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[Music] World's tope ten BASS guitarists of all time
- Thread starter Harry Wilson's tackle
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Oh gawd! - that was so excruciatingly bad! And as for being nominated for top bass playing - sorry, nowhere anywhere near, just ordinary bass lines the likes of which many of us will have done at some time (best part of 40 years ago in my case! - but I was only a part time occasional bass player anyway).
Oh well, that's definitely one for the second hand market ASAP!
Donald "duck" Dunn,, of brooker T & the MG'S,, the bass of almost every record release on stax records,, James jamieson Funk brothers,, the bass of almost every record release for tamla motown detroit studios https://youtu.be/gjgjoSsOvi4
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Peter Hook just a natural with a bass.
Our own Mike Kerr from Royal Blood I also think is worth a mention. I've seen him a couple of times and what he gets out of a bass guitar is quite incredible - I'm always blown away by his playing - is that just a bass guitar, really?
Read through each page of this with increasing disbelief.
Not a single mention for Carlos Dengler, lead bassist for Interpol. The greatest of the last 20 years. Took what Peter Hook did and elevated it to a much higher level.
Sake. State of NSC, honestly.
Not a single mention for Carlos Dengler, lead bassist for Interpol. The greatest of the last 20 years. Took what Peter Hook did and elevated it to a much higher level.
Sake. State of NSC, honestly.
Peter Hook just a natural with a bass.
Our own Mike Kerr from Royal Blood I also think is worth a mention. I've seen him a couple of times and what he gets out of a bass guitar is quite incredible - I'm always blown away by his playing - is that just a bass guitar, really?
He does get a lot out of a bass, split signal and dual effects/amplification . . . . . their gear was in the studio we recorded in recently . . . lots and lots of gear!
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Former!
PLayers like DUck Dunn go laregly un noticed outside the fat fingered world as they're part of a band . . . often isolated bass lines sound unremarkable. Some sit right back like Dunn and Jamerson, some at the front and almost orchestrating, like Norman Wat Roy or Bernard Edwards. Then Others effectively play it as a lead instrument, sometime within a band ( Entwhislte is the prime example) or just total fret wankery.
add band leading, singing and songwiriting to the bow and you just have great musicians .. . . McCartney, Lynott etc
One things for sure, take a good bass line out of a song and it loses its soul. . . . .
impossible to compare them against each other really, like trying to mark Gordon Banks vs Harry Kane!
add band leading, singing and songwiriting to the bow and you just have great musicians .. . . McCartney, Lynott etc
One things for sure, take a good bass line out of a song and it loses its soul. . . . .
impossible to compare them against each other really, like trying to mark Gordon Banks vs Harry Kane!
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,680
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQAOdpj7lm4
lots going on, but Paul Webb having his chat with himself on bass is rather special and very clever.
lots going on, but Paul Webb having his chat with himself on bass is rather special and very clever.
jakarta
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Never heard of them, what is their oeuvre?
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
I've never seen or heard a better bass player in my life than Victor Wooten.
(Never heard of him till about a fortnight ago but my goodness he was superb at Ronnie Scott's, and he has an awful lot of Grammys.)
(Never heard of him till about a fortnight ago but my goodness he was superb at Ronnie Scott's, and he has an awful lot of Grammys.)
Mick Karn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuiRBLa7pdA
John Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxwwgZWAbG0&t=13s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuiRBLa7pdA
John Taylor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxwwgZWAbG0&t=13s
JT is a good bass player . . . I learned to play that recently out of sheer curiosity. great bass line.
Les Nemes aint too shabby either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_msHpEa3_Y
Only just spotted the typo
Very dangerous playing the tope what with their teeth.. bass do also have nasty little hamsteads as well.
If I had to play one fish it would be the pout whiting....
Ceej
Active member
Mick Quinn. Monster bass lines, great backing singer too.
Dr Bandler
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Lou Barlow from Dinosaur Jr. Has to play it like rythm guitar a lot of the time as they are a 3 piece.
Kaiser_Soze
Who is Kaiser Soze??
- Apr 14, 2008
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Surprised no one has mentioned Tim Commerford of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave. Great basslines that anchored their music and also allowed Tom Morello to show off his incredble guitar playing.
mreprice
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Johnny B Gayden