Bassists with great fills

[BassShark]

Who do you guys consider as such? (fills = mini-solis within a song... you know)

Jack Bruce, Jack Casady, John Entwistle, Roger Glover, (listen to his embellishments on Smoke On The Water and Highway Star) Andy Fraser, Geezer Butler, Tom Hamilton, Prakash John, John Paul Jones, Joe Bouchard, Dennis Dunaway...there are many.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Ha! I love how around 0:50 that other bass player in the white shirt just puts his bass back in the case.

 

[Basshappi]

Allen Woody

 

[fretlessguy]

Dave Hope, the original Kansas bassist. John Giblin (Simple Minds & Chris DeBurgh) for fretlessing.

 

[Berkowitzum]

GZR
Cliff Burton
JPJ
Many death metal bassist, or tech death bassist IE Steve di Giorgio, Alex Webster, Jeroen Paul Thesseling
Juan Alderete - Racer X era (there are some fills in TMV but not that much as in Rx)

 

[turcmic]

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

Watch any Mars' live appearances. All tasteful fills.

He and Pino are the ones who I admire the most these days

 

[Dave W]

Levin and Pino were the first to come to mind. Very tasty while still holding down the groove.

Mark King has some pretty awesome fills too.

 

[Feral Feline]

Joe Dart from Vulfpeck.

Lemme know what the rest of y'all think...

 

[Nick Yordon]

I always loved John Paul Jones's fills with Zeppelin. He really knows how to add just the right amount of variance to a solid phrase (his work on Led Zeppelin II is simply remarkable in this realm).

~Nick "Klaus" G.

said it perfect!he never over does it and always seems to have the right amount of notes in every fill/bass line

 

[A.K.]

Yngwie Malmsteen
Marcel Jacob
Geezer Butler

 

[Kazz3lrath]

It's all about the classics in terms of fills:

JPJ
Geezer
Steve Harris
Jack Bruce
Michael Anthony
The OX
John Deacon

 

[Basshappi]

Randy Meisner

 

[PJSShearer]

Gary Thain.

 

[eligilam]

Paul Denman (Sade).

 

[Clark Dark]

Francis Hylton - Incognito
Nathan East
Lamont Johnson

 

[Funk$tar]

Mostly every Professional Gospel a Bassist...Their fills are just out of this world!

 

[mattattack187]

Haven't seen anyone put Duff McKagan out there yet. Paradise City, Sweet Child, You Could Be Mine, It's So Easy, Just a few songs that come to mind.