Your Top Bass Players

[peewee]

Electric:

Paul McCartney
James Jamerson
Donald "Duck" Dunn
Tommy Cogbill
Willie Weeks
Bob Babbitt
Bruce Thomas
Leroy Hodges
George Porter, Jr.
Pino Palladino
Aston "Family Man" Barrett
Carol Kaye

Acoustic:

Charlie Mingus
Willie Dixon
Ray Brown
Butch Warren
Paul Chambers
Oscar Pettiford

[brammy]

McCartney
Roberts

[JakeK]

Think we already have a thread for this, but in case we don't:

Paul McCartney
Donald "Duck" Dunn
John Entwistle
James Jamerson
John Paul Jones
Chris Squire
Ron Blair
Willie Weeks
Geddy Lee

[bluewhale]

Jeff Berlin playing on Bruford's "Feels Good to Me" and "One of a Kind."

[jps]

Jeff Berlin playing on Bruford's "Feels Good to Me" and "One of a Kind."

Have you seen this photo I recently posted in another thread? It is from NAMM 2010.

[JeffZ]

Jack Cassidy would have to be Number One for me; both melodic and VERY powerful; took the Airplane albums to a completely different level.

Chris Hilman of the Byrds hasn't been mentioned; very melodic and added a jazzy tinge to records like "Eight Miles High" and "So You Wanna Be A Rock 'n Roll Star".

Paul Samwell-Smith is a guy who doesn't get enough credit, he made a lot of the Yardbirds records just take off and fly...

Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention is another strong bassist.

[bluewhale]

Have you seen this photo I recently posted in another thread? It is from NAMM 2010.

No, thanks for posting it here. That's a nice shot - sort of says it all. Looks like you had a pretty good seat too.

[jps]

Seat? Nah, no seats just mulling around, it was pretty casual, really.

[nattiep]

Sorry for the bump.

Geddy Lee
Steve Harris
Paul McCartney
Geezer Butler
Pino Palladino
Roger Waters
Guy Pratt
Gene Simmons

[rickenbrother]

For all the present and future Pino Palladino fans on the forum.
On this vid of The John Mayer Trio, it pretty much stays on the camera that's trained on Pino once it gets to 0:15.
Great song too!

[FretlessOnly]

Now that's playin' bass.

[cjj]

Ah yup! Heck, he's almost as good as me! In my wildest dreams...

[kiramdear]

Yeah, man!

[paologregorio]

Personally, for me it's:

Joey Vasco
Dane Wilder
Dave Carey (Sfd bassist)
Scott Jehlik
Erik Kutzler

Honorable mention to:
-Jeff Scott, who can add a complete run to a song where there was merely a single note on the recording, and have it sound completely natural.
-Ross Hansen, who's flown half way across the country to jam with us twice.
-Pat Hayes, who played bass until he literally almost fell over onstage at the last jam, and brought tollhouse cookies!

[FretlessOnly]

I have to say, I just checked out that Pino clip (yeah, with two other guys ) four times through. That groove is very hip and Pino isn't just in the pocket, he is the pocket. He's got one of those rare combination talents in music: tight yet fluid. Like a waterfall in a straightjacket.

I made my wife park herself in front of the speakers for that. One day shortly after we met, she confessed she never really listened to bass lines. That all changed when I turned her on to McCartney (she was floored when realizing how different Beatle songs are when you're actually listening to the bass lines). Anyway, she was listening to the Mayer/Pino bit and just had a big grin on her face. "Yeah, that guy gets it."

Indeed.