Unsung Bass Heroes

[Mikeyd74]

Two bassists that I love that never get any recognition are Skid of "Love/Hate" and Dennis Dunaway from the original "Alice Cooper" Band.
Who are your favorite unsung bass heroes?

 

[bassist15]

Berry Oakley (ABB)
Tina Weymouth(talking heads)
Tiran Porter (doobie brothers)
Reed Mathis (jacob fred jazz odyssey)
Paul Jackson(headhunters)
Alphonso Johnson
Jerry Jemmott
Chuck Rainey

 

[robd]

Lenny Kotke - The Good Rats
Roger Glover - Deep Purple
John Prevetti - Danny Gatton Band

 

[suterb42]

anyone that played bass for Frank Zappa
John Paul Jones

 

[Tommy el Gato]

anyone that played bass for Frank Zappa
John Paul Jones

+1

That is all.

 

[Mr.Chucklebunny]

Rob Wright from Nomeansno.

 

[jtkennedy9]

Tommy Stinson - The Replacements

 

[superbassman2000]

another vote for reed mathis

 

[capnsandwich]

Tom Kennedy-Dave Weckl Band
Jimmy Johnson-Alan Holdsworth

 

[NKUSigEp]

Two bassists that I love that never get any recognition are Skid of "Love/Hate" and Dennis Dunaway from the original "Alice Cooper" Band.
Who are your favorite unsung bass heroes?

Funny - as soon as I opened this post "Love Hate Love" by Alice in Chains was on my Media Player - and I was about to post Mike Starr and Mike Inez of Alice in Chains...just crazy!

 

[iplaybassguitar]

whoever said jpj is on crack...he might not be as raved about as jimmy page or bonzo or plant, but he is one of the most discussed bassists in this forum.

and this thread has come up WAY too many times.

 

[jazzcrime]

Anthony Jackson - though getting less unsung these days and for a good reason!

 

[King's Squier]

Karl Alvarez of the Descendents.

 

[metalmariachi]

Saw the title and thought Dennis Dunaway
Also
Prakash John: played with just about everybody from Edgar Winter, Lou Reed, Alice cooper, Funkadelic etc.
Greg Arama: Amboy Dukes
Mark Andes: Spirit, Firefall, Heart

MM

 

[troy mcclure]

Roger from Less Than Jake

 

[lowerclef]

Mike Rutherford.

Old Genesis records from the early-mid 70s have some KILLER bass playing.

Also Dan Roberts from Crash Test Dummies. Remarkably good bass throughout God Shuffled His Feet.

 

[JohnSS]

Jack Casady - he's one of Anthony Jackson's heroes and pioneered countless techniques used by rock bassists
Randy Jackson - American Idol aside, the man can play
Jon Camp - took Squire's sound and propelled Renaissance w/Annie Haslam
Andy Fraser - the backbone of Free; his melodic choices in phrasing made Free sound huge behind Paul Kossoff's solos
Carl Radle - Played on some of the best 70's work of Clapton & Harrison including "Layla" and "All Things Must Pass"
Nick Lowe - Rockpile was one of the tightest post new wave bands because of Lowe & Terry Williams' ESP.

 

[pepsbro]

I have been trying to cover a couple of Elvis Costello's songs and really started to listen to Bruce Thomas. Man he's pretty good.

 

[Wasp]

Nathan East?

 

[vegas532]

David Wm. Sims - Jesus Lizard
Paul Barker - Ministry
Paul Raven - Killing Joke
John Monte - Mindfunk, MOD
Kevin Rutmanis - former Melvin, Cows, Tomahawk
Troy Gregory - Flotsam and Jetsam, Prong
Melvin Gibbs - Rolllins Band
Greg Edwards - Failure
Trevor Roy Dunn - Mr. Bungle
Norwood Fisher - Fishbone
Lonnie Marshall - Weapon of Choice
Henry Bogdan - original Helmet Bassist
Chris Traynor - Orange 9mm's "Tragic" album
Mark Sandman (RIP) - Morphine