Best Bassist

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: redsnapper
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 06:01 AM

Jaco Pastorius without a doubt.

RS

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:40 AM

Jack Bruce

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: GUEST,redmax
Date: 12 Nov 07 - 05:07 AM

Colin Hodgkinson (Back Door), Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane/Hot Tuna) and Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge/Cactus).

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 05:47 PM

Stephen Barry, formerly of the Stephen Barry Band.

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 05:28 PM

Well, Steve, if you are dissing Les, Les always told me he was resonsible for "discobass" and the resulting tendonitus in bass players. But he was also reponsible for the fat and slow basslines under some Tom Jones stuff, and a whole lotta other stuff too. Tone was in the left hand then. Indeed I'm not sure but I think he Wombled some of the time as well....

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: oggie
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 05:12 PM

IMHO he is not the best by any means. If you want that style of bassist check out Billy Sheehan (largely responsible for that rock bass solo style) or Stu Hamm (who wrote the textbooks).

Other than that I agree with a lot of the names nominated above,

Steve

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 04:54 PM

If you want legends, how about Les Hurdle?

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: number 6
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 03:43 PM

correction to my post above at 11 Nov 07 - 09:27 AM .

Charlie Haden, not Hayden.

biLL

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 02:20 PM

Quite correct, sir. Electric bass players. Norman Watt Roy from The Blockheads.

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: patriot1314
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 02:15 PM

Jack Bruce or the late Gary Thain for me

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: number 6
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 12:37 PM

Saw Cream live once ... and seen takes from their last concert at the Albert Hall .... some of the finest live (rock) bass playing I ever witnessed let alone heard.

The bass needs to get out and be played sometimes ... stand out front ... let loose from from just laying down the back beat.

Never really did care for P-Funk myself.

biLL

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 11:33 AM

I saw Jack Bruce's "Lifetime" shortly after the demise of "Cream" and the sound was the biggest mess I ever heard.

Bass needs space (like the P-funk).

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: GUEST,irishenglish
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 11:15 AM

Only reason I didn't mention people like Mingus and Danny Thompson is the original question asked for bass guitar players, not double bass. But I can think of no two finer for that then Mingus and Thompson!

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: number 6
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 09:27 AM

The late Jaco Pastorius, pre mentioned in this thread.

I'd like to add Charlie Hayden (quite obviously) and Jack Bruce for his extraodinary contribution to rock bass players.

biLL

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Capo da Monty
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 08:52 AM

Olly Blanchflower was a great double-bass player.
Saw him a few times with Melanie Harrold.
Is he still gigging?

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: van lingle
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 07:31 AM

If you like electric bass players maybe youtube has got some Stanley Clarke (played with Return to Forever)or Jaco or Jennifer Batten. I ditto Danny Thompson whose musicality and all around ability on acoustic upright is mind boggling. Also Gary Peacock, Scott LaFaro and the late Paul Chambers among many others.

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 07:08 AM

No, not keen on what that guy is doing.

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: cptsnapper
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 07:07 AM

Lee Abbott of Magna Carta

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: David C. Carter
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 06:12 AM

I heard he co-wrote it with a gentleman by the name of Ken Pickett.

But I could be wrong on that.

David

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: fat B****rd
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 06:03 AM

Yes to Ray Brown, Danny Thompson and Charlie Mingus. Herbie Flowers is excellent but he did write "Grandad".

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Severn
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 05:28 AM

The late Ray Brown

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 03:23 AM

Danny Thompson.

eric

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Nov 07 - 01:18 AM

herbie flowers..

never plays a note a song dont need ..

always plays the most precise right note in the right space with the least effort
to make a song sound better than any pop star ever imagined they could claim credit for..

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Bert
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 09:02 PM

Our own Gutbucketeer.

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 08:06 PM

Dik Cadbury

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: GUEST,irishenglish
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 07:23 PM

geno, don't forget that most bass players these days play a 5 string, and sometimes you will see an occasional six string as well. Couple of others that spring to mind though are Roger Glover and Chris Campbell from the Silver Bullet Band

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: GUEST,geno99
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 07:19 PM

haha, only joking. Really I like Mark King of Level 42. He gat the funk!!!

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: GUEST,geno99
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 07:15 PM

the only good bassist is a dead one, IMHO...just remember, the bass only has 4 strings, so being best at the bass is still only the equivalent of being mediocre on any other instrument...

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: GUEST,irishenglish
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 06:38 PM

Very good, but I can think of several more-Jaco Pastorius, Victor Wooten, Dave Pegg,right off the top of my head.

Subject: RE: Best Bassist
From: David C. Carter
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 06:36 PM

In the jazz field it has to be for me Charles Mingus.

In rock,Rick Danko of the band, was no mean son of a bitch on frettless bass.

Cheers

David

Subject: Best Bassist
From: GUEST,Homey
Date: 10 Nov 07 - 06:20 PM

Is this guy the best guitar bassist ever or what?