Who’s your favourite bass player?

[magicjuan]

Tina Weymouth, Bootsy Collins, Foxton, Chuck Rainey

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Laura Leezy...Excellent every sense.

I'd crawl over broken glass to hear her fart down a walkie talkie.

 

[Cow kecks]

Bernard Edwards, Chic.

 

[Jimmy James]

Kim, Tina, Kim, Suzi, Donald.

 

[Sadken]

Can't believe no body has mentioned John entwhistle, his bass solo,s are incredible.

 

[Sadken]

Forgot to mention Prince.

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

Victor Wooten (solo)
Justin Chancellor (Tool)
Stanley Clarke (solo)
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Les Claypool (Primus)
John P. Jones (Led Zepp)
Aston Barrett (Bob Marley + Wailers)
John Entwistle (Who)
Paul McCartney (+ songwriting)
Dick Lövgren (Meshuggah)
Michael Balzary (Flea - RHCP)
Jaco Pastorius (various/solo)
Gary Mounfield (Mani - Stone Roses)

Just to name a few...

 

[Littlesue]

Mark King
Lemmy
Bernie Edwards
Norman Watt Roy (Blockheads)
John Paul Jones

 

[Barnfred 55]

Can't believe no body has mentioned John entwhistle, his bass solo,s are incredible.

Someone did.

 

[Tramps_mate]

Following on from the drummers thread, looking at the other half of the rhythm section, who are your favourite bassists?
Personally..

John Paul Jones - could develop such a great groove, a drummers dream

Nate Mendell - so tight keeping things together between thrashy guitars and extrovert drumming

David Hood - Muscle Shoals session man, on hundreds of recordings, so solid and consistent

Mark King - Quite unique for his time, brought a bit of slap into mainstream

Garry Tallent - another solid player, a machine of a rhythm section with Weinberg

Fieldy...

 

[Armaghtoffee]

 

[ClausThomsen]

Louis Johnson, Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins & Ronald LaPread - Funk / Disco was a golden age of bass playing.
Flea - So good that RHCP can get away with a revolving cast of guitarists and a singer as poor as Anthony Kiedis
John Entwistle - My favourite traditional 'Classic Rock' bass player - I was always more into The Who than Led Zep.
Pino Palladino - A lot of people have never heard of him but they'll likely have multiple albums/playlists featuring him.
Les Claypool - File along Geddy Lee. It's just that I've listened to more Primus than Rush over the years.
Charles Mingus - Because I've not seen him mentioned

 

[Dancing Pat]

Carol Kaye

 

[Old Blue 2]

Felix Pappalardi of Mountain.

 

[Abertonian]

Favourites

James Jamerson
Paul McCartney
The Ox
JPJ

Honourable Mentions

Barry Adamson
Steve Severin
John Taylor
Peter Hook
Sting
Mani
Bill Wyman
Howie Epstein
Ron Blair
Duff Mckagan
Trevor Bolder