Who's your Greatest Bass player ever

[Dr Jacoby]

Les Claypool

 

[DWIFF]

Guigsy..

 

[bavarian blue]

Gary Thain Uriah Heep.
Chris Squire, Yes.

 

[JRockBlues]

Taiji


BOH

 

[Tuearts right boot]

In no particular order other than the first 4

The 'Ox'
Geddy Lee
Phil Lynnot
Mr. Kilmister.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

You can have bass players who can play a million notes a second but to me they have to add something to the band sound and feel. Here's mine
Kim Deal - Pixies
Mani - Roses and some good stuff for Primal Scream
Peter Hook - Joy Division/New Order
Andy Route - The Smiths
Steve Hanley - The Fall hugely underrated

Nice to see Mani and Andy Rourke get a mention. Both seriously underrated.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Rock? Probably Tony Levin in his first King Crimson stint. Although for sheer rock solid groove I think John Paul Jones is seriously underrated.
Jazz? You've got a whole raft. People have rightly mentioned Pastorius, who redefined what the bass could actually do within a group. Interestingly, not a few musicians pick out Alfonso Johnson as the best bassist Weather Report ever had. Again, for sheer groove listen to his superb work on Sweetnighter and Mysterious Traveller. Then there's Stanley Clarke. Not exactly a slouch. On acoustic bass, I'm very fond of Scott LaFaro's work with Bill Evans.
It's such a rich instrument...

(In my heart I am a bassist. It's just the fingers that don't follow).

Oh. Wild card shout for Bach, who wrote some of the best bass lines in any category of music.

 

[dublinblue12]

Guigsy

 

[richardtheref]

Flea for me

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

There are more technical base players than Lemmy but when he played base it sounded like a goods train at full speed was coming past.