Good Bass Playerz

[el_starkos]

Simon Gallup

 

[ska invita]

Jsut wanted to add - Primus (Les Claypool) may well have been the only band to have the bass at the front of every tune, playing the main "riffs" etc., - Can't think of another band so centred around the bass.

 

[damnhippie]

loads of ace suggestions on this thread!

steve harris
justin chancellor from tool
mike watt
jah wobble

not great but worth a look ...

 

[pembrokestephen]

Saling the Seas of Cheese is a classic record - on one of Primus' later tours they did a couple of new numbers then played the whole of that record from start to finish. They really bring funk to rock without sounding like a pastiche.

No-one plays bass like Les - he's invented a whole new bass style of his own. If anyone knows someone who comes close, Id love to hear it - I cant get enough of it!

Incidentally, Les Claypool cites Rush bassist Geddy Lee as his greatest influence - makes sense tehy were doign support for Rush.

There is meant to be the first new Primus album in many a moon dropping this year...

Yum.

 

[Big Jim]

I have got an ace bit of stanley clarke playing on one of the old grey whistle test compliation DVDs (actually this series of dvds was the reason I bought a DVD player)....yes he plays it like a lead guitar but its funny as fuck to watch and really impressive....even funnier is the fliratious face pulling he does with the little keyboard player George Duke...(who then plays one of those keyboard on a sticks like a guitar so he can rock out with stanley and pull orgasm faces)

You mean this? Great stuff, it is.



Thumbs up to Larry Graham, too. He has to be Damon Wayans' dad.



For me, though, Bernard Edwards is the king. He was a Dapper Dan as well.

 

[Tricky Mickey]

Three pages in and no mention of the man with more number 1s than The Beatles?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson

He was a genius. Play 'You Keep Me Hanging On' by The Supremes, loud, and check out the b-line. Totally radical, offbeat syncopation tying together a heartbreak girlsoul band. And he did over half of all the basslines on "What's Going On?".

 

[RockandorRoll]

No-one mentioned Victor Wooten (of Bela Fleck + Flecktones) yet?..

Listen to classical thump, best slap technique ever Me and my bass guitar is of course (and its not just technical ability, hes got a dam good musical style too, if you listen to some actual songs.)


+Cliff Burton. Shame he's dead mind, but mean-ass bastard on bass - knew exactly how to fit a bassline to a song, (when to stay in the background, or to take an independent line [unlike some flash bastards]) Plus, playing solo-ly had a great style with that pretty harsh distortion and wah-ing. Pulling teeth is a great solo piece, what with all the classical training coming to show. + the tapped harmonics at the end are a great sound

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Les Claypool, did he play and sing for that mad canadian punk/funk type band, I cant remember their name, he was good though.

Yeah, Primus...

He would definitely be my nomination. Fucking amazing bassist.

 

[Yetman]

Wynonas Big Brown Beaver.....the video for that is fucked up man, I first saw it on a load of shrooms and it socked the tits off me for sheer weirdness.

Then again, look at Claypool ^^^

 

[Yetman]

P.S Mark King - super nice bloke, great bass player, shame about the rapping

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Why all the 'z's?

 

[dirtysanta]

P.S Mark King - super nice bloke, great bass player, shame about the rapping

but hes just an fretboard 'athlete'. Look how fast i can play. Wahay here comes another 10 notes per second riff. I'd like to smash that cunts slap-thumb with a club hammer.

 

[Iam]

P.S Mark King - super nice bloke, great bass player, shame about the rapping

Shame about the songs, too.