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Post by MartinT on Aug 9, 2020 0:24:39 GMT
Your Greatest... Bass Player
Any kind of bass - acoustic or electric. Please give just ONE offering and state your reasons why you like this performer. No lists! Whittling it down to just one is part of the challenge. Lists and possibles may attract deletion - you have been warned!!
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Post by MikeMusic on Aug 9, 2020 9:11:07 GMT
Jack Bruce
He *plays* electric bass like no one else I know. Spoonful on Wheels of Fire gives a great insight into how very good he was
I was privileged to see him play an upright bass in a room in Guildford Uni,
Cannot think of anyone else anywhere near his virtuosity
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Post by tarzan on Aug 9, 2020 11:43:52 GMT
Always liked Jerry Scheff's bass sound, he was in Prezzler's TCB band also probably most famous for playing bass on the title track of The Door's classic album LA Woman, and indeed on all that album, a lovely warm and rich sound.
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Post by Tim on Aug 9, 2020 12:01:55 GMT
Nope, not playing anymore - haha. I'm not used to just having one of anything
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Post by MartinT on Aug 9, 2020 12:33:12 GMT
Needs self-discipline, Tim
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Post by Tim on Aug 9, 2020 12:42:02 GMT
Bit late for that now fella
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Post by julesd68 on Aug 9, 2020 12:43:17 GMT
I can't seem to think beyond Geddy Lee here.
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Post by user211 on Aug 9, 2020 13:07:12 GMT
Marcel "Masi" Stalder from Dub Spencer and Trance Hill.
Why?
Superb timing and an ability to come up with the most tuneful and best bass lines I have ever heard.
Check out the albums Too Big To Fail, Deep Dive Dub and Physical Echoes.
These albums are all of outstanding sound quality, too. Was listening last night in total amazement. My system just fickin' lurves it played loud.
From Wiki:
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill are a dub band from Lucerne founded in 2003 . The group itself describes their music as " instrumental psychedelic dub reggae with rock and trance influences". [1] The band's regular tour companion has been the Munich-based sound and dub specialist Umberto Echo for several years . He is the fifth instrumentalist on the mixer .
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Post by Slinger on Aug 9, 2020 13:07:24 GMT
Willie Dixon. July 1, 1915 - January 29, 1992
Willie and Muddy Waters pretty much defined the Chicago blues sound. He wrote countless blues standards, "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "Little Red Rooster", "My Babe", "Spoonful", and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" to name but a few.
In 1987, Willie sued Led Zep, and won. He reached an out-of-court settlement after suing for plagiarism in their use of his music in "Bring It On Home" and his lyrics (from "You Need Love") in "Whole Lotta Love."
Willie founded the Blues Heaven Foundation, which works to preserve the legacy of the blues and to secure copyrights and royalties for blues musicians who were exploited in the past. Speaking with the simple eloquence that was a hallmark of his songs, Dixon claimed, "The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues."
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Post by ChrisB on Aug 9, 2020 13:32:05 GMT
Slinger has pretty much written exactly the post I intended to write, except to say two more things. Firstly, if you've ever heard a Chicago blues record, there's a massive chance Willie Dixon was on it and there's a pretty good chance he wrote it too. Secondly, his songs were probably one of the most influential bodies of work among the history of recorded music.
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Post by MartinT on Aug 9, 2020 16:17:54 GMT
I'm going for Tal Wilkenfeld. She's not into bass pyrotechnics, but boy she really holds a melody and flowing line, all the time accompanying such luminaries as Jeff Beck and The Who in very sympathetic fashion.
Here she is much younger, 13 years ago.
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Post by rfan8312 on Aug 9, 2020 16:58:08 GMT
Another toss up for me but I just can't ignore some of the raunchy, nearly offensive, at times brutal sounds that I've heard Les Claypool make with that beast of his.
His imagination and knack for song writing with his otherwordly playing ability have had me following his work for 30 years now.
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Post by Barrington on Aug 9, 2020 19:19:31 GMT
My favourite artist is a bass player , Roger Waters but I have never admired him for that skill as there is a lot more to him than that but John Entwistle now he is (was) a bass player !
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Post by ajski2fly on Aug 11, 2020 17:23:47 GMT
Paco Pastorius is probably my favourite, he did a huge amount in the Jazz world in quite a short time and worked with many famous artist, he mixed a variety of technics and still influences many player today. He is recognised as one of the most ground breaking and influential electric bassist of all time. Sadly he died in 1987 at only 35 years, after a fight at a bar, he regularly got himself into bar fights due to his mental health through the 80's.
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