Underrated bassists?

[5StringBlues]

Here's a cool video of him playing some Robert Johnson.

Quoted, because LIKEing this would tell you how much I liked it.

 

[Bass V]

Dennis Dunaway, founding member of Alice Cooper and Master of scary bass

 

[jerry]

I remember reading that back when Backdoor opened for Return To Forever Colin made a impression on Stanley Clarke's take on electric bass.

What bout Colin Hodgkinson? IMHO the only one bass player that deserves to play with a pick.

 

[Tim de Martino]

Someone really getting around in unknown circles is Nick Beggs.

The guys has such taste and precision, excellent Stick player and an amazing stage presence.

Check him out at a Steven Wilson gig near you!!

Cheers

 

[devnulljp]

Here's a cool video of him playing some Robert Johnson.

Now, that guy is amazing. I saw him play with Whitesnake in the 80s if you can believe it. Brilliant player.

 

[Bob_Ross]

Someone really getting around in unknown circles is Nick Beggs.

I saw him live when he was playing Stick and acoustic guitar in John Paul Jones' touring trio. And Nick's new band The Mute Gods has put out a couple very cool albums.


My favorite name-drop whenever people talk about "underrated" bass players is J. Clifton Mayhugh. He played on Adrian Belew's first two solo albums in the early 1980s and then...disappeared? But his playing on this track absolutely slays!

 

[Axstar]

Any love for Mani Mounfield out there?

 

[wysiwyg248]

Colin Moulding anyone? Although Andy Partridge wrote this bass line, which is perfect for the song.

 

[Tim de Martino]

I saw him live when he was playing Stick and acoustic guitar in John Paul Jones' touring trio. And Nick's new band The Mute Gods has put out a couple very cool albums.

Yeah saw him on the last Steven Wilson tour, he played about half the show on stick, just wonderful. He just seems to care so much about every single note he sings and plays.

There's supposed to be one more Mute Gods record, I believe. This is just soooo good

 

[Mechanical]

Joe Gittleman from the Bosstones
Matt Wong from Reel Big Fish
Roger Lima from Less Than Jake

 

[James P]

All this talk of Colin Hodgkinson (and rightly so) spurred me on to dig out some signed VHS covers I got the great man to autograph when he was doing a gig with Lloyd Watson at the Silver Jubilee pub in Peterborough in the late Eighties.

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• James P
• Sep 3, 2017

Alexis Korner VHS video cover

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• James P
• Sep 3, 2017

Whitesnake at Donington VHS cover

 

[Aberdumbie]

Two words: Gary Thain

I ditto this. Gary is my all time favorite and my inspiration to learn bass. Another spectacular master of the low end that is seldom mentioned is Wyzard. The bass virtuoso from Mithers Finest.

 

[James P]

After an email exchange with Colin Hodgkinson, I managed to track down a copy of his book in Germany:

Any of you who are familiar with what I do for Rocksmith players on Customsforge will know what to expect very soon...

 

[IMMusicRulz]

I saw a few people bring up Gary Thain in this thread, and for good reason. Thain was an excellent fingerstyle bassist who really fit in squarely with Uriah Heep's hard rock/progressive rock sound. His bass of choice was a natural 62 Jazz Bass, but he also played a P Bass and a Gibson Thunderbird.

I've also considered Dougie Thomson of Supertramp to be underrated. His basses were a Fender Jazz Bass and a Rickenbacker 4001, but for the Breakfast In America and Paris albums, he played a Music Man Stingray.

Just listen to Dougie's tone on School and Bloody Well Right, he is a good example of a Jazz Bass with a pick!





Progressive rock may get a bad rap from critics, but they also had some of the greatest bassists!

 

[Michedelic]

I saw a few people bring up Gary Thain in this thread, and for good reason. Thain was an excellent fingerstyle bassist who really fit in squarely with Uriah Heep's hard rock/progressive rock sound. His bass of choice was a natural 62 Jazz Bass, but he also played a P Bass and a Gibson Thunderbird.

I've also considered Dougie Thomson of Supertramp to be underrated. His basses were a Fender Jazz Bass and a Rickenbacker 4001, but for the Breakfast In America and Paris albums, he played a Music Man Stingray.

Just listen to Dougie's tone on School and Bloody Well Right, he is a good example of a Jazz Bass with a pick!





Progressive rock may get a bad rap from critics, but they also had some of the greatest bassists!

I wouldn’t consider either of those bands to be ‘progressive’. Soft Machine, Henry Cow, Gong, Hatfield and the North, Van der Graaf Generator, Gentle Giant…that’s another story. They went unexpected places. That’s progress.