Low Notes! Favorite bassists (then and now)

[ghostsinthemachine]

Then: I love Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead. The most melodic of bassists. He is still out there playing with everyone. Some of his projects post Jerry were truly incredible with surprising band configurations and players (Ryan Adams, Joan Osborne, Jackie Greene among others.

Now: Les Claypool. Guy is amazing. Plays with Primus as his primary but also plays with many others including an acoustic show.

[PoiBoy]

1. I agree about Phil Lesh...

but my favorite then bassist is Jaco... now bassist Tal Wilkenfeld...

[hatrack]

3. Ditto: Then bassists: Jaco, Chris Squire, NHOP, Eberhard Weber, Dave Carpenter

Now: Michael Manring, Jimmy Johnson, Tony Levin

[Zoonart]

5. Tony Levin with King Crimson- Elephant Talk

[Ghost Dog]

15. That bassline is very strong.

The song doesn't say much, though.

[pangaia]

2. I always liked, among others, Steve Swallow..

[OriginalGeek]

4. Jo Bench

She is a total badass.

I'm also a big fan of John Paul Jones, Lemmy, the guy who plays stand-up for the Reverend Horton Heat, Geddy Lee, Bootsy Collins and probably hundreds of others...

[Ghost Dog]

10. Yeah. Solid.

[sweetloukillbot]

6. Lotsa prog bassists

John Myung, Chris Squire, John Wetton, Tony Levin, Jeff Berlin, Jaco.

For upright players, Danny Thompson is the man.

[Aristus]

7. John Giblin.

His bass playing on Chris De Burgh's albums The Getaway and Man On The Line is extraordinary.

[Ghost Dog]

8. Danny Thompson.

[red dog 1]

9. John Entwistle,

Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Phil Lesh

[jmowreader]

11. Mine...

Geddy Lee (Rush)
John Entwhistle (The Who)
Duck Dunn (session man, played the blues)
Steve Harris (Iron Maiden)
John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
Lemmy Kilmister (Mötorhead)

[NNadir]

12. Try this performance of Tal Wilkenfeld with Jeff Beck...

[Ghost Dog]

13. Oh. Nice. Thanks.

Not much of it, but moving, yeah.

[Ghost Dog]

14. Check out the bass clarinet in this one:

[Ghost Dog]

16. Chicco Parisi, Italian working here in Fuerteventura (and internationally):

Hard man. Can still, I hope, work with him, though.

(I'm working in music production, now).

Chicco Parisi (Naples, Italy), bass
Miguel Garrido Prada (Santa Clara, Cuba), keyboard
Marco Fernández Carrascosa (Tenerife, Spain), soprano sax
Leo Olivares (La Habana, Cuba), drums.

[Tikki]

17. Mike Watt....'Minutemen (then and now).

Tikki

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. Flea

[ailsagirl]

19. John Entwistle

[Coventina]

20. Surprised Paul McCartney hasn't shown up yet.

Don't laugh, but I've just recently discovered the Beatles.

I was an 80's kid, and GenX was very anti-Boomer music, so I was never really exposed to the Beatles.

I've come to admire them, and Paul did some really interesting bass work in the later Beatles era.

[Coventina]

21. Mike Mills of REM

Not showy, but such an integral part of the sound of REM

[Coventina]

22. Adam Clayton of U2

Again, not particularly showy but so integral to the band.

[Coventina]

23. Josephine Wiggs of the Breeders

She's so hot, and SUCH an amazing bassist.

[Coventina]

24. David J of Bauhaus / Love and Rockets

Great musician AND songwriter!!