Favorite jeff Beck Bassist?

[dadagoboi]

Jeff Beck is 66 today and still doing exactly what he wants.  He's fired and had a lot of bass players quit on him.  My favorite by a slim margin was Ron Wood from 'Truth' and 'Beckola'.

[jumbodbassman]

very slim for me too.  Wood is clearly the least technical bass player but there is something special about his distorted "lead bass"  and Rod's voice together.    next up is a tie between Clive Chaman the forgotten man.... and i know most of you will disagree,  but the BBA album is still one of my favorite all time albums.

[dadagoboi]

Ron and Rod made some great music before and during The Faces.  The Every Picture Tells a Story track floors me every time I hear it, I think of it as the anti-Maggie May.  Rod, Ron, Mickie Waller and Maggie Bell.

There was really nothing better in the genre at the time than BBA, or as we called them Beck, Blowfart and Apaseizure.  Saw them twice, also was a fan of Vanilla Fudge.

[Pekka]

My favs are Ronnie and Jan Hammer. Yes, he played some great Moog bass on some tracks like "Blue Wind" and the stuff on "There And Back". Not a bad drummer either (my fav Jeff drummer is Narada Michael Walden).

[dadagoboi]

There's a tune called Hammerhead on JB's new CD, tribute to those days.

[gweimer]

Clive Chaman by a long shot.  I never really cared for Woody with Beck.  I think he has a better guitar sense than a bass one.  And my close second is probably Tim Bogert.  I actually saw Beck with an unrecorded version of the Jeff Beck Group.  It was Beck, Bogert, Appice, Max Middleton, and Kim Milford on vocals.

[jumbodbassman]

Saw that same combo.  actually not bad set  - some of the old with some of the not yet on the album stuff.

[uwe]

Man it took a long time until someone finally mentioned Tim Bogert!

[Hornisse]

I was excited upon hearing Phil Chen on "Freeway Jam" and the whole Blow By Blow record.  BBA did rock too.

[Freuds_Cat]

Bogert for me, followed by Tal

[uwe]

I hear no individuality in Tal at all and find her bass playing very safe and subdued, even lame at times. She sounds like a hundred other session players of the same ilk. Tim Bogert sounded like Tim Bogert. I'm not knocking her chops, it's more an attitude thing.

[Freuds_Cat]

Interesting, I hear more attitude in her playing than just another session player. She kind of pokes and prods beck almost.

[Hornisse]

I hear no individuality in Tal at all and find her bass playing very safe and subdued, even lame at times. She sounds like a hundred other session players of the same ilk. Tim Bogert sounded like Tim Bogert. I'm not knocking her chops, it's more an attitude thing.

+1.  She is nice to look at though. (and I wish I had her chops....)

[gearHed289]

Wilbur Bascomb. Wired was a HUGE influence on 16 year old me.  Grooves galore. Tal is friggin awesome too. Just got the Ronnie Scotts DVD a few weeks ago. Killer!

[birdie]

my fave has to be Clive Chaman. I made my fingers bleed as a kid in S. America trying to get his licks down. Through his style of playing I eventually discovered James Jamerson. Very close second would be Ronnie...
Different styles to be sure. Also very different musical contexts. As we all know JB does not stand still for long...