Bassists cant live with 'em, cant live without 'em!!

apa · #1 08-20-2010, 12:47 AM

OK heres the thing..............

Im a lover of Entwistle, Manni, Jah Wobble, Dave Gregory. Love thier style and the music they play, groups they've been in. Standard stuff you think. Yep

However I also love Jaco BUT I dont like his sound, dont like weather report etal or any other stuff he's been associated with!!!! But I cant get enough of him. He is, obviously, truly an amazing musician.

'Oh no' your thinking. Hes dissing Jaco. Well Im not. Heres the question................

What Bassist do you like, adore, love, would have thier children etc but just cant get into thier music or sound or group etc??

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johndough247 · #2 08-20-2010, 01:07 AM

Hmm interesting (throws holy water..."the power of Chr..ahem..back to topic

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can't say I agree with you on the Jaco sound bit...trying to figure out how to adore a musician whose sound/tone you despise...I guess in my mind that's half of the love right there (in context to the song, that is).

But then again, that might explain why I've never dug into Stanley Clarke that much, but i'm always curious about what he's doing when I hear him...don't know why, but his electric bass tone (particularly the upper mids, treble) most times is too "clickity clakity" for my taste

...Stanley on upright though, I could listen to all day...

apa · #3 08-20-2010, 01:52 AM

Thats sort of what Im getting at. Its the fact that you love what hes doing but just not the context where hes doing it. Im not a fan of the style of music he plays or the sound he makes but his technique and skill is what gets me. Its just difficult for me to love it all.

Nurb · #4 08-20-2010, 02:11 AM

Well, I love Jonas Hellborg's playing but have mixed feelings about many of his bands.

harmendebresser · #5 08-20-2010, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by johndough247

But then again, that might explain why I've never dug into Stanley Clarke that much, but i'm always curious about what he's doing when I hear him...don't know why, but his electric bass tone (particularly the upper mids, treble) most times is too "clickity clakity" for my taste

...Stanley on upright though, I could listen to all day...

That is the first name popped in my mind... Stanley!
Awesome musician, great songwriter but as opposed to you I actually like his quirky electric tone, but absolutely hate his cheap Fishman BP-100 upright bass sound! First live record of his I heard, I would've sworn he was playing a cello or an electric upright... Ouch!

Lackey · #6 08-20-2010, 02:44 AM

I typically like Jeff Berlin's playing on its own.... yeah.. tone isn't my fav either, but I guess it works.

BrainDamaged · #7 08-20-2010, 03:05 AM

I like Dick Lovgren, especially as far as bassists using picks for metal goes, but I don't really like Meshuggah as a whole. It's a strange thing.

Hoover · #8 08-20-2010, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Lackey

I typically like Jeff Berlin's playing on its own.... yeah.. tone isn't my fav either, but I guess it works.

I love Jeff's playing, but his tone lately leaves an awful lot to be desired. imho Jeff's tone was at it's peak somewhere between 1979 and 1987...from Bruford's One Of A Kind (and especially Gradually Going Tornado) to Kazumi Watanabe's The Spice Of Life. Everything earlier either had too much distortion (or too little headroom) or was just too undermixed, everything later has too much chorus.

To the OP's question: I'm not sure how you could "adore" a bassist if you didn't like their music! What's left to adore?

[edit: oh, wait, ya mean like their hot bunz?]