You don't need a bassplayer in a kick-ass rock and roll band

In no particular order

Donald Duck Dunn
Willie Weeks
Nick Seymour
Jack Bruce
Pino Palladino

NickB

flea
geezer butler
rudy sarzo
les claypool
lemmy

Duck Dunn...James Jamison...Willie Dixon..Robbie Shakespiere



ROCKMAN

Verdine White I like too
Marcus Miller is not bad either

Yes, I am into soul, funk and jazz too....I am a friend of all! lol

www.verdinewhite.com

The guy from Level 42 was voted "best bass player" one year wasn't he? i forgot his name.

Cheers,
Wuudy

Mark King...great bassplayer...used to be drummer once. Still touring...

In no particular order

John Deacon (higly underrated)
Bill Wyman
John Paul Jones
Flea
Geezer Butler
Jack Bruce
Roger Waters
Keith Richards (not much but still impressive)
Sting

1) john entwhistle
2) bill wyman

Entwistle was the best ever. Yes's Chris Squire is the most underrated. John Paul Jones is good, but not great. His conventional technique can be easily imitated by countless hacks playing in Zep cover bands.

I'd like to mention Jerry Scheff, Buell Neidlinger, Rob Wasserman and Edgar Meyer.

No forget Phil Lynott...

Leonard Keringer

of course!

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Karl.........the check's in the mail

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I'll vote for you for best singer too, if the pay is the same!

I didn't mention Bill here because he's somewhat
special to me. He makes me start playing bass in
the late sixties.

And he's of course the only bass player I could
imagine with the Stones. So I'm going to see
the RK on each tour ;-)

One thing: He's not one the great technical players
but he's got the feeling. He's grooving and swinging
and has it's own style with off-notes. The technique
he's using (plugging the strings near or on the neck
with his thumb or even pic) sounds like a swinging
double bass. Often you can't really tell which notes
he's playing but you can feel the groove and swing
of his playing. Great!



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> You don't need a bassplayer in a kick-ass rock and
> roll band

Huh?? Them's fightin' words, boy, unless you're talkin' about The Doors.

Most of the usual suspects have been listed, but I'll mention a few that influenced my own style when I started learning at age 15 or 16 -- Paul McCartney (melody), JP Jones (a funky underpinning to that Zep sound), Geezer Butler (early metal) and Chris Squire (his incredible sound -- I even owned a Rickenbacker for awhile).

I started as a guitarist, but gravitated to the bass as I had small hands and couldn't make a decent barre-chord at all (learned open-tuning later).

Easily Entwhistle...he could carry the Who even on off nights with Kenny Jones on drums.

Flea is earning a close second. He has funk, but Entwislte was a technical master.

Chis Squire from Yes was amazing. Not sure if he is even around anymore.

Bill was, and is, boring.

buffalo7478, Chris Squire IS still around, and so is Yes.

Bill -- boring? You don't play bass, do you? Do you play any instrument?