What bass players do you think aren't mentioned enough?

[themarshall]

Brian Ritchie.

Maybe it’s a regional thing, but the Violent Femmes were ubiquitous in my youth, and Brian Ritchie’s melodic, frenetic playing drives the bus.

 

[dave hope]

When @dave hope replies to a thread in which he isn’t mentioned nearly enough either. Love your playing Dave and I started out playing Kramer because I saw you play one

Thanks boss

 

[fretlessguy]

Dave Meros of Spocks Beard. He plays a style that is a cross between Chris Squier and Geddy Lee.
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[bassGtar]

Saturnino Celani, bass player for Jovanotti, plays well above his name recognition.

 

[ROOTSnFIFTHS]

As mentioned...John Glascock- Jethro Tull (AMAZING on Songs from the Wood album- jeez!), Paul S Denman - Sade, Bruce Thomas- Elvis Costello), Graham Maby (Joe Jackson) and Dave Hope- Kansas.
I refrained from mentioning the famous greats like Geddy Lee but he and others are well known.

 

[JMacBass65]

Ron Blair and Howie Epstein

 

[Jimmy Howe]

Steve Fossen, John Glascock and Dave Hope. Those three definitely don’t get enough credit. All of them very influential in making me a fan of fine pick-style playing and quit being a finger pluckin’ snob. Because of them, I learned to play all the complicated parts I played finger-style and hashed them all out with a pick and now employ a level of precision not achievable with finger-style playing. I play 50:50 pick/ fingers now with complete confidence. I remember commuting to work mimicking their lines with a quarter on my seat belt when I was starting out with the pick!

 

[Jimmy Howe]

So many, but here’s a few diverse players that are rarely mention.

Peter Cetera - I’m floored this great is rarely mentioned.

Laura Lee - I know. But her/bands simplicity is mesmerizing, and there’s no room for one sloppy or wrong note in their style.

Barry Oakley - how can you play bass for the best damn band in America, and never be mentioned?

All James Brown’s bass players - the inventors of The Groove

David Hood - Duck Dunn - Carole Kaye - James - they set the high-bar we have all been trying to achieve. But they did it 50 years ago.

Joe Dart - where technique meets soul, and the joy just pours out. Every time I listen to the guy, he makes my heart smile. Does it get any better?

It makes my heart smile knowing how much you truly love the instrument after all these years. Peter Cetera, Berry Oakley Jr, David Hood… JOE DART! Love it!!

 

[Jimmy Howe]

Joe Schermie from Three Dog Night. Solid, fundamental tone and not too far removed from John Paul Jones on the first couple Zep records tone-wise. The tone I’ve always ultimately chased because my first cognizant recollection of “bass” was Ramble On at 8 or 9 years old… BUT seems hard to achieve with my class “D” amplification.

 

[Standalone]

While Carol Kaye is of course mentioned a lot compared to some listed here, it is not enough.

 

[MrClassicMetal]

Sid Vicious, Ronn Moss, and Chuck Berghofer.

 

[Frown]

Michelle Stoddart of The Magic Numbers.

 

[brocco]

Peters bass playing on Introduction (CTA) is one of my favorite songs to listen to the bass parts. He is not busy, but is constantly pushing/driving it. Plus, he is wonderfully melodic.

Yessir, a great player plus one of the greatest voices of all time, incredible.

 

[A.K.]

Jimmy Bain
Roger Glover
Bill Wyman
Bruce Foxton
Bill Church
Paul Samwell-Smith

 

[MAJOR METAL]

Mike Mills - R.E.M.

Robert DeLeo - S.T.P.

 

[Mana Latte]

Mike Dirnt from Green Day. I feel like he is often overlooked based on the fact he’s in Green Day but I do feel he’s pretty underrated. On earlier albums the bass is very much the anchor instrument and even on the newest album the bass is so melodic and really fills the sound out. I’d put him with Duff as one of the best pick players

 

[Matt-J2]

But one bassist I'm surprised isn't mentioned often at all on TalkBass (even among the metal crowd here) is Brian Krahe of the band Krosis. He is one of my favorite contemporary metal bassists. Not only is he a skilled technical bassist with a thunderous bone-rattling tone, but I love that he is a bespectacled dude who wears "normal" clothing and straps his bass high, like I do. He doesn't "look" metal but totally "is" metal. He's not afraid to just be himself and I like that.

I actually didn't know about him or the band, so thanks for that. I'll have to throw them into some playlists.

I'll have to see if there's more of him out there with a pick. I tend to hold my bass in the more 'classical' position like he does in that first video. Used to hold it on my leg but have been struggling with that for some reason lately so nice to see a pick player(or just sometimes, either way is good) with a more classical hold.

For someone I don't recall seeing mentioned a lot even in a metal context I'll add Sean Beasley of Dying Fetus. Pick player and vocals, also adds in stuff like sweep picking and tapping. Easier to pick out on the albums after they became a 3 piece.

 

[Jazzdogg]

Rene Camacho! Check him out with WAR, Poncho Sanchez, Scott Martin's Latin Soul Band.

 

[LG TPAFL]

Keep this conversation going. I'll second Ronald Lapread. At 62 years old, The Commodores were a big part of my high school experience and still are today of course. And Ronald's reaction when he misses the lyric (3:19) in the Sail On video is great. Heck with editing.......

 

[Michael Vee]

Steve Fossen, John Glascock and Dave Hope. Those three definitely don’t get enough credit.

I liked Jimmy's post in 2022 and I am seconding my like tonight.