Just my 2 cents:
Back when I started to play, I couldn't care less if they played a million chops, it was all about the image - that's one of the reasons it made me want to play bass (that, and the emotion and amazing sound one gets just by touching bass strings )
Robert Trujillo (back in ST/Infectious Grooves days), Flea, Simon Gallup, JPJ, Lemmy, and Duff, Bootsy, Mike Starr (RIP) from Alice In Chains, jeff Ament