creative 5 string bassists?

[swartzfeger]

All, realized after getting my first 5 string (fretless) that I don't own a lot of albums with 5 string on it. When I started to play around '84, 5 strings were still semi-exotic. The majority of my music library consists of players like Lee, Jaco, Manring, Chris Squire, etc, none of them known for their 5 string playing (Lee cracked open his 5 str Wal for one tune, and I think Squire used a 5 str Tobias a bit in the late 80s, but other than that...)

Do you have any recommended albums/songs for a 4 str guy like me to add to my listening rotation? My iTunes library is a little too full of Rush and Iron Maiden.

[SMILEYSIXX]

Seth Horan is a solo musician who plays a 5 string and sings, and that's it. His music is all bass and vocals. Check him out, he's awesome. Victor Wooten did so 5 string stuff as well, especially on his more recent stuff. IIRC, Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne is also a 5 string player.

[Denial]

Nathan East. Listen to some of his stuff with Eric Clapton. You may not know he's playing a 5 until well into the song. He uses the low B sparingly, and he uses it well.

[swartzfeger]

Originally Posted by SMILEYSIXX

Seth Horan is a solo musician who plays a 5 string and sings, and that's it. His music is all bass and vocals. Check him out, he's awesome. Victor Wooten did so 5 string stuff as well, especially on his more recent stuff. IIRC, Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne is also a 5 string player.

Thanks for the Horan recommendation! Will check him out. Re: Wooten, I have the first Flecktone disc and Wooten's Show of Hands but I don't recall any 5 str work (been a long time since I listened to Wooten).

[olalo]

Paul Mccartney

[bommer]

Steve DiGiorgio

check the stuff he did with death, GAH, unreal fretless!

[smeet]

Gary Willis
Janek Gwizdala
Richard Bona
Hadrien Feraud
Jimmy Johnson
Tal Wilkenfeld
Kai Eckhardt
Matthew Garrison
dominique dipiazza

6-string:
Anthony Jackson
John Patitucci
Otiel Burbridge

[Hobobob]

I'm gonna be the guy to say John Myung of Dream Theater. If you don't already know them, then you may like them. Or you may not. But there's a lot of 5 and 6 string goodness from John. For fretless, look up Steve Bailey. If this fails, you can always stick with Fieldy from Korn

[coffin blurt]

Martin - Odd Crew - Photo forum

this guy

YouTube - ODD CREW - I Ain't Losing Myself

[SMILEYSIXX]

Originally Posted by swartzfeger

Thanks for the Horan recommendation! Will check him out. Re: Wooten, I have the first Flecktone disc and Wooten's Show of Hands but I don't recall any 5 str work (been a long time since I listened to Wooten).

Pretty sure Palmystery was the CD he used his yin-yang Fodera on, and I'm pretty sure it was the five string one, though I'm not positive.

[BKBassDude]

Originally Posted by SMILEYSIXX

Pretty sure Palmystery was the CD he used his yin-yang Fodera on, and I'm pretty sure it was the five string one, though I'm not positive.

Most of Vic's 5 string work was on his Compito (something like that) fretless. Tunes like Flight of the Cosmic hippo, lochs of dread, bigfoot, have tons of B-string goodness.

I can't think of a specific tune where he recorded with a 5 string fretted, but I'll admit to not really following his albums since the early 2000's.

[MrLenny1]

Eric Czar

[diehard70]

+1 to Seth Horan. I've been listening to Lanice Morrison a lot, lately.YouTube - Michael McDonald - I Keep Forgettin' - Soundstage 2003 and here YouTube - Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom - SoundStage 2003

[swartzfeger]

man, just checked out Seth Horan -- this is what I'm talking about. Great stuff! With all due respect to monsters like Hadrien Feraud et al, they're phenomenal players, but when I was posting looking for 'creative' 5 stringers it was guys like Horan I was looking for.

Now I gotta get a looper. :P