Bass Players

[JohanJ]

Seems that when your name has an alliteration in it you have big chance to become a great bass player 😀

Pino Paladino, Brian Bromberg, Jimmy Johnson, Marcus Miller, Steve Swallow, Michael Manring, Hugh Hopper, Rufus Reid.

[AnotherSpin]

OP mentioned Phil Zone without noticing that Phil Lesh was already mentioned in the very first comment. Okay, let's skip it. In fact, there was no other bassist alike. Bass as a permanent solo instrument. Each individual string with its own amplification path. Does anyone know analogies in rock music (and not only in rock music)?

[TubeLover]

I don't believe anyone has yet mentioned Felix Pappalardi of Mountain. While also a highly rated producer and rock singer, he played a phenomenal bass. He tragically died after being shot by his wife with a derringer he had given her as a gift previously. Following that, no less than Jack Bruce acquired his bass guitar to play onstage, thereafter. Mick Jagger once called him  "The Smartest Man in Rock and Roll." He was widely noted as a legendary pioneering rock bassist. I'll never forget hearing he and Leslie West and the rest of Mountain performing an amazing  ten minute version of  "Theme From An Imaginary Western" back in my youth.  

 

[marce]

12 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

 

a fine player but not the guy I've dropped hints about

 

@jabbr has mentioned him in other threads...

 

special sunglasses; James Brown's band, Funkadelic & Parliament, his own band...

 

William Earl ...

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsy_Collins

 

[Ralf11]

Bingo!

 

 

 

[MB]

On the punk and free-form jazz side,  Mike Watt.  Coltrane on steroids.  A great bassist.

[Iving]

Danny Thompson [of Pentangle but I'm thinking Tim Buckley's 'Dream Letter' i.e. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London - 1968]

 

[Richard Dale]

Anyone mentioned George Porter of the Meters yet?

[Ralf11]

Yes, or "yes" - I posted a video of him but IIRC, no text.  As with post #2, text is useful if someone later does a search

[bluesman]

On 11/3/2019 at 3:29 PM, Ralf11 said:

a fine player but not the guy I've dropped hints about

 

Actually, he is if your hint ""Free your mind and your ass will follow" is to be followed.  As I suggested in an earlier post, BIlly Bass was on that album, not Bootsie.

[Ralf11]

Sorry, I meant the meme not the specific album from which it came...

[mcgillroy]

Colin Marston (is god some assert). Check him out, impressive catalogue, great guitarist and producer too. 

[mordante]

I love bass players that use lots and lots of fuzz, a big muff fuzz pedal. Or bass players that have impact on the music without trying to outplay the rest of the band. I dislike solo's (bass,  guitar or on any other instrument).

 

The bass should put down the foundation. That does not always mean a rhythm line yes often is does. But it can also just be a low rumbling sound where the individual notes cant be heard.

Besides that here are some pics of bass players I like for different reason.

[mordante]

davie504 spooky scary skeletons 2019

[bluesman]

2 hours ago, mordante said:

But it can also just be a low rumbling sound where the individual notes cant be heard.

You’re describing the sound escaping from the low rider with 24” subs in the trunk that’s next to you at a stoplight.  Or it could be turntable rumble, or 60 Hz hum - but I can’t really consider what you describe as an instrumental contribution to music of any kind.

 

Of course, it could also be the result of a blown speaker in the bass amp, in which case a recone might reveal some stellar playing

[Ralf11]

 

[mordante]

On 11/8/2019 at 4:00 PM, bluesman said:

You’re describing the sound escaping from the low rider with 24” subs in the trunk that’s next to you at a stoplight.  Or it could be turntable rumble, or 60 Hz hum - but I can’t really consider what you describe as an instrumental contribution to music of any kind.

 

Of course, it could also be the result of a blown speaker in the bass amp, in which case a recone might reveal some stellar playing

 

Why so close minded?

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4ysatB9m9s

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V89JtjisHr4

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSySb9yGhdA

 

 

[bluesman]

1 hour ago, mordante said:

 

Why so close minded?

 

 

 

I don't have to like everything to be open to it.  As a classically trained pianist and a professional musician for 60 years (guitar, bass, keyboards), I've been hired to back a wide variety of acts.  I have decent historical and contemporary knowledge of the spectra of genre and content of music.  I can even stretch my imagination far enough to accept that the fuzzy drone Cisneros is playing there could be considered a modern take on the pedal tone and that it might really make the right tunes pop.  Sadly, the only such efforts I've heard to date remind me more of Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C# minor played painfully slowly on solo fuzz bass.

 

I understand the drone band concept, and I like some of what I've heard.  But virtually atonal buzz bass seems to be far more physical than musical in its effect on the listener / feeler.  And I bet Adolph Rickenbacker is turning over in his grave

[Ralf11]

4 hours ago, bluesman said:

... I can even stretch my imagination far enough to ...

 

 

 

[semente]

@The Computer Audiophile, @Ralf11, shouldn't this topic be moved to Music In General?

[semente]

Simon Gallup

 

 

[semente]

Kim Deal

 

 

[semente]

Paul Chambers

 

 

[semente]

Ron Carter

 

 

[semente]

sorry, just one more