Is there a thread devoted to bass players ?

[the other mike]

Not gonna waste my time searching through all the clutter, so here's a new one.

Here's one of my favorites who is generally underrated because his band mates were
John Bonham, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.

John Paul Jones was ( and still is) a very accomplished keyboard player also.
1973

 

[the other mike]

Geddy Lee

 

[Harry Dresden]

got to see Jack Bruce live in 68 with Cream at the Anaheim Convention Center.....not only was he a great Bass player he was a hell of a vocalist and Harmonica player....

 

[edthecynic]

Stanley Clarke - School Days

 

[the other mike]

Stanley Clarke - School Days

I had that album.
Check out the list of musicians on there....

• Stanley Clarke – electric bass guitar (1,3,5,6), vocals (1,6), handbells (1), acoustic piano (2,3), piccolo bass guitar (2,3,6), humming (3), acoustic bass (4,6), gong (6), chimes (06), arranger, conductor, producer
• George Duke – keyboards (6)
• Ray Gomez – electric guitar (1,3,5), rhythm guitar (3)
• Icarus Johnson – acoustic guitar (6), electric guitar (6)
• John McLaughlin – acoustic guitar (4)
• David Sancious – keyboards (1), Minimoog (2,3), organ (3), electric guitar (5)
• Gerry Brown – drums (1,3), handbells (1)
• Billy Cobham – drums (6), Moog 1500 (6)
• Steve Gadd – drums (2,5)
• Milt Holland – percussion (3), triangle (4)
• Tom Malone & Dave Taylor – trombone
• Jon Faddis, Alan Rubin & Lew Soloff – trumpet
• Earl Chapin, John Clark, Peter Gordon & Wilmer Wise – horns
• Al Aarons, Stewart Blumberg, George Bohanon, Buddy Childers, Robert Findley, Gary Grant, Lew McCreary, Jack Nimitz, William Peterson, Dalton Smith - brass
• Marilyn Baker, Thomas Buffum, David Campbell, Rollice Dale, Robert Dubow, Janice Gower, Karen Jones, Dennis Karmazyn, Gordon Marron, Lya Stern, Ron Strauss, Marcia Van Dyke & John Wittenberg – strings[4]

 

[Harry Dresden]

got to see Jack Bruce live in 68 with Cream at the Anaheim Convention Center.....not only was he a great Bass player he was a hell of a vocalist and Harmonica player....

i also saw him with West,Bruce & Laing in 72 at the same venue.....

 

[okfine]

Not gonna waste my time searching through all the clutter, so here's a new one.

Here's one of my favorites who is generally underrated because his band mates were
John Bonham, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.

John Paul Jones was ( and still is) a very accomplished keyboard player also.
1973

Lee Sklar.

 

[the other mike]

Our own Dale Smith is a good bass player.
I could post one of his videos but I would get his permission first and make sure
it's within the rules or whatever.

 

[toobfreak]

Not gonna waste my time searching through all the clutter, so here's a new one.

Here's one of my favorites who is generally underrated because his band mates were
John Bonham, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.

John Paul Jones was ( and still is) a very accomplished keyboard player also.
1973

In newer bands, I really enjoy the bass work of P-Nut of the band 311, though to appreciate it, you need a system able to play loud REALLY low, on the order of 20 Hz or so. He has this really cool bass guitar which seems to have little lights in the neck that lights up the frets as little dots in the dark.

 

[the other mike]

got to see Jack Bruce live in 68 with Cream at the Anaheim Convention Center.....not only was he a great Bass player he was a hell of a vocalist and Harmonica player....

i also saw him with West,Bruce & Laing in 72 at the same venue.....

 

[edthecynic]

Victor Wooten

 

[the other mike]

John Entwistle

First tour without Keith Moon.

 

[Rambunctious]

Flea.....

 

[the other mike]

Ralph Armstrong tearing it up in 1978

 

[the other mike]

Chris Squire

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Arthur Barrow

 

[the other mike]

Billy's been hanging around that Paul Gilbert dude too long.

 

[the other mike]

James Jamerson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Jamerson's discography at Motown reads as a catalog of soul hits of the 1960s and early 1970s.[15][16] His work includes hits such as, among hundreds of others, "You Can't Hurry Love" by The Supremes, "My Girl" by The Temptations, "Shotgun" by Jr. Walker & the All Stars, "For Once in My Life" and "I Was Made to Love Her" by Stevie Wonder, "Going to a Go-Go" by The Miracles, "Dancing in the Street" by Martha and the Vandellas, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Gladys Knight & the Pips and later by Marvin Gaye, and most of the album What's Going On by Marvin Gaye, "Reach Out I'll Be There" and "Bernadette" by the Four Tops.[17][c] He occasionally recorded for other labels, such as "Boom Boom" by John Lee Hooker in 1962 and "Higher and Higher" by Jackie Wilson in 1967.[12] Motown released 537 singles in 1960s and over 200 albums.[20][21][d] According to fellow Funk Brothers in the 2002 documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Gaye was desperate to have Jamerson play on "What's Going On", and went to several bars to find the bassist. When he did, he brought Jamerson to the studio, but Jamerson was too intoxicated to stay upright, so James played the classic line while lying flat on his back.

 

[edthecynic]

Jaco Pastorius-"The Chicken"

 

[JOSweetHeart]

The following are my three favorites.

Barry Bales of Alison Krauss and Union Station.
Dana Williams of Diamond Rio
Jim Scholten of Sawyer Brown

God bless you and all three acts always!!!

Holly (a fan of Alison since 1994)