Pbass Players Post-2000?

[TrevorOfDoom]

I recently sold a friend a Pbass, and it's his first.
For funsies, i started compiling a playlist of tunes with a Pbass on them to showcase the breadth of tones available with a P.
I combed through old threads here and a few other places and found some killer tracks, but i noticed that most of the tunes that get touted as a "great example of a Pbass" come from between the 60s and 90s.
So i humbly request that you, the reader, submit a specific song from anytime post-2000 with a great Pbass tone.
(Sadly, the humble PJ doesn't count for this exercise. Sorry. It kills me to exclude Duff and Graham Maby).

So hit me with it!!

(Preemptive strike: i know the Pbass is ubiquitous, but i'm asking for specific players and specific songs. If your answer is any variation on "every recording ever", you're not wrong but that's not what i'm asking. Gimme names. Thank you in advance.)

 

[TrevorOfDoom]

I've got a Snarky Puppy tune for Michael League, Pino with D'Angelo and John Mayer, Tim LeFebevre with Knower, Gojira, and Men I Trust.
Bonus points if the song is metal or jazz.

 

[4SG]

Bruce Thomas of the Attractions comes to mind.

 

[gonzkal]

Kaveh Rastegar? E.g. with Kneebody till around 2018

 

[Clark W]

I recently sold a friend a Pbass, and it's his first.
For funsies, i started compiling a playlist of tunes with a Pbass on them to showcase the breadth of tones available with a P.
I combed through old threads here and a few other places and found some killer tracks, but i noticed that most of the tunes that get touted as a "great example of a Pbass" come from between the 60s and 90s.
So i humbly request that you, the reader, submit a specific song from anytime post-2000 with a great Pbass tone.
(Sadly, the humble PJ doesn't count for this exercise. Sorry. It kills me to exclude Duff and Graham Maby).

So hit me with it!!

(Preemptive strike: i know the Pbass is ubiquitous, but i'm asking for specific players and specific songs. If your answer is any variation on "every recording ever", you're not wrong but that's not what i'm asking. Gimme names. Thank you in advance.)

Well Nate Mendel of the Foo Fighters plays a P bass, live, so I assume he uses it in the studio too. If so, then I would guess almost every song by the Foo Fighters post 2000 would have a P bass in it.

 

[TrevorOfDoom]

Bruce Thomas of the Attractions comes to mind.

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LOVE Bruce. It took everything in me not to fill the whole playlist with Attractions tunes.
But he's decidedly pre-2000.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Beats me.
People still play basses nowadays?

 

[PapaBearBass]

Gomez. Paul Blackburn plays pbass in many scenarios. However, for a specific example I present their tune "Sound of Sounds" which is an absolutely gorgeous tune. Here, guitarist /vocalist Ian Ball is seen playing the pbass.

 

[TrevorOfDoom]

Beats me.
People still play basses nowadays?

 

[TrevorOfDoom]

Gomez. Paul Blackburn plays pbass in many scenarios. However, for a specific example I present their tune "Sound of Sounds" which is an absolutely gorgeous tune. Here, guitarist /vocalist Ian Ball is seen playing the pbass. View attachment 7275534

Brilliant!!

 

[B-Mac]

Brilliant!!

Though not 100% of the time, Pino Palladino plays a P bass when he's with the Who, and that's been since 2002.

 

[backin82]

Jamareo Artis (Bruno Mars / Hooligans) plays one on a lot of their earlier tracks.

Locked Out of Heaven (I think)
Uptown Funk
Treasure (I think)

 

[urkel3000]

I mean when I pay to see touring bands 95% of the time they are playing p basses. Within the last two months I saw screeching weasel, descendents, adicts, interruptors, swinging udders, rodeo boys, 7 seconds, Laura Jane grace, Alex lahey play on stage with p basses. More than those, probably. In that time, other than precision basses, I have seen 1 rick and two j basses on stage being used by a touring band. Local bar bands, and church bassists here use all kinds of different stuff though

 

[Bass1447]

I think most out there have played a PBass at least once. I have 3 straight Pbass's. 2 I have kept stock. One was turned into a PJ but was born a Precision. Theres just something about them that just feels like home. Don't tell the others.

 

[atquinn]

Death Cab for Cutie - You are a Tourist. And like every other DCC song

 

[Lagaupia]

Mike Dirnt from Green Day, Matt Freeman from Rancid

 

[pbass2]

Anything with Chris Chaney lately most likely. Of course Sean Hurley, Pino, and Tim Lefebvre are often using P's (though more recently have been using other stuff). Maybe have him check out Lefebvre on Bowie's last album, Black Star. Pretty sure that's all P w/flats.

 

[Ellery]

Geezer Butler didn't retire in 1999.

 

[OllieVT]

Love the Gomez link. I think of them as 90s, but two of my favourite albums of theirs, In Our Gun and How We Operate, are definitely 2000s. Ping One Down from the former has a lovely bassline.

My offering is the Headsticks. I don't know much about tone, or basses for that matter. However, from squinting at youtube videos in the past, my best guess is that the bassist plays a P-bass. And they have great lines that really drive the song. So between those two "facts", maybe they count. Here's one with a bassline I enjoy:

 

[MrAB4003]

Geezer Butler didn't retire in 1999.

Neither did Steve Harris