Swiss.
11:31 Fri Sep 21
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Great fan of the late Mick Karn. His work with Japan and Gary Numan.
Hookie of course from JD/NO.
And Mark King of level 42.
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Darby_
11:32 Fri Sep 21
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I don't care about the 'greatest' but my current favourite is this bird:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWLJeqLPfSU
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Kaiser Zoso
11:32 Fri Sep 21
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Oh fuck me
Scrub my Mark King vote
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cygnet
11:33 Fri Sep 21
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Graham Maby... though I may be biased. He's my cousin.
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Far Cough
11:33 Fri Sep 21
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Fair enough, put him on the CUNT list
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percyd
11:38 Fri Sep 21
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Nicki Parrott - acoustic bass. Dunno about being the best but she's a real sweetie.
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CanningTownWA
12:00 Fri Sep 21
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David Bowies favorite bass playing, but it seems no one knows who it was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-zgdGQB4S4
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OccupyGreenStreet
12:19 Fri Sep 21
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Thundercat
Derrick Hodge
Also love the bass playing on some of those John Coltrane line ups like Ole and Africa/Brass.
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violator
12:28 Fri Sep 21
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Peter Hook, the bass outro on The Perfect Kiss
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Takashi Miike
12:30 Fri Sep 21
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Alex James is another great bass player
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Northern Sold
12:33 Fri Sep 21
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The Ox
Absolute THUNDER FINGERS....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mthl-lBad8
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Takashi Miike
12:33 Fri Sep 21
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best of all for me, Norman Watt Roy
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zebthecat
12:37 Fri Sep 21
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Great call TM.
As for Entwistle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80dsyo2Ox-0
skip to 1:40, astonishing.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:38 Fri Sep 21
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The correct answer to this question is John Entwistle.
He and Keith Moon (though I wouldn't claim he was the greatest drummer ever) had the technical skill to revolutionise how their instruments were deployed in popular music, playing them pretty much as lead instruments rather than as a mere rhythm section.
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Loafer
12:41 Fri Sep 21
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Andy Fraser
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zebthecat
12:42 Fri Sep 21
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What's more Surf they managed to do fancy stuff AND stay as a rhythm section with the main groove.
One of the reasons I don't really rate Mark King or Peter Hook as they relied on synth/sequencers to fill in the actual bass that they were no longer doing.
I am a bass player and that kind of pissed me off.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
12:44 Fri Sep 21
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Mr Jamerson and his counterpart at Stax Mr Dunn also deserve huge kudos.
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Takashi Miike
12:48 Fri Sep 21
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Entwistle was brilliant, not sure the video's still available on youtube but the dvd of them doing at 5:15 at the RAH with a mic attached to his bass filming close up of him doing the solo, marvellous
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The Stoat
12:51 Fri Sep 21
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Chris Squire
Jaco Pastorius
Jack Bruce
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