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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:44 am
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Totally missed an opportunity to meet this guy. One of my favorite bands of all time. I was hired by an audio rental company to build three rental protools rigs in rolling cases so they could be delivered to studios around the city. Job was for about 3 weeks and I was trying to get it done so I could get on to the next gig and so skipped lunch and sat at the bench with my eyes on the soldering iron for 3 weeks straight. Towards the end of the gig I decided to go get a slice. On my way back I saw this man walking up the street wheeling a suitcase. I chuckled to myself thinking ‘that guy looks just like Steve Harris, that’s funny’ as I passed him, we exchanged glances. Him like “what are you looking at” and me “that can’t be him, why would he be walking on 54th street all the way by 11th ave. I got back to the job and mentioned to the feller at the desk that I just saw this guy wheeling a suitcase that looked just like Steve Harris. “Oh yeah he was just here picking up his bag. Look he signed my bass. You didn’t notice him walking past you for the last three weeks? They’re mixing Rock in Rio up at the Hit Factory and he comes here to check the mixes so he doesn’t hold up the sessions. I think they’re wrapping up but you might be able to catch some of them outside of the studio getting some fresh air.”

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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 7:04 am
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 12:24 pm
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Tal Wilkenfeld for the jazzy stuff, Yolanda Charles for just pinning a song down and playing superb solid basslines.

Plus they're both kinda cute.

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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 1:28 pm
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Great call on Steve Harris. You reminded me how much he stood out as an exceptional bass player in a METAL band.

Also got me thinking of another great metal bassist...

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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:05 pm
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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 8:15 pm
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Just search youtube for "John Entwistle isolated bass"



Bass starts about a minute into that video.

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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:58 pm
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The way I look at it, people that play popular/modern music are artists just like painters, sculptors, photographers, writers, designers, design engineers, etc.

Would an art forum have a question like who is the best painter? No it wouldn't. People who appreciate visual art will look at paintings or photos by many artists and find works they like or that elicit an emotional response, but usually they don't limit their appreciation to one particular artist and say that any one particular visual artist is the best. Arguing "who is the best bassist" is like arguing who was better Renoir or Van Gogh. The answer is of course they both are great artists.

I think that all of the bassists listed are first rate players, but so are many bassists toiling away in bands you never heard of before and probably never will. You see, we all are artists in a sense and there is human value in all art. Art is subjective. What I think is best you won't.

Like some artists (Pablo Picasso is a very obvious and famous example), many musicians go through phases or "periods" with different performance styles. Many get better or develop different stylings or tonal treatments or skill sets but few stay exactly the same for 20 or 30 years. A couple of notable exceptions to that would be John Lodge and Carol Kaye. I can't tell much difference in their early to late work beyond improvements in recording technology, while their basic style stayed pretty much the same. Perhaps their style didn't change so much because it was dang near perfection from the start.

I've had "periods" like Picasso had periods. My style has changed and evolved and probably so will yours if you play long enough.

I'm sort of surprised that nobody has mentioned Me'shell Ndegeocello, so I will. She's a real player and very talented singer also. I'm not saying she's "the best bassist" though. She's good and very under rated and almost always left out of these threads. There's hundreds more just like her. Teddy Gentry is a great solid bassist, nobody ever mentions him either. Will Lee likewise.

I appreciate all good players, but I can't say that this player is better than that player any more than I could say the statue of Alexandros of Antioch's Venus De Milo is a better statue than Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni's David. They both are great art.


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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:08 pm
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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:35 pm
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Great post Brotherdave. Very well said. Best is not a concept I work with. Especially regarding artists of any sort.

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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 12:34 pm
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I don't know about "best," but I know what I like to hear, and what I like to hear is often played by:

Dusty Hill
Keith Ferguson
Tommy Shannon
Preston Hubbard
Bill Wyman
Jimmy Pettit (Joe Ely band)
Glenn Fukunaga (also Joe Ely band)
Willie Dixon
Nathan East
Sarah Brown (Antone's house band)
John McVie
Terry Jordan (original Screamin' Armadillos bassist, sidelined by stroke)
Jason Decker (Screamin' Armadillos)

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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 9:53 pm
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I think there really is a best bassist out there. "Best" meaning...

doesn't say a word during rehearsal
shows up in tune/hass good equipment
knows every song as if he/she wrote it
makes the whole band feel better


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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 10:27 pm
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I think a lot of people respect John Entwhistle and how he revolutionized the way the bass can be played, but I'll also add Chris Squire of YES fame to the mix, because he played the bass more like a guitar than pretty much anyone from that era, including pick playing.

Great discussion, and great to see so many different names coming out.

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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 11:51 pm
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Frank, thanks for including that track of Mr. Entwistle in isolation.

Can I vote twice? I forgot to mention Mike Watt on the Thunder Broom!!!


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Post subject: Re: Best bass player
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 7:11 pm
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Rev Jones ... doesn't get any better than E.2.M.N. from Forte's DIVISION album



bonus points for anyone who has actually heard of Forte' or Black Symphony.
he also played for MSG for a while.

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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 2:15 am
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