Top 50 Bass Players

Billy Kristian is a superb bass player! His work on Neil Ardley's Harmony of the Spheres is outstanding!

 

Some are too high (Roger Waters, Paul McCartney), some are too low (Jack Bruce, Geezer Butler), some are way too low ('Duck' Dunn, Berry Oakley, Bill Wyman) and some (Andy Fraser, Jack Casady, Billy Cox, Ronnie Lane, Jerry Scheff) didn't make the list at all!

About the only thing I agree with them on is John Entwistle at number one. That and John Paul Jones close to the top.

 

Levin is on the list.

 

I know, just my Brit humour failing me...

 

No John Myung from Dream Theater ?!

And As for Cliff Burton being top 10 material - sorry but for he didnt impact well enough for only 3 albums to be above a lot up the list. I think Rob Trujillo is actually a better player if compared on live performances alone.

 

Barry Adamson, Peter Hook, Derek Forbes, Jah Wobble. Where are they?

And Bob Babbit????!!

 

Yeah I saw Mike Watt too as a solo act years ago at a club as the headliner with the Foo fighters opening up (!...one of their first string of shows). Watt had sustained a leg injury not long before the show and hobbled out on crutches then chair. It as a fantastic show, Watt can play just about anything.

 

With a pretty flawed list I'll admit I'm really glad John Paul Jones got such props. I feel sometimes he gets lost in the shuffle with the others guys in Zeppelin such big names and personalities. Listen to any Zeppelin album or live show zeroing in on what he brought to the table and it's clear how amazing his contributions were.

 

If you don't think Claypool belongs on this list than you shouldn't be commenting.

 

No Gail Ann Dorsey? Sacrilege!

 

Move on, nothing to see here, crap list.

 

Thankfully those gawdawful Bass Fiddles are excluded from the Top 10. Who needs to see those charlatans like Dave Holland, Charlie Haden, Ron Carter, Edgar Meyer and Scott LaFaro on that list. Duff McKagan rules!

 

Better than Mingus, who wrote over a hundred jazz compositions, led duos, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, heptets, octets, nonets, small big bands, large big bands, played piano and released a solo recording of that, and rewrote the language of an entire genre? OK, got it. R&R is not the only music ever made. But it is convenient.

 

No Robbie Shakespeare???
Only one reggae player when reggae is the music that showcases bass themost and has elevated bass playing to another level?

 

Great to see Berry Oakley on this list. I'm of not mistaken, he is often overlooked on similar fubar lists.

 

Would have liked to see David Hood's or Ronnie Lane's names on the list.

 

Blimey, those are three striking omissions aren't they!

 

Sorry chief, I thought we were entitled to our opinions here. Go communism!

 

Gee, I'd read ridiculous lists before, but this one is too much for me.

 

bruce was never asked to join zep...thats just made up bs. i dont know where he came up with that self important crap but no one in cream seems to like zep. professional jealousy forever....sorry but that is a huge joke. of course, it doesnt take away from his great playing in cream but he is a self absorbed narcissist to actually bekieve he was considered for zep. page got jpj in before anyone else, and that was that. no mention of bruces claim from anyone, ever, except for bruce....hahaha, good one, jack

 

Wasn't it something about John Paul Jones didn't want to tour, so Page was considering asking Jack? However, I've never read anything from Page corroborate what Jack said. So unless Page speaks up, it's all just hearsay.

 

Listen to John Paul jones whole lotta love Berlin 7-7-80 or any live 77 show.. He deserves to be right behind the ox....

 

Well from what I've seen from Jack's book there is just a small passage that he was asked by John Paul Jones himself because he himself wanted to play other instruments. Not because he wasn't good. Dave Lewis, pretty much a Zeppelin authority asked Zeppelin's manager Peter Grant himself about this in an interview and he said he had no idea.
So at most it might have been a brief meeting between JPJ and Bruce with who really knows what the context was. For all we know it was a moment of guys talking musical shop putting down some beers!

 

Bah, no Pete Thomas or Colin Moulding?

 

no watt = invalid list.