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[quote name='Geek99' timestamp='1450081795' post='2929299'] heard the song containing words "[i]some people want to fill the world with silly love songs[/i]"** (ironic, given that he is a major culprit) and was very impressed by the bassline ** i have no idea what its actually called [/quote] It's called Silly Love Songs and was written in response to others complaining he only wrote silly love songs. So, the irony was McCartney's own.

[quote name='peteb' timestamp='1450031668' post='2928972'] ... it is worth checking out... [/quote] I think you'll find that many of us have indeed 'checked out' Pastorius.

[quote name='chriswareham' timestamp='1450027526' post='2928896'] ... they're playing in cover or function bands. The typical muso bores who seem to have never written their own material but just mimic others. [/quote] You're on dodgy ground there because the great many so-called originals bands are playing highly unoriginal songs which badly mimic others. At least, that's my experience

I feel luckier when the USA does not take precedence over the UK.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1450024092' post='2928869'] What has he played on? I've never heard of him apart from seeing his name mentioned on here occasionally. [/quote] Tower of Power at one time.

Interview here .... [url="http://badassbassplayers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=112"]http://badassbassplayers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=112[/url]

[quote name='spongebob' timestamp='1450021262' post='2928842'] I thought this was to be a thread about Bobby 'Rubber Ball' Vee.....! [/quote] ... and The Night Has a Thousand Eyes ...

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1450008430' post='2928692'] It's a bass forum, so obviously the people on here will have a vastly overinflated idea of how important/popular/well known bass players are. [/quote] Not all of us have a vastly overinflated idea of how important/popular/well known bass players are.

[quote name='Woodinblack' timestamp='1450007979' post='2928681'] I guess you can see how known they are by the answeres on pointless: [url="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019b7fk"]http://www.bbc.co.uk...rammes/p019b7fk[/url] [/quote] Well spotted. Is that a real programme that people actually watch?

[quote name='colgraff' timestamp='1450007270' post='2928666'] ... Bushels undoubtedly a bass player who is a household name. [/quote] Who?

[quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1449971531' post='2928522'] I'm sorry but I could pull a better song out of my a$$. [/quote] I think you'll find that's a different website.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1450005749' post='2928648'] I think this is being overthought, imagine showing a group of various people a flip book with pictures of various bass players, singing or not, mindless noodling, rocking out, whatever. Answers like "yes thats Paul McCartney from the Beatles, wings and the frog chorus" is a 100% hit, but I'll take a "ah thats the boys are back in town guy" or a "him with the tantric sex thing" as 50/50s etc, chris Squire for example, no chance really is there? [/quote] Sting might be a 50/50 but I'd say the back in town guy get's a 'who?' With any random group of 10, 20, or 100 people, there's not even a guarantee for McCartney.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1449961927' post='2928470'] For those not familar with the tune, here's 'Teen Town', live ... Quite good, as noodling goes, and it gets better as it progresses right up to a blistering climax. Hot stuff, from all of 'em ... [/quote] The studio version is substantially shorter.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1449941438' post='2928256'] Did anyone read my OP? I did say that knowing what a bass guitar was or indeed that is what they played was secondary, Kim Kardashian is a household name and she does nothing at all! [/quote] So playing bass was secondary but not irrelevant. I still say only two of your names have any chance of being recognised, and that's McCartney and Sting. Otherwise you are most probably looking for someone who is on X-Voice or The Factor.

[quote name='The-Ox' timestamp='1449952564' post='2928393'] please elaborate [/quote] Chris Squire is no kind of household name. Even most of the musicians I play with wouldn't know who he is.

[quote name='neilp' timestamp='1449954063' post='2928401'] Where's the like button? [/quote] We voted and we didn't like the like button. So no like button.

[quote name='The-Ox' timestamp='1449951263' post='2928377'] Chris Squire also? [/quote] Are you serious?

[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1449951160' post='2928374'] ... How many more times can a comedy genius point out that "that's a big violin"? [/quote] I think you'll find that it is many many times.

[quote name='pfretrock' timestamp='1449948513' post='2928343'] You can have fun with Google Ngram viewer which shows when things came out of the wood work (in books). You can set the date range and corpus and enter multiple names (case sensitive, get the spelling right). I tried a few bassists I could think of. McCartney does not work - too famous and there must be another famous John Paul Jones.- may apply to other names if not unique (ish) Here is my bassists list: [url="http://bit.ly/1QbeSYu"]http://bit.ly/1QbeSYu[/url] EDIT - only seems to accept 12 inputs at a time. [/quote] ... and if you use British English the results are quite different ... but still, being in some books doesn't make you a household name.

[quote name='RhysP' timestamp='1449948818' post='2928347'] I think he was a pope. [/quote] Maybe you're confusing him with Francis Rossi the First - who is not a bassist.

[quote name='sunburstjazz1967' timestamp='1449948696' post='2928346'] Dave peacock if you show them a picture of chas and dave? [/quote] Most of the people who know Chas & Dave, which in fact is not most people, don't know which one is Chas and which one is Dave.

[quote name='walshy' timestamp='1449947058' post='2928323'] Flea? [/quote] Who? He's in RHCP. Who? The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Who? Never mind.

[quote name='LayDownThaFunk' timestamp='1449949401' post='2928354'] Except Paul McCartney. [/quote] McCartney probably is (or is near to) a 'household name' but not as a bassist nor because of being a bassist - 1 Beatle, 2 singer, 3 musician and 4 guitarist and that includes bass.

It's the guitarists not the pickups. You just need a different guitarist(s).

[quote name='Dandelion' timestamp='1449945623' post='2928299'] Look! A Dwarf with a violin. [/quote] No, I don't know that one either.