Bass players

[Motu]

- best album art next thread?

I have a wonderful taschen book '1000 album covers' - outstanding.
http://www.taschen.com
Parsons bookshop, kitchener st akl - i could spend almost as much $ in there as a motorcycle shop.

Are you a mind reader too? I was tossing up between bass players and LP Album art for a thread,but the drum thread started and figured I better do the bass one.

I mentioned the Wishbone Ash album Argus on the guitar thread - that was so simple and powerful....the medievel knight watching a UFO....

[NC]

Flea

And Chris Le Pru

[James Deuce]

ai ai ai 10 strings! what torture is this?!?
How does that work with octaves methinks.
but then Keef Richards (not worthy etc) had a 7 string did he not?

I presume it's predominately plucked?

Nope - finger tapping features quite heavily as do finger extensions - hollow wooden tubes that slip over the fingers. There are 8, 10, and 12 string versions.

[sels1]

Nathan East....takes over (the great) Jack Bruces place as bassist for that Clapton fella.
And whoever the bassist was on Jimi Hendrix's version of "All along the watchtower" (got the TAB and tried to learn it - wwwaaayyy to hard!)

[Devil]

I am very much enjoying the tunes from Ryan from Mudvayne.

[James Deuce]

Nathan East....takes over (the great) Jack Bruces place as bassist for that Clapton fella.
And whoever the bassist was on Jimi Hendrix's version of "All along the watchtower" (got the TAB and tried to learn it - wwwaaayyy to hard!)

Noel Redding I believe.

[_Gina_]

Oi Motu - Ya forgot Bob Daisley!!!!!

Yeah.....don't forget Bob, he rocks.....

[Quasievil]

Without doubt Mark King, plays Bass and sings lead vocals for the group Level 42, prominent in the 80's but still around today.
Check the song out called "lessons in love" awesome Bass line

[Joni]

Rhonda Smith...

[MSTRS:Me]

Victor Wooten - Flecktones, and a million Jazz projects

The short guy, slightly dwarfish, plays a mean version of Amazing Grace using predominantly harmonics. Got to be the god of bass, that man.

[Motu]

Allan Wade was Billy T's bass player,watching him play bass was like watching Ivan Mauger go around the speedway track.His bass had a heavy body and it was deeply carved to get the weight down.Wadey was an upolstorer and put a new cover on the seat of my C50,in case you were wondering why I mentioed an obscure local player...

My wife's bass is heavy too,painted in Plasicote black,it has a brass bridge and nut with flat wound strings,the sound is thick and dull,half way to an accoustic,not many like it's sound,but I do - it plays like a big old flywheel,just rolls along.I'm left handed so can't play it,but the flatwounds are plush on fingers.We used to have an old 100W Jansen Bassman going through a 12in speaker at home,the three went together well,but the mains hum was like living inside a power station.Now we have some English electronic combo,takes a guitar no worries too.

[MSTRS:Me]

My wife's bass is heavy too,

Wanna edit that before Mrs Motu reads it? Or just let us know which ward & visiting times if you please.

[Coldkiwi]

My favourites have been:
Stanley Clarke (definite legend with mind blowing ability)
Bootsy Collins (some strange outfits, but the brother has some serious groove)

Chapman sticks rock! There was a dude in a NZ band called Canvas (became Chris Butler Trio) that had one and despite it being a relatively unanimated performance, it had to be seen to be appreciated and believed that all that sound came from one guy!

[Big Dave]

also the guy from the living end dunno his name but he stands on his bass, and its a proper bass not electric

My first published article in NZ was a review of the Living End tour for Rip It Up magazine. I still play a few of their 'anthemic' numbers to get the creative juices flowing.

[hXc]

Victor Wooten - Flecktones
Flea - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin
Bob Daisley - Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne
Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath
Tim Commerford - Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave
Shavo Odajian - System Of A Down
Stu Hamm - Joe Satriani and various other jazz/rock groups

And I heard there is some up and coming guy called Malaki Strongman and he's in a band called MethVed