Favorite Bassist [Archive]

spacedye

09/01/2007, 02:42

I've gotta give it to John Myung of Dream Theater fame. He's a beast on that 6 stringer.

Tapping tips by Myung (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVJ2zbGmMAI)

Some slick bass work live (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EpVxobZ-_8&mode=related&search=)

A groovy solo jam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JKAbY3fcEs&mode=related&search=)

AlienFlanders

09/01/2007, 03:02

Lemmy - actually he is a guitarist, but a bass has 2 less strings.

Obsidian3d

09/01/2007, 11:06

Billy Gould of Faith No More.

JKLantern

09/01/2007, 11:37

My favorite two are the late, great John Entwistle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRgFO5U0st0) of the Who, and Jack Bruce, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMyeS1XRBb4) formerly from Cream.

andrewtarius

09/01/2007, 11:38

John Entwistle! The reason for me learning how to play bass.

readyeddy?

09/01/2007, 14:10

Bassists, that's another thing I could stand to pay more attention to. Too often they're overshadowed by the guitar lead. The only ones I can think by name that haven't been mentioned already are Dusty Hill and Paul McCartney and John Paul Jones. Bill Wyman played Bass I think.

DOOMBOTSKI

09/01/2007, 14:17

Steve Harris of Iron Maiden, Pete Way of UFO-these guys sweat playing bass.

JKLantern

09/01/2007, 14:31

Bill Wyman played Bass I think.

You are correct sir.

Interesting bit of trivia: The song "Boris the Spider" came to be when Bill Wyman and John Entwistle were out drinking and naming random animals.

DisturbedChild

09/02/2007, 10:42

Fuzz from Disturbed - too bad he wasn't on the new CD.

VelvetGuru9

09/02/2007, 12:06

I'll throw out two names, Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey. Bailey's a buddy of mine and has played with a ton of people. Watch the link below and check these dudes out. Steve is playing the 6-string bass and victor is on the 4. Greg Bissonette is the drummer.

Thumbstart my Harley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgerAvcjI0)

tchipley

09/02/2007, 12:12

Flea: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Geddy Lee: Rush
Les Claypool: Primus
Mark White: Spin Doctors

Master Technicians, one and all.

VelvetGuru9

09/03/2007, 19:07

turdburglar47

09/03/2007, 19:25

I mention Jeff Ament, if for no other reason, for that opening riff to "Jeremy."

tchipley

09/03/2007, 20:40

This cat's not a rocker, but you've never seen anyone play a 7-string bass like "The Buddha" Bill "the Buddha" Dickens (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bulBD4_aRKk). I highly recommend just watching him jam here.

The Budda is Dope! That's the kind of stuff I practice.
Thanks for the hookup! New inspiration.

VelvetGuru9

09/03/2007, 22:50

The Budda is Dope! That's the kind of stuff I practice.
Thanks for the hookup! New inspiration.
I just got my youngest son a bass and I can't wait for the day he can at least attempt to play some of The Buddha's riffs. That's a long way off though :nervous:

VelvetGuru9

09/03/2007, 22:57

I mention Jeff Ament, if for no other reason, for that opening riff to "Jeremy."
TB, If you like Ament, and I certainly do, check out his side band Three Fish, The band is named after a poem by the Sufi poet Rumi and has a lot of "Eastern music" influences, but the bass playing is very cool indeed. I have the first CD and now I'm thinking I probably should have gotten their second release also. c'est la vie.

ShellShock

09/04/2007, 12:31

Gonna hafta put down my faves...expect some repeats

Geddy Lee
Les Claypool

and though he isnt rock - Victor Wooten - saw him with Chick Corea and his eklectic jazz band...unbelieveable

hail_eris

09/04/2007, 13:19

ElevenBee

09/04/2007, 22:34

wooten...

victor wooten

readyeddy?

09/05/2007, 06:24

wooten...

victor wooten

Bond---

James Bond

Kidding, help us out here and explain who he is. I'm often familiar with different groups without really knowing the names of individual members.
There's other names listed on this thread that could use a little more biographical info as well.

VelvetGuru9

09/05/2007, 11:01

Bond---

James Bond

Kidding, help us out here and explain who he is. I'm often familiar with different groups without really knowing the names of individual members.
There's other names listed on this thread that could use a little more biographical info as well.
Hey RE, scroll up to my post #11 and there's a youtube link that features Wooten and Steve Bailey. It's eye opening to what the bass in the right hands can really do.

readyeddy?

