John Deacon (higly underrated) Bill Wyman John Paul Jones Flea Geezer Butler Jack Bruce Roger Waters Keith Richards (not much but still impressive) Sting
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.
Leonard Keringer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > KSIE Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Leonard Keringer > > > > of course! > > > Karl.........the check's in the > mail
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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Potted Shrimp Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > 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).