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under rated bass players
- Thread starter s_mcsleazy
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Colin Moulding - XtC
EDIT: And I think Carol Kaye is a legend as well... not really under-rated.
Here's a couple female bassists for consideration, though...
Tina Weymouth - Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club
Sara Lee - Gang of Four, Robert Fripp, B-52s, Indigo Girls, etc... she's everywhere.
Kim Gordon and/or Deb Googe - holding things together for Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, respectively... earns my respect.
Tal WIlkenfeld - Future under-rated bass player... she has Jeff Beck on her rookie card and I see great things to come for her...
EDIT: And I think Carol Kaye is a legend as well... not really under-rated.
Here's a couple female bassists for consideration, though...
Tina Weymouth - Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club
Sara Lee - Gang of Four, Robert Fripp, B-52s, Indigo Girls, etc... she's everywhere.
Kim Gordon and/or Deb Googe - holding things together for Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine, respectively... earns my respect.
Tal WIlkenfeld - Future under-rated bass player... she has Jeff Beck on her rookie card and I see great things to come for her...
Rutger Gunnarsson (ABBA)
Mark "Bedders" Bedford (Madness)
Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd, session player)
Mark "Bedders" Bedford (Madness)
Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd, session player)
Although I wouldnt exactly call him underrated.... Bill Gould of faith no more is simply one of the best ever. Hopefully with FNM back together he'll be getting more coverage for himself.
Myron Dove- Santana (Check him out on the "Sacred Fire" Live CD)
A.B. Quintanilla- Selina (RIP) and Kumbia Kings/Kumbia All Starz
Andrew Gouche-Chaka Khan
A.B. Quintanilla- Selina (RIP) and Kumbia Kings/Kumbia All Starz
Andrew Gouche-Chaka Khan
I think Nick O'Malley of the Arctic Monkeys is pretty underated. He's got some pretty great lines, and he fits in perfectly with their style.
+ 1 to Tina Weymouth. Coolest bass lines ever on many tunes. Perfect for the music. Who is Pete Wentz? Do I need to care? Is he the guy who gets his unit out for the world to see, or is that someone else?
To me Mike Mills from REM is hugely underrated. Great bass player who wrote a lot of the tunes, sung lead and backup and played his PBass with a melodic approach that along with the jangly guitar hooks, really created REM's sound. A lot of the time, his bass lines are the lead melody without being solos, while still holding it down.
A huge inspiration for me to this day, and who I think of when I work with a alt-rock group. Check out his lines from earlier REM like on Reckoning. Truly great.
Also, Kim Deal is another underated female bassists.
To me Mike Mills from REM is hugely underrated. Great bass player who wrote a lot of the tunes, sung lead and backup and played his PBass with a melodic approach that along with the jangly guitar hooks, really created REM's sound. A lot of the time, his bass lines are the lead melody without being solos, while still holding it down.
A huge inspiration for me to this day, and who I think of when I work with a alt-rock group. Check out his lines from earlier REM like on Reckoning. Truly great.
Also, Kim Deal is another underated female bassists.
Oscar Stagnaro. That man is an unbelievable player and he possesses a wealth of knowledge about Latin bass (and Latin rhythms in general).
