Favorite Bassists

[Lefty4001]

fred thomas
bootsy
matt freeman
WATT!! (bears repeating)
cliff burton
les claypool
steve harris
trevor dunn

please, continue

[08 Ric 4003]

Yep

Les Gets down
Cliff could put metal up your ***
Steve Harris jams love the Trooper
Bootsy is great but it gets annoying to hear hear say "oh yeah baby" on every line he speaks
Did Rick James play bass or just hold a Ric on the album cover to be cool? His other talents are snorting half of Columbia and kidnapping women and making them sex slaves.

[Lefty4003S8]

I'M RICK JAMES, B#^@H!!!!!!!!


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Do not drink from the toilet while taking Lyrica

[RobRick]

Paul McCartney, Tom Petersson, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, John Taylor.

[fatcat]

Tommy Shannon
Chris Hillman
Martin Beard
Paul Smith
Martin Turner
Jeffry Hammond
Rick Huxley

List could get waaaay to long.But these have been influences on my playing.

[bassman7365]

Have to shout out to Carol Kaye!

[rickyfricky]

Has anyone mentioned Brian Wilson yet?

Pet Sounds was not only the precursor to Pepper, it also moved Macca's bass playing in a new direction.

Happy Easter, TWIMA.

[bassduke49]

I won't argue that Brian Wilson "could" play bass, and did play bass on early tours, and likely wrote bass lines for much of their music. But I've been under the impression that studio musicians such as Carol Kaye and maybe Joe Osbourne "played" most of the bass lines on the familiar recordings. Yes?

[captsandwich]

Dave Allen
Lloyd Brevett
Graham Maby
Bruce Thomas

[Droog61]

Some amazing players you never hear mentioned.

Mick Karn from the band Japan, plus solo work (R.I.P)
Barry Adamson from Magazine
Colin Moulding from XTC

[08 Ric 4003]

I uses to listen to XTC all the time. Mummer was always my fav. I have Japan Tin Drum but could never get into it. Never listened to the Magazine. Didn't a guy from the Buzzcocks start that group.

[Tom Patterson]

Most influence in order;

1 Chris Squire
2 Mel Shocker
3 John Paul Jones
4 Jack Bruce
5 Geddy Lee
6 Paul McCartney

[bitzerguy]

Jonas Hellborg. My all time favourite, by a very large margin.

[aceonbass]

Need I say more.....

[mikko]

Jack Casady.