Great Bass Album

[in_exile]

I've always liked bass, since I was a kid. I could always here it clearly. Les Claypool of Primus made me want a bass. Geddy Lee is the god of rhythm. Hell, Les's 4 string HAS Geddy's signature on it. Those two are my ideal players.

"I can't never stop working hard." - Bootsy

[Blackbird]

Laugh all you want, but the Muppett Show Album, which I got when I was seven. It's as musical and creative as Pet Sounds or Sgt. Pepper and a heckuva lot more fun. Music still holds up today!

Will C.

[JimK]

BigW-...Floyd & Animal are one helluva rhythm section!

[Monkey]

Geddy Lee and Chris Squire were my first big influences back in the late '70's. I love Tony Levin's work with Peter Gabriel. One of my all-time favorite and most influential bassists is Aston "Family Man" Barrett, who was the bassist and musical director for Bob Marley and the Wailers.

[JDBJJJP]

i don't have an album but i do know of a video that inspired me. I was watching tv one night and i came opon pbs. Not something i usually watch but my mom was there and she made me. They were playing a tape of a live Harry Belafonte concert. At that point and time he had a bass player named richard bona(a named i leaned 3 years later). He played a solo spot singing and playing chords and melodies on bass. I was just begining to play and this was an eye opener to me.

[pedro]

Hey fellow Jaco fans and 'philes', please check out some of Jerry Jemmott's work with Aretha, BB King and especially King Curtis. This guy is awesome and doesn't get the attention that he deserves, IMO. It's rewarding to trace the roots back of a guy like Jaco to those who inspired him.

"I'm just an imitator myself, man. I'm just doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott..."

Jaco, (Guitar Player '84)

[JDBJJJP]

right on man! i own a copy of B.B. King's 69' album "completely well". I bought it just to hear jerry jemmott. I am really excited to get the live king curtis album he did at the fillmore.

[nanook]

"Led Zeppelin II", it defines why we do what we do. The definitive bass album of all times. The very guts of rock.

[trafficblues]

sting!!
he is the man, write the songs geniously!
no doubt...ten summoners tale!! mercury falling...

[Sean Middleton]

Jazz Hole

Anybody heard a CD by The Jazz Hole called ...and the feeling goes around.

I've had it a couple of years and the more I listen the more I like.

Bass players are Scott Colley, Freddie Cash and Carl Turner. I dont know any of these players outside this particular CD and the earlier Jazz Hole CD but I highly recommend anybody to check it out. I guess you would categorise it as modern hip hop jazz. Excellent.

Sean Middleton

[Steve Lawson]

I think the albums and players that got me playing originally were Goodbye Cream - mainly because I was terrible at picking lines out by ear and with that I could wind it onto the left side (I think) and get rid of Clapton, just listening to Jack and Ginger! ) Then Fragile by Yes came along, and Frontline by Koinonia - Abe Laboriel was the man for a few years.

After that it was a best of Weather Report, and a Stu Hamm album that I was into at school, then Bill Evans live with Scott Lafaro.

More recently, I got Thonk by Michael Manring about 5 years ago and it changed the way I thought about the instrument. I wouldn't be doing solo bass stuff now if I hadn't heard that CD then. a couple of years ago I got Tony Levin's 'From The Caves OF The Iron Mountain', which showed me that Improv didn't have to be 'chops' heavy...

Oh, another early influence was Doug Pinnick, on King's X 'Out OF The Silent Planet' - serious RAWK bass! )

cheers

Steve

[dynis]

The one that REALLY inspired me the most...
School Days...Stanley Clarke

[Sean Middleton]

The Ten Sumoners Tales VCD is quite amazing. Although I don’t think Sting is the best Bass player in the world I do think he has a tremendous gift for melody, something like the beetles. I never listen to the Beetles particularly regularly but recognise that to be that prolific with such sweet melodies is talent indeed. In the case of Sting I do listen regularly and the guy just has a gift. Not the same sort of gift that Marcus Miller or Stanley Clark has (technique) but a melodic gift. This is not to say that Sting isn’t a gifted player. I love the 7/8 tunes on Ten Summoners Tales. Its beautiful to play complex rhythms and make them melodic at the same time, few are able to achieve it. Yep Sting is damn good. I have to say though my favourite bass album is Marcus Millers The Sun……..

[bub]

don juan's reckless daughter by joni mitchell

[Homer_J]

Yes - Fragile

[T. Webb]

There were two albums for me. "Mirror" by Graham Central Station and "Modern Man" by Stanley Clarke both records conviced me I had to play bass.

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Keep it Funky

[Hobbes]

Jamiroquai- "Return of the Space Cowboy". A very funky bass playing album. I don't know how big Jamiroquai are elsewhere in the world, but I'm sure any Brits here will back me up in praising Stuart Zender.

[Peatroosio]

Chili Peppers and Rage Against the Machine are what got me started. After I started 311 also joined my list. My fav albums are Californication, Rage's Fire (self-titled) album, Evil Empire, and Soundsystem.

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High Lord Peatroosio has spoken.

[This message has been edited by Peatroosio (edited June 03, 2000).]

[alexssandro]

Although I'm now really into Jaco and Victor Wooten and Oteil (like I say in many of my posts) I was inspired to pick up my bass because of Cliff Burton. When I was 13 years old, I went back and listened to Anaesthesia (Pulling Teeth) on the Kill em All album. I had never heard a bass solo before, and although it sounds like a distorted guitar solo, it was original, aggressive, and sounded like nothing I had ever heard before. The bass became very mysterious and intriguing to me, and I decided that one day I would become an inspirational bass player myself. (Just my fantasy when I was 13 ) Back in those days, I was really into heavy stuff like Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer. I heard this Megadeth song called "Take no Prisoners" on the "Rust in Peace" album, and there's this little break where it's just the bass on it's own, just before it jumps into this all out thrash groove. Although the break couldn't be more than 3 seconds, it was the coolest thing to me. I then decided that I was going to play bass. And what a trip it's been and contiuing to be, taking me to places that I never knew to exist.

Incidentally, can anyone relate to me or know the Megadeth song I'm talking about?

[pedro]

>Although I concer with that opinion,I dont mind chug-a-luging(on bass) once in a while,especially if thats what you call Willie Dixon or J.Jamerson et al inspired lines

I would never consider Jamerson a chug-a-lug bassist. Damn, he was almost as busy as Jack Bruce.