Entwisle
Jack Bruce
John Paul Jones
Bill Wyman
Paul
Geezer Butler
Family Man from the Wailers
Willie Dixon

Larry Graham

Hard to argue with Entwhistle. But I really hear Bill when listening to the old live stuff compared to the newer stuff. Listen to YaYas where it sounds like Bill's bass is driving the band. What about "Bill is good tonight"??
I am sure Darryl could do more if they let him.

WMiller Wrote:
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> > Bengt Saether, but I`m pretty sure that none of
> > you have heard about him.
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> Then by all means, share with us who this genius
> known only to you is.
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> "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is
> around, does it make a sound?" (Or something like
> that!)

He play in a norwegian band called Motorpsycho

Sting
Patrick O'Hearn



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Thanks, Tussler.

Right now I've got the new The Who CD on which you can hear PP on Bass. Well, it sounds very similar to JE's sound...really good!

Keep on rollin'
Gangster

No one has mentioned Jack Bruce.

Also, McCartneys playing on Rubber Soul is the business.

Sorry, just noticed someone had mentioned Jack Bruce.

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> Thanks, Tussler.

They have released 16 albums and none of them are greatest hits. They have played punk, rock, hardrock, jazz, pop and country and all the albums have got great critics. They have been number one in Holland on the alternative list. The magazines concluded that the last album was a mix of psychadelika and prog.
You can check it out on www.motorpsycho.fix.no. ps. They have also released a lot of ep`s with one song from an album and four new ones. And I like that.

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> > I saw Jaco Pastorius. I even shot hoops with
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Thanks..at NC State Univ outside a friend's dorm, back in the late 70's....Weather Report was playing that night on campus....Jaco came and asked if we had room for one more in our pick up game....He was on my team and he was really good!!! We played like we had played together all our lives. I am pretty tall but this guy could sky over me. He jumped like a frog....he smelled like he was in real bad need of a shower but, hey, he cooked. Gave me a hand written note for us to go to the show that night for free and it worked!!!

sad to hear he died a few years later.....How about his bass playing on joni Mitchell's "Hissing of Summer Lawns" and "Hijera" albums? Way up front stuff.

tussler Wrote:
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> > Thanks, Tussler.
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> They have released 16 albums and none of them are
> greatest hits. They have played punk, rock,
> hardrock, jazz, pop and country and all the albums
> have got great critics. They have been number one
> in Holland on the alternative list. The magazines
> concluded that the last album was a mix of
> psychadelika and prog.
> You can check it out on www.motorpsycho.fix.no.
> ps. They have also released a lot of ep`s with one
> song from an album and four new ones. And I like
> that.


Just checked out "Watersound" from their website (the only one I could get to play). I liked it enough to poke around further to hear more given the different styles you mentioned they play.

Thanks again.

Entwisle was the man!

"It's Good To Be Here, It's Good To Be Anywhere"-Keith Richards

"Halloween Is Every Night Of My Life"-Keith Richards

"I Got The Sticky Fingers, For Some Girls"

As always it depends on the music style. Each style has it's brilliant players. Some great might be
Ron Brown,
James Jammerson,
Ron Carter,
Jaco,
McCartney

and a lot of technical players like
Marc King
Stanley Clarke
Markus Miller

to name some of the more popular ones.

But I don't think there is THE ONE who is the best one for all styles.

Give a close listen to Paul's bass on "I Should Have Known Better" Unreal! Among bass men I know, they all love James Jamerson (sp?) who was on lots of the old Motown stuff. I'm sure Keith knows of him.

personnally, i really like the way darryl jones uses to play the stones compositions...

but bill was much better

Brussels, ? , Stade Roi Baudouin

For rock I would go with the Ox.

Overall best I would go with Marcus Miller.

I do think though that Bill Wyman has been underrated for years. I loved his playing on the early 70's boots.

What's so great about J.P. Jones? Apart from the studio resume that got him the gig in Zeppelin, I don't hear anything distinctive about his playing. Though I'm not much of an LZ fan.

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> What's so great about J.P. Jones? Apart from the
> studio resume that got him the gig in Zeppelin, I
> don't hear anything distinctive about his playing.
> Though I'm not much of an LZ fan.

cc, I am a huge LZ fan and I have to agree with you....I just don't really hear JP Jones as being the Hammer Of The Gods...he's good, he also plays some cool keyboards, and I understand he's been playing some mandolin as of lately, but I wouldn't say John Paul was the greatest, not even close....but he is a good bassist, in my opinion, and a heckuva nice guy.

Im dont know much about the bass. theres lots of players I dont know. but I think Bill Wyman and Paul Mc Cartney Sound pretty good when I listen to beatles and stones songs.

I like the OX. He had a better oportunity to shine with The Who. Who else was playing a bass solo in the Mid 60s (My Generation)?????

Jack Bruce
the bass player in Bob Marley's old band (name??)

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technically i would say les claypool of primus

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Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

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I do think you right Miss U, Jack B almost played the bass as a solo guitar.

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Not necessarily the greatest by any stretch, but a couple of my personal favorites, mainly because they're were/are in bands where the guitarists basically just play the root chorts and they, as bassists, wind up carrying the melody:

Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols demos - Steve Jones played most of the bass on Bollocks - and his stuff with Rich Kids, "Ghosts Of Princes In Towers" especially)

Mike Mills, R.E.M., especially on Reckoning.

There's a couple of white boy mofos for you.

On a related note, Bootsy Collins hugged me once. It was incredibly awkward and I smelled like Bootsy the rest of the day.

Bootsy grooves, though - he's like Wyman '81 on steroids and acid.

For Rock? Greg Ridley from Humble Pie. Billy Wyman, Berry Oakley (from original Allman Bros), Jack Casady.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

John Entwistle
Donald "Duck" Dunn
Geddy Lee

Phil Lesh!

JAck Cassady....check out Surphase Tension....

JR