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Not so talked about bassists...
- Thread starter Tommygunn
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Simon Raymonde - formerly of the Cocteau Twins
Gary "Mani" Mounfield - formerly of the Stone Roses, currently in Primal Scream
Phil King - formerly in Lush, currently touring with Jesus and Mary Chain
Gary "Mani" Mounfield - formerly of the Stone Roses, currently in Primal Scream
Phil King - formerly in Lush, currently touring with Jesus and Mary Chain
most assuredly not mentioned in this thread, but he's discussed PLENTY on the forums here
Ive only recently started listening to what bassist were doing(sorry, been a drummer for 8 years), but troy sanders from mastodon has some good stuff.
I'll see you the Afterglow live version, and raise you the Surfacing / Mirrorball Live version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyhdsAcwtj8
Great bassline, with a nice little break... love this song, love Sarah, and was honestly surprised to see that Brian actually played this one on the record, I did not realize how much he played on the record, like 50-50...
Hah... I could fold here and we'd both still be winners. Thanks for linking to that performance. It's pretty amazing! I am a big fan of Sarah as well and I -love- this song. Brian Minato's a sick player.
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Kevin Strickland/Munro from Laughing Hyenas/Mule
Kevin Rutmanis from the Cows/the Melvins/Tomahwak(inconsequentially)
Jeff Caxide from Isis. He has great groove, melodic sense, tasteful use of effects, and often outshines both guitarists! +1 on Paul D'Amour he often gets overshadowed by Justin Chancellor. His Ric tone is just as awesome as Justins Wal tone IMO
He is definitely one of my favorite unsung bass heroes.
Two others that come to mind are:
Jerry Watts
Hussain Jiffry
Agree. His lines on Message To Love and Earth Blues are incredible. Nice tone too. He even used Ampeg rig on some of the summer 1970 recordings.
Prakash John is one of the guys that gets mentioned not-so-often IMO. He played some really good stuff on Lou Reed's Rock 'n' Animal and on Alice Cooper's albums.
Doug Rauch and Gary Thain are probably talked about but i don't think they are as known as they should have been.
Pete Farndon of the original Pretenders. I'm working up the first 2 LP's for a show and even though I was/am a fan I overlooked how good that guy was.
He played very well with King Crimson too. You can hear it on the live albums. It's astonishing considering that he had only played bass for months!
