THE Favo(u)rite Bassist Thread

[gweimer]

Welcome aboard. Mine would be:
Jack Bruce
Gary Thain - Uriah Heep
Martin Turner - Wishbone Ash
Tony Levin - King Crimson and a gazillion others
Dennis Dunaway - Alice Cooper
John Wetton - you pick....
Mars Cowling - Pat Travers
Chris Squire - Yes
Rob Grange - Ted Nugent
James Jamerson

 

[Diezel420]

Here goes:
1. Michael Manring- solo
2. Nathan East- Fourplay/ Eric Clapton
3. Christian Olde- Wolbers- Fear Factory
4. Tony Levin- solo/ Peter Gabriel
5. Les Claypool- Primus

 

[embellisher]

Geddy Lee
James Jamerson
Paul McCartney
Jaco
Stanley Clarke
Billy Sheehan
Stuart Hamm
Sting
Monty Colvin
Jeff Berlin

 

[Acacia]

phil lynott
peter crane
steve harris
steve digiorgio
chris squire
cliff williams

 

[Mattb]

Jaco
Les Claypool
John Paul Jones (LZ AND Solo)
Billy Cox (Band of Gypsies)
Chris Squire

 

[Cosmo_Smallpiece]

BRUCE FOXTON

 

[Ciaran]

1. Baghiti Khumalo
2. FamilyMan
3. Sting
4. Bootsy Collins
5. Tim Commerford
6. Flea
7. Graham Downey (The Frames)

 

[Yogi Bear]

Chris Squire
Geddy Lee
Tony Levin
Paul Mcartney
John Myung
Mike Rutherford
Steve Harris
John Paul Jones
John Entwistle
Mike Watt
Sting
Karl Alvarez
Dee Dee Ramone
John Wetton
Greg Lake
John Deacon
Tom Peterson
Donald "Duck" Dunn

Sorry for the long list...

 

[SuperDuck]

Originally posted by Ïn±ë®nål¦P®ÏMå±Ë

3. Reggie Arvizu - KoRn

Heh, good cover.

Instead of listing all of the ones that are already up there (whom I love), I will add

Paul Simonon
Dan Adriano

because they aren't listed as of yet, and I'm going to put more emphasis on

Duck Dunn

because he needs to be listed more that just once.

 

[JMo]

In no specific order.......

Jeff Berlin (THE MAN)
Oteil Burbridge
Jaco (opened the door for us all)
Matthew Garrison
Victor Wooten

 

[Hary]

Here they come!

Stanley Clarke
Lemmy - Motörhead
Cordell Crockett - Ugly Kid Joe
Dusty Hill - ZZ Top
Roger Waters - Pink Floyd
Cliff Williams - AC/DC
Bob Daisly - Played with Ozzy
The bassist of RATM /I can't remember his name know/
Flea - RHCP

And so on..

 

[Ulyanov]

This is hurried because I have to go to work soon, but:
Sting
Geddy Lee
Les Claypool
Baghiti Khumalo
John Paul Jones
Geezer Butler
James Jamerson

probably some more, but I'm late as it is.

 

[JWC]

Jaco
Geddy Lee
Sting
the dude from Blue Oyster Cult
the dude from Uriah Heep
Geezer Butler
Jack Bruce
Chris Squire

 

[pike66]

a few of my favorite bassists include...

Noel Redding: Jimi Hendrix Experience

Geezer Butler: Black Sabbath

Rick Grech: Blind Faith

among quite a few others.

 

[feel_the_rage]

In no particualr order:


Les Claypool
Flea
and the awesome late Cliff Burton.

 

[feel_the_rage]

Why Am I The Only One Who Mentioned CLIFF BURTON?!?!?!?!?!?!?! He was a great bassist and he didn't use any crappy picks, yet he still played hecka fast. Go listen to some early Metallica please

 

[Niels Keijzer]

Billy Guild. (Faith No More)

 

[Ïn±ë®nål¦P®ÏMå±Ë]

Nah, they arent in any specific order.

 

[Ulyanov]

Originally posted by feel_the_rage
Why Am I The Only One Who Mentioned CLIFF BURTON?!?!?!?!?!?!?! He was a great bassist and he didn't use any crappy picks, yet he still played hecka fast. Go listen to some early Metallica please

What's wrong with picks? Sting used "crappy picks", and so did Chris Squire, I think. And that guy from Green Day, I should have mentioned him as one of my favourites, his stuff is fun to play.

 

[FLEABITE]

In no particular order...

Cliff Burton (metallica)
John Taylor (duran duran)
Tobin Esperence (papa roach)
Mike Mills (rem)
Flea (rhcp)
Mike Dirnt (greenday)
Timmy C (ratm)
me!
lots more I have forgotten to mention
not fieldy
not mark hoppus
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xxxx = spaces to be filled when I hear them.
I have an open mind, so much so I find my brains spill out