We covered guitarists and drummers, lets talk bass players.

[kissmyace]

Great list
Wil add: Billy Sheehan, Geddy Lee

Tal Wilkenfeld

too many in funk/ jazz to name

[J.R.]

Steve Harris

[Micter]

John Myung
Billy Sheehan
Geddy Lee
Pete Way (The most influential bass player of bass players)
Bill Church
Stanley Clarke
Eddie Jackson

[100 watt]

Billy Cox
Cliff Burton
John Paul Jones
Rex Brown
Geddy Lee
Jack Bruce
Geezer Butler
John Entwhistle
Paul MCCartney
Michael Anthony
Bootsy Collins

[Elessar [Sly]]

Who are your favorite bass players...

John Entwistle
Stanley Clarke
John Paul Jones
Geezer Butler
Pino Paladino
Billy Cox
John Deacon
Adam Clayton
Michale Anthony
Cliff Burton
Jason Newsted
Flea

Pretty much this.

[wrongnote85]

geezer butler
steve harris
mike dirnt
cliff burton
dave ellefson
tony choy
roger patterson
steve digorogio
ron royce
cronos
lemmy
james jamerson
tommy shannon
jack bruce
chris squire
sting

[Adrian]

Everyone has pretty much mentioned the majority of my favorites, especially Wrongnote85.

I'll add two more I haven't seen thus far:

Glenn Hughes
Alex Webster

[Eddy Current]

Gary Thain
Dennis Dunaway
Tony Visconti
Mick Karn
Geddy Lee
Paul McCartney

[drewiv]

A list of accomplished bass players without Victor Wooten on it?

[Devin]

Alex Webster

Hell yes

Did anyone say Doug Pinnick?

Most of my faves have already been named, but I didn't see T.M. Stevens. That dude is badass, and wild as hell

[DoubleBarrel]

Alex Webster

Hell yes

Did anyone say Doug Pinnick?

Most of my faves have already been named, but I didn't see T.M. Stevens. That dude is badass, and wild as hell

werd on TM.

Nobody ever mentions Peter "Mars" Cowling either, and he's a monster

[Dave Lister]

With Bass players being mentioned, I immediately thought about this.

[video]http://youtu.be/Sx7eqdkwxEw[/video]





Seriously though, Geezer Butler and Steve Harris.

[Devin]

werd on TM.

Nobody ever mentions Peter "Mars" Cowling either, and he's a monster

Mars is definitely a badass

[phrophus]

Despite no one mentioning him, I think this guy was pretty damned good, actually.

[thefyn]

The bass player from Ohm blew my fkn mind when I saw them live recently.

[phrophus]

Despite no one mentioning him, I think this guy was pretty damned good, actually.

OMG yeah how could I forget Jaco, just been gone so long.. Sad story...

Yeah, I actually didn't think of him initially. Not because he's not amazing. Just that I was trying to think of players who I'd like to jam with, I guess, and it's kind of an impossibility with Jaco, so he didn't come to mind.

His self-titled album is amazing. Just listened to it twice in a row cuz once wasn't enough.

[sleewell]

mike gordon from phish. he is a badass and plays through this:

[monwobobbo]

fan of many players already listed. a couple that werent't

Burke Shelley (Budgie)

Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper) i know he was mentioned but he deserves way more recognition than he gets

the guy from Grand Funk Railroad (mel schacher or something like that).

Billy Cox (Jimi Hendrix) another guy who doesn't get much love but was awesome.

[thefyn]

fan of many players already listed. a couple that werent't

Burke Shelley (Budgie)

Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper) i know he was mentioned but he deserves way more recognition than he gets

the guy from Grand Funk Railroad (mel schacher or something like that).

Billy Cox (Jimi Hendrix) another guy who doesn't get much love but was awesome.

YES! Don't hear many Budgie refs. Great Welsh band.

[David_Kessler]

Never gets any credit, but Leon Wilkinson was a badass!

[banana hammock]

John Paul Jones

and everyone already listed!

[RSBro]

Rex (have one of his basses)
Jason Newsted (his new band/music is fkn stellar)
Claypool (my idol until I had to play in a "band" lol)
Jeremy Plato (from this TX/OK country band called Cross Canadian Ragweed, now playing as The Departed)
Robert DeLeo (the white Jamerson, and a better songwriter to boot)
edit: Mike Starr/Mike Inez (both AIC dudes rip, and are the main reason I love Spectors so much)
.... are the main "famous" guys I rip from. I have people in pop/rock that I have been stealing from more here lately:

Jeremy Davis (Paramore-righteous tone and fun bass lines, gets to stare at Hayley Williams daily)
Tobin Esperance (Papa Roach- dude has some fkn gnarly tone, especially live)
Joe Loughler/Dean Bernardini (Chevelle-tone for days, awesome unison guitar-line playing)

[sleewell]

^ paramore broke up bro

[RSBro]

^ paramore broke up bro

they're still together, it's just "parted" together. Hayley, Jeremy and Taylor are the only original members (from their 2 good records). The brothers (Josh & Zac Farrow) who used to write the majority of their music bailed and it shows. That "Monster" single was pretty underwhelming and their new "Now" single isn't very good at all. I doubt they'll last past this upcoming record.

I saw a recent YT concert and they have a new drummer and 2 new guitar players that do extra electric, acoustic, keys, etc. stuff. It's almost too much going on for me, but oh well.

[Rampage]

Jaco Pastorious: River People always pops into my head. Such a sick player.

Stanley Clarke: I'm a huge RTF fan, so he has to go down as one of my favorites.

Chuck Rainey: The Royal Scam and Aja have some of my favorite bass lines of all time.

Pops Popwell: Pretty underrated bassist; I don't think I've ever seen anyone mention him. I love The Crusaders and Larry Carlton and he was a big part of a lot of their classic songs.

Jack Bruce: Cream plus playing Apostrophe with Zappa? Yeah, one of my faves.