Who is or are your favorite Bass players

[KSTR]

Chris Squire
Mike Watt
Rocco Prestia
Tony Levin

 

[audiojj]

James Jamerson
Michael Henderson
Paul Jackson
Alphonso Johnson
Stanley Clarke
Jaco Pastorius
Victor Bailey
Marcus Miller
Anthony Jackson
Janick Top
Marc Bertaux
Sonny Thompson

 

[whereisbrian]

Jah Wobble, Jean Jacques Burnel, Reggie Workman, Paul Chambers, Jaco Pastorious, Lemmy Kilmister, Roger Waters, Kim Gordon, Peter Hook, Aston Barrett, Charlie Haden,

 

[GD Fan]

Fams, good call.

 

[Robin L]

Bill Laswell

 

[bothu]

Henrik Linder from the Dirty Loops :

 

[Timcognito]

Sometimes you are good bass player that's in Funk band that's not a famous band, but you make the band a happening band, a bass forward band, and the party a happening bass forward party. Need to be down to 30Hz to really appreciate.

And if you liked that one here's another that might be better

 

[SteveC]

Rob Wasserman, Carol Kaye, and my dear friend Aaro Paavo Heinonen (he studied under Gary Karr).

 

[hex168]

Many, many good choices here, so I'll add a more obscure one: Jon Camp of Renaissance. Here's an example. A well-played electric Rickenbacker goes quite well with a symphony orchestra, doesn't it?

 

[XMechanik]

 

[Sined]

Nathan East. Mainly with the "FourPlay" band, but played with a lot of well known artists all over the world.

 

[LTig]

The late Eberhard Weber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard_Weber

Renaud Garcia Fons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaud_Garcia-Fons

Alejandra Villarreal Vélez from The Warning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warning_(band)

 

[Snarfie]

Great responses, especially the videos! Always cool to discover new stuff you hadn’t heard before. Keep it going, bass heads

 

[Emulator II]

Stuart Zender is clearly one of my favourites:

 

[5ynth3t1k]

Cliff, Lemmy, Geezer, Araya, Hill, Waters, Kim Deal, Jesse F. Keeler, Nick Oliveri, I can't remember the rest. oh yeah, The Bass Player for Bauahus. etc.

My bass guitar is over 30 years old and I got in two parts with the guts ripped out, in wrecked old house that we burnt down at a flat destruction party, it's a P Bass clone that I have never been able to ID. I named it The Riot. So far it still works. I had to strip the fret board off to stop the truss from rattling... with a carbon steel skinning knife. Take it to a luthier ? are you crazy . It's still doing ok with the cheapest EMG pickup I could get. I need to make a copy of it... heh. It's black. It was an unloved orphan that was abused by the previous owners. I love it, it has a forever home here.

I started playing bass when I started to find guitars just too small, too fiddly and just not made for really really going to town with a 1mm black nylon Jim Dunlop pick. Young, pumped and playing thrash hardcore while under the influence...

 

[ryanosaur]

A few to add, these guys have always stood out to me and fit in well with the topic.
Chris Wood
Jimbo Wallace (Reverend Horton Heat)
Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing)
Larry Graham
Bootsy Collins

 

[Eric Natural]

Tal Wilkenfeld @ 21yrs old

 

[Snarfie]

Stuart Zender is clearly one of my favourites:

Would love to have those groovinr isolated bass tracks

 

[Snarfie]

Stuart Zender is clearly one of my favourites:

Would love to have this grooving isolated original bass track(s)

 

[LTig]

How could I forget Helmut Hattler?