Best Bass Players

Surely I just missed John McVie in this conversation. Solid as a damn rock.

Jaco Pastorius, when he was playing on Joni Mitchell's albums, may be the first musician for whom I went to the credits in an effort to see who was playing bass. Amazing.

 

I just mentioned McVie for the first time a few posts up ...

 

Got it. Thanks!

 

So because you don't like the band, the musicians in 311 are automatically bad? Having "acquired" their sound 12 years ago, I fully appreciate all the different styles they do. And they've got three extremely talented musicians in P-Nut on bass, Chad Sexton on drums and Tim Mahoney on guitar. They're much more than a rock/rap group; they're a complete band.

Download 8:16 a.m. off Grassroots and tell me P-Nut doesn't belong in the same league with the dude from Rush.

 

All the Wootens rate.

As does Michael Edward Mills, who once said he wears great outfits and tries to be entertaining because when he was a kid he always dreaded getting concert tickets on the bass-players side because he was always boring.

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

When it comes to bass players being the most entertaining member of their band (Flea excluded!) then Hooky also rates a mention:

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

Here he is playing Love Will Tear Us APart with a Stone Roses cover band

 

Victor Wooten

 

How did I forget Kim for this long?

I know she cannot play with these guys, but what she adds to one of top 10 bands of all-time I think should give her consideration. I think she is the top for female bassists.

 

I submit he didn't laugh out loud until my lame reply and your smackdown to my reply.

 

Sirs, Madames,

It's not bass in the sense of entries here but I always loved Richard Davis's elegant double bass on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks. Found his website the other day. A significant body of jazz work.

YHS, etc

 

And the one name that has yet to be mentioned is the great Stanley Clarke.

 

And the late Rick Danko, who learned from Jamerson's Motown records.

 

Seriously, only like two people mentioned Geddy Lee. WTF?

This is one of my favorite videos on YouTube, some guy playing the bassline to YYZ. It's not Geddy, but it shows you how intricate his lines are.