Recommendations for bassists to check out.

[steph_sec]

A trick for developing the relative hearing. Listen to a song (in the car for example) and try to figure out mentally the note before searching it on your instrument, with time and practice of the scales you will be able distinct clearly the intervals, very useful on a gig somebody start a song you don't know.

I will keep it in mind for the future, that sounds like beyond what I'm capable of doing now. But something to aim towards for sure!

 

[steph_sec]

Poor OP. She joins talk bass, asks a nice question, and then gets pages and pages of words to sort through.

Here's another. Check out Royal Blood. Just the bassist (Mike Kerr) and the drummer, so it's super easy to hear the bass line, and it demonstrates how the bass can carry the entire song (well, the drums help, too).

Ha ha, not at all! I'm doing a few things at once, and come to read a post, respond and do something else. Much better than posting on a dead forum, anyway!
Thanks for the link! Will listen now, and add to my To Watch list as well. Thanks for the recommendation!

 

[Willy B]

Some of my favorites from the punk/hardcore genre (I too played punk when I first took up bass):

Geoff Kresge- Tiger Army, AFI ("Answer That..." was the first album I learned to play)
Hunter Burgan- AFI (his work on "Black Sails in the Sunset" and "The Art of Drowning" in particular)
Chuck Platt- Good Riddance
Craig Setari- Sick of it All
Bob Whiteside/Dustin Perry- Snapcase
Dante Sigona- The Nerve Agents

Others outside of punk that I don't think have been mentioned:

Jonas Hellborg
Billy Sheehan
Brian Cook

 

[Marial]

We play indie-rock, sometimes punk!

I have an Ibanez SDGR. My goal after learning a bit more is to buy a new one, and learn about that!

As you're Canadian and sometimes play punk, I'd recommend checking out NOMEANSNO, especially the album Wrong.