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06-21-2005, 04:34 PM
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Tommy Shannon? What does he use? He does have a fan  tastic tone. |
06-21-2005, 11:13 PM
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06-22-2005, 01:18 PM
|  | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | | I think the best blues bass work I have ever heard is
Harvey Brooks on 'Albert's Shuffle' accompanying
Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper on the original recording
of Super Session. Circa 1965.
Period.
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06-22-2005, 02:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Upstate NY | | | My vote for best blues bassit goes to Willie Dixon.
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06-22-2005, 02:22 PM
| | Never Satisfied | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Staten Island, NY | | | What artist did Wille Dixon play for?
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06-22-2005, 02:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Upstate NY | | | Willie Dixon played for Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulson, Willie Mabon and more... That makes him the greatest in my eyes...
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06-22-2005, 02:53 PM
| | Life is Tough. Laugh more. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Warwick, Rhode Island, USA | | | Ahhh the Chess years.
And Willie was a great songsmith and arranger. Kudos to that,
I was thinking more in terms of style and nuance.
In terms of experience and legend, Willie is the man.
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06-22-2005, 04:31 PM
| | Turn it down? You gotta be nuts!! | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Amish Country York County Pa. | | | Blue bassist
Yeah, all those cats are good, but who is taking Blues bass to the other side of the moon????.
Besides me, of course????.. 
One thing that I find lacking in Blues bassists is what blues guitar players already have...that totally in your face thing...
The snarl and pump and grind...not punk but over the top.
And all the hardcore blues guys are constantly busting on me, but blues is alive and if you don't put your own stamp on it you might as well go home.
Play the BLUES.Make your bass cry...you been busted as often as the guitar players and singers...make it CRY, moan, shout!!
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06-22-2005, 05:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: London, UK | | | COLIN HODGKINSON
The only man that can play Robert Johnson chord-melody tunes on the bass. |
06-22-2005, 05:33 PM
| | Never Satisfied | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Staten Island, NY | | | How about Freddie Kings Bassist? Hes pretty damn good too,no?
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06-22-2005, 06:51 PM
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06-22-2005, 07:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Oak Park, MI | | | We must not forget ROSCOE BECK, to me he is to blues bass what SRV was to Blues guitar, a true modern master.
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06-22-2005, 07:55 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Phil, don't forget Willie played with Chuck Berry too! |
06-23-2005, 07:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Newcastle, Australia | | | i don't know the name of the guy, but I saw Robben Ford in Sydney several years ago and this bass player that was with him was the man. An amazing live sound and this restrained feel that held back his chops until the necessary time. One of the most memorable bass performances i have ever seen. Slinky and sublime and then when the chops broke out the audience was in raptures. A total command of the blues like I have never seen since. |
06-23-2005, 08:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Blunt i don't know the name of the guy, but I saw Robben Ford in Sydney several years ago and this bass player that was with him was the man. An amazing live sound and this restrained feel that held back his chops until the necessary time. One of the most memorable bass performances i have ever seen. Slinky and sublime and then when the chops broke out the audience was in raptures. A total command of the blues like I have never seen since. | Probably Roscoe Beck.
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06-23-2005, 08:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | | My fave is "Duck" Dunn
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06-23-2005, 12:24 PM
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06-23-2005, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk My fave is "Duck" Dunn | +1 Dunn is a great player (BLUES BROTHERS!), but I asscociate him more with Stax records and more of a soul r&b style.
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06-23-2005, 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM Phil, don't forget Willie played with Chuck Berry too! | Indeed he did, I just didn't think that fit into the blues category. Then again, I suppose they all those songs only have 3 chords anyway... 
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