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Favorite Bassists (with pictures)
Misereatur:
Chi Cheng (Deftones)
Billy Gould (Faith No More and shitloads of other projects)
Tony Choy. Mainly his work on Athiest's Unquestionable Presence
Pete Trewavas (Marillion)
Charlie Haden (solo, Ornette colleman, and many other jazz collaborations)
Kristoffer Gildenlow (Pain Of Salvation)
Chris Wood (Medeski, Martin & Wood)
Marcello Giuliani (Erik Truffaz)
Dave Holland ( Miles Davis, solo, Circle, Michael Brecker)
Martin Mendez (Opeth)
Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, Fantômas)
Bastardous Bassist:
Oh no. You jus had to do this. First off, I second Jaco. Honestly there are no other electric bass players out there for me. His sense of melody, rhythm, phrasing and just general musicality are just so incredible that nobody even comes close, not even Sean Malone:
Then, there's always Francis "Rocco" Prestia from Tower of Power:
Now for upright players, because that's my instrument (I play electric, but I can't do any of the extended techniques native to electric, plus I don't play it much).
The late, great Paul Chambers (even though his intonation wasn't sterling)
Ron Carter. One of the best backing guys ever (loved everything he's been behind), but I have one of his albums as a bandleader and I am not impressed. It's well-played and there's nothing really wrong with it except the fact that nothing really happens. It's almost as if he planned it to be background music.
Dave Holland. Dave Holland Quintet is one of my favorite groups ever to exist. Their Extended Play: Live at Birdland is one of my favorite albums ever.
The incredible Charles Mingus. Nothing more about him needs to be said, really.
Chris Wood from MMW is pretty good, and there's this one bass fill on A Go-Go (with John Scofield), the first track (title track) that puts him in this list with everyone else. It's that good. His solo on "Last Chance to Dance Trance, Perhaps" is probably my favorite bass solo ever, too.
Finally, the greatest classical solo bassist ever to live (in my opinion); Edgar Meyer. Find his recording of Bach's Unaccompanied Cello Suites. Incredible.
Storm Rider:
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Props for Trewavas and Gildenlow.
Kai:
I pretty much second all of Storm's and Jaco. Seriously. However, you all should be ashamed of yourselves. You all forgot about the fat bastard behind Praxis (and a good portion of Buckethead's career):
BILL LASWELL (Praxis, Solo, about 15,000,000 Collaborations, etc).
EDIT: Fuck, we forgot Geezer Butler, too! I'm totally going to post a picture:
EDIT #2: I just noticed! In that picture, Geddy Lee is wearing converse! Haha!
IronOxide:
Anyone with a 6 string bass should be taken off of this list on grounds of EXTREME STUPIDITY. That's all I have to say.
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