Top P bass players. All time.

[Frety_Kruger]

I know most of us when we think of the greatest jazz bass players of all time we think of
1. JACO
2.Geddy
3.John Paul Jones
4 .Marcus Miller
Ect (just my list anyway)

But if you had to pick a list of the top 4 Pbass players ever across all genres who
Who would you put in your top 4

Here is my list. (No rude comments please Santa is watching)
.1 Steve Harris
.2 James Jamerson
.3 Pino Palladino
.4 Duff McKagen

Feel free to dispute my lists.

Cheers!!

 

[dougjwray]

How about my 10 favorite P-Bass players?
James Jamerson
Duck Dunn
Carl Radle
George Porter, Jr.
Chuck Rainey
Willie Weeks
David Brown (of Santana)
David Hood
Gerald Johnson (Steve Miller Band)
Bob Babbitt

 

[Ace Of Bass]

Also Wilton Felder, Alphonso Johnson, Bob Babbit, Chuck Rainey, Freddie Washington , Rock Jones, George Porter, Tommy DeBarge, Raphael Saadiq...

 

[Chalky White]

Willie Weeks should be on this list.

 

[jerry]

Will Lee's 70's output is up there as well!

 

[matti777]

I don't see how Jamerson wouldn't be #1,2 and 3

 

[FRoss6788]

Geezer, John Wetton, Entwistle...

 

[bassburner]

Carol Kaye

Dee Dee Ramone - maybe not one of the best, but very influential

 

[LadyLoveStingRay5]

Jamerson
Carol Kaye
Pino Palladino
Bobby Watson

These are the players that made me want a Pbass.

 

[MixBass]

Favorite off the top and sure to miss some:
Jamerson
Freddy Washington
Pino
Bobby Watson
Pops Popswell
Rainey
Babbit

 

[DavidBassista]

Matt Freeman

 

[bearhart74]

every bass player has probably played a p at one time

 

[TrevorOfDoom]

Jamerson
Sting
John Deacon
Paul Simonen
Bruce Thomas
Duck Dunn
Pino

 

[TonyPlaysBass]

1. James Jamerson
2. Pino Palladino
3. Carol Kaye

 

[BazzaBass]

every bass player has probably played a p at one time

 

[cxcxcx]

Willie weeks is already mentioned to my work here is done. We could add "Ready" Freddy Washington, Rocco Prestia, Scott Edwards, Bob Glaub, and Ronnie Baker.

 

[Spectre Gunner]

I know most of us when we think of the greatest jazz bass players of all time we think of
1. JACO
2.Geddy
3.John Paul Jones
4 .Marcus Miller
Ect (just my list anyway)

But if you had to pick a list of the top 4 Pbass players ever across all genres who
Who would you put in your top 4

Here is my list. (No rude comments please Santa is watching)
.1 Steve Harris
.2 James Jamerson
.3 Pino Palladino
.4 Duff McKagen

Feel free to dispute my lists.

Cheers!!

Good list but I'd like to make a couple of suggestions.

Didn't Larry Graham the father of Pop and Slap play a Jazz? I think he deserves to be #5 on your Jazz list..

Also, Duff McKagen bought a white metallic Japanese Jazz Bass Special in the mid eighties which he used during the Guns and Roses hey dey. That bass is technically a PJ on a Jazz body. I bought the same bass at the same time and while Duff became famous, I foolishly sold mine.

Maybe you need to expand beyond just four and where do the PJ players fit in?

 

[Chrisk-K]

Harris, Wetton and Geezer. Case closed!

 

[Frety_Kruger]

Also Wilton Felder, Alphonso Johnson, Bob Babbit, Chuck Rainey, Freddie Washington , Rock Jones, George Porter, Tommy DeBarge,

I don't see how Jamerson wouldn't be #1,2 and 3

Lets not get out of hand. Most of what Jamerson played was very simple.

 

[Frety_Kruger]

Also Wilton Felder, Alphonso Johnson, Bob Babbit, Chuck Rainey, Freddie Washington , Rock Jones, George Porter, Tommy DeBarge,

every bass player has probably played a p at one time

You know what I mean. The guys who picked a pbass and really never swayed. Not that jamerson had much of a choice