THE Favo(u)rite Bassist Thread

[BigJH]

Some of my favorite Bass Players are(in no particular order):

Bootsy Collins

Rex Brown

Cliff Burton

Steve Harris

Victor Wooten

Sam Rivers

Jason Newsted

Stanley Clarke

 

[Justin V]

John Paul Jones
Paul McCartney
Sting
Flea
that guy in DMB
duncan coutts

 

[StarzNAGlassJar]

i am throroughly disappointed in all of you. Clifford Lee Burton is god.

 

[Nomadic Herder]

My favorites:

Matt Freeman (Rancid)
Cliff Burton (Metallica)
Les Claypool (Primus)
Sid Vicious (Sex Pistols)...yea, I know he refused to play and when he did he sucked, but thats OKAY
P-Nut (311)
Mike Dirnt (Green Day)

I can admire the talent of people like Jaco, but I dont really like that sort of music. So my list is rock-type stuff.

 

[rocktheganj]

Here are my favorites in no particular order:

- Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Dirk Lance (Incubus)
- Jaco Pastorius (Duh)
- Norwood Fisher (Fishbone)
- Geddy Lee (Rush)
- Les Claypool (Primus/all of his side projects)
- Tim Cummerford (Rage Against The Machine)
- Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath)
- Eric Wilson (Sublime/ L.B.D.All Stars)
- Justin Chancellor (Tool)
- Aston "Family Man" Barrett (Bob Marley)
- Chi Cheng (Deftones)
- Tye Zamora (Alien Ant Farm)
- Paul (At The Drive-In)

 

[Dave Castelo]

Originally posted by StarzNAGlassJar
i am throroughly disappointed in all of you. Clifford Lee Burton is god.

 

[nirvanarules28]

Here are some of my favorites (in no particular order)

Victor Wooten
Les Claypool
Jaco Pastorius
Flea
P-Nut
Michael Manring
John Paul Jones
Geezer Butler

There are many other great bassists, but these are some of the ones I think are the best.

 

[nirvanarules28]

Oh yeah....
I also love Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted!

 

[undertoad]

1.Justin Chancellor -TooL
(who seems to be greatly under appreciated)
2.Stephan Lessard -DMB
3.Dirk Lance -Incubus
4.Flea -RHCP

in no particular order after #1

 

[JOhnk]

1. Flea (red hot chili peppers)
2. Les Claypool (formerly primus)
3. Tim Commerford (rage against the machine)
4. P-Nut (311)

I'm into the contemporary stuff, but I can respect each one of them for their individual styles.

 

[CJY]

Here are some of my favourites:
Jeff Berlin
Dave Larue
Michael Manring(truly innovative)
Alain Caron(IMHO the best post Jaco fretless player)
Victor Wooten
Scott Thunes

There are lots more I like and love but these are the people I'm thinking about now.

 

[seamus]

Geddy Lee - favorite bass player of all time
John Paul Jones - classic lines, 'nuff said
Johny Myung - impressive!
Steve Harris - just plain fun to play
Cliff Burton - raised on RTL and MOP, fun stuff
Justin Chancellor - unique sound, great fit

Fieldy - lol, jk

 

[By-Tor]

I'll list a few but there are so many.

Geddy Lee of course

Stanley Clarke

Vic Wooten increadible live show

Steve Harris

Also as mentioned earlier Pete Trewavas of
Marillion, one of my fave bands.

 

[Tomi]

Roger Waters
Paul McCartney
James Jamerson
Jaco Pastorius

 

[cassanova]

Originally posted by 5s_tring freak


I dont mean to annoy you because you are definitely more knoledgeable than me

Is Alec John Such a decent player? He seems to be sort of a run-of-mill bass player>

Your not annoying me one bit, If you listen to certain tracks off Bon Jovi's "Slipery When Wet" "New Jersey" "Cross Roads" and even a one or two off the "Keep the Faith" cd he lays down some very tastefull lines. I particularly like "Living on A Prayer, Born To Be My Baby, In These Arms, Always (has a nice line, not overly complex, but played with lots of finese) This is all just my opinion on him, Im sure lots of people think he's run of the mill, to below average bass player.

 

[twiggy]

#1 ryknow
#2 rayna
#3 hendrix
i happen to like fieldy for being diffso i will throw him in at four
#5 twiggy
#6 gidget
i like the newer stuff so plz don't let this start a war not looking to be lynched just stating my opinion

 

[cyklone777]

Hendrix played bass? Hmm...

 

[maxoges]

-Stuart Hamm (solo, Satriani, Vai, Gambale)
-Randy Jackson (Session player, Bruce Springsteen, Maria Carey)
-Paul Mcartney (No introduction needed)
-Roscoe Beck (Eric Johnson, Robben Ford)
-Jason Newsted (EX Metallica)
-Tom Arya (Slayer)


Yes I know the metal players hardly can compete, but I was a huge metalhead ten years ago and those guys were my biggest influences.

 

[Christopher]

Wayman Tisdale.

Okay, I'm half kidding, but I really like his tone.

 

[twiggy]

yes just for the record he did cyklone the fact he was the greatest guitar master ever to have lived over shadows the fact that he was a pretty good bass player also. in my opinion he was much better than noel was