Are there any great 60s band with good bassists?

[bobalu]

Originally Posted by GeorgeBush

Im new to this can tell me wich bassist i shall listen too i have heard Rick Danko is very good and someone in the group The who??

You really must be George Bush.............

[jasongil1]

Did anyone mention Ronnie Lane? Ronnie Lane+Harmony H22 bass+pick=Heaven

[Astreaux]

Who can forget the classic bass lines from Lee Dorman (RIP) of Iron Butterfly and Capt. Beyond!!

[C.Linton]

Originally Posted by LowDown Hal

The 60's ?

I don't remember ;-)

Then you were probably there.

[TolerancEJ]

Alice Cooper's first album was recorded in 1968 but released in 1969. Pretties For You was very Zappa-sounding. Dennis Dunaway played bass on this album.

[sven kalmar]

i thought george bush like geezer...
tons of great bassplayers in the 60s..claus voorman...

[pookiebass]

Didn't see anyone mention:
Joe Osborne, great studio player, Ricky Nelson to Mamas and Papas to Simon and Garfinkle.

Carl Radle, Delaney and Bonnie, Leon Russell, Derek and the Dominoes, etc.
Herbie Flowers, Brit session guy with everyone.

[GRAHAM SG1]

Originally Posted by rshack

The Beatles didn't change much... except the whole world ;-)

For those who weren't there, it's perhaps hard to understand the influence they had. While several other bands from the era climbed to the top of the hill, the Beatles were on Mount Olympus. There was the Beatles, and then there was everybody else. Even the members of "everybody else" said so.

But if you listen to their music, you cannot deconstruct their songs to figure out why. Just like there are no world-changing McCartney basslines, there are also no world-changing Harrison lead guitar lines either. You can get folks to have arguments about the best Clapton solo, or the best Hendrix solo, or the best Entwistle bass performance, or whatever. But you can't do that with the Beatles.

This is because all four of them had one thing in common: they all put themselves second to the song. McCartney could have showed off... but he didn't. McCartney never asked, "What kind of amazing bassline will this song let me do?" Instead, he asked "What does this song need me to do?" And, like the rest of them, that's what he did. He played to exact number of notes required, no more, no less. They all did that. It's one of the things about them that put them apart from everybody else: they surrendered their musician egos in order to best serve the song.

For them, it was the music as a whole that mattered, not the individual parts of it. If you can learn how to do that, you will be a whole lot better than most...

This is the best explanation of why the beatles were so big that I have ever read, makes so much sense and I have to agree with every word although I am not a big beatles fan .

I have mentioned this before, the monkees had some nice bass lines in their songs .

[JimmyM]

Originally Posted by TolerancEJ

Alice Cooper's first album was recorded in 1968 but released in 1969. Pretties For You was very Zappa-sounding. Dennis Dunaway played bass on this album.

Dennis is awesome. Some of my favorite early bass lines I learned came from him. And now he and Al and Joe Bouchard from Blue Oyster Cult have a band called Blue Coupe. Joe was the bassist in BOC but plays guitar in Blue Coupe. Pretty darn good, too.

[TolerancEJ]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

Dennis is awesome. Some of my favorite early bass lines I learned came from him. And now he and Al and Joe Bouchard from Blue Oyster Cult have a band called Blue Coupe. Joe was the bassist in BOC but plays guitar in Blue Coupe. Pretty darn good, too.

I was not aware of that. I'm glad I posted in this thread, to learn this information.

[JimmyM]

Al and Joe are on Facebook, and I think they have a Blue Coupe page as well.

[Stumbo]

