Does your favourite band also include your favourite bass player?

[rjovin]

Most of my favorite bass players are in some of my favorite bands.
Steve harris -Iron Maiden (the reason I play bass)
Joe Lally - Fugazi
Brian Cook - Botch (best metalcore band ever!) Russian Circles (best post rock band ever!)
Dave Curran - Unsane
...and my current fav, Bill Indelicato - Exhalants (awesome playing and tone)

 

[HowieD72]

John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin

Allan Woody - Andy Hess - Jorgan Carlsson, and the new guy Kevin Scott,
(he is a freight train waiting to be unleashed) - Gov't Mule

Chris Squire - Yes

Richard Cousins - Robert Cray Band

Otiel Burbridge - ABB

Nick Govrik - Trigger Hippy

Favorite Bands, these are bands I dig, and digging the low end groove is a big plus

Allen Woody, another one of my favourites!

 

[HowieD72]

There is only one answer for me and it's yes. Black Sabbath and Geezer Butler.

 

[HowieD72]

For me, its not just the bass players but drummers as well:

Rush - Geddy Lee & Neil Peart
Led Zeppelin - John Paul Jones & John Bonham
Bow Wow Wow - Leigh Gorman & Dave Barbarossa

Rush - Geddy Lee & Neil Peart! What a team!

 

[HowieD72]

Dave Holland in any of the bands he’s led

Steve Swallow in any of Carla Bley’s bands

Jack Bruce with Cream

How can we forget Jack Bruce!

 

[HowieD72]

It's really a mixed bag for me...as I'd have to pick a favorite bassist per genre or something, I can't really nail it down to one. It's also a mixed bag in that some bands have my favorite bassist for that genre, but aren't exactly my all-time favorite bassist.

Silverchair - love the band, nothing against Chris Joannou, but not my favorite bassist from the 90s/2000s alt rock genre.
Bauhaus - Awesome band, favorite goth rock band, and David J Haskins has been a MASSIVE influence on my playing. Two favorites right there!
The Byrds - Roger McGuinn may be one of my favorite guitarists, but I'm not a real big fan of their bassist. This is a similar story with The Lovin' Spoonful.
Doobie Brothers - Lotta sentimental attachment to this band (Dad and I listened to them a lot when I was a kid), so there's nostalgia wrapped up in my love for them. Really like the basslines when Tiran Porter was with them. This is another favorite/favorite entry.
The Police - A big favorite/favorite one again. Don't much care for him as a person, but Sting has been a huge influence on my playing and a massive influence on songwriting for me.


There's a lot more, but I'm still workin on my coffee

Finished that coffee yet?
Yep, The Doobie brothers with Tiran!

 

[HowieD72]

i voted "no" for a lack of correlation(s), but if the funk brothers can be considered a band: jamerson is somewhere on my list of favorites.

Funk Brothers and Jamerson! Enuff said. That's good enough for me!

 

[HowieD72]

Rush? Check.
Geddy? Check.

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Isn't that Macho Man?

 

[HowieD72]

I’ve been a music fan my whole life (I’m in my 50s) but only playing bass for a few years, so there isn’t a necessary link. Nor do I have just one favorite band or one favorite bass player.

But they’re definitely related and maybe that’s why I ended up playing bass. For example, there are bands I love that also feature bass players that are among my favorites (e.g., Peter Gabriel/Tony Levin, Yes/Chris Squire, Talking Heads//Tina Weymouth, Tool/Justin Chancellor, Joy Division-New Order/Peter Hook, The Fixx/Dan Brown, Curve/Dean Garcia), but there are bands I love that don’t even have a bass player as a member (e.g., Nine Inch Nails) and there are bass players I admire where the band doesn’t do much for me (e.g., Paul Denman).

So it helps if I like the bass player, but that’s not the whole story.

Talking Heads//Tina Weymouth, Joy Division-New Order/Peter Hook

 

[HowieD72]

Favorite band is Led Zeppelin, favorite bass player is John Entwhistle and I’m not a Who fan at all. Figure that one out, I can’t.
Black Sabbath is my 2nd favorite band and Geezer is my 2nd favorite bass player. That make more sense.

Makes total sense to me!

 

[HowieD72]

I don't have one single favorite band, or one single favorite bass player, but if I had to come up with a close enough answer, it would be Earth, Wind and Fire with Verdine White.

Earth, Wind and Fire with Verdine White! I hear ya!

 

[Spidey2112]

 

[Jazzdogg]

Too many of my favorite bassists are no longer living.

Growing older ain't for sissies.

 

[2112]

Isn't that Macho Man?

 

[Lo-E]

DeFunkt is my favourite band. Kim Clarke is the bass player & she's my favourite bassist....

I studied with Kim for six months or so around 1990! I approached her about lessons at a DeFunkt gig at the original Knitting Factory. She was a great teacher and I still regularly use some of the concepts she taught me.

 

[HowieD72]

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[HowieD72]

I studied with Kim for six months or so around 1990! I approached her about lessons at a DeFunkt gig at the original Knitting Factory. She was a great teacher and I still regularly use some of the concepts she taught me.

WOW! I'm so jealous!! If ever i had that chance.......that's what I'm missing living on the other side of the globe!

 

[Lo-E]

As to the question: I would be pretty hard-pressed to choose a favorite bassist or a favorite band and many of my favorite bassists play in a lot of projects so all I can say is that some of my favorite bassists play in some of my favorite bands.

 

[mtonbass]

In 1977, my favorite bands were Yes, Rush, and Steely Dan.
The connection seems obvious now but I wasn’t consciously thinking about it at the time. The ensembles were pretty good, too - not to mention their rhythm section partners!

 

[HowieD72]

Too many of my favorite bassists are no longer living.

Growing older ain't for sissies.

If you're happy to share them, I'm keen to see your list!