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Post by channelcat on Jan 20, 2016 20:49:01 GMT -6
Glad someone finally mentioned Mike Watt! IMO he is to punk/hardcore what Jamerson was to pop/rock/funk...creating a foundation for guys like Flea and Col. Claypool to build on. And I'll add Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains) and Joe Lally (Fugazi). Stu Oh man, I keep playing the "Waiting Room" bassline every time I pick up the bass lately. So addictive. I've been jamming some Flea riffs too. The Demos is the best...should've been their 1st LP! Sometimes, I put Waiting Room on repeat for an hour or so...I flippin' love that song. I'll do the same with fIREHOSE's Brave Captain...WATT!!! |
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Post by Martin John Butler on Jan 20, 2016 22:26:17 GMT -6
My old friend Kenny Aaronson might very well have played with more top artists than any bass player known to man. He's a great guy. His style wasn't exactly what I thought would fit my music, but I gotta say that when he was with Bob Dylan, he was in a league of his own.
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Post by iamasound on Jan 21, 2016 7:48:13 GMT -6
Ron Carter playing at the Village Vanguard while I was...fungally enhanced was an impossibly sensually aural delight, as well was jamming once with Jaco. I swear, for that 45 minutes I never ever played better and never have since. I wish that we had taped it. Delmar Brown played keys with Rick ? (Louisiana drummer,rock fucking solid) on drums. Blissfully and graciously, Jaco took us all on a trip that day, with Delmar pulling things out of the ethers to quench my wanting soul and to blind me to everything but the moment at the tips of my fingers of a '64 creme Tele. Rick was my beating heat.
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Post by RedIP on Jan 22, 2016 1:08:17 GMT -6
Justin Chancellor (this guy isn't Justin but he nails it)
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Post by mobeach on Jan 22, 2016 5:52:24 GMT -6
My old friend Kenny Aaronson might very well have played with more top artists than any bass player known to man. He's a great guy. His style wasn't exactly what I thought would fit my music, but I gotta say that when he was with Bob Dylan, he was in a league of his own. I saw him with Foghat, pretty solid |
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Post by Guitar on Jan 22, 2016 9:13:06 GMT -6
Justin Chancellor (this guy isn't Justin but he nails it) That's funny I was just listening to Tool, I've always loved their bass lines. Also found a picture of his rig it's awesome:  |
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Post by jfoc on Jan 22, 2016 9:38:15 GMT -6
Ill add Justin Meldal-Johnsen & Kim Deal. Also love the JBs era Bootsy, Larry Graham, McCartney, Carol Kaye and so many more.
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Post by ericn on Jan 22, 2016 13:13:18 GMT -6
The kid reminded me of one, Guy was offered a Juliard Scholarship for Tuba and String bass, instead joined the Army where he was 1st Tuba / Bass First Div Army band, said he new this way he knew he wasn't going to end up drafted and infantry in Korea.
He would eventually die of a pituitary gland tumor that over the years would result in fingers to big to play .
I called him dad.
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Jan 23, 2016 18:29:17 GMT -6
Ray Salyer. Google him.. "Ray Sayler Bassist" Stapleton and I grew up with him. He's an alien.
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Post by wiz on Jan 23, 2016 19:30:24 GMT -6
John McVie
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Post by henge on Jan 24, 2016 22:01:01 GMT -6
I Wooten think a group like this would leave 4-time Grammy winner Victor out.. but there you go. Ha! I mentioned Wooten. Stumbled across this just now... |
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jan 24, 2016 23:21:28 GMT -6
Yeesh, hard to beat Randy Brecker(tpt) and Bob Mintzer(tsax) with Jaco
I'll toss out the following names as amazing:
Andrew Gouche
Henrik Linder
Dwayne Wright
Anthony Jackson
Christian McBride
Paul Chambers (upright)
Sam Jones (upright)
Niels Henning Orsted Pedersen
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Post by tonycamphd on Jan 25, 2016 0:23:24 GMT -6
ignore the incredibly bad video editing, the Jaco tune "teen town" was always a jaw dropper!
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Post by Ward on Jan 25, 2016 1:01:16 GMT -6
Well, that IS his trademark. Or was... or is... RIP Jaco
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 4:57:02 GMT -6
Wow many great bassmen already mentioned. Even Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen...