For all you cut and paste TBrs:
Alan Spenner
Andy Fraser - Free
Bernard Odum
Berry Oakley
Bill Wyman – Rolling Stones
Billy Cox – Jimi Hendrix
Bruce Abbott from The valentines
Bryan James "Chas" Chandler - The Animals
Carl Radle - Delaney and Bonnie - Leon Russell - Derek and the Dominoes, etc.
Charles Mingus - and the like.
Chris Squire - Yes
Chuck Rainey - Aretha Franklin
Claus Voorman
Dave Mason - Traffic
David Brown
Dennis Dunaway - Alice Cooper
Doug Yule - Velvet Underground
Duck Dunn - Booker T and the MGs
Every bass player who recorded for Motown and Stax.
Every bassist that played for John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers
Felix Pappalardi – Mountain - Cream
Geezer Butler
Glen Cornick - Jethro Tull
Glenn Cornick on Jethro Tull's earlier albums
Glenn Hughes from late 60's Deep Purple
Greg Lake - King Crimson - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Harvey Brooks - Richie Havens, Electric Flag, Miles Davis, and Dylan
Herbie Flowers - Brit session guy with everyone
Jack Bruce - Cream
Jack Casady - Jefferson Airplane
James Brown Rhythm sections
James Jamerson
Jerry Jemmott - Aretha Franklin
Jerry Scheff - Elvis Presley
Jim Fielder - Blood, sweat and tears
Joe Kelley - The Shadows of Knight
Joe Long - The Four Seasons
Joe Schermie Three Dog Night
Joe South's – Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna"
John Cale - The Velvet Underground
John Entwistle - The Who
John Paul Jones - Led Zepplin
Jon Noyce - Jethro Tull (current)
Larry Graham - Sly & the Family Stone
Larry Taylor - Canned Heat
Lee Dorman (RIP) - Iron Butterfly - Capt. Beyond
Leland Sklar
Marvin Isley - Isley Bros
Mel Schecter - Grand Funk Railroad
Mike Alexander - Acoustic Highway
Mike Rutherford - Genesis
Monk Montgomery
Nick Massi - The Four Seasons
Nick Simper - Deep Purple
Nick St Nicholas - Steppenwolf
Noel Redding – Jimi Hendrix
Paul McCartney - The Beatles
Paul Samwell-Smith - Yardbirds
Pete Quaife - Kinks
Peter Cetera Chicago
Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead
Ray Brown
Ray Manzareks left hand
Rhino Records: Nuggets" and "Nuggets II
Rick Danko - The Band
Roger Glover – Deep Purple
Roger Waters – Pink Floyd
Ron Carter
Ronnie Lane - Small Faces
Ronnie Wood - Jeff Beck
Stu Cook – Credence Clearwater Revival
The Moody Blues - Clint Warwick, Rodney Clark, John Lodge
The Zombies' bass player
Tim Bogart - Vanilla Fudge.
Tim Drummond
Vern Miller Jr. - The Remains
Warren Rogers - The Shadows of Knight
William "Bootsy" Collins
Willie Dixon
Willie Weeks - Donny Hathaway

[THUNDERGODX]

Prakash John
Bassist on:

Lou Reed -"Rock and Roll Animal"
The live one.
He wore that Rick out!
Major musicians through out.
Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter on Guitars.
Pennti Glan on drums.

The cut "Rock and Roll" changed my life.

[THUNDERGODX]

John Paul Jones
Tim Bogert
and
Chris Squire

Deserve a room of their own int the Bass Hall of Fame.

Mel Schacter-
I was a big fan of Grand Funk but not of Mel.
He got a lot of face time, but he is nowhere near the talent and creativity of the above mentioned.

I thought most of his riffs sounded like Mark Farner had showed them to him.

[sven kalmar]

yeah prakach john is fantastic..
nice list, but one mistake..
nick simper played with deep purple in the late 60s..hehe

[HolmeBass]

Originally Posted by GeorgeBush

Im new to this can tell me wich bassist i shall listen too i have heard Rick Danko is very good and someone in the group The who??

So... lots of good replies. But seriously, this has to be a troll thread/joke thread, right? I mean a short Google search would turn up most of the names offered here, so you can't be serious, can you?

[THUNDERGODX]

Uriah Heep-

Bassist Gary Thain.

I think Billy Sheehan was on the planet at the time too.

Have to give Duck Dunn a mention too.

I stole a lick from him from "Otis Redding Live In Europe" that has been the part of the core of my playing almost from my first experience.

[jphovercraft]

Everyone I would have mentioned is here ... EXCEPT John Wetton ... 70s King Crimson, UK ... Asia I can take or leave ... definitely one of my faves! Apologies if I missed a mention ...

[JimmyM]

You guys are starting to mention 70's bassists, not 60's.

[mjac28]

Originally Posted by JimmyM

You guys are starting to mention 70's bassists, not 60's.

You might as well get them out of the way because that will be the next question along with "What's the best strings for 60's and 70's music?