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Location: Carle Place, NY | Since it's been posted for rock guitarists, how about top 5 rock bassists. Here's mine:
John Entwistle
Stanley Clarke
Dave Larue
John Paul Jones
Jack Bruce |
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Location: SoCal | Joe Osborne |
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Location: Warrenton, Virginia | flea
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McCartney |
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Location: south east Michigan | John Entwistle
Chris Squire
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Location: NJ | Greg Lake
John Camp (Renaissance)
Dave Pegg
JACO! |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | Ty Whatzhizname from the Doobie Brothers |
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Location: Burbank | You mean, Tyran Porter? |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | probably.... :cool: |
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Location: Warrenton, Virginia | Cliff
"Greg Lake"
of Emerson, Lake & Palmer? |
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Location: NJ | . . . and prior to that, King Crimson. |
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Location: Charlotte NC | Probably few if any of them would be considered top 5 bassists from a skill perspective, but over on TalkBass we have a thread going on who are the most gorgeous bass players HERE The thread has been kept alive so long that some of the early pictures are now gone so it's best to go to the end and work backwards. I got permission from the wife to view it from time to time without guilt! LOL |
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Location: Burbank | One of my favorites is Geddy Lee of Rush. Fast, smooth and works great with the monster drummer Neil Peart! |
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Location: Tennessee | Sara Lee
Geddy Lee (no relation ;) )
Carl Radle
Gerald Johnson
Lee Rocker |
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Location: Tennessee | and Tina Weymouth. |
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Location: Warrenton, Virginia | lojoe
yup...completely forgot Sheryl Crow played bass...works under the gorgeous category |
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Location: NJ | Who was the chick that played bass on ALL the BIG Motown hits? . . . I'm thinking Caren Somethingorother (no relation to CeCe, Bill) . . |
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | McCartney has written/played some brilliant bass lines.
A few years back, when I mentioned to my sister (a classical concert pianist, with masters in music) that I was interested in doing some some in depth study of theory and analyzing song structure, she asked her own teacher for suggestions to guide me. Interestingly, the teacher's reply was to study the bass lines of Beatles songs for a good understanding of rhythm and harmony theory.
A great suggestion, but one I did not expect from someone in that genre of music.
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Location: Charlotte NC | And he could sing at the same time. After 30 years of being able to sing and play guitar at the same time, singing while playing any kind bass line beyond the chord root is still a major struggle for me. I admire folks like McCartney, Sting, and Cheryl Crowe who make it look so easy. |
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Cliff,
Are you thinking of Carol Kay (Kaye?), the Motown session bass player? |
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Location: NJ | THAT's her!!
She had a good groove . . . . |
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Location: NC | Mark King............80's group of Level 42 |
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Location: Indiana | John Entwistle
John Paul Jones
Dave Hope
Leon Medica
Dean Felber |
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Location: NJ | jack cassady
jack bruce
the guy from humble pie
stanley clarke
jaco
charles mingus
i am sure I can think of a few more |
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| After working for a while now on some music sets I would like to add Chris Squire is in a league of his own. If you look at the body of work and the vocal abilities and his solo work you just gotta be impressed, then when you try and play his Bass lines and wipe the sweat off after each song, Hey he is The Man on a bass for me. After that I guess
Geedy Lee
John Entwhistle ( Can't ever spell his name right?)
Sting
and the list goes on and on....
Like to add; John had the nicest Ovation Acoustic bass I have ever seen! and the Bassist for Jon Luc Ponty is impressive and has never made any list I know of?
I have to admit I have not been listening to much music from anyone else for a little while now I have learn by ear I can't read that chicken scratch? so I have these guy's on the brain now? Randy |
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Location: San Bernardino, California | If you include jazz: Bunny Brunel |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | An interesting Bass player that I saw on the Bee Gee's "One Night Only" concert was, I think, Matt McGehee, I think I have seen his name on many albums and CDs.
Bailey |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | James Jamerson. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Phil Lesh |
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Location: Vernon, CT | I would also add Michael Anthony with or without the Jack Daniels...! :D Play On1
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(Cobalt Blue) Balladeer LX
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Std. Balladeer
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Location: NJ | Originally posted by John Lawrence:
[QB]I would also add Michael Anthony with or without the Jack Daniels...! :D Play On1
surely you jest |
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Location: Oregon USA | He jests. I hope.
Most of the really good ones have been mentioned already. Except:
Geezer Butler (Sabbath)
Les Claypool (duh)
Scott Reeder (Kyuss, Unida)
Scott is so good that when I played some Kyuss live material for my girlfriend she said, "These guys are great... who's their rhythm guitar player?"
They don't have one. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...whatabout John McVie of Fleetwood Mac? :cool: |
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Dont' forget bass players