Best Bass Player you've ever seen Live

[paulodumb]

Seeing Marcus Geard play with The Slackers really affected me and got me hooked on ska/reggae grooves.

Trevor Dunn playing upright with the Trevor Dunn Trio Convulsant was pretty impressive, too.

 

[Stewmc5222]

man, I forgot about seeing Victor Bailey... wow! the cat just embodies music!

 

[Aarix]

Seeing Victor Wooten in '93 when I was 12 and just before "3 Flew Over..." came out changed my life...

Manring was pretty eye popping as well.

For dancing all night long though, Jonathon Maron of Groove Collective is hard to beat in my book. He is sooo underrated. He played an old Yamaha BB most of the night and grooved my brains out.

On the flipside I saw Stanley Clark recently and was very dissappointed. His "weedily weedily weedily" solos were unbearably repetitive, and on that picolo "bass" he sounded like a weak Jerry Garcia knock-off.

 

[zac2944]

Stacey Starkweather when he was with The Jazz Mandolin Project, or Reed Mathis with Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey

 

[j-raj]

..still nothing tops Neal Fountain for me and I Have seen most of the cats on this thread!!

 

[pretaanluxis]

Flea aswell, and dirk from Incubus back in da day.

I agree!

 

[christobass 416]

I've seen Manring, Wooten, and Claypool live. Claypool 4 times, Wooten twice, and Manring once.

 

[Basshole]

Electric: Gary Willis
Upright: Milt Hinton

 

[dougjwray]

Here we go.
In no particular order:

Electric bassists:
Paul McCartney (w/his band)
Jack Bruce (w/Cream, w/Ringo’s All-Starr Band, and w/his own bands)
John Entwhistle (w/the Who)
Phil Lesh (w/the Grateful Dead)
Chris Squire (w/Yes)
Billy Cox (w/Charlie Daniels (!))
Jeff Berlin (w/Tiger Okoshi)
Jack Casady (w/the Jefferson Airplane)
Berry Oakley (w/the Allman Brothers Band)
Jerry Jemmott (w/King Curtis & the Kingpins, and w/Aretha Franklin)
Rick Laird (w/the Mahavishnu Orchestra)
Jaco Pastorius (w/Weather Report, w/Herbie Hancock, and solo)
Andy West (w/the Dixie Dregs)
Carl Radle (w/Derek & the Dominos, w/Joe Cocker, and w/Delaney & Bonnie)
Gerald Johnson (w/Steve Miller)
Kim Clarke (w/Defunkt)
Alex Blake (w/Billy Cobham)
Stanley Clarke (w/Return to Forever)
Gene Perla (w/Elvin Jones)
Alphonso Johnson (w/Billy Cobham)
Bob Cranshaw (w/Sonny Rollins)
Jamaaladeen Tacuma (w/James Blood Ulmer)
Stanley Banks (w/George Benson)
George Porter, Jr. (w/the Meters)
Harvey Brooks (w/the Fabulous Rhinestones)
John Paul Jones (w/Led Zeppelin)
Steve Swallow (w/Gary Burton)
Fernando Saunders (w/? can’t quite remember)
Tyrone Brown (w/Pat Martino) also saw him on upright with Max Roach
Michael Henderson (w/Miles Davis)

Upright bassists:
Richard Davis (w/Elvin Jones)
Charlie Haden (w/Ornette Coleman, w/Pat Metheny, w/Keith Jarrett, and w/Old & New Dreams)
Charles Mingus (at a Newport Jazz Festival jam session)
George Duvivier (at the same jam)
Ray Brown (w/Oscar Peterson & Milt Jackson, and w/the LA Four)
Ron Carter (w/his own group)
Buster Williams (w/Ron Carter; Carter was on piccolo bass)
Charnett Moffett (w/Ornette Coleman)
Cecil McBee (w/Joanne Brackeen)
Dave Holland (w/Sam Rivers and w/his own groups)
Eddie Gomez (w/Steps)
George Mraz (w/? can’t quite remember)
Cachao (w/his orchestra)
David Freisen (w/his group)
NHOP (w/? can’t quite remember)
Brian Torff (w/? can’t quite remember)
Joony Booth (w/McCoy Tyner)
Avery Sharpe (w/McCoy Tyner)
Reggie Workman (w/Charlie Rouse)
David Williams (w/Jackie McLean)
Major Holley (w/Benny Goodman)
Todd Phillips (w/Matt Glaser & Andy Statman) (he’s a monster bluegrass bassist)
Marc Johnson (at a Berklee workshop)

 

[Rocinante_x1]

Geddy Lee. hands Down. Again.
then Michael Todd

 

[ireidt]

i saw the flecktones play and maybe 4-5 months later saw les claypool on his tour of his new CD. Both great shows. Got Victors and Les's Autograph.

Can't wait for Tool to come down to florida ( sometime next year ) but Justin..Hes one of my main influneces right now on bass.

 

[Gruvmunki]

Haven't been to too many shows but...
Geddy Lee
Rob Trujillo (the man is a monster)
Juan from the Mars Volta
and i get to see Justin Chancellor on Sept. 23

 

[GM60466]

Jimi Hendrix Experience - August 10, 1968 - 2nd show in CHICAGO

Hendrix, Noel Redding, Mitchell


GM

 

[MarkMyWordsXx]

i saw mudvayne a while back. i dont care what you say, ryknow can play circles around everyone on this list except for maybe like wooten, and thats prety close too.

let the arguments begin..

 

[DemoEtc]

Carl Radle w/ Joe Cocker
Jaco w/ Weather Report

 

[Planet Boulder]

Vic Wooten and Oteil Burbridge.

I've also seen Claypool, who would be next on my list.

 

[oldfclefer]

I've seen a lot of great bassists, but the show that most impressed me was Gerald Johnson playing for Steve Miller on "The Joker" tour.

 

[SteveC]

That's a tough one. Considering different styles, etc., I'd have to say Jimmy Haslip is the best player I've heard live.

 

[Tom Howland]

I'am 50 yrs old.
All I did for fun in my teens, and twenty's was go see live music.
These are some of the bass players that touched me live.
James Jamerson
Jaco
Jeff Berlin
Jonas Hellborg
Anthony Jackson
Tim Bogart
Felix Pappalardi
John Paul Jones
Bill Cox
Berry Oakley
Bog Glaub
Will Lee
Percy Jones
Kieth Fergason
Freebo
Andy West
Willie Weeks

Thanks for the memory's?

 

[Stewmc5222]

I'am 50 yrs old.
All I did for fun in my teens, and twenty's was go see live music.
These are some of the bass players that touched me live.
James Jamerson
Jaco
Jeff Berlin
Jonas Hellborg
Anthony Jackson
Tim Bogart
Felix Pappalardi
John Paul Jones
Bill Cox
Berry Oakley
Bog Glaub
Will Lee
Percy Jones
Kieth Fergason
Freebo
Andy West
Willie Weeks

Thanks for the memory's?

you've seen Jamerson, Percy Jones and Freebo?!? sir, my hat is of to you!

you didn't see Willie Weeks with Donny Hathaway, did you?