09/05/2007, 12:06

Hey RE, scroll up to my post #11 and there's a youtube link that features Wooten and Steve Bailey. It's eye opening to what the bass in the right hands can really do.
Oh yeah, I don't know why I didn't check that out the first time. Good stuff.

Red_Skull_XIII

09/08/2007, 02:01

John. Paul. Jones.

Need I say more?

VelvetGuru9

09/08/2007, 20:12

John. Paul. Jones.

Need I say more?
I was in Los Angeles in the 1990s one year and a friend and I got in an elevator with two ladies and two gentlemen speaking with British accents. The ladies were in their 40s and good looking. When we got out of the elevator my friend turned me to and said that another friend of ours who was a bass player would have loved to be in the elevator with us. I said "Why, I know he likes older ladies but they were nothing super-special." That's when he called me a name and told me that the two guys talking in the elevator were John Paul Jones and John Entwhistle - D'oh :confused: :nervous: :disappoin

Red_Skull_XIII

09/09/2007, 00:27

I was in Los Angeles in the 1990s one year and a friend and I got in an elevator with two ladies and two gentlemen speaking with British accents. The ladies were in their 40s and good looking. When we got out of the elevator my friend turned me to and said that another friend of ours who was a bass player would have loved to be in the elevator with us. I said "Why, I know he likes older ladies but they were nothing super-special." That's when he called me a name and told me that the two guys talking in the elevator were John Paul Jones and John Entwhistle - D'oh :confused: :nervous: :disappoin
That. Is. AWESOME.

My friend's uncle went to see Robert Plant post-Bonham on one of his solo tours. After the show he went to a local bar and Robert Plant walked in and sat next to him and they TALKED. Actually exchanged words. Oh would I have loved to be him.

HartAttack

09/14/2007, 01:00

Rudy Sarzo of Ozzy, Whitesnake, Quiet Riot, and Dio
Roger Glover of Deep Purple and Rainbow
Eddie Jackson of Queensryche
Michael Anthony of Van Halen
Peter Steele of Type O Negative
Jason Newstead of Metallica, Voivod, and Ozzy

and the one I can't beleive anyone has'nt mentioned

Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath

bagman04

09/19/2007, 01:24

1- Krist Noveclic -tie- Paul Macartney
2- Flea
3- Nokie Edwards
4- Shavo Odajian
5- William Murderface
6- Cliff Burton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_wGFfrJv4Y
7- Kim Gordon
8- Jason Newsted
9- Tim Comford
10-D'arcy Wretzky

JKLantern

09/19/2007, 17:04

I kinda like Pino Palladino, a respectable Session Bassist and current Bassist for the Who. He is no Entwistle, though.

Stuart_Rex

09/25/2007, 10:41

No love for the ladies? Also worthy of mention are Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Kim Deal (The Pixies, The Breeders), Rose Marshack (Poster Children), D'arcy (formerly of the Smashing Pumpkins), Melissa Auf Der Maur (Hole, D'arcy's replacement in the Pumpkins), Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads), Juliana Hatfield (Blake Babies, a great bit part in The Adventures of Pete & Pete), and Rachel Trachtenburg (who is awesome and will definitely go on to bigger and better things than her current gig as the rhythm section for her family's novelty act, the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players).

How could you miss out the lovely Sean Yseult froM White Zombie?

I would like to throw my hat in the Victor w00ten ring. I also really rate Leonard Nelson Hubbard from the Roots but as this is the Rock subforum I'll put a word in for the mightily named Pat Badger.

HappyTrain

09/26/2007, 02:24

Claypool

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lensnart

09/26/2007, 19:10

I have to agree with the majority here and go with Les Claypool III but I also really like a lot of the ladies: Corin Tucker, Kim Gordon and Kim Deal are all awesome.

Darkone_Rises

09/26/2007, 21:07

Lemmy - actually he is a guitarist, but a bass has 2 less strings.

Lemmy played Bass in Motorhead.
(A Rickenbacher to boot)

I would have to go with Bootsie Collins, Victor Wooten, Alex Webster and Geezer Butler.

