2007-02-17 06:35:33 · 9 answers · asked by wmlprince 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
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Geezer Butler
John Wetton
Rodger Waters
Stanley Clarke
Stu Hamm
Sting
Willie Dixon
John Entwistle
Lemmy Killmeister
John Paul Jones
2007-02-17 07:20:53 · answer #1 · answered by Captain Jack ® 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
James Jamerson
He was the funk brothers (Motowns band) bassist and most people look up to him when it comes to the bass. In Howard Goodalls History of Music, he was quoted as the person who took the bass into a new direction.
Quoted from the website below:
"James Jamerson - Motown's tormented genius, James Jamerson is unanimously acclaimed as the first virtuoso of the electric bass. Plagued by alcoholism and emotional problems throughout his career, James has influenced (whether they know it or not) every electric bassist to ever pick up the instrument. Arriving at Motown in 1959, James' bass playing evolved over the next decade from a traditional root-fifth cocktail style of bass playing into an astonishing new style built upon a flurry of sixteenth-note runs and syncopations, "pushing the envelope" dissonances, and fearless and constant exploration."
2007-02-17 14:39:26 · answer #2 · answered by Obtuse Triangle Fan 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stanley Clarke
2007-02-17 14:38:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know their names but I LOVE the bass in Limp Bizkit and Violent Femmes!
Paul McCartney wasn't too bad either. Pretty good job he did in Helter Skelter.
2007-02-17 14:44:52 · answer #4 · answered by LolaCorolla 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Les Claypool
2007-02-17 14:38:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Victor Wooten
2007-02-17 14:37:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paul McCartney
2007-02-17 14:46:17 · answer #7 · answered by The Walrus 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Geddy Lee from RUSH.
2007-02-17 14:38:31 · answer #8 · answered by TWT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was my friend Chris revier but then he cut his fingers off work accident.
2007-02-17 14:41:27 · answer #9 · answered by Bruce S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