (!) - widespread panic
ryan stasik - umphrey's mcgee
p-nut - 311

Sean Malone

Thomas Miller

JACO

well, none of them have killed anyone as far as I know but why not go see everyone's profile? ppl tend to write there their favourite Bass Players ;)

Cliff Burton-RIP
Jason Newsted
Chris Joannou (Silverchair)
Rayna Foss-Rose (ex-Coal Chamber)
Talena Atfield (Ex-KiTTie)
Nadja Puelen (Coal Chamber)
These are my fave killer bassists..IMO
Rest in Peace Cliff Burton....

Didn't the Who's Bassist pass away not long ago?

Roscoe Beck
Kenny Gradney
Any bassist whoever played with Miles...

My dear sweet GOD! I cannot fathom how we're on page 3 of this thread and no one, absolutely nobody, has mentioned, the greatest bass player of all time....

Mr. James Jamerson

*I* can't believe that no-one's mentioned the time difference in the second page of this thread, the first being from 2000!!!

What's with all this digging up of old threads?

Anyway, I say Barry Adamson.

Most of my suggestions have been taken so I'll suggest:
The bassist for Cake(i cant remember his name)
Stephen Lessard of The Dave Matthews Band
Omar Rodriguez of Defacto
Hub of The Roots
Joe Lally of Fugazi
Tony Kanal of No Doubt

None of these guys are virtuosos but I dig their style.

Originally posted by Ryan Berry
Most of my suggestions have been taken so I'll suggest:
The bassist for Cake(i cant remember his name)
Stephen Lessard of The Dave Matthews Band
Omar Rodriguez of Defacto
Hub of The Roots
Joe Lally of Fugazi
Tony Kanal of No Doubt

None of these guys are virtuosos but I dig their style.
CAKE basslines rock, however no two CD's are the same guy. They go thru bassists like beer thru my blatter!
Peace

I know they've had a few, but they all sound good to me.

I actually think fieldy is pretty good, (in reference to a previous post) his style, sound and tone is pretty unique.

Any Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool and Marcus Miller song will more than likely make your jaw hit the floor.

Aother couple of great bassists IMO:

Scott Thunes (later Zappa)
Bryan Beller (Beer for Dolphins, etc.)

Both of them are pretty much tools of the composer (they don't generally do a lot of solo stuff) but they have to play the most god-awful complicated stuff and make it look easy. Worth checking out...

DK

Cliff Burton was the best bassist of all time.
some good ones around today are:
Justin Chancellor(tool)
Stew Hamm (primus)
Flea (red hott chillie peppers)

Mike Pope- He is one of the most harmonically sophisticated players ive ever heard.
p e a c e:bassist:

Originally posted by WannaBeBurton
Cliff Burton was the best bassist of all time.
some good ones around today are:
Justin Chancellor(tool)
Stew Hamm (primus)
Flea (red hott chillie peppers)

OK.. Cliff may be your favourite bassplayer of all time, but let's get something clear:

STU Hamm does not play in primus (Les Claypool does. Stuart Hamm plays with Joe Satriani, he has played with Steve Vai, and is a solo bassist.
And you have some serious spelling problems.

Flea!!

Blood Sugar Sex Magik and One Hot Minute are awesome bass albums

Originally posted by ShockBlueXterra
Didn't the Who's Bassist pass away not long ago?

It will be a year ago next month... RIP John

CAROL KAYE
SIR PAUL
RAY BROWN
STING:)

Mark KIng ...level 42
Abraham Laboriel ... Various
Nathan East ... Almost everything
Chris Kent ...Lee Ritenour
Me after a few bourbons ... Not

Originally posted by Mathias_TfG


It will be a year ago next month... RIP John

are you serious...holy cow...i have no more perception of time

-cap

maybe this should go in the "most under-rated bass player" thread, but I think that Skuli Sverrison is one of the most talented guys out there. His tone is amazing, his time is unfaltering, and he has ridiculous solo chops which never overlap the song. Check him out on Ben Monder's "Excavation", Track No. 3 bass solo.

Boy, old thread, not to repeat any greats already listed so I'll leave mine at Andrew Weiss(Rollins, Gone, Ween), he can solo out & jump right back into the groove like he was never there! Killer sound too...


later,
~S~

mike gordon
david schools
phil lesh
les claypool
ryan stasik

Any Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten, Les Claypool and Marcus Miller song will more than likely make your jaw hit the floor.

Victor, Jaco and Les! Hell yeah! Classical Thump by Victor Wooten, that is one sweeeeeeeeeeeeet song! Gotta get that one.

A band that sounds like infectious grooves is downtown brown www.dtbmusic.com they are one of my favorite bands.

The guy from rancid name is Matt freedman. He is basically a guitar player who picked up a bass. The maxwell murder solo sounds impressive till you learn it.

Classical thump isn't that sweet....it's kind of...dull.

I don't know, the bass playing is killer, but hte song just doesn't do it for me.

what about Chris Wood?
wait isn't that my name?
yes sir, it is....
seriously check him out anyways

1. Michael Balzary (aka Flea)

2. John Entwistle - The Who

3. Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath

Geezer is so overlooked as a bassist. His riffs are pretty simple in comparison to some, but they're so funky! :bassist:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by lollapalooza
1. Michael Balzary (aka Flea)

Is that his real name? I never knew that.