Who's your favourite base player.

SimplemindSimplemind
in Musicians
Been playing 3/4 Stanley Clark albums today, I wonder who do you favour. I love rhythm sections in bands and surely nothing drives them better than the base? ok bow my head to the drummer, maybe next review. Not saying S. Clark is my favourite. Do you have one?

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  • SimplemindSimplemind
    As an  addition to my prev post, I  would say that Little Feat and also The Block Heads fill my  bill for rhythm sections. Easy to tell my age from this post!
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Stanley Clarke: I like the album called, simply, Stanley Clarke, with Tony Williams on drums.

    Electric bassists? Jaco Pastorius. He had everything - feel, drive, funkiness, technique, sound...

    Others? Steve Swallow, the jazz bassist. Plays a five-string with real feel. Doug Wimbish for his deep dubby thing. I could spend all day thinking of others. They were just off the top of my head.

    Upright bassists? One above all others: Charles Mingus. Like John Coltrane and Elvin Jones (individually), say, he still sounds astonishing today. Dave Holland, Anders Jormin, Michael Formanek, Barry Guy, William Parker...

    Does that move us along a bit?  :)
  • SimplemindSimplemind
    Yep :o
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Well, you did ask  :)
  • cj66cj66
    Spelling police have arrived.

    In baseball statistics, on-base percentage (OBP) is a measure of how often a batter reaches base for any reason other than a fielding error, fielder's choice, dropped or uncaught third strike, fielder's obstruction, or catcher's interference. OBP is calculated in Major League Baseball (MLB) by dividing the sum of hits, walks, and times hit by a pitch by the sum of at-bats, walks, times hit by pitch and sacrifice flies.[1] A hitter with a .400 on-base percentage is considered to be great[2] and rare;[3] only 61 players in MLB history with at least 3,000 career plate appearances (PA) have maintained such an OBP. Left fielder Ted Williams, who played 19 seasons for the Boston Red Sox, has the highest career on-base percentage, .4817, in MLB history.

    >:)

    On thread I'll add Chris Squire and Geezer Butler, maybe add Flea and Mark King too.
    No doubt there are many others but I  tend to listen to the drummer more than the bassist.


  • SimplemindSimplemind
    Fanks four the speling cheqe  o:)
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Of course, Flea. Add that man to the list!  :)
  • SimplemindSimplemind
    John Deacon.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Larry Graham; Scott La Faro.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Thomas Morgan
  • SimplemindSimplemind
    Sting, the more I hear the more I like, Jack Bruce, similar. Lately, Victor Wooten.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    James Jamerson. Can't leave him out.
  • AntiCrapAntiCrap
    Simplemind said:
    Been playing 3/4 Stanley Clark albums today, I wonder who do you favour. I love rhythm sections in bands and surely nothing drives them better than the base? ok bow my head to the drummer, maybe next review. Not saying S. Clark is my favourite. Do you have one?
    Simplemind said:
    Been playing 3/4 Stanley Clark albums today, I wonder who do you favour. I love rhythm sections in bands and surely nothing drives them better than the base? ok bow my head to the drummer, maybe next review. Not saying S. Clark is my favourite. Do you have one?
    Ditto I had put up twice.  o:)
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    AntiCrap said:
    Simplemind said:
    Been playing 3/4 Stanley Clark albums today, I wonder who do you favour. I love rhythm sections in bands and surely nothing drives them better than the base? ok bow my head to the drummer, maybe next review. Not saying S. Clark is my favourite. Do you have one?
    Simplemind said:
    Been playing 3/4 Stanley Clark albums today, I wonder who do you favour. I love rhythm sections in bands and surely nothing drives them better than the base? ok bow my head to the drummer, maybe next review. Not saying S. Clark is my favourite. Do you have one?
    Ditto I had put up twice.  o:)
    So good they named it twice?
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Wilton Felder. How could I have forgotten him?

    Paul Jackson. I’m just listening to him now, with Herbie Hancock. Astonishing!
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen. I like bassists!
  • SimplemindSimplemind
    Bass players are a bit like....... well you know the rest, every band has one. Paul Jackson, Herbie Hancock you cant go wrong. which track/album are you listening to?
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    I was listening to Flood, the Japanese live album.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Thundercat!
  • SimplemindSimplemind
    Skeletor! Had to google that, never heard of him. Will put that right over the coming days.
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Skeletor? I had to Google him    :o 

  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Danny Thompson! How could I have forgotten him?
  • DocfosterDocfoster
    In no particular order:

    Steve Scipio (Cymande)
    Jack Bruce
    Mani (The Stone Roses)
    Paul McCartney (1965-69)
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Docfoster said:
    In no particular order:

    Steve Scipio (Cymande)
    Jack Bruce
    Mani (The Stone Roses)
    Paul McCartney (1965-69)
    No surprises there, then!
  • coticcotic
    I would like to add Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and Mick Karn of Japan, the late 70's and 80's wouldn't have been the same without them, not for me anyway!
  • uglymusicuglymusic
    Great choices! 
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