Favorite bass player/s?

We should have a list of least awesome baselines. Like "Runnin' with the Devil."

I actually just walked into the kitchen to find my kid, and I told him about this argument over what the most memorable baseline is and his immediate response was “it’s got to be _another one bites the dust_.”

😰 *looks over to Usage Panel*

Hell, the bassline to Barney Miller is about as recognisable as Good Times.

As much as I like his music I can't agree with Mike Oldfield as a 'good' bass player while he was in The Whole World, technically yeah but he overplays all the time, like a guitarist who is slumming it, mind you he wrote some wicked bass parts for his solo stuff.

We should have a list of least awesome baselines. Like "Runnin' with the Devil."

― Josh in Chicago

roger waters to thread

Greg Norton too, I know Dü are sacred cows but he was a bad bass player.

A few years ago in work, chatting with my team about music and someone mentioned The Who. A guy in my team, not a big music fan and not really part of the conversation says "My uncle is in The Who". "Yeah sure" was the general response, we asked him his uncle's name: "Pino". I hadn't heard of him and had to Google him.

Pino is fantastic

it's funny, Norton is really great now, he had this mathy jazz group with a NY jazz guy and his new power pop thing is really tight

He stopped jumping around as much I think :)

i remember seeing the Replacements reunion and Tommy and Paul were so pro and I realized oh yeah these guys have like 30 years more practice

some favorites i haven’t seen mentioned:

johnny dyani
cecil mcbee
willie dixon
andrew bodnar
jimmy blanton
chuck rainey

pino did some great work with d'angelo too

CHRIS SQUIRE

yes!

Tony Levin

i was thinking of levin as the only often fretless guy i was aware of, then looked and heard about chapman stick and decided i should stay in my lane which is like pit row.

He has plenty of incredible fretted bass parts as well

https://www.fretlessbass.com/levin-tony/

He big-ups Pino, but also Carles Benavent, who I don't know. Chick Corea guy?

Kinda nuts to see him do this while talking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6wEAzKVhWE

There's so much sick playing on the King Crimson concert videos from the 80s.

Now it's Friday and I've finally had a beer...

Ric Grech
Andy Fraser

Keith Olsen from the Music Machine, who passed away a week and a half ago. (Became famous producer.)

Chris Hillman

Top Ten in roughly chronological order:

Jimmy Blanton
Charles Mingus
Oscar Pettiford
James Jamerson
Scott LaFaro
Paul McCartney
John Entwistle
Ron Carter
Bootsy Collins
Larry Graham

Oh snap, you know who I just learned about? Jimmy Johnson! Played a lot with James Taylor, but may be best known as the guy who helped create the 5-string bass. You'd think James Taylor would be the wrong place for some bass virtuoso, but I guess he goes along with the likes of Nathan East as incredible dudes anchoring bland acts. Anyway, his credits range from Roger Waters to Alan Holdsworth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IxDJcBZvA8

wow I never thought about who invented the 5 string