Are there any new bassists like...

Jack Bruce, Geezer Butler, Tim Bogert, Greg Ridley, Rick Danko etc?


I feel so out of step with recent bass playing trends, I'd love to latch onto a band with a freewheeling, forecful, ferociously creative yet song oriented and teamplaying bassist like this. You know the type I mean, they're all over classic rock. They always keep the relentless groove going, and it's aggressive, sensual and exciting. A guy like Andy Hess is a good example, any more?

 

Yeah, unfortunately he's dead so I can't really think of him as a new bassist anymore. But that's the kind of bassist I'm talking about for sure.

 

Come on... are you telling me nobody's keeping the old school flame alive?

 

Geez, does a guy have to start a thread about Tal Wilkenfeld to get some responses around here?

I guess nobody else can think of any either.

 

That looks cool, mabe I'll check it out soon. It's funny that the closest to "new" most people can think of are from bands that no longer exist! That goes for me, too... well, except for Andy Hess.

 

As for Macy Gray, she has a good bassist but that's more in the Nathan East vein of bass playing than what I'm really talking about.

 

Cool, but not really what I'm looking for. When did the guys I mentioned play disco slap bass? Guy who mentioned Witchcraft is right on the money. I haven't even thought about those guys for about a year, thanks for the reminder! Great Geezer/John Symon Asher Bruce influenced heavy grooving.

 

More for fans of Steve, Cliff and Claypool than Bruce, Bogert and Butler. I guess I'll have to make do with my old Cream, Fudge and Sabbath records as well as just Gov't Mule and Witchcraft for newer stuff. There are worse fates than that.