Having done guitarists to death... ;)

Who are the bassists that do it best?

I'll start:

Steve Harris (of Iron Maiden) - I'm sure that guy has extra fingers!
Flea
Jack Bruce
Cliff Burton

More to follow...

Mark

Nobody loves the bass players? :(

Mark

Jaco, but he's dead.

:(

Rick the bass player from the Joe Walsh Band

Jack Bruce
John Entwistle
Paul McCartney
Victor Wooten
Bill Wyman
Phil Lesh
Larry Graham
Bootsy Collins
Billy Cox
Willie Dixon
Charles Mingus
Paul Samwell-Smith
Chas Chandler

and

(although DEFINATELY not for his playing) Sid Vicious:p

Who are the bassists that do it best?


Here are a couple...

Billy Sheehan - Steve Vai proclaimed him the best in rock music
Chris Squire - Listen to any Yes song
John Patitucci - Fusion stuff
Jack Casady - The Airplane
Phil Lesh - Brilliant co-developer of the rhythmically complex Dead music
Tim Bogert - Probably the most influencial to me, amazing, aggressive style
Geezer Butler - Unbelievable finger style
Greg Lake - of ELP
Andy West - Saw him live with one of the best guitarist ever, Steve Morse
Geddy Lee - Gotta mention this guy after seeing some show on DVD not long ago
Tony Levin - Amazing
John Paul Jones - 1 mistake made in show I saw live
The late John Entwistle - 0 noticable mistakes made in show I saw live
The late Jaco - he did jazz where making mistakes are happy accidents
Ric Fierabracci - definitely one of the best bassists I have seen live
Jonas Hellborg - Incredible, saw him with John McLaughlin. He later played with the most amazing guitarist in history, Shawn Lane.

Suzi Quatro.

Matt Freeman
Les Claypool
Flea
Me

Melvin Gibbs

Les freakin' Claypool.

Yes, claypool all the way.

claypool is an amazing bass player technically but his style annoys me after a while.

I'm fond of Ron Carter, Ray Brown & Jamaldeen Tacuma as well, as far as folks that haven't been mentioned go.