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The humble bass guitarist is an under-appreciated beast. Yet try to imagine the last six decades of popular music without James Jamerson, Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, Jaco Pastorious or John Paul Jones, to name but a few.
To celebrate the launch of MusicRadar's dedicated bass channel, we asked you to submit your nominations for the greatest electric bassist of all time via Facebook, Twitter and the comments on our original call-to-arms article.
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[url="http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-25-greatest-bassists-of-all-time-279007"]http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the...all-time-279007[/url]
I don't agree with the results, or in fact, any "greatest" lists, but it's quite interesting none-the-less.