Favourite bass player

[hman]

Flea
Jaco
Mark king
This is not an exhaustive list

[astrsxi77]

Some favorites:

Mark King (Level 42)
Tetsuo Sakurai (Casiopea)
Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd/Brian Ferry/sessions)
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Leland Sklar (Toto/Phil Collins/sessions)
Anthony Jackson (sessions)
Marcus Miller (sessions)
Mike Porcaro (Toto)
George Anderson Jr (Shakatak)
Nathan East (Eric Clapton/Toto/Phil Collins/sessions)
Sting (The Police/Sting)
Bernard Edwards (Chic)
John Taylor (Duran Duran/The Power Station)
Jaz Lochrie (Go West/Bad Company)
Pino Paladino (Paul Young/The Who/sessions)

[irocfan]

Geddy Lee

Geezer Butler

[darreni]

Mick Karn

[CAPP0]

darreni said:

Mick Karn

Good call!

[percy]

Norman Watt-Roy gets my vote.

[J.R.B.]

Already mentioned but Jerry Barnes

[cherryowen]

Bernard Edwards
Guy Pratt
Bootsy Collins
John Paul Jones

[spyder dryver]

astrsxi77 said:

Some favorites:

...
Anthony Jackson
...

The highlight on your list.

[SAB888]

Geezer Butler, seen him many times and he is amazing live.

[thebraketester]

Jimmy haslip.

Christian Mcbride.

Avashai Cohen.

In no particular order.

John deacon should really be on any bass players list too.

Edited by thebraketester on Wednesday 30th October 00:21

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

astrsxi77 said:

Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd/Brian Ferry/sessions)

Another good shout. Been following his career ever since I heard Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' in the 80's and thought to myself, "wow, that bassline is cool, I wonder who that is..?"

He's also quite funny in a 'haha' way - he does standup comedy-type shows too. Check his stuff out. A very all-round talented man.

[bigpriest]

Peter Hook
Steve Hanley
Andy Rourke

[paua]

Surprised nobody has yet mentioned Jack Bruce.

[hman]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

astrsxi77 said:

Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd/Brian Ferry/sessions)

Another good shout. Been following his career ever since I heard Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' in the 80's and thought to myself, "wow, that bassline is cool, I wonder who that is..?"

He's also quite funny in a 'haha' way - he does standup comedy-type shows too. Check his stuff out. A very all-round talented man.

The bass line to like a prayer is like 6 (plodding) notes though...

[Dinlowgoon]

Stanley Clarke
Jean-Jacques Burnel
Mark King

[So]

CAPP0 said:

Mark King must be well up there.

+1

[take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey]

cml24 said:

12TS said:

Peter Hook from Joy Division / New Order.

Gets my vote!

First person that sprang to mind for me. But he's not actually that good. JD is my favourite band though.

[NDA]

Nathan East
Pino Paladino
Jaco Pastorius

[astrsxi77]

Ray Luxury-Yacht said:

Another good shout. Been following his career ever since I heard Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' in the 80's and thought to myself, "wow, that bassline is cool, I wonder who that is..?"

He's also quite funny in a 'haha' way - he does standup comedy-type shows too. Check his stuff out. A very all-round talented man.

Always loved the bass parts of Jacko’s Earth Song and Jimmy Nail’s Ain’t No Dout. Turns out they have a common link!