I want to mention some, who have not been covered.
Jeff Ament for bringing some awesome bass lines into the grunge. (Pearl Jam/Mother Love Bone/Temple of the Dog) I guess he is the main reason i bought Pearl Jam albums.
And Peter Steele RIP (Type-O-Negative). More for his overall musicality and awesome personality. He is the reason i bought a Bogart bass. Heard he used it in studio, and it just had something to it. Also one of the "bipolar bass brothers", like Jaco, and also died much too young.
Phil Lynott!(Thin Lizzy)
Stanley Clarke! (you really forgot him?!?)
Dave Holland (just for Bitches Brew upright bass)
and Eberhardt Weber (Pat Metheny/Kate Bush/Jan Garbarek...).
Loved the things he did in the 70s/80s. I heard from Martin Kolbe he can't play anymore because of a paralysis due to an apoplectic stroke. :-(
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Post by M57 on Jan 25, 2016 5:46:46 GMT -6
..too many different genres, and to pick one player is to settle on one genre, right?
So in no particular order..
Jaco Pastorius (technically earthshattering - but more importantly breaking a lot of ground where function is concerned)
Leland Sklar (they're not bass parts - they're melodies)
Eberhard Weber (his seminal ECM solo albums blew my mind)
Scott Lafaro (I'm surprised his name hasn't come up on this thread)
Steve Rodby
These are all technically great players and if I gave it some thought it might be twice as large, but if I were to lower the 'technical' standard and think in terms of influences and those whose work has had an impact on me as a musician - then the list becomes quite large. Hmm.. Maybe I have no favorites.
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Post by Guitar on Jan 25, 2016 10:15:09 GMT -6
Speaking of Victor Wooten..
I was just researching bass pickups and came across this solo bass performance. I didn't even think it was possible to play some of the ways he does:
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Post by henge on Jan 25, 2016 11:32:48 GMT -6
Wooten always struck me as a wonderful composer/producer/musician that happens to play bass. That's where he really shines imo.
Don't get me wrong, he grooves like a motherfucker with Bela and the Flecktones but I think his solo stuff is top of class.
Also EMG's do not sound like that when I've tried them!!;-)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 16:27:59 GMT -6
I just remember *why* i was so fascinated with Eberhardt Weber's stuff. It is because i never heard this kind of electric bass tone before. No wonder, since Eberhardt Weber *invented* the electric upright bass.
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Post by jazznoise on Jan 25, 2016 20:28:02 GMT -6
While punk bass is still discussable, I think Lou Barlow's chord heavy style of bass is absolutely stellar. Really brings the energy to the power trio form most lack. Bob Weston of Shellac also does it, but Lou's is more like a guitar style than Bob's very rhythmic post punk style. I've linked a Dinosaur Jr. live track here, but the Sebadoh stuff he also does is phenomenal. Anyone who listened to anything from Fugazi, Nirvana even up to Foo Fighters should give Sebadoh's Bakesale a listen.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2016 23:10:47 GMT -6
Ha, that reminds me of Hüsker Dü, the band that was grunge a decade earlier than anyone else!
Btw, also a nice bassman, Greg Norton, the man who had a hipster beard definitely before it was mainstream, LOL.
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Post by rowmat on Jan 26, 2016 0:28:17 GMT -6
The bass player who does the majority of our sessions when we need bass.
Upright, electric, he's fast, great and adds mojo to every track.
Besides he's one of the most renown bass players in Australia, has about 40 years of experience playing with just about every major artist over here and some abroad (live and album sessions) and we can afford him!
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Post by jazznoise on Jan 26, 2016 11:41:16 GMT -6
If people are posting bands as good as Husker Du I'm literally obliged to post this. The fucking counterpoint between the guitar and bass on this - insanely beautiful stuff!
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Post by Ward on Jan 28, 2016 20:14:17 GMT -6
Great @smallbutfine . . . now I'll be back on a Mould/Dû kick for at least a week.
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Post by Guitar on Jan 28, 2016 20:19:30 GMT -6
Jaco gettin' down on that fretless is like Expert Mode, damn.
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