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03-13-2012, 07:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Any Bassist from Any Era for Ten Minutes... (DB forum thread)
You can have a personal, front row, solo concert from any bassist in the history of bass playing. Who gets your pick and why? |
03-13-2012, 07:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: USA, Washington | | | Adam Clayton |
03-13-2012, 07:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Palm Coast, FL | | | NHOP
Scotty LaFaro
Ray Brown
Jaco
Richard Bona
Victor Wooten
Why? They inspire me more than others. I would be electrified and mesmerized sitting front row.
If you're making me pick one it would have to be NHOP. |
03-13-2012, 07:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | I know I'm probably stealing your answer, Jason, but I'm going with Jimmy Blanton. My reasoning is because not only would I get to hear his sound live sound, I would probably speculate that I'd also get to hear ideas of his that sadly never made it to tape :/ |
03-13-2012, 07:23 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Northfield, Ohio | | | Tough call. Too many to pick from. If it has to be one, it has to be Geddy. |
03-13-2012, 07:28 PM
| | | | Les Claypool, mainly because Les is hilarious live.
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03-13-2012, 07:40 PM
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Can't get enough of his slapping and musicality. 
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03-13-2012, 09:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: San Francisco Bay Area | | | LaFaro. If only because there's precious little of his playing captured on film and/or video.
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03-13-2012, 09:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Atlanta | | | Michael Manring His album Unusual weather was inspiring.
Then maybe Stu Hamm
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03-13-2012, 09:19 PM
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03-13-2012, 10:23 PM
|  | Less barking, more wagging! | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | I THOUGHT THIS WAS A DOUBLEBASS THREAD
Ray Brown
Rene Camacho (Latin Jazz)
Bob Magnusson
Paul Warburton
Bert Turetzky |
03-13-2012, 10:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Flea, simply because he would give you everything he had for ten minutes straight. Victor Wooten would be a close second.
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03-13-2012, 10:32 PM
| | | | Paul
Tim Bogert
JPJ
Stanley Clarke
All seem like chill guys
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03-13-2012, 10:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Ann Arbor Michigan | | | Ray Brown
Slam Stewart
Milt Hinton
Scott LaFaro
Jimmy Blanton |
03-13-2012, 10:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: The Hague, The Netherlands | | I would love to hear James Jamerson on the Double Bass playing Rhythm Changes and some other standards. Since I can't find any audio of his jazz playing, but story goes; he kills it.
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03-13-2012, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by ShiftyShift Les Claypool, mainly because Les is hilarious live. | Les is a wonderful person and very funny, indeed! Here's my (then 9-year-old) son playing with Mr. Claypool. They probably "jammed" together for over an hour. 
Then he got to play Les' Whamola. 
Lucky kid!  |
03-13-2012, 10:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Columbia, SC, USA | | | +1 for NHOP
I'd also add Edgar Meyer |
03-13-2012, 11:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah | | | Charles Mingus.
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03-14-2012, 05:07 AM
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My first thought was, "I've already been there -- Gary Karr." There is so much joy and SO much bass in that man's music!
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03-14-2012, 05:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Portsmouth VA USA | | For a bass player that I am just in awe of: John Entwistle.
For cool fun: Lee Rocker.
For burning the effin' bloody place down: Lemmy. 
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