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FAVORITE PSYCHEDELIC BASSIST'S

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If you strictly mean 60's hippy rock for your definition of psychedelic then my vote would be for Phil Lesh. If you mean psychedelic in terms of actually psychedelic music then it opens it up quite a bit and I don't have a favorite as there are simply too many to choose from but I will throw out a CD for you to go listen to for fun...
Ali Hassan Kuban - Real Nubian: Cairo Wedding Classics
Bibi Hammond it the bass player and is mind blowingly funky to the level of actually turning funk psychedelic.
 
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Jack Casady is my favorite. I admire Phil Lesh, but I don't really understand what he did, and does, as a bassist. It seems to be counter to anything intuitive. I once heard that Garcia and co were tripping listening to a tape of a Dead show at double speed, and apparently Phil's lines made more sense then.
 
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Jack Casady, especially after I learned, note-for-note, "Somebody To Love". But then, the bassist on this song was no slouch, either:



Loved learning that song, too with its very cools sections.
 
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PSYCHEDELIC BASSIST'S...what? Which possession of a psychedelic bassist are you referring to? Hash pipe? Headband? Paisley shirt? Anyway...

As this is the bassists topic forum, for me, I'd have to say the bassist/song that woke my adolescent mind up to what a bass in particular was, as opposed to just rumbling under a wash of guitars, was Danny McCulloch, on "Monterey". A very upfront performance about the most psychedelic of events...

as well as on "A Girl Named Sandoz", someone who everybody seemed to meet in those days...

He was a very animated player that didn't get all that much attention. That version of the band hung in there for a couple of more albums, and then McCulloch went the singer/songwriter route, and then on to obscurity.

or...

A bassist who recorded on one album, for a band that only made it through one album, with only one tune in particular that got just a minimum of airplay, even on the emerging freeform FM radio station free-for-all of the time. A band so relatively obscure that they made the Velvet Underground seem like ABBA in comparison(and there were quite a few comparisons between the two bands). However, almost 30 years later they became quite influential on the UK post rock scene. Using primitive modular synthesizers, violin through ring modulators, no guitar, and Rand Forbes on fretless Ampeg AUB bass, here's the United States Of America...


The USA soon imploded due to the usual band/label BS, and Forbes was never heard from again, at least musically. As far as 'household' names are concerned, Jack, Jack, and Tim would be my picks. The Dead just bored me too much. I knew Phil was doing some cool stuff, but it just didn't resonate with me.
 
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Jeff Scott said:
Jack Casady, especially after I learned, note-for-note, "Somebody To Love". But then, the bassist on this song was no slouch, either:



Loved learning that song, too with its very cools sections.
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That would be Greg Arama, who went on to form an early 70's power trio with guitarist Dick Wagner(Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Kiss and Aerosmith sessions), Ursa Major...
 

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