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Your Top 10 Favorite (not best) Bass Players


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  • 10 months later...

In alphabetical order for bass lines and styles I’ve enjoyed and been inspired by over the years.
(Subject to change without notice)

Geezer Butler
Jon Camp
Alain Caron
John Entwistle
Roger Glover
Steve Harris
Glen Hughes
Jim Lea
Geddy Lee
Chris Squire

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1) Pino Palladino
2) Ray Brown
3) Charles Mingus
4) Ben Kenney
5) Matt Freeman
6) Janek Gwizdala
7) Oteil Burbridge
8) Yolanda Charles
9) Leonard 'Hub' Hubbard
10) Victor Wooten

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My list, which I iterate is about the bassists that I really enjoy:

- Jaco Pastorius (Weather Report)
- Bruce Foxton (The Jam)
- Percy Jones (Brand X)
- Linley Marthe (Zawinul Syndicate)
- Sting (Police + Sting)
- Chris Wolstenholme (Muse)
- John Burke Shelley (Budgie)
- Chris Squire (Yes)
- James Jamerson (various)
- Bernard Edwards (chic)

That's my starter for 10.

Davo

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Jeff Ament (amazingly fitting bass lines with feeling)
Geddy Lee (obviously)
Billy Sheehan (how does he do that?!)
Emma Richardson (simple fitting bass lines and great voice)
Mike Dirnt
Michael Anthony (under rated and VH my favourite band)
James Johnstone ( driving bass lines)
Nate Mendel (puts up with Grohl and Hawkins without moaning)
Richie Kotzen (plays some amazing bass lines on his solo stuff)
jpj for being magic

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Good bit of fun. Here's my list at 18:55, in NPO...

Paul Jackson (Herbie Hancock)
Bootsy
Rodney Skeet Curtis
Cordell Boogie Mosson (P Funk workhorse)
Richard Searle (Corduroy)
Gene Simmons (1st three albums, straight up melodic song driving)
Larry Graham
Marcus Miller
Nate Watts
Chuck Rainey

...& loads more

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Probably not the most popular choices, but important to me all the same:

Mark Hoppus (blink-182)
Mike Dirnt (Green Day)
Matt Freeman (Rancid)
Roger Lima (Less Than Jake)
Chris #2 (Anti-Flag)
Krist Novoselic (Nirvana)
John Hassall (The Libertines)
Flea (RHCP)
Timmy C (RATM)
Matt Rubano (ex-Taking Back Sunday)

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Eric Avery
Simon Gallup
Duff
Adam Clayton
Justin C
Paul D'Amour
TImmy C
Justin M Johnson
Marl Stoermer
Cliff Williams

Don't necessarily like a lot of the music these guys wrote/perform but I do like simple but imaginative solid bass lines rather than loads of noodling

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All the standard names appear above. Here are just a few worthy mentions I have recently enjoyed listening to, even if not the world's best:

Federico Malaman
Divinity Roxx
Sam Sims ( backed Bette Midler at the weekend)
The bass player with Mark Ronson at Glastonbury

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Bootsy Collins
Bill Laswell
Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle)
Les Claypool
Jean Baudin
Rob Wright (Nomeansno)
Bob Weston (Shellac)
Blacky (Voivod)
Greg Cohen (Masada)
Bernard Edwards


No particular order and selected on the basis that I can listen to their music just for their performance, not the song as a whole. Kinda shocked that I was first in with Mr. Laswell!

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[quote name='Thunderpaws' timestamp='1437422888' post='2825920']

Richie Kotzen (plays some amazing bass lines on his solo stuff)

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Got to agree with you there, he's got some damn good groove going on...bloody multi-instrumentalists :)

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Tough choices... These are the bass players who have played on the music which has stayed with me longest and to which I keep on returning. Probably some unexpected choices here (after the absolute no brainers)...

1 Phil Lynott - Thin Lizzy
2 Geddy Lee -Rush
3 Chris Squire - Yes
4 Neil Murray - Whitesnake and everyone else
5 Kelly Groucutt - Electric Light Orchestra
6 Barry Devlin - Horslips
7 Bernard Edwards - Chic
8 Rutger Gunnarsson - Abba
9 Randy Hope Taylor - Incognito
10= Herbie Flowers and Mo Foster - a gazillion great sessions...

Oooooooh, so many others bubbling under too.... Mike Rutherford, David Paton, John G Perry, John Gustafson, Leland Sklar, Jimmy Johnson, Jamerson and Babbitt, Duck Dunn, Abe Laboriel...

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In no particular order, and in some cases not particularly good players trehnically but they always seem to play the right thing at the right time.

1.Flea (RHCP)
2.Mike Dirnt (Green Day)
3.Nik Fraiture (the Strokes)
4.Bruce Foxton (The Jam)
5.Mark Stoermer (the Killers)
6.Bernard Edwards (Chic)
7.Andy Rourke (The Smiths)
8.Geezer Butler (Sabbath)
9 Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
10. Jeremy Davis (Paramore)

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Off the top of my head... and recent nice work I've heard

Will Lee and Vail Johnson spring to mind....and add Jerry Barnes as well.
Whilst Edwards has gone, this guy has picked up the Chic mantle well, IMO

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This week it's

Graham Maby
Errol 'Flabba' Holt
Martin 'Youth' Glover
Peter Hook
John 'Segs' Jennings
Paul Simonon
Colin Moulding
Martin Gordon
Boris Gardiner
Dave 'Shuffle' Steele

Maybe I should get a fancy nickname like those 4 above?

I'm not normally too fussed who the bass player is though. I like songs on their own merits.

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