Bassists few people talk about...

[diegom]

Dexter Redding...
First time I heard him (and this tune!!), it was like "Eruption" for bass!!!

 

[Rojd]

Cronos (Venom)

 

[4001]

Ralphie Armstrong with Jean Luc Ponty
1:57 >

 

[TN WOODMAN]

Tom Fowler, Arthur Barrow, James Genus

Good to see some Zappa alumni here. Let's add Patrick O'Hearn and Scott Thunes.

 

[Chickenwheels]

David Coy.

 

[Xjenrbcjsmsbfjw]

Unpopular Opinion: About a hundred amazing upright players.

I know, there is a separate section, and I've argued with MANY a condescending **** at a gig who thought you weren't a bass player if you weren't on an upright, explaining that they are different instruments unto themselves and that he/she was free to shove it.

But, they fill a similar conceptual and sonic space, and if you can take the tone and timbre out of your thinking (because you'll never fake one with the other) you can learn a lot about one from the other. Listening to Jaco's work interpreting Mingus was like suddenly gaining a whole second musical space in my mind to listen with. For I was blind but now I see.

I know this isn't what you were after, but if you feel like there's more to learn out there that, for some reason, isn't crossing your fret board, this is a great rock to turn over. We're one of the only instruments that has this second pool of genius available that we regularly ignore. So weird to me.

 

[Opdelibears]

Martin Mendez. Used a jazz bass in prog death metal stuff which is pretty unheard of and he had a lot of great lines on Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries.

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Regular people talk about zero bass players.

Zero....!!!!

 

[bassliner50]

Rick Danko?

 

[Shovelbone]

Linley Marthe!

 

[ELG60]

I think this thread would be more useful/entertaining if more people would post a name to go along with the picture and band(s) to go with the name. Even as a bass player, I don't know the names of most bands' bass players unless I am a big fan of said band, and I definitely don't know what most of them look like unless they've achieved some degree of iconic status.

I believe that it's reflective of the "I'm too cool for the room" syndrome.

 

[devo1]

me

 

[ELG60]

Dean Dinning - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Mark King - Level 42

Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings - Folks forget they basically wrote the bass lines to Outlaw and Modern Red Dirt (They were both bassists before solo artists)

Yeah, I forgot about the esteem with which I hold Mark King. I'm not a slapper, but his percussive and syncopated style, along with the fact that he was the primary vocalist at the same time is really something of wonder.

In his "lead bass" playing, and the aforementioned, he reminds me of Geddy Lee although style and genre is totally different.

 

[Pet Sounds]

I think Jim Fielder, the original bassist for Blood, Sweat & Tears, is underappreciated. The first few BS&T albums are better because of him.

 

[brianrost]

Bijou Drains
Jimi Hendrix
Martin Lickert
Rockette Morton
John Lennon
Steven Tyler
Alec John Such
Peter Tork
Danny Partridge

 

[Selios]

John Lodge of The Moody Blues

 

[WI Short Scaler]

Bass "nerds" like us have a far great batch of named players we talk about. But I'll admit to not hearing of many of the players throughout this thread.

As for "regular" folks, there are very few bassists that people talk about. They talk about Paul McCartney because of his long legacy. And they talk about Gene Simmons because he's so outlandish (hate him or love him)

There's probably a few more but I don't think there's many in that category.

 

[Turn Em Loose]

Two of my favs I don't see mentioned too much: Robbie Shakespeare and Tommy Cogbill.

 

[75kva]

Gerald Casale
He's a rock !

 

[rendevouz]

You called?
No? Okay I'm leaving