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JOHN ENTWISTLE.

― ethan, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Miroslav Vitous, Dave Holland, Eberhard Weber, Jaco Pastorius, Paul Chambers, John Entwistle, Roger Waters (no, I'm not kidding), Paul McCartney, Ron Carter (when he's not soloing!), John Paul Jones, Alphonso Johnson, Dave Gilmour (he played bass on many of the albums), whoever Stereolab uses on ETK and Dots and Loops, Billy Cox (sometimes), Jack Casady (sometimes).

And for flash, Les Claypool/Victor Wooten/Christian McBride/Flea/Gary Willis are all good.

I don't really sound like any of them, though.

― Phil, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three months pass...

Did someone mention JJ Burnel (Stranglers) ?? OK JJ Burnel, fine vocalist too, even sounds male at 45 trpm.

― Martin Kremers, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Anyone for Kim Deal & Kim Gordon?

Hey Martin, how's Roda JC doin?

― Mark O'Connor, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rhythm Killer is a CLASSICK despite what the review says. Robbie Shakespeare is one of my fave bassplayers.

― helenfordsdale, Saturday, 19 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

john peel played a demo in 87 of a duo called 'diatribe' or 'dire tribe' or something. the person on the bass was doing it for me. anybody know what happened??

my favorite bassist, though not a guitar in sight, is aphrodite. (incredible) (redefines bass)

― dbini, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Lemmy. Peter Hook. JJ Burnel. Jah Wobble. Mick Karn. Steve Hanley (if he IS the FALL, why'd MES fire 'im?)

― scott telles, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

dbini - it's Diatribe. I kind of *knew*them back in the 80's. They were a duo from Reading - two brothers (Tim and Jon Kirby) who played bass and drums. They were sometimes joined by a guitarist on stage for a few songs. They were one of the best live bands I've ever seen - funny you should mention the bassist, because the drummer is the one who was really exceptonal. He hammered round a biggish kit whilst keeping his head absolutely motionless, staring straight ahead. His brother played bass and did vocals. They supported lots of shit goth/crusty bands aroundthe mid 80's, and blew them all away. For example, the worst band I've ever seen in my whole life - New Model Army.

As far as I know, they only did one record - the '17 and Dying' EP. I can remember 3 tracks - 'Ha Bloody Ha', 'The Wrong Thing' and '17 and Dying'.They were absolutely NOT goth/tribal etc but got lumped in with that rubbish a little bit. I heard a lot of Factory/TG/Cabs/PIL influence, but because of the line-up they had a pretty unique twist. Peel picked up on them, and was genuinely enthusiastic about them. He played the EP a lot and interviewed them for one of the music papers, I think, in a 'best bands of next year' type feature.

― Dr. C, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That bass player from Rothko.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That one, eh? Not that other one, then?

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yeah, him too.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Amazing! I actually picked up the most recent album used the other day, and the one on Burning Shed is quite good.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

didju guys see SNL with Jack Black as famous fusion bassist in official town "bass-off"? (against Will Ferrell) It could've been funny but it fell flat cause the pantomimed bass riffs were widdly jazz-wank instead of big stomping soul riffs. i dunno maybe that WAS the joke. oh right SNL sucks. the Strokes were on last night and they were ok. they played the song that's been mixed w/ Xtina Aguilera. it was a letdown when i realized the words were going to be different from "Genie in a Bottle"...

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Jaco Pastorius (as someone said before esp. on Hejira), Peter Hook, Mick Karn.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Du magst Jaco, und findest the Blue Nile peinlich? Die spinnen, die Deutsche...

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Du magst Jaco, und findest the Blue Nile peinlich? Die spinnen, die Deutsche...
Ist das ein Widerspruch? Soweit ich weiss, hat Pastorius nie bei The Blue Nile gespielt. Oder täusche ich mich da? Jaco Pastorius hatte den wärmsten elektrischen Basssound, den ich kenne. Blue Nile dagegen. Ach Schwamm drüber.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

wärmsten elektrischen Basssound

I am using this phrase from now on.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The only thing I like about the recent German spelling reform is the bitchin' triple s in Basssound.

But seriously -- so much of Jaco's output was schmaltzy self- indulgeance, and the Blue Nile (great bass playing on the first album, BTW) sounds restrained to me compared to, say, Amerika.

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

cheers dr.

― dbini, Tuesday, 22 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Cliff Burton, former Metallica... Absolutely the greatest bassist of all times... check out this : http://www.cliff-god.com

― IgLi, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

Was asked by a friend learning the bass to put together a playlist, and finally got to include Tracy Wormworth on a non-Christmas mix.

― campreverb, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 17:01 (six years ago) link

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