Plus a million to Mike Mills. such a great player, and one of my earliest influences. Melodic as heck, supports while playing countermelody. Great singer as well.
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Underappreciated Bassists in famous bands
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Plus a million to Mike Mills. such a great player, and one of my earliest influences. Melodic as heck, supports while playing countermelody. Great singer as well.
He is really good. I especially dig his fretless playing on Kate Bush and Jon Anderson's solo work.
also Kim Deal of the Pixies. I listen to pixies records all the time, and her bass is the engine that keeps that train moving.
John McVie- Fleetwood Mac
Stephen Stills- CSN
Eric Wilson- Sublime
Eric Avery- Janes Addiction
Billy Bass Nelson- Funkadelic
Stephen Stills- CSN
Eric Wilson- Sublime
Eric Avery- Janes Addiction
Billy Bass Nelson- Funkadelic
Mike Rutherford, excellent bass player and musician. Check out his playing on 'No Reply at All'
Derek Forbes - Simple Minds "New Gold Dream" LP.
Good call. Excellent backing vocals were dynamic as well.
Another good call. Great bass line throughout this tune.
Poor guy will never get a break, being tagged as Bon Jovi's "Sid Vicious".Alex John Such...
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I saw Tower of Power in Seattle in the late 70s and the Hammond Organ guy, Chester Thompson was kicking bass pedals IN UNSION with Rocco on most of the tunes they played....Not only was and IS Rocco a Monster but the "ORGAN" guy was just as bad ass with his feet not to mentio all the stuff he played on top of it.
On top of that Bob wrote the lyrics to a great share of Ozzy's tunes and then was screwed and NOT credited for them...Google that, You can read all about that !!!
I may have missed it in someone else's post, Gene Simmons seems to get a bad rap, but his lines are excellent. He is one of the reasons I wanted a bass guitar.
True Story:
Back in '79 I was at a small venue in Dallas watching Leon Redbone when the venue owner, who was a friend of mine, invited me back to the offices. He said Bad Company was in the house. So I went back to the private office area and there was Paul Rodgers
having a whisky and playing pool and the rest of the band just sitting around having drinks and relaxing. So I had a whisky with Paul and played some pool. Then, after a bit of pool, Boz asked me if I knew where they could get some weed. I made a call and we all piled into my VW Bus and headed for a friends' apartment not too far away...
a guitar player friend (who I still play music with all these years later).
Those guys consumed my friend's entire supply in one night, mixing it with tobacco from Marlboros. Around 5am, when the supply was all smoked up, we piled back into the VW bus and headed back to the venue. As I drove up to the back door their road manager was almost hysterical in the parking lot outside the office door. He though he'd lost them for good! They all got out, we shook hands, gave a couple of Bro Hugs,
and I drove home. My friend and I still laugh about that night all these years later.
Man, those were the days!
Notice that they're plugged in and you can hear Phil say "I forgot to turn" at the end.
Peter Cetera in the 70's was the only bassist that could rival Macca's melodic sense.
I never got to see the band live, but in the videos he's either playing or is a gifted air bassist, because he looked to be hitting the right notes.
Boz was with King Crimson when I saw them perform Islands live in the 70's.
Boz was bassist (fretless) AND lead vocalist that night and was vocalist on the Islands album but don't remember if he did all the bass work on the LP.
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