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05-06-2010, 01:06 PM
| | | | 5 strings + fingerstyle bassplayers
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Hi guys.
I wanna buy myself a 5 string and I want you to write here the coolest (in your opinion) bassplayers who play on a 5-string with fingers.
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05-06-2010, 01:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: WI, USA | | | William Murderface. Though he doesn't always play it with just his fingers ... |
05-06-2010, 01:17 PM
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05-06-2010, 04:28 PM
| | | | Melvin Gibbs w/ Rollins Band on Weight & Come In and Burn
P-nut W/311 on Music & Grassroots
Dirk Lance w/Incubus on S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Robert Trujillo on any Infectious Grooves album |
05-06-2010, 04:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Liverpool, UK | | | Stuart Zender on the first 3 Jamiroquai albums (5 string Warwick Streamers live, though I suspect he used a couple of 4's in the studio). |
05-06-2010, 05:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Central Illinois, USA | | | Nathan East, though he's been playing a six-string for the last four years or so.
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05-06-2010, 06:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | Someone who plays exclusively fingerstyle, and is an absolute monster on the 5-sting, is Jimmy Johnson. He is also arguably the first person to play a 5-string bass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR2gMAf13Gs
One of the best sounding Alembics that I have ever heard! Jimmy is a baaaaaaaaaaaad man!!!!
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05-06-2010, 06:46 PM
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05-07-2010, 01:42 AM
| | | | These are great examples guys. But keep them coming.
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05-07-2010, 02:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Eugene, OR | | | You'd be surprised at the recordings that featured a 5er. Flea appears to have played a 5 on a number of tracks from Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
If you listen closely, you start to hear low notes popping up in all manner of recordings...
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05-07-2010, 02:30 AM
| | | | Yea I know that Funky Monks is played on a Stingray 5. |
05-07-2010, 07:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London, Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bottomzone Someone who plays exclusively fingerstyle, and is an absolute monster on the 5-sting, is Jimmy Johnson. He is also aguably the first person to play a 5-string bass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR2gMAf13Gs
One of the best sounding Alembics that I have ever heard! Jimmy is a baaaaaaaaaaaad man!!!!
A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste! | Killer indeed - especially on a tune I have only ever heard with a SLAPPED bassline.
Dang.
J
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05-07-2010, 09:44 AM
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Endorsing Bulkmusic Strings | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Rovigo(Italy) | | | Mike Porcaro
Tom Kennedy
Neil Stubenhaus
Alphonso Johnson
Tony Levin (Ok, he's using pretty everything to hit the strings of his bass...but he can considered a fingerstyle player!)
Will Lee (when he plays a 5 strings)
Even if alredy named, I must say Nathan East and Jimmy Johnson, two fabulous players!! |
05-07-2010, 09:47 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Kohlman Bassworks | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hampton Roads, Virginia | | | Tommy Kennedy does slap (and very well) but just not a lot! Will Lee and Nathan East also slap. They are not strictly fingerstyle players. |
05-07-2010, 10:07 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Providence, RI | | | Tony Levin
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05-07-2010, 01:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Jamie_Funk Killer indeed - especially on a tune I have only ever heard with a SLAPPED bassline.
Dang.
J | Marcus was the bassist on the studio recording. He funked it up, too. However, Jimmy Johnson's finger funk is just as smelly!
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05-07-2010, 02:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: London, Ontario | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bottomzone Marcus was the bassist on the studio recording. He funked it up, too. However, Jimmy Johnson's finger funk is just as smelly!
A Groove is a Terrible Thing to Waste! | I loves me some Marcus.....but this reminds me of seeing Anthony Jackson play Just the Two of Us live with Grover Washington Jr. on YouTube - love the original MM lines, but Anthony brought a whole new groove to it that was great and of course, no slapping.
To me, slap the strings, play them with your fingers, hit them with a rusty spoon - as long as its funky, it's good 
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05-07-2010, 04:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Southern California | | | Abraham Laboriel
big +1 for Jimmy Johnson |
05-08-2010, 02:15 AM
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05-08-2010, 02:45 AM
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