Favorite bass players

Who is your favorite bass player? This is NOT who is the "greatest" or anything. Just who do you think is an awesome bass guitar player, in terms of skill or personal technique, whatever,

some of mine off the top of my head

1.Geezer Butler (black sabbath)
2.Geddy Lee (rush)
3) Les Claypool (primus)
4) P-nut (311)
5)Kim Deal (pixies)
6)Joe Lally (fugazi)

Victor Wooten, Geddy Lee, Justin Chancellor, Trevor Dunn, Drew Roulette, Chris Wolstenholme, Prince, Caleb Scofield.

Th-there are others.

-AC

1) Jack Bruce
2) Cliff Burton
3) Les Claypool
4) Roger Glover
5) Geddy Lee

Tim the Motha Effin Bassist.

Umm, Tim McCord.
Will McGinnis from Audio Adrenaline

Let's see. . .

Pete McCullaugh from Streetlight Manifesto ftw

That's about it.

Trevor Dunn and Martin Mendez are my current favourites; Victor Wooten is the best.

I like many others, the ones that currently come to mind are Prince, Tim Commerford, Colin Greenwood, Justin Chancellor, Geddy Lee, Ben Kenney, Paz Lenchantin and Bill Gould.

Peter Hook
Kim Gordon

Tim Commerford, Matt Freeman, Mike Dirnt

Bootsy Collins?
Larry Graham?

Originally posted by Funkadelic
Bootsy Collins?
Larry Graham?

F*ck Larry Graham. Why hasn't anyone mentioned Steve Harris? I think he's amazing.

lol, when I see your avatar I can see why you don't like Larry, but he's great nevertheless.

Jaco Pastorius, Woktor Wooten, Ron Carter, Jimmy Garryson, Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Charls Mingus, Dave Holland are all great.

Reita (Gazette)
Mike (Nickelback)

Well interesting thread, thanks to all of the above. I think it's be great if folks said *why* they nominate a particular person... so to kick off...

I'm surprised by the omissions of two names, especially by the Jaco- lovers: Herbie Flowers and Vail Johnson. And then there's Sting. And Phil Lynott.

Herbie Flowers - if for no other track than Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side". Straight-up instinctive genius playing right off the bat.

Vail Johnson: probably the most versatile virtuoso I've ever seen. The sheer breadth of his technique combining funk power and musicality is unequalled, IMHO. If you can stomach a Kenny G track just to see, find "Midnight Motion" (and if you know where the Montreux Festival TV Special can be found, please PM me; I'm looking for it for years.) There's a sickly-sweet Kenny G DVD where they talk all over it, but you'll see enough.

And Sting. And Philo.

Others already (possibly) named James Jammerson, Bootsie, Louis Johnston, Jaco, Jack Bruce, Nathan East, Mark King, ans Sir Paul.

FWIW

Steve Harris. I can't pick up a broom without holding it like a bass and putting one foot one a table pretending it's a monitor. Steve Harris all the way.

And John Entwhistle. I don't know if he's been mentioned yet.

Stanley Clarke

Mark Hoppus

ME!

I just recently disocvered the genius that is Victor Wooten. He certainly does have style. Here is a video of him in a battle:

YouTube video

I f*cking love to see a bass battle between Victor Wooten and Les Claypool.

Wooten would kill him.

There's another bass thread where I posted a couple of really good Wooten videos.

I've watched this one so many times, though.

Geddy Lee closely followed by Chris Squire and Tony Levin. Then Greg Lake.

Thanks to VVD, Victor Wooten is now on my list.

So, Matt Freeman, Victor Wooten, and Les Claypool.