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    I don't know if they've been mentioned but Hayward, Pinder, and Lodge all played bass on various cuts for the Moody Blues and these guys really work out their fingers.

    The Moody Blues is one band where the bass actually gets some of the best "melody" lines that make the song instantantly recognizable.

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    I didn't see Tony Levin listed at all. He plays with Peter Gabriel and King Crimson among others. You also have Victor Wooton with Bella Fleck.

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    Didn't check the whole thread to see if Richard Bona was mentioned but if not definitely worth looking into

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    Bill Black
    Dunn
    Jamerson
    Bob Mosley
    Noel Redding
    McCartney
    Phil Lynott http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xr3O6Yz3mQ
    The guy in Budgie
    Whoever in the Hell that guy was in the Human Beinz.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxtJo...eature=related

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    - Bill Laswell
    - Chris Square
    - Jack Bruce
    - Jah Wobble
    - Marcus Miller

    James Benatti Lansing

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    Here's Jimmy Page

    Quote Originally Posted by Ducatista47 View Post
    One of the more interesting bass players I heard was Jimmy Page. Yes, James Patrick Page of Surrey, England. When I saw the Yardbirds in Chicago, he was playing bass with the group. In interviews he said he was "having trouble sticking to a root thing." No lie. As Neil Young would say, he was all over the f***ing thing. I do not think this brief period made it onto vinyl, unfortunately.
    Here it is. Not great quality, but Page playing bass with the Yardbirds. France, 1966.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOheWvkjq78&NR=1

    Here too, but not live.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc0D-...eature=related

    Related, Page with a Telecaster in "The New Yardbirds," his brief stint on bass over.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPfpU...eature=related

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    SMV Thunder

    A very good bass players recording SMV Thunder

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    Stanley Clarke
    Marcus Miller
    Victor WOODEN

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    Quote Originally Posted by stephane RAME View Post
    A very good bass players recording SMV Thunder

    with
    Stanley Clarke
    Marcus Miller
    Victor WOODEN

    Stéphane
    Those are great pictures. Thanks for showing the whole thing.
    Out.

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    Speaking of YouTube and bass players, I've been looking over this guy's posts. He has 126 posts, he had more but some were yanked.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS7dfbgORFc

    He also does keyboards.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s5l4...eature=channel

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    Great Bass Players

    My vote goes to, in a split decision, Tony Levin. Chris Squire, Stanley Clarke, and on the basis of his bass efforts on Rod Stewart's first solo album, Ron Wood. Wood's syncopation on the breaks in Stewart's version of "Street Fightin' Man" is amazing. Jaco Pastorius probably ought to go on the list for his sheer virtuosity, but I never found the power in his playing that these other guys have always demonstrated, particularly Levin. He knows how to hit the beat, even if it's a very strange one. And of course, when it comes to the poppier version of rock and roll, Paul McCartney is peerless, but on anything heavier, his instrumental ability is clearly outshown by Levin, Squire, and, surprisingly, perhaps, by Clarke, who really injected some real, raw, rock-type power into Chick Corea's compositions.
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    Quote Originally Posted by stephane RAME View Post
    A very good bass players recording SMV Thunder


    with
    Stanley Clarke
    Marcus Miller
    Victor WOODEN

    Stéphane
    I own that CD and have also recommended it to others here. I particularly like track 3.

    As for jazz bassists, another good one is Ralphe Armstrong. He started out with The Mahavishnu Orchestra at 17 (having beat out Jaco Pastorius for the spot) and then on to play with Jean-Luc Ponty.

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    I have enjoyed how the bass has transformed over the years.

    Leo Fender had a hard time at first selling his electric bass.
    The first bass player I listened to was Joe Osborn a west coast sessions player. He played with Ricky Nelson, Mom's & the Papa's, The Fifth Dimension, etc.
    My first bass was a 1961 Fender Jazz base. The bass has slowly transform from rhythm supporting instrument to a lead instrument.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jcrobso View Post
    The bass has slowly transform from rhythm supporting instrument to a lead instrument.
    That's too bad. Some bassplayers ought'a take up the piano and stop punishing the bass.

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    Maybe Les Paul should have not invented the electric guitar.

    That way it would still be a back ground instrument and only lonely cow boys would use them. John

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