Your 3 most influential bass players?

[CoughSyrup]

Flea
Meshell Ndegeocello
Brian Bromberg

 

[Antares]

Geddy, Sean Malone, John Myung.

 

[Michedelic]

Fretted:
Jack Bruce(but not necessarily Cream material)
John Entwistle
John Wetton

Fretless:
Percy Jones
Mick Karn
Fernando Saunders

 

[Zoffy]

Phil Lesh
Leo Lyons
Tina Weymouth

 

[ChickenFingers]

If I had to pick three it would be Paul Jackson, Bernard Edwards and Chuck Rainey.

Obligatory Jaco/Jamerson is obligatory

 

[instrumentlevel]

McCartney, Sting (Police years), John Munson (Trip Shakespeare years)

 

[johnnynitro]

Mel Schacher
John Entwistle
Geezer Butler

 

[Gianni "Orlandez" Orlati]

If you could only pick 3, who would they be?

Mine are Dusty Hill, Geddy Lee and Mel Schacker.

If I had to pick a 4th, it would be Chris Squire, with John McVie given honorary mention.

Paul Jackson,
Jaco Pastorius,
John Paul Jones …

———

But Chuck Rainey and John Carter should have been there as well …

 

[dbsfgyd1]

If you could only pick 3, who would they be?

Mine are Dusty Hill, Geddy Lee and Mel Schacker.

If I had to pick a 4th, it would be Chris Squire, with John McVie given honorary mention.

Entwhisle-Bruce-and a tossup between Jamerson or Wilton Felder.

 

[QweziRider]

Glenn Worf, Geddy Lee, Marko Hietala

 

[dbsfgyd1]

Fretted:
Jack Bruce(but not necessarily Cream material)
John Entwistle
John Wetton

Fretless:
Percy Jones
Mick Karn
Fernando Saunders

Loved his work in West Bruce & Lange, Songs for a Tailor and Harmony Row….

 

[kesslari]

Jack Bruce
Robbie Shakespeare
Rocco Prestia

 

[mikewalker]

John Entwistle
Paul McCartney
THREE WAY TIE FOR THIRD
Geezer Butler - Stanley Clarke - Charles Mingus

 

[4string5string]

Cliff
Harris
Jaco

 

[Relayer71]

Geddy Lee (Rush)
Chris Squire (Yes)

3rd place spot is too hard, so many great bassists. I will give it to an unsung hero:

Andy Metcalfe (Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians)

So many others though: Stanley Clarke, Tony Levin, Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Mike Rutherford, Ray Schulman, Derek Forbes, Eddie Jackson, Jaco...

 

[58kites]

Glenn Cornick
Tim Bogert
John Paul Jones
Geezer Butler

They were the guys that I noticed when I was a 15 year old listening to guitar players while beginning to learn guitar.
They moved the bass from un-noticed to noticed in my brain.

I guess the first bass player I ever heard that got my attention when I was a little kid was Chas Chandler.

 

[JohnNash]

McCartney, Deacon and Mark King.

I know...pretty left field!

 

[Blueinred]

Actually influencing my playing, Jamerson, Kenny Gradney, and Rod Ellicott. But several more....

 

[Wangus67]

I always liked to say that I attended the McCartney, Entwistle, Lesh School of Bass Studies.
However, I only graduated with a D minor.
(Ka-pow!)

 

[5aP]

Duff McKagen
Jason Newstad
Fieldy

I've learned alot more from other bassists too, but those three are from my earliest era when I even didn't know what impact a bass guitar can do.