Bass Guitar add your favorites

[Doc_Technical]

[Glamrock]

1. heres a couple of my faves....

[JimGinPA]

2. Here Are Just A Few...

[pnwest]

4. Roundabout!!! Lord, yes! n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Tal Wilkenfeld Is A Monster!

Playing with Jeff Beck when she was 17.
What I really like is her joy in playing.
Every song, she's digging it with a smile on her face.
She's terrific.

[pnwest]

3. Is this one too obvious? I dig it loads...

[ProfessorGAC]

5. That Was James Jamerson

He, like Larry Graham, learned to pop the string to create percussion in his church band.
There were times they didn't have a drummer so he started to really pop the downbeat to give more rhythm.
Necessity is...

[The Polack MSgt]

7. James Jamerson came up with this walking beat for the Jackson 5

one afternoon in the studio - It's stunning, and he just put it down off the top of his head while he listened to the vocal mix

[ProfessorGAC]

8. He Played A Lot Of Good Parts

He internalized the Motown feel. That house band was a group of killers.
Much of Motown's greatest work had single take backing tracks.
Ready, go, 3 minutes, that's a wrap! Takes real pros to do that.

[The Polack MSgt]

9. All rock bassists know John Entwistle was the game changer - he laid the foundation

This is their last hurrah with John

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Waymon Tisdale passed away too young but he was one of my very favorite jazz bassists (Jaco Pastorius was already mentioned)

[ornotna]

10. Jack Bruce is one

[Sewa]

11. Billy Gould deserves a mention

The bassist for Faith No More has laid down some awesome bass tracks. Underwater Love and Crack Hitler are good example.

[Dr. Strange]

12. Let's do this thing.

[Tikki]

13. These two:

Among many more....

Tikki

[Tactical Peek]

14. Chuck Rainey

Edited to add:

A Word from Chuck...

“My professional career as a musician has been through and overcame the trials and tribulations attributed to playing an instrument that has finally come into its own and has become a normal and accepted voice in the evolution of today’s music scene.

Since 1959, the sound and power of the electric bass and those who play it has been the support voice and backbone in the success of today’s commercial music.

The bass player in recorded and live music is like the supporting actor of a successful film that gives and projects the glamour and fame in spotlighting the lead actor to the public, or in another scenario, the pitch calling of the catcher on a baseball team that wins the game, but the pitcher is given the credit.

I am always amazed when I see and hear artists who are receiving an award for a recording performance or interviewed for their success, thank everyone but the musicians for their success – especially the bass player and the music arranger.

The bass line/part is the one element in music that causes the listener to feel and hear the lyric, dance and above all enables the lead instrument to function.”

- Chuck

https://chuckrainey.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Rainey

[Glamrock]

15. Can I add a one more Doc?

Fucking incredible bass tone. The way it rumbles into the song at the beginning....

Elton John - Ballad of a Well Known Gun

[Glamrock]

16. What I posted earlier were some bass lines that stick with me. Here's some of my fave players...

In no particular order...

Greg Ridley (actually probably my favorite bass player) Humble Pie /Spooky tooth/Tea

Ronnie Lane Small Faces/Faces/Solo

Andy Frasier Free/Solo

Crazy that these three bands are some of my greatest vocal influences and they have three of my favorite bass players... I guess it's possible that my love for the vocals influenced my take on the bass players but, I don't think that's it.