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Underappreciated Bassists in famous bands
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Rocco is awesome.
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a British band from the 70's called audience - They had one really good album (and a couple bad ones).
Trevor Williams was the bass player - check him out, he really cooked.
Trevor Williams was the bass player - check him out, he really cooked.
Brad Houser from Edie Brickell's New Bohemians. The fretted and fretless work on those first two records is wonderful. Talk about a player that played to the song and not his ego.
Already mentioned but John McVie!!! All killer no filler! I so admire his playing. The man knew when to play and when not to. Something that is lost on a lot electric bassists. The first line i wanted to learn as a kid was the breakdown in The Chain. That first note is the A I hear in my head when I tune without a tuner.
Also John Deacon from Queen. So overshadowed by his bandmates but a giant on the bass guitar!
Already mentioned but John McVie!!! All killer no filler! I so admire his playing. The man knew when to play and when not to. Something that is lost on a lot electric bassists. The first line i wanted to learn as a kid was the breakdown in The Chain. That first note is the A I hear in my head when I tune without a tuner.
Also John Deacon from Queen. So overshadowed by his bandmates but a giant on the bass guitar!
So...what has been confirmed in this thread is that many here have a good number of bass players who we admire.
And that few bass players get much credit for a bands fame (but everyone already knew that).
Lots of people here think that certain bands are famous, the definition of famous seems to depend on how someone feels about a certain band.
Some of my favorite bands might seem famous, but where are they on the scale of fame? ...Edie Brickell's New Bohemians fame is really very different from Bruce Springsteen fame, so famous has a huge range.
And that few bass players get much credit for a bands fame (but everyone already knew that).
Lots of people here think that certain bands are famous, the definition of famous seems to depend on how someone feels about a certain band.
Some of my favorite bands might seem famous, but where are they on the scale of fame? ...Edie Brickell's New Bohemians fame is really very different from Bruce Springsteen fame, so famous has a huge range.
Mike Tilka and Dave Myles, both of Max Webster fame. Very intricate playing.
All noteworthy but......... did we all over look Rutger Gunnarsson?
In my mind the most melodic player & composer of all times whose bass hooks are immediately recognized by all
Name of the game is my all time favorite - beauty, haunting and simplicity rarely go together in on sentence let alone in basslines
In my mind the most melodic player & composer of all times whose bass hooks are immediately recognized by all
Name of the game is my all time favorite - beauty, haunting and simplicity rarely go together in on sentence let alone in basslines
It may be just me, but I would never put Leland in the category of underappreciated. He's pretty much a legend.
And the winner is.... (Due to his name being mentioned only once, in this entire thread. I mean, thin about it. If a person name comes up over, and over, and over again, can he/she really be considered under-appreciated? Whereas, this player received only one mention. That's pretty much the definition of UNDER-appreciated.) So the award goes to...
John Lodge. Of the Moody Blues.
John Lodge. Of the Moody Blues.
Mike, I have to disagree on John being under appreciated. I don't have the exact name of the list, but on countless sites they tout him as being "one of the 10 most influential bassists on the planet". Somebody help me out with list name!
Mike, I know about the one time name mention, but still...He's one of the top guys irregardless. I think most of us just thought it as so, so he didn't get as many mentions. I know I did
Did Bill Wyman leave the band for periods of time? Was he just not capable of playing those lines? What's the story there?
Throughout the Stones recording career, Keith has spent more time in the recording studio than everybody else in the band, and way, way more time than Bill Wyman.
Keith recorded tracks by himself....Guitar, Bass, Piano and whatever else and some of those parts have ended up on their records.
Bill never seems to care that much if Keith does what he does,...the band seems to be Keiths band to begin with, and I would guess his choices prevail.
Ronnie Wood played bass in the Jeff Beck Group and sometimes recorded bass parts with The Faces, and I think he will pick up the bass in the studio with the Stones as well.
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In fairness, the Rolling Stones became Keith's band after Brian Jones ...well, certainly after he died; many Stones scholars would argue that Brian abdicated that role (intentionally or otherwise) long before he passed away.
Agreed, I would say that Keith and Mick took the band from Brian well before Brian was screwed up all the time and unable to play in a band.
I think, as soon as Mick and Keith started writing (hit) songs together, they became a different band than the earliest days of doing just blues covers, as soon as that happened it was not Brian's band anymore.
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