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Who's everyone's favorite bassists?
- Thread starter TristanFunky
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I'll offer a few alternative bass players who I think are excellent but play(ed) in the underground and are less well known:
Mikal Cronin (plays with Ty Segall and others)
Bob Weston (played with Steve Albini in Shellac)
Robert Been (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
Tommy Stinson (The Replacements)
Kim Deal (Pixies, Breeders)
Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)
There are so many others.
Mikal Cronin (plays with Ty Segall and others)
Bob Weston (played with Steve Albini in Shellac)
Robert Been (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club)
Tommy Stinson (The Replacements)
Kim Deal (Pixies, Breeders)
Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)
There are so many others.
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but are you aware of Ask The Ages? It's in my top 10 desert island recording with this song in the top 10 song list The whole album is beautiful music, with Charnett Moffett a highlight, Sharrock was on Sander's Tauhid years before. A Lazwell production.
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I loved the Last Exit stuff, with Laswell on bass, just utter berserk noise…in a good way. Then there was his one-off band with Ginger Baker, No Material, with a guy named Jan Kazda on bass, somewhat similar.
Beautiful track inddeed, and yes, I know the "Ask the Ages" album.
Not to steal the picture, and I hardly do him justice, but this short piece I recorded, was very much inspired by Sonny Sharrock :
Played on my 28.6" scale 5 string Ibanez Mikro Bass, tuned to G#, or Ab if you will, standard tuning (as in one half step bellow the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass in regular B standard tuning, plus a high E).
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I like it a lot! thanks. I wish more bassists were so adventuresome. (I call it G# before Ab) on trumpet G# is one of the easiest keys to improvise in.) This discussion made me look up Sonny's life and cause of death, much too early. Just after he signed an album contract. Also, about his wife also music partner.
Speaking of trumpet, I am pretty sure I read somewhere that Sharrock really wanted to be a horn player, but due to some accident related to his mouth or lips he could not, so he took up guitar instead, which he according to himself, I am not sure if jokingly, he hated as an instrument, hence his idiosyncratic playing style.
I might for some strange reason have made all this up, cause I can't find where I read it again now, but that's as far as my memory serves me right at least.
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In looking him up as a result of this thread, he did say that he was a horn player forced to play guitar. Specifically he wanted to be like Coltrane which is perfectly understandable. I didn't read that he hated guitar. I think he did a lot of things that were very guitar-like with his right hand technique.
At the time there was also James Blood Ulmer...who I saw with his trio with violin and drums. I was disappointed at first there was no bass player, (who for a while was Jamaaladeen Tacuma) but then the music was beautiful, almost Indian drone influenced.
I found Tacuma's facebook page (also that he was born 13 days after me, a fellow Gemini-not surprised) Jamaaladeen Tacuma
At the moment, based on who always inspires me to play - Moto Fukushima, Janek Gwizdala and Ian Martin Allison.
Tomohito Aoki, Mark King and Marcus Miller.
Tomohito would be the one who I listen to the most, and i'd say is the one who would influence me the most in a sound/playing style. Hopefully I should be able to get an Atelier Z M#245 sometime this year.
Tomohito would be the one who I listen to the most, and i'd say is the one who would influence me the most in a sound/playing style. Hopefully I should be able to get an Atelier Z M#245 sometime this year.
Rocco Prestia (of course!)
Percy Jones
Chris Squire
Jaco Pastorius
Ron Carter
Berry Oakley
John Paul Jones
Jack Bruce
Prakash John (I've played to Lou Reed's R&R Animal so many times. Love his style on it)
Percy Jones
Chris Squire
Jaco Pastorius
Ron Carter
Berry Oakley
John Paul Jones
Jack Bruce
Prakash John (I've played to Lou Reed's R&R Animal so many times. Love his style on it)
Marcus Miller.
(Would have named Eddie Gomez and David Piltch, too, but actually I can think of one.
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(Would have named Eddie Gomez and David Piltch, too, but actually I can think of one.
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Not long ago Rocco would have been mentioned about every other post. He's as original and tasteful as any, and belongs in the same handful we put Ray Brown, Jaco, and Jamerson in. Well, maybe not Ray Brown.
Lately I'm been paying attention to Jim Fielder, because I'm playing some of his lines, Darryl Jones who was major badass with Miles and others, and guess who..?
Lately I'm been paying attention to Jim Fielder, because I'm playing some of his lines, Darryl Jones who was major badass with Miles and others, and guess who..?
Lol! Ironically, I just done listening to You Make So Very Happy. Jim Fielder is so good on it. Yeah, he's great.
I did knew of him, but only just really discovered Michael Manring.
I thought I'd better check him out, after watching this interview (talk about click bait title though *lol*):
Holy Batman, he's amazing!
My new top favorite bass player.
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