Favourite bass player

Favourite bass player

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anonymous-user

Original Poster:

66 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Jaco Pastorious.
I'm thinking on that great performance on Joni Mitchell's Shadow And Light.

Wacky Racer

39,511 posts

259 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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John Paul Jones

Les Holroyd

anonymous-user

Original Poster:

66 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Wacky Racer said:
Les Holroyd
Life Is For Living is such a great song.

12TS

2,078 posts

222 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Peter Hook from Joy Division / New Order.

Sebastian Tombs

2,113 posts

204 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Bernard Edwards
John Taylor

Pastor Of Muppets

3,614 posts

74 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Geddy Lee

Cliff Burton

paulguitar

28,863 posts

125 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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How about Leland Sklar?

CAPP0

20,085 posts

215 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Mark King must be well up there.

paulguitar

28,863 posts

125 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Also, Macca is an amazingly good bass player. It gets overlooked sometimes because his band was quite famous.

E34-3.2

1,003 posts

91 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Pastorius
Ron carter
Tyron brown (played a lot with Max Roach)
Ray brown
And a lot more.

cml24

1,473 posts

159 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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12TS said:
Peter Hook from Joy Division / New Order.
Gets my vote!

paulguitar

28,863 posts

125 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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E34-3.2 said:
Pastorius

Ray brown
I saw the Ray Brown trio in Vancouver in 2002. Absolutely amazing.

E34-3.2

1,003 posts

91 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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paulguitar said:
I saw the Ray Brown trio in Vancouver in 2002. Absolutely amazing.
Lucky you!

Wacky Racer

39,511 posts

259 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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paulguitar said:
Also, Macca is an amazingly good bass player. It gets overlooked sometimes because his band was quite famous.
laugh

robsa

2,359 posts

196 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Nobody mentioned The Ox yet?!

spyder dryver

1,330 posts

228 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Just to be different I'll offer up Esperanza Spalding...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aRC3YY3svs


and Bryan Beller of the Aristocrats. It can't be easy having to compete onstage with Guthrie Govan and Marco Minneman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r69ikFzUsHM

Patch1875

4,976 posts

144 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Billy Gould.

Wacky Racer

39,511 posts

259 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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robsa said:
Nobody mentioned The Ox yet?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJxApEz_YA

Kinky

39,859 posts

281 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Here's my faves .... i guess if your name starts with J .......

Jerry Barnes
Jerome Rimson
James Dewar
Jimmy Bain

darreni

4,124 posts

282 months

Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Wacky Racer said:
robsa said:
Nobody mentioned The Ox yet?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASJxApEz_YA
Oh yes, and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80dsyo2Ox-0


John Taylor is a very underrated Bass player IMHO.