Bassists with great fills

[PortlandBass77]

GEDDY LEE! also Steve Harris and Chris Squier are great.

 

[Basshappi]

Peter "Mars" Cowling
Listen to Pat Travers' "Live: Go For What You Know" the man never got the recognition he deserved.

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

Don't know if they qualify as fills, but I love those little throw-off notes and counterpoint lines McVie does.


"Angel" and "Beautiful Child" from 1979's Tusk are good examples.

 

[pauljude]

Agree...J Paul Jones of the best............Levin for progressive side

 

[ChuckO]

Robert Deleo has some of the best fills, tasteful.

 

[Slevage]

Randy Jo Hobbs

 

[Revolver]

Muzz Skillings plays some very cool fills on the Living Colour recordings. Bakithi Kumalo plays some amazing stuff on Paul Simon's 'Graceland'. And of course, (as someone mentioned before) Pino Palladino.

 

[WaldoNova]

Eddie Jackson from Queensryche has quite few great fills on their earlier albums. Very underrated player in the Hard rock/Metal genres.

 

[Lfsbera]

Pino (check "Everytime you go away") and Geezer!!

 

[Jim Nazium]

One more vote for Pino Palladino. Examples: "Stop on By" with Paul Young / Chaka Khan, "New York Minute" with Don Henley, "Give Blood" with Pete Townshend.

 

[Atshen]

Yes! "Give Blood" features one of my favorite fretless bass lines!

 

[Feral Feline]

Phil Lesh - Grateful Dead

Great Taste, Lesh Philling...

 

[EdwardofHuncote]

I like these threads... some of these are tunes I wouldn't have thought of independently, but they made me think of some other tune with a line or fill I should work on. Nice job OP.

 

[fendermademygibson]

Billy Gould - Faith No More
Robert Trujillo - all his work but I especially his Infectious Grooves stuff
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
and several others who have already been mentioned
-R.I.P. Cliff

 

[MoeTown1986]

Definitely Jamareo Artis of The Hooligans (Bruno Mars' band). Dude has a sweet Motown vibe. Sick bassist.

 

[wintremute]

Ohhh, good thread:

Steve Harris
Geddy Lee
Entwistle
JPJ
John Taylor (more short, subtle fills)

This is pretty much my list. Kinda scary, because often people are surprised when I put John Taylor in that group of bassists. Then again, this is a bass board, and we're not the usual suspects (so to speak).

 

[Burwabit]

Jeremy Plato from the Americana "red dirt" persuasion.

 

[groovaholic]

Here's the transcription of Sharay Reed's bassline on that video. The sound isn't great, so I did the best I could, but this whole piece is a masterclass in fills. The awesome fill referred to a few posts back is at bar 52.

Dude! You're making me want to dust off my (ancient and decrepit) reading chops...

This isn't my favorite genre, but it's easily my favorite clip of a bassist.

Yes, the audio is dodgy -- but the people whooping and hollerin' and reacting to those tasty fills definitely ADD to the sense of joy I get from his playing.

 

[Loki182]

3:16

 

[BobaFret]

Fima Ephron has lots of good stuff on the Rise Robots Rise tracks and Screaming Headless Torsos recordings. Not a household name, but he is real good IMO.


I'm a sucker for well placed pops.