Girl Bass Players.

[Kinky]

2 already mentioned and 2 additional absolute standouts not mentioned ......

Carol Kaye
Cait O'Riordan

Ayse Hassan


Rachael Carter

[dxg]

This thread has also reminded me of Gail Greenwood - L7, Belly, Bif Naked, and then Belly again. I guess you have to be a certain age.

A great bassist who gelled musically with Belly (gave them what their first album lacked), but never quite matched the aesthetic, viz.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYUfkh-AvL0

Edited by dxg on Wednesday 20th October 22:51

[dxg]

slopes said:

Melissa Auf De Mar from Hole

and Smashing Pumpkins, for a while.

Her solo albums are both incredible. Sadly, doesn't seem to be putting any more music out these days. Running some kind of arts venue instead.

[dxg]

croyde said:

And the original, Kim Deal



Ok she also plays guitar

Spot the connection to Gail Greenwood, mentioned above.

It's like "six degrees of female bassists" in here...

[flying-banana]

Zoe from a great little indie band, Auction for the Promise Club...she's the lead singer too...

https://auctionforthepromiseclub.co.uk/

[pitboard]

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

Going back to the dawn of time, Brumbeat pioneers the Applejacks had girl bassist Megan Davis

[realjv]

Kinky said:

Ayse Hassan

God, I miss Savages. I do hope that eventually there is a third album.

Other examples for the thread: -
Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes)
Shonna Tucker (Former member of Drive-By Truckers)

[prand]

PurpleTurtle said:

Simone Butler has replaced Mani in Primal Scream. She's a little more easy on the eye, and a great bass player.




https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/...

Came here to say this.

[P9DH]

Melanie Howard, currently with The Wedding Present and her solo project, Such Small Hands... She's ace.

[Swervin_Mervin]

I know she's already been posted in this thread, but A Perfect Circle era Paz Lenchantin is one of my faves:



A huge loss for APC fans that she's no longer in the band - she had some utterly filthy basslines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJWM52RS7Cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-GsLh6dazI

Oh and how have we got to 4 pages without Sean Yseult?

Edited by Swervin_Mervin on Friday 5th November 10:54

[motorizer]

Delilah Paz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBIjjLuZnKg

[Glassman]

conkerman said:

Laura Lee From Khruangbin.

[Kinky]

So Whitesnake have announced that Tanya O'Callaghan is the new bass player, taking over from Michael Devin

[beerexpressman]

Patricia Morrison was the 1st female bass player to spring to mind...had a few years with Sisters of Mercy.

[Halmyre]

Kinky said:

So Whitesnake have announced that Tanya O'Callaghan is the new bass player, taking over from Michael Devin

"So, Mr Coverdale, what first attracted you to the beautiful tall leggy bass player?"

[thewarlock]

Swervin_Mervin said:

I know she's already been posted in this thread, but A Perfect Circle era Paz Lenchantin is one of my faves:



A huge loss for APC fans that she's no longer in the band - she had some utterly filthy basslines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJWM52RS7Cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-GsLh6dazI

Pretty sure she only ever played bass on one Perfect Circle song recording. She played live, but Billy wrote and recorded all the bass lines apart from one song IIRC.

Edited by thewarlock on Wednesday 24th November 10:31

[Meteor Madness]

Zombierella from ace Russian Surf combo Messer Chups ...

[slopes]

beerexpressman said:

Patricia Morrison was the 1st female bass player to spring to mind...had a few years with Sisters of Mercy.

And according to Andrew Eldritch was recruited mainly for her looks as he played all the bass parts on the recordings she supposedly played on.
Sour grapes? With Eldritch, could be but could also contain an element of truth to it

[Grayedout]

Becky Baldwin from 'Hands Off Gretel'

[anonymous-user]

I've not seen Eva Gardner mentioned, she's done a lot of work with some of the major US acts live such as Moby, Gwen Stefani and most notably Pink.



This is her playing with Moby in the Live at the Fonda concert, some great musicians on that. https://youtu.be/1b9-pjEgEZc