Name some good bass players. Any genre. (A.K.A. Bassist Appreciation Thread)

[Arcadio]

Bass players often go unnoticed, especially in rock bands. Name your favorite. You can also name bands or songs that feature awesome bass. And not just rock. Any genre.

My favorite are Rex Brown from Pantera and Cliff Burton from Metallica.

 

[spidey07]

Flea, dude from iron maiden, dude from Rush, dude from Tool.

 

[Platypus]

Jaco Pastorius
Victor Wooten
Geddy Lee
Cliff Burton
Stefan Lessard

 

[shocksyde]

Obscure: Clay Parnell

 

[meltdown75]

les claypool

 

[Lonyo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbassbeaters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LilA34dqcCk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAc2NIWC_jA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld2ZW2CZRis&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht3Y3JoK7YI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiX9RaQTJxo&feature=related

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Stanley Clark

 

[Riverhound777]

Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne

 

[Ns1]

Justin chancellor, sickest bass tone ever

also, flea

 

[Gibsons]

Jeff Caxide - Dunno how technically proficient he might be, but ISIS does some weird stuff with the bass.

Also, John Entwistle, duh.

 

[HannibalX]

Jason Newsted.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Steve Harris

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Doug Keyser, of Watchtower.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsGobAigzNs

 

[lxskllr]

Michael Manring...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js93qxDlIzg

 

[TechBoyJK]

John Myung from Dream Theater. He has to keep up with Rudess and Petrucci.

Another not so well known bass player is Sean Malone. He does Gordian Knot and a few other things, and played bass on the original OSI cd. The OSI cd was produced and co written by fromer Dream Theater piano player Kevin Moore and had Mike Portnoy on drums.

seanmalone.net

he's really, really good.

 

[SirStev0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=953PkxFNiko
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[SirStev0]

Flea, dude from iron maiden, dude from Rush, dude from Tool.

You mean Geddy Lee?
He is singing, bassing and keyboarding all at the same time.

 

[tweakboy]

Roger Waters

 

[Spacehead]

I've seen theses guys live:
Joey DeMaio of Manowar
Lemmy of Motorhead
Billy Sheehan with Talas & Mr Big
Zia Geelani with Ozric Tentacles


Also:
Peter Baltes of Accept
Jack Bruce of Cream & solo

 

[Via]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFJwFourt-g&feature=related

 

[Oil]

James Jamerson
Scott Reeder of Kyuss
Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath
Jack Bruce of Cream

 

[gsellis]

Another for Geddy Lee.

Oh, and I was blown away when I saw Cheap Trick recently and realized that Tom Petersson was playing a 12 string bass. That was totally cool.

 

[Jeffg010]

http://bx3tour.com/
STU HAMM
JEFF BERLIN
BILLY SHEEHAN

Billy Sheehan is down right sick. I saw this tour when they played at the Hard Rock Cafe in Pittsburgh. I was 1 foot from the stage talk about a dream come true.

 

[dwell]

Matt Freeman

 

[Firsttime]

Chris Wolstenholme from Muse is an excellent rock-riffing bassist.

The others listed here are all excellent as well.