The Hamer of Bass Players

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We always do the "underrated" guitar players but who is a great bass player we never hear people rave about.

I'll start

Graham Maby of the Joe Jackson Band

Tone, Chops, great on Electric and Stand Up

just listen to the bass on Steppin Out, or any of the first 2 JJ albums (which will both be going to the island with me)

 
a guy I play with played bass for pat travers before they had there moment of fame. Another guy Peter Daveyduck is an incredible underrated bass player.

 
Mike Mesaros---Smithereens

Roscoe Beck---he's even had a Fender signature bass, for Chrissakes

Whoever played bass on John Waite's NO BRAKE LIVE VHS, ca. 1983 or so. The instrumental intro to "Missing You" is gorgeous, features a brief high-on-the-register bass solo w/ exactly the kind of tone I wish I had back then. Seems like it was somebody semi-famous as a player's player, but I forgot who.

Ricky Phillips---he adds a lot to Styx

Dave LaRue---chops out the wazoo, but knows how to stay in the groove (only shows off when gets a solo)

 
Willie G. Moseley said:
Whoever played bass on John Waite's NO BRAKE LIVE VHS, ca. 1983 or so. The instrumental intro to "Missing You" is gorgeous, features a brief high-on-the-register bass solo w/ exactly the kind of tone I wish I had back then. Seems like it was somebody semi-famous as a player's player, but I forgot who.
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Carmine Rojas.

Earl Slick was the guitarist, BTW.

 
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Roscoe Beck---he's even had a Fender signature bass, for Chrissakes

I've always felt that if you've had a signature instrument you shouldn't qualify.

 
Fuck YEAH! "Look Sharp" has a ROCKIN' fuckin' bass line. I could listen to the Night and Day album all night and day everyday.

Though I always thought that the Steppin' Out part was a sequenced bassline from a TB-303...

 
+1 on Andy Rourke, Mike Mesaros. Both are monster players.

Simon Gallup (the Cure), Mike Mills (REM) and Cliff Williams (AC/CD)have a lot of memorable parts and really contributed in a HUGE way to those bands' sounds over the years. Never hear them mentioned much.

 
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RE: Carmine Rojas----I'd thunk it was a Hispanic name, couldn't quite nail it.

The idea of "no signature models" has merit, but Beck is still pretty much of a player's player

 
Kasim Sulton plays each song with a different feel and dynamics. Those qualities are hard to achieve, and most people will not notice them. A bass player like that gets on top players' A lists.

When he has to, Gene Simmons can create a great bass line that moves the song forward without stepping all over the other instruments.

 
A guy, who in my opinion, is up there with Squire and Lee is Dave Hope, of Kansas.

Listen to their early records, focus on the bass, and you will hear it.

Dude is a great player, and never mentioned anywhere, that I've seen.

 
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