100 Greatest Bass Players of All Time (Including Jazz and Rock)

[Buster Highmen]

Have at it.
Victor Wooten? Jack Bruce? Stanley Clarke? Les Claypool? Mingus? Entwistle? Michael Henderson? Jaco Pastorius? Jack Cassidy? Bootsy?

Let your personal froths foam and the abuse fly!

[PNWbrit]

Not already mentioned: Aston Barrett, Larry Graham, Mark King, Robbie Shakespeare, James Jamerson, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Noel Redding, Willie Dixon, Marcus Miller, Charlie Haden, Paul Chambers, Robert Popwell, Pino Palladino, Sting, Armistead Burwell Smith.

[JimmyCarter]

Mark Sandman

[half-fast]

alphonso johnson, mark egan, andy west, louis johnson, niels henning orsted pederson, phil chen, fernando saunders, mark king, lots of others I'm forgetting

[PNWbrit]

Colin Greenwood.

[toast2266]

Flea seems like he should be in there somewhere.

[Buster Highmen]

While Wooten is a consumate technician, I gots to give my props to Jaco Pastorius as my favorite.

__LOVED__ Weather Report back in the day.

Second is probably Bootsy since I'm a complete Parliament/Funkadelic fiend.

Then there's Michael Henderson who started w/Stevei Wonder, but laid down some of my all time favorites with Miles Davis in Jack Johnson, LIve Evil, Bitches Brew, Agharta/Pangea, On The Corner, etc.

Mingus gets the props for touch.

All those other guys I mentioned kind of mash together. Claypool is a nut. Cassidy is really, really under appreciated. And yeah, Larry Graham in Sly's band was fantastic.

And I'll admit I always thought Noel Redding was a putz.

Whoops, yeah, flea is fantastic.

Double whoops squared: forgot John Wetton, bass player for early 70s King Crimson as well as Trey Gunn in the 90s.

And how can I foregt Bill Laswell not only as a bass player, but as a musician who drove to the weird lands of My Life In The Bush of Ghosts, Material and Praxis.

[powpig]

Jonas Helborg
Stu Hamm
Geezer Butler
John Paul Jones
Geddy Lee
Tony Franklin
Percy Jones
John Myung
Cliff Burton
John Entwistle
Robert Trujillo

[Buster Highmen]

Holy shit, I forgot to note Hugh Hopper, definitely a pioneer.

[PNWbrit]

Paul Jackson, Bernard Odum, Bakithi Kumalo

[MMP]

i enjoy Phil Lesh

[Tippster]

John Entwhistle
Tony Levin
Oteil Burbridge
Tool's Justin Chancellor is rock solid, IMHO.

Still waiting for someone to throw Phil Lesh into the mix. Although not bad he never once blew me away. EDIT: HAHAHAHAHA MMP!

Laswell only played on "America is Waiting," Buster.

[boltonoutlaw]

Mike Watt

[Art Shirk]

As usual, the big guns have been listed, but who can leave it out one of the most recognizable basslines ever/John Deacon. I also like Andy Rourke and Stuart Zender.

[Crampedon]

Here is a vote for Ashish Vyas