Favorite Bass player.

[Tumeni Notes]

Geddy Lee
Chris Squire
Jeff Berlin
Stanley Clarke
Stu Hamm
Dave LaRue

 

[jjk2007]

Doug Johns.

 

[BuffaloBass]

It better be you.

 

[DERECOLA]

james jamerson

 

[Staredge]

Lada Zaborac from the Croatian surf band the Bambi Molesters was the bassist that really made me buy mine. John McVie from the Mac was probably the one that really planted the seed all those years ago. Wish I had actually started back then!!!

 

[FretlessMainly]

I could probably narrow it down to 10 if you put a gun to my head. Those who forced me to play bass:

McCartney
Geddy Lee
Phil Lesh (he really doesn't get enough credit)
Chris Squire

John Wetton's work in Crimson '72-'74 is vastly underrated. Greg Lake's bass playing in Crimson ('69) and early ELP is fantastic.

Wooten and Claypool have taken things beyond the horizon.

But there will only ever be one CHARLES MINGUS.

 

[Monotheist]

Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse)
Justin Chancellor (Tool)
Les Claypool (Primus)
Geddy Lee (If you don't know who he is, you have no business being here. lol)

 

[zagralin_arf]

Me.

 

[midbass]

There are two bass players that if they were the only ones alive, mankind would go on:

a) USA - Nathan East
b) UK - Stuart Zender

 

[Rallypoint_1]

Steve Harris!!!!

 

[ual]

John Myung
Alex Webster
Tim Commerford'
Flea
Les Claypool

 

[baileyboy]

Geddy Lee.

 

[Imyrhuckleberry]

BOOTSY COLLINS

 

[chi-town_mike]

+1 for Bootsy!!!

He makes Bass fun!

 

[Blacksack]

Steve Harris!!!!

+ several thousand and ten

 

[rmkesler]

Sheehan.

 

[Bassman4848]

1) john paul jones (led zepilin)
2) juan nelson ( ben harper and the inocent criminals)
3) billy cox ( jimi hendrix/ band of gypsies)

 

[Big_Daddy]

John Entwistle
Charles Mingus
James Jamerson
Whatshisface from the Atlanta Rhythm Section. Paul Goddard or something like that.
Nathan East
Victor Wooten (when I saw him with the Flecktones a few weeks back...That man is a rhythm guitarist, a lead guitarist, and a bassist all packed into one instrument. Amazing.

 

[onionpuzzle]

currently.......Chris Wood

raised on Geddy Lee and Chris Squire
later discovered Marcus Miller and Jaco Pastorius
mind expanded even later on Michael Manring and Les Claypool

 

[JMacBass65]

Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets one of the better bassists that's not too flashy but helps keeps the beat going with a bad ass chunky tone.

On a side note his brother Curt Kirkwood is a severely underrated guitarist, on of the best all time IMHO.

+100

Love these guys! Saw them @ the orig 9:30 Club in DC, back in the day.

IIRC Billy Gibbons cited Curt as being the one of the best unknown guitar players - this was years before their brief period in the spotlight after another Kurt (Cobain) turned everyone on to them.