Listening to Crazy Mama, and kind of just realised how awesome the bass playing on this track is. Especially after 3:30.

Best bass player in the band. Daryl second. Taylor third. Wood forth. Wyman dead last.

The more I listen, the more I admire Bill Wyman as a bassist.

He was/is good.

Daryl is fantastic as well.

He and Charlie really lay it down.

Keith wouldn't play with a band that didn't have a great engine (bass/drums).

Casino Boogie is excellent!

He is a great bass player. I'm not qualified to say whether he is Wyman's equal, but the songs Keith plays bass on have interesting bass lines.

It's actually surprising how many of their well known tracks have Keith playing bass:

Let's Spend the Night Together
Jumping Jack Flash
Sympathy for the Devil
Street Fighting Man
Live With Me
Heartbreaker
Happy





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Some other ones...

Crazy Mama
Some Girls
Before They Make Me Run
All About You
Little T&A
Pretty Beat Up
Sleep Tonight
Brand New Car
Suck On The Jugular
This Place Is Empty
Oh No Not You Again
Infamy

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Best bass player in the band. Daryl second. Taylor third. Wood forth. Wyman dead last.

Not.

Keith is a guitar player who sometimes picks up the bass. He is not s bass player, that's a very different beast.

Kool-aid drinking fanatics will declare Keith a highly talented bass player.

A few more:

100 Years Ago
Silver Train
Hide Your Love
If You Can't Rock Me

He lays it right in there. The pocket on Casino Boogie is top shelf groove.



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Have a listen to Keith's classic Bass playing on JJF.

All of the instruments are really just Keith and Charlie until the outro bit.







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With the possible exception of SFTD, I have never heard Bill either equal, and usually surpass a song on stage that Keith cut on bass in the studio. As far as Jumping Jack Flash and Happy they sound like Keith is imitating Bill's style.

Bill - first
Mick Taylor - second
Keith - third
Ronnie - fourth



Darryl - shouldn't even be on this list. He's as pointless as Kenney Jones playing drums for the Who.

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With the possible exception of SFTD, I have never heard Bill either equal, and usually surpass a song on stage that Keith cut on bass in the studio. As far as Jumping Jack Flash and Happy they sound like Keith is imitating Bill's style.

Bill - first
Mick Taylor - second
Keith - third
Ronnie - fourth



Darryl - shouldn't even be on this list. He's as pointless as Kenney Jones playing drums for the Who.

mick taylor second, lol

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With the possible exception of SFTD, I have never heard Bill either equal, and usually surpass a song on stage that Keith cut on bass in the studio. As far as Jumping Jack Flash and Happy they sound like Keith is imitating Bill's style.

Bill - first
Mick Taylor - second
Keith - third
Ronnie - fourth



Darryl - shouldn't even be on this list. He's as pointless as Kenney Jones playing drums for the Who.

mick taylor second, lol

And I think even he was following the Wyman style, especially on Tumbling Dice.

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With the possible exception of SFTD, I have never heard Bill either equal, and usually surpass a song on stage that Keith cut on bass in the studio. As far as Jumping Jack Flash and Happy they sound like Keith is imitating Bill's style.

Bill - first
Mick Taylor - second
Keith - third
Ronnie - fourth



Darryl - shouldn't even be on this list. He's as pointless as Kenney Jones playing drums for the Who.

mick taylor second, lol

And I think even he was following the Wyman style, especially on Tumbling Dice.

like keith, he plays like a guitarist playing bass. more flourishes than a strong bass player would typically use. keith's work is better because it's better integrated into the songs, e.g. on sympathy, JJF, and SFM.

..whose on first???



ROCKMAN

the guy in your picture. always.

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A few more:

100 Years Ago
Silver Train
Hide Your Love
If You Can't Rock Me

GasLight, curious what source you use? I refer a lot to Keno's site and Bill/Darrell are listed on many of the songs you mention. Cheers

Better listen "Cool, Calm & Connected". Here is answer.

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GasLight, curious what source you use? I refer a lot to Keno's site and ...

Every site has dubious moments but Keno's site is the last one anyone should look at for personnel listings.
They have six times more mistakes on line-ups than any other site. Sometimes it seems they have more errors than accuracies.

Ian McPherson's site - [www.timeisonourside.com] - also has errors, but not nearly as many.

Ronnie's bass work with Jeff Beck was good too. Stanley Clarke thought so & he'd know methinks.

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Keith is a guitar player who sometimes picks up the bass. He is not s bass player, that's a very different beast.

You've hit that in a nutshell. To some of you, it's petty and insulting to try and take away Wyman's one defining achievement from him, being a superb bassist for the Stones. I picked up bass because of Bill not Keith nor Darryl. It's about time people raise a glass to Bill as opposed to always belittleing him.

Ron did a great job also on these songs:

Shattered
Summer Romance
Hold on to you hat
Emotional Rescue

Can one of the people who know about these things explain how a "guitarist who picks up the bass" plays differently from a career bass player, and why?

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Can one of the people who know about these things explain how a "guitarist who picks up the bass" plays differently from a career bass player, and why?

Listen to Jaco Pastorius and your question has been answered.

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Green Lady
Can one of the people who know about these things explain how a "guitarist who picks up the bass" plays differently from a career bass player, and why?

It's like someone who knows the basics of knitting to repair a hole in the sock - while the pro might make some embroidered artwork out of it.

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Can one of the people who know about these things explain how a "guitarist who picks up the bass" plays differently from a career bass player, and why?

Guitarists who pick up the bass often play distinctive riffs, but tend to forget about a foundation or groove, or interacting with the drums. A bass player thinks first about the foundation, and is often not even heard. It is sometimes said that you only notice a great bass player when he stops playing.

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Guitarists who pick up the bass often play distinctive riffs, but tend to forget about a foundation or groove, or interacting with the drums. A bass player thinks first about the foundation, and is often not even heard. It is sometimes said that you only notice a great bass player when he stops playing.

Well that's totally not the case when Keith is playing bass.
he does leave out the fancy and un-needed shi-shi.
Keith is all about groove and locking in with the drums. he's got da riddim'

And the Ronnie hate flows......probably the best bass player to ever be in the band. Love Keith's stuff, Bill was great at Bill stuff. Taylor is a footnote.