RIP Jack Bruce

[Steadmund Brand]

James Jamerson.

No Jamerson, no Motown.

yep... I had Jamerson on my list as well.. same with Donald Dunn, without Dunn no Stax records (who I feel were better then Motown....just my opinion but i'll take Stax anyday....Booker T, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Albert King, Wilson Pickett, Isaac Hayes, even Elvis worked with Stax!!!)

Steadmund Brand

[Livia]

James Jamerson.

No Jamerson, no Motown.

[Steadmund Brand]

I just realized that I left Jim Lea off my list.... shame on me, and Roger Waters as well...(well... maybe as a bass player I would leave Waters off the top 10... but not by much)

Steadmund Brand

[GUT]

Just to gly the flag a little Australia had a couple of pretty good bassists too.

Doc Neeson may have lead that list.

But Glenn Wheatley, who is more famous as the manager of Johnny Farnham started his music career on Bass.

And a non Australian who made Bass open to females had to be Suzy Q, not that she was great player but she opened it up to a whole generation of women, who until then were little more than singers keyboard players and occasionally guitarists.

[GUT]

really hard for me to make a list.
I am no musician.

There are bass men whom I loved their sound, others whom I loved their style/virtuosity, and others whom I loved the way they innovated.

The sounds I enjoyed: John Paul Jones, Geezer Butler, Jack Bruce, Flea, Bill Wyman, Simon Raymonde and probably more that I'm forgetting at the moment.

All I can say is, the 80's (1980, ripperologists, 1-9-8-0) were a bad decade for rythm sections in pop/rock music.

Hate to disagree but the '80's were just a S#!7 decade for music full stop.

[GUT]

G'day Steadmund

Not a bad list but 'd bump Jack up a few notches. But can't argue with Entwistle it's really so subjective

Hello there GUT... as I said 2-10 are not in order.. so Jack could be #2 or he could be #10 not telling hahaha, truth is I was just listing people off the top of my head.. didn't take the time for order.. I'm sure I left off a few folks I should have added.... what did you think of the rest of the list?

Steadmund Brand-

I'd certainly Have Rutherford, Jones and Lake on my list.

[GUT]

... as I said 2-10 are not in order..

I missed that bit.

[SirJohnFalstaff]

really hard for me to make a list.
I am no musician.

There are bass men whom I loved their sound, others whom I loved their style/virtuosity, and others whom I loved the way they innovated.

The sounds I enjoyed: John Paul Jones, Geezer Butler, Jack Bruce, Flea, Bill Wyman, Simon Raymonde and probably more that I'm forgetting at the moment.

All I can say is, the 80's (1980, ripperologists, 1-9-8-0) were a bad decade for rythm sections in pop/rock music.

[Steadmund Brand]

[QUOTE=GUT;318665]G'day Steadmund

Not a bad list but 'd bump Jack up a few notches. But can't argue with Entwistle it's really so subjective[/QU

Hello there GUT... as I said 2-10 are not in order.. so Jack could be #2 or he could be #10 not telling hahaha, truth is I was just listing people off the top of my head.. didn't take the time for order.. I'm sure I left off a few folks I should have added.... what did you think of the rest of the list?

Steadmund Brand-

[GUT]

G'day Steadmund

Not a bad list but 'd bump Jack up a few notches. But can't argue with Entwistle it's really so subjective

[Steadmund Brand]

John Paul Jones.

Wow.. Shocking with that screen name hahaha

I would have to say my #1 is set, 2-10 is not in any order...

1- John Entwistle
2- Nathan East
3-James Jamerson
4- Mike Rutherford (very underrated as a bass player)
5- Jack Bruce
6-Greg Lake
7-Larry Graham
8- John Paul Jones
9-Donald Dunn
10-Willie Weeks

[Red Zeppelin]

If he wasn't the greatest bassist of the rock era, then who was?

John Paul Jones.

[Barnaby]

RIP but I hope this turns into a favorite bassists thread. My favorite bassists are Duff McKagan and Lemmy.

[GUT]

i'd like to see evidence of that, mate! Sounds spurious to me. Macca was an OK musician, but never a great one.

Graham

G'day Graham

Well here's a lnk where he says that that the best Bass players are "Jamerson, McCartney, Pastorius and me" I'll find the one where he narrows it down even further.

http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/slowhand/2008/013063.html

[Graham]

G'day Graham

Jack himself once said that it was Macca.

The big difference is that Jack always wanted to be a Bassist, Paul ended up there by default.

i'd like to see evidence of that, mate! Sounds spurious to me. Macca was an OK musician, but never a great one.

Graham