Favourite bass player

[anonymous-user]

Jaco Pastorious.
I'm thinking on that great performance on Joni Mitchell's Shadow And Light.

[Wacky Racer]

John Paul Jones

Les Holroyd

[anonymous-user]

Wacky Racer said:

Les Holroyd

Life Is For Living is such a great song.

[12TS]

Peter Hook from Joy Division / New Order.

[Sebastian Tombs]

Bernard Edwards
John Taylor

[Pastor Of Muppets]

Geddy Lee

Cliff Burton

[paulguitar]

How about Leland Sklar?

[CAPP0]

Mark King must be well up there.

[paulguitar]

Also, Macca is an amazingly good bass player. It gets overlooked sometimes because his band was quite famous.

[E34-3.2]

Pastorius
Ron carter
Tyron brown (played a lot with Max Roach)
Ray brown
And a lot more.

[cml24]

12TS said:

Peter Hook from Joy Division / New Order.

Gets my vote!

[paulguitar]

E34-3.2 said:

Pastorius

Ray brown

I saw the Ray Brown trio in Vancouver in 2002. Absolutely amazing.

[E34-3.2]

paulguitar said:

I saw the Ray Brown trio in Vancouver in 2002. Absolutely amazing.

Lucky you!

[Wacky Racer]

paulguitar said:

Also, Macca is an amazingly good bass player. It gets overlooked sometimes because his band was quite famous.

[robsa]

Nobody mentioned The Ox yet?!

[spyder dryver]

Just to be different I'll offer up Esperanza Spalding...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aRC3YY3svs


and Bryan Beller of the Aristocrats. It can't be easy having to compete onstage with Guthrie Govan and Marco Minneman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r69ikFzUsHM

[Patch1875]

Billy Gould.

[Wacky Racer]

robsa said:

Nobody mentioned The Ox yet?!

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

[Kinky]

Here's my faves .... i guess if your name starts with J .......

Jerry Barnes
Jerome Rimson
James Dewar
Jimmy Bain

[darreni]

Wacky Racer said:

robsa said:

Nobody mentioned The Ox yet?!

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

Oh yes, and:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80dsyo2Ox-0


John Taylor is a very underrated Bass player IMHO.