Top 3 players whose TONE you admire most...

[R Baer]

Chris Squire
Lee Sklar
Paul Turner

 

[Essen]

Tim Commerford
Colin Edwin
Justin Chancellor

 

[basscamel 420]

Mike Gordon
Jaco
Victor Wooten

 

[IdealWay]

Avishai Cohen
Phil Lesh (Modulus, not Ritter)
Oteil Burbridge

 

[Valerus]

Does anyone listen to Shadow Gallery?

‪Shadow Gallery - Cliffhanger 2‬‏ - YouTube
Around the 3:00 mark.

‪Shadow Gallery - Legacy - 02 Destination Unknown‬‏ - YouTube
Also around the 3:00 mark.

Bassist's name is Carl Cadden-James and I am a stickler for his tone! I have no desire to have it though. I just respect it.

 

[ksihawk7]

Victor Wooten
Bootsy Collins
Herbie Flowers

 

[Actium]

Justin Chancellor (Tool)
Dave Edwardson (Neurosis)
Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath)
Troy Sanders (Mastodon)

ok so i cheated

 

[TheVoiceless]

Jaco Pastorious

Flea - music man era

Tim Commerford - both RATM & Audioslave

 

[JavierFarias]

Geddy Lee (Rush - since he uses his fender bass)
Mark Hoppus (blink 182)
Nick Harmer (death cab for cutie)

 

[Webtroll]

Chris Squier
Phil Lynott
Tom Scholz (yeah yeah I know)

 

[Mal1905]

Pino - on Nick Heyward, Joan Armatrading and David cuts
Jaco - on pretty much anything, but specifically on Joni Mitchell cuts (Don Juan's Reckless Daughter nails it for me)
T Bone Wolk - on the 'Live from Martha's Vineyard' album by Carly Simon

Then, there's Mike Visceglia, Paul S Denman and Mick Karn who could also be included...

Not to mention... okay, I'll stop

 

[SVE]

Off the top of my head, I think my list would be.

John Entwistle
Bootsy Collins
Pino Palladino

 

[SoCal1]

Off the top of my head, I think my list would be.

John Entwistle
Bootsy Collins
Pino Palladino

Do you mean BOOTSYS tone...or the tone set forth by the various electronic "gimmickry" he uses? Can you say (as Bootsy has often said)..."if there ain't no Mutron...there ain't no Bootsy"? Perhaps an asterick on Bootsy giving equal credit to the engineers and mixers on his cuts for at LEAST a huge assist.

 

[DiabolicLow B]

Tony Levin
John Paul Jones
Norwood Fisher

 

[Metalbasshippy]

John Entwistle (especially 66-71, but I love all the tones he's had over the years)
Geddy Lee
Chris Squire
(Geezer Butler is #4)

 

[paulygonemad]

John Entwistle (especially 66-71, but I love all the tones he's had over the years)
Geddy Lee
Chris Squire
(Geezer Butler is #4)

+1



crazy

 

[Marcus_TheKing]

Top 3 for me (in no specific order) would be:

Stuart Zender
David Labruyere
Pino Palladino

 

[shivaborg]

Jimmy Johnson- Flim & the BB's
Skuli Sverisson- Holdsworths "Hard Hat Area"
Pierluigi Balducci- Heard him on You Tube once, VERY impressive.

 

[NoiseNinja]

I'd like to have Julie Slicks tone, but Justin Chancellor has a great sound too, it's just not the tone I'm after. Can't think of a third one right now.

 

[micromo]

Jonas Hellborg
Gary Willis
Damian Erskine