I really like Flea

Jaco Pastorius
Stanley Clarke
Jeff Berlin
Rocco Prestia

MeShell...

Stanley Clarke,Verdine White,Jaco Pasterious,Louis Johnson,James Jamerson,Mark Adams,Larry Graham,Sly Stone,Nathan East,Jermaine Jackson,Marcus Miller,Michael Henderson,&a ton of others

Bootsy Collins

Meshell Ndegeocello

Flea

MrBlues said:

Flea ROCKS!

mistermaxxx said:

Bootsy.this is what happens when this topic comes up.I got so many it's crazy.

Peter Hook
I wanna get into Pastorius
Kim Deal
Prince

Chuck Rainey
Donald "Duck" Dunn
James Jamerson
Bernard Edwards
Carol Kaye
Jaco Pastorius
Bootsy Collins
Marcus Miller
Meshell Ndegéocello
Michael Henderson
Paul McCartney
Will Lee
Francis "Rocco" Prestia
Ron Carter
John Paul Jones
Jimmy Garrison
Paul Chambers
Paul Jackson
Verdine White
Billy Cox
Prince
TheCloud9Mission (Lewis)...

TRON, if you want to get into Pastorius, try out his self-titled debut solo album from 1976. Or the Weather Report album titled Heavy Weather. He also played on a Joni Mitchell album that I can't remember the name of right now. Also did some work with Pat Metheny - I've never heard it though and has live albums too. His debut album was remastered a couple of years ago with new liners by Metheny.

Cut me...
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Victor Wooten

Surprised no one mentioned him yet (unless I missed it). He's got a number of cool solo albums, and also plays with Bela Fleck and The Flecktonss.

Prince!

all mine are bass except one but I gotta put him cause he
is good.

Prince
Brad Delson (linkin park)
Brian Marshall (creed)
Flea (red hot chilli peppers)
The Edge (U2) not bass but had to put him anyway
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Wooten really kicked my ass at Xenophobia.

and here i used to give Hassen a hard time about his slavish slobbering over him on AMP.

Sting (listen to "The Bed's too big without you")

MostBeautifulGrlNTheWorld said:

somebody please delete this girl's account immediately! this is a travesty! and an outrage!


j/k


not about the travesty and the outrage, but the deletion.

jnoel said:

Yeah, or Voices Inside My Head, or Driven To Tears, etc...he was more interesting as a bass player with the Police than solo.

Bootsy. The best bass player in the world, no doubt.

IceNine said:

Awlright. Though I was never able to forgive him for making "Find Out!". Now that's a TERRIBLE record!

AaronForever said:

funny funny shit Aaron...

***Benny Reitveld (plays with Santana now)

***Verdine White of Earth Wind & Fire

***Bootsy Collins

***Bassplayer in Sade's band (forgot his name)

Arion Salazar of Third Eye Blind

You should check out Interstate 76 soundtrack (supa funky a total throwback vibe to the 70's), also he used to be in the funk/punk group Fungo Mungo. I agree with alot of the choices so I wanted to add on to what was already listed.

Fave bass players?

Y'all forgot Bernard Odum, Charles Sherrell & Sam Thomas (These played bass on many of James Brown's classic '60s tracks! Without whom ...)

Prince

Aston 'Family Man' Barrett (Wailers bassman)

Bootseh

Larry Graham (sorry, but he was there early on and he's a good player, which is all I care about.)

Billy Cox

James Jamerson

Charles Mingus

Paul Chambers

Michael Henderson


These should do for now.

That guy from the Partridge Family...i think it was Danny.

Most siginifcant electric bass players

Monk Montgomery (Lionel Hampton - first pioneer)

James Jamerson (almost every MOTOWN track in house band up to '71)

John Entwistle (WHO - developed a unique style for rock)

BOOTSY ( pioneered elongated beats and worked effects like the MUTRON

Jack Bruce (CREAM applied a jazz style)

Larry Graham ( thmuped pluck and popped the strings with Sly and GCS)

Stanley Clarke (first to approach acoustic and electric with appropriately unique jazz (jazz-rock fusion for e-bass) styles)

Anthony Jackson (pioneerd the 6-string bass -- which is more like unto a guitar)

Jaco (played a fretless and melded techniques from Graham, Bruce and Clarke and his own ideas into a TRULY unique jazz approach)

Notes:
Paul McCartney is a very melodic player. Verdine White is a standout bassist who brings a jazz approach to R&B similar to Jamerson. Louis Johnson claims to have developed his thunpo=ing and plucking style at the same time as Graham, but was not recoded until '75. Michael Henderson played, per, Miles right on the beat and really didn't do much more that Miles demanded.

In light of all these, Prince's style is not very innovative,though it is quite accomplished.
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Chacmool said:

Thank god Someone Said it!!! How could you miss this amazing bass player? His harmonic solo of Amazing Grace on "Live at the Quick" (I think, or "Live Art"), is truly stunning. Same with some of his harder to pick up, but equally amazing collaborative work on Cds like Flight of the Cosmic Hippo.

And going to a more classical sense, can't forget Edgar Meyer, who happens to be another Bela Fleck Collaborator (see Perpetual Motion).

Also, Prince, Bootsy, Larry. Love em all. Actually, when I think of it, I bob my head to some of Prince's stuff, but I'm never been blown away at what he does with the Bass. He's done some cool stuff though. One of my fave's has gotta be "What's My Name". I don't know if it's difficult or not, but it sounds so cool to me.

John Paul Jones. Half of the greatest rhythm section ever. Check out his solo albums Zooma and The Thunderthief, really great stuff.

I've never been much of a Jefferson Airplane nor Grateful Dead fan, but their bass players, Jack Casady and Phil Lesh, are pretty important in the chronology.
[This message was edited Wed Oct 2 8:57:02 PDT 2002 by PFunkjazz]

In No particular Order

Jaco Pastorius
Meshell Ndegéocello
Bootsy Collins
Marcus Miller
Anthony Jackson
Paul Jackson
Verdine White

And from the UK side of the pond

Mark King

can somebody help me on the UK side of things? I nearly said Omar but I can't mention him on the basis of his most prominent riff on "There's Nothing Like This"... and he's a multi-instrumentalist anyway (thus no mention of the Princely one!)

Thank you! How could anybody forget the funky slap-bass techniques of Mark King from Level 42? They don't call him "Thunderthumbs" for nothing.

NWF said:

BOY! A lot of folks have this nickname!!