Bassists you think more should know of....

[Atoz]

Many of the bassists I was going to mention (Forssi, Weymouth, Watt) have been mentioned. To this list, I'd also add:

Lee Dorman - Iron Butterfly. Great lines.

I also like the similarly named

Leigh Gorman - Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow

 

[zagralin_arf]

Markus Grosskopf- Helloween, this guy has some sick lines and solos.
James Schumacher- listen to some Brocas Helm, youll see what im talking about.
Sir Albert Witchfinder- plays simple lines that add alot, plus hes got some badass tone.

ANOTHER MARCUS FAN!!

That man is insane...one of the nicest people you could ever meet too. Drew a pumpkin on the headstock of my jag then he played it for a bit...

 

[NickBass81]

-Jimmy Johnson (I know this awesome guy is well known in the USA, but here in Italy not really)
-Oskar Cartaya
-Tom Kennedy
-John Pena
-Ralph Armstrong
-Jeff Andrews
-Kai Eckhardt

These are some players that I think are awesome, but you don't see take their right credits so often on the magazines....

 

[Dellers]

Abraham 'Onion' Miller (L.T.D.) - lots of great bass playing on all of L.T.D.'s stuff
Marc Pero (Papa Grows Funk)
Sekou Bunch (played with lots of great artists)
Michael Manson

 

[Polfuste]

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[sarcastro83]

Dave Allen - Gang of Four.

 

[slinginsix]

Said it before I'll say it again....Dan Roberts from Crash Test Dummies. They catch alot of crap for the band name, but their 2nd (God shuffled his feet) and 3rd ( a worm's life) has some really fine melodic bass playing on them.

 

[apostrophe]

Ronnie Baker (MFSB, The Tramps, Spinners, Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes, OJays, Blue Magic, Stylistics, Laura Nyro, Bunny Sigler, and on...)

 

[havnjero]

Richard Gates

 

[b_carville]

Colin Hodgekinson.(Hope I spelled his name right).

Astounding British player.Had a band called Back Door with Sax,electric bass,drums in the late 60's- early 70's. Made a record or two for Warner/Reprise.

I don't usually go for these super players but this gentleman blew me away.Amazing chordal technique & all the skill you can imagine & then some& even with all the flash,he kept the groove! I heard & saw him before I heard Jaco. Back Door sounded like a 4 or 5 player band!

He pops up here & there,but it seems he prefers to keep a low profile.I think he still does a bit of session work in Britian.

 

[JPrinos]

I think it was Jimmy Bain who played fretless on Kate Bush's 'The Dreaming'

If so, his playing and sound got me into the instrument.

 

[skulletwhip]

i have said a million times before............TREVOR DUNN.

 

[Shovelbone]

Andy Hess- Gov't Mule and the Black Crowes
Allen Woody- Allman Brothers and Gov't Mule
Phil Lesh- Grateful Dead- best work and tone from 1970-1974
Mike Gordon- Phish
Berry Oakley- Allman Brothers
Juan Nelson- Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals

1+ Andy Hess! He is one bad Mofo!

 

[robd]

lenny kottke from the good rats.

standout tracks are:
'klash-ka-bob'
'cherry river'
'injun joe'

you can see newer live vids of them on youtube, but very few acts compare to them in the days of the album 'live at last'

check em out on myspace, too. they've played with any major act that's come to the east cost of the US. they're in the rock n roll hall of fame, but they just couldn't "make it" in the commercial sense, even with a few radio hits in the seventies.

Finally, someone else who has heard of The Good Rats - incredible band

Check out Crack The Sky if you like the Rats, Cary Zeigler is a great bass player and some of the stuff he wrote and played on the CTS tunes is great

 

[robd]

Just went thru the whole thread and saw no mention of Keith Horne - killer bass player but not a household name

plays upside down and left handed -

 

[Gary Way]

Tommy Cogbill

 

[DanFold]

Errm... ME! ha, no. Andy Rourke From The Smiths, Mani from The Stone Roses.

 

[nitrofix]

Wyzard from Mothers Finest would be my pick, I have seen Mothers Finest about 7 or 8 times and Wyzard is amazing every time and so is the band, I think Mothers Finest is the most underrated band that I know of......Check him out

 

[nitrofix]

Oh Yeah another one I just thought of is Mark King from Level 42...Check him out

 

[5StringBlues]

Just went thru the whole thread and saw no mention of Keith Horne - killer bass player but not a household name

plays upside down and left handed -

+1 I met Keith back in Richmond,Va. in the early 90's before he moved to Nashville.Great player and very humble guy.As I recall,his dad was a bluegrass player from West Virginia and he had a guitar in his hand by age three.Great pedal steel player too from what I've been told.

He had a fusion band called Secrets with Carter Beauford in late 80's,early 90's and then took off to Nashville and worked with Tanya Tucker and Trisha Yearwood.Not exactly sure what he's doing now.

Anybody know?