Janik Top
Nic Potter
JJ Burnell
Lemmy
Ray Shulman
Mike Howlett
no use getting in to jazz greats too many to list
Janik Top
Nic Potter
JJ Burnell
Lemmy
Ray Shulman
Mike Howlett
no use getting in to jazz greats too many to list
La faro
McBride
Jaco
Willis
Clarke
Miroslav V
Thunes
Fowler
Barrow
O'Hearn
Beller
Greaves
Top
Paganotti
Glascock
Claypool
Squire
Geddy
R Sinclair
Hopper
Wetton
Mingus
Grenadier
Carter
A Jackson
Patitucci
Chambers
E Meyer
Bob Drake
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chakaka
You list all the important Zappa bassists, but you omit O'Hearn? Go listen to The Purple Lagoon right now.
Shit - forgot him. In my defense, Ive been drinking tequila for afew hoiurs now.Originally Posted by Stickleback
Add Dave Larue and Gary Willis to my list.
Jeff Berlin, Oteil Burbridge, Marcus Miller.
Not sure if "the best bassist of all time," but Vladimir Padrunek was an absolutely amazing bass player.
Lars K. Norberg
Stanley Clarke
Well, Syd was pretty good at hitting people with the bass, but playing was another story.
He was turning the bass into performance art *g* See, he found "playing" the bass to be a cliche... he was trying to expand the paradigm of what bass is and what you could do with it. Like, pose and not play, play unexpected notes at unexpected times, exploring alternate microtunings, use the bass for an entirely different purpose, like hitting people... he was really so far ahead of everyone. People are still coming to terms with his contributions to the instrument.
Brian Ritchie
(Bassist Percy Heath of the Modern Jazz Quartet came to an early Femmes show and came backstage to try Brian's trademark acoustic bass guitar. Said Heath, "This is the bass guitar. That shit the other cats play is just a toy." )
Pedro Aznar from Serú Girán...
I live in an ephemeral eternity
Pedro was a killer, man...RIP.
This nameis the first unfamiliar one for me...so, I better go do my research!!Vladimir Padrunekany recommended listening, Batis?
Stanley Clarke got me started playing bass. There are so many good players, but the one's who stand out for me are
Jaco Pastorius
Bill Laswell
Chris Squire
John Entwistle
Flea
I could probably list a lot more, but since those came to mind first, that's my story and I'm sticking with it
Antoine Fafard, Jon Stockman...
Hah! I mentioned him some pages back - and I still agree. Aznar was absolutely phenomenal with both Alas and Seru Giran (as well as with some of Pastoral's stuff); I wish he'd been in Spinetta Jade long enough to record with them as well. Of course he later went into pure jazz/fusion, world music, pop etc.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
At last - William Kopecky -great player! And also Kev Hopper who did some great work with Stump and on his solo albums.
anyone else hear Thundercat?
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