Bassists who Sing

[j-raj]

Will Lee

+10000!!!

 

[gkbass13]

sting...but i stand by danyel morgan. he's the man!

 

[edmidlifecrisis]

Second Richard Bona, I saw him a few years ago at the Monterey Jazz Festival and was VERY impressed.

We forgot a couple.

Brian Wilson (at he used to have a great voice)

and WILLIE DIXON!!

 

[hoseheadjohnson]

+1 on Seth Horan

 

[ludwig109]

larry graham

 

[DistortedBass]

Michael Anthony- Van Halen
Royston Langdon- Spacehog

 

[Matt Till]

Danyel Morgan of Robert Randolph & the Family Band

Oh man, I'm sorry, but that dude cracks me up. He looks pretty hardass, but then he busts out that uber-falsetto. It's quite strange... he's good, but too over the top.


P.S. Mark Sandman

 

[PhR]

Jimmy Dewar of Robin Trower's band.
Howie Epstein of Petty's Heartbreakers, at least a great backing vocalist. Both men dead now. R.I.P.

I also like Joe Bouchard's voice on some BÖC stuff, like "Hot Rails To Hell".

 

[3toes]

Rick Danko

 

[cdef]

Rick Danko

Absolutely. One of the greatest singing bass players.

 

[Dr. Cheese]

Lamont Johnson from the R&B/Soul/Funk group Brainstorm(and solo artist)and he does it while playing fretless.


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+1,000! I like to think of Lamont Johnson, Fernaundo Saunders, and Michael Henderson as the Detroit fretless r&b mob.

 

[steveb98]

Second Richard Bona, I saw him a few years ago at the Monterey Jazz Festival and was VERY impressed.

We forgot a couple.

Brian Wilson (at he used to have a great voice)

and WILLIE DIXON!!

+1 on Willie Dixon

I got to see him play with the Chicago All Stars once. He fronted the band, sang, and played upright. He was so cool. He would smile every now and light up the room. He seemed to really dig what he was doing.

 

[JAUQO III-X]

+1,000! I like to think of Lamont Johnson, Fernaundo Saunders, and Michael Henderson as the Detroit fretless r&b mob.

 

[bajistapromedio]

I'm gonna go with Sting.

+ 1
I think Richard Bona, Bootsy Collins, and Paul McArtney are great singer/bassists too.

 

[ihateusernames]

I'd say Kip Winger, then again I'd call him an 'awsome singer' who happens to play bass.

I would not consider Michael Anthony to have an awesome singing voice, despite his extended upper range.

 

[DWBass]

Can't recall if she was mentioned or not.............

Debra Killings!

 

[Thangfish]

Jimmy Dewar of Robin Trower's band.

James Dewar has to be my favorite.
In my opinion he was at least 50% of the Trower sound.

 

[Mystic Michael]

Greg Lake
Peter Cetera
Paul McCartney
John Wetton

 

[jerry]

Raphael Saadiq and both Allan Gorrie & Hamish Stuart of AWB.

 

[vampiregenocide]

Ryan Martinie has a good voice, he's won awards for his voice