VelvetGuru9

09/26/2007, 23:58

Did anyone ever hear of the band Animal Logic? It had Stewart Copeland of the Police on drums and a bass player who hasn't been named yet, but anyone who knows bass knows Stanley Clark. Animal Logic was a rock/juzz fusion project and Stanley played some killer bottom, not to mention his solo stuff and his work with Chick Corea.

AlienFlanders

09/27/2007, 01:44

Lemmy played Bass in Motorhead.
(A Rickenbacher to boot)

There is a interview with Phil 'Animal' Taylor where he says Lemmy is actuallyy a guitarist and Lemmy answers that a Bass has 2 less strings, that is why he joined Hawkwind as their bass player, he wanted to play guitar with them but they had just got a new guitarist and their bass player had got lost on the way to the gig. Hawkwind hired Lemmy almost out of the crowd.

VelvetGuru9

09/27/2007, 10:03

There is a interview with Phil 'Animal' Taylor where he says Lemmy is actuallyy a guitarist and Lemmy answers that a Bass has 2 less strings, that is why he joined Hawkwind as their bass player, he wanted to play guitar with them but they had just got a new guitarist and their bass player had got lost on the way to the gig. Hawkwind hired Lemmy almost out of the crowd.
Guitarists playing bass...Jimmy Page played bass in the Yardbirds and Ron Woods played bass with, I believe, Jeff Beck.

hail_eris

09/27/2007, 13:16

Did anyone ever hear of the band Animal Logic?
They sound nothing alike, but I was always mixing them up with Voice of the Beehive. "Spy in the House of Love" earns them a place on some one-hit wonder lists, but I've always thought that they could have done more with a stronger personality on lead vocals. What you end up with is two legendary session musicians and a fair to middling lead singer/songwriter who lacks the chops to tie it all together.

JKLantern

09/27/2007, 14:54

Guitarists playing bass...Jimmy Page played bass in the Yardbirds and Ron Woods played bass with, I believe, Jeff Beck.

And then in the Yardbirds, Page swapped jobs with Chris Dreja (the rhythm guitarist for the band up until that point).

And yes, Ron Wood was bassist for the Rod Stewart incarnation of the Jeff Beck group.

VelvetGuru9

10/01/2007, 10:43

They sound nothing alike, but I was always mixing them up with Voice of the Beehive. "Spy in the House of Love" earns them a place on some one-hit wonder lists, but I've always thought that they could have done more with a stronger personality on lead vocals. What you end up with is two legendary session musicians and a fair to middling lead singer/songwriter who lacks the chops to tie it all together.
The thing with Animal Logic is I don't think they ever could have written pop sensible tunes that would have made it to top 40 radio. I listen to them every 5-6 years just to hear Copeland and Clarke. They had some of the best rhythm chops going in that band.

Spy was a good tune, and can't remember the singer's name, but she didn't have the right "vibe" for their sound.

pumawag

11/28/2007, 01:05

Phil Lesh - Good Old Grateful Dead
Danny Thompson - Plays with Richard Thompson (not related)
Adam Clayton - U2

phantalien

01/10/2008, 13:14

definitely have to add to this list.

Billy Sheehan
Geezer Butler
and of course
Geddy Lee

SLVRSR4

01/10/2008, 16:36

Flea: Red Hot Chili Peppers
Geddy Lee: Rush
Les Claypool: Primus
Mark White: Spin Doctors

Master Technicians, one and all.

What he said...

With the exception of one William Murderface

pxb006

01/17/2008, 14:36

My pick is Geddy Lee..........How can one person play so many instuments at once?

SLVRSR4

01/17/2008, 17:27

Oh, I also have to add my Brother Tim as one of my favorite bassists. He would probably hurt me if I didn't. But seriously, this kid is amazing for the young age of 21.

MrFurious87

02/24/2008, 04:45

my all time favorite bassist is Sean Yseult, i love Thunderkiss 65'
my other favorite bassists
Shavo Odadjian - System of a Down
Oliver Reidel - Rammstein
Tony Campos - Static X

groverarrow1

03/31/2008, 13:51

Got to give it up for Bootsie Collins- he brings the Funk and I gots to have the funk.

For R'n'R, though, you need look no farther than Mr. Thunderfingers, the OX himself, John Entwistle.