LBO member's poll

[luve2fli]

My Picks (.... sorry, couldn't keep it to just 10):

Jaco
JPJ
Alain Caron
Geddy Lee
John Entwistle
Larry Graham
Kenny Gradney
Lee Rocker
Andrew Levy
Sting
Marcus Miller
James Jamerson

I figure if I could learn only a quarter of what these cats know, I'd be a very happy bassist indeed.

[Basshappi]

Now days extreme proficency of bassplayers is so common as to be practically ubiquitous and to compose a stable list of my Top 10 would be impossible. However, when I was a young musician, new to the bass guitar my Top 10 would have probably have looked pretty close to this:

Geddy Lee
Chris Squire
Jaco
John Entwistle
John Paul Jones
Jack Bruce
Geezer Butler
John Deacon
Peter "Mars" Cowling
Stanley Clarke

Honorable Mentions:
Pete Way (mainly because my first band played A LOT of UFO tunes)
James Jamerson (Didn't know who he was, just listened to a lot of Motown)

[leftybass]

Seems weird that folks can't "list your FAVORITE 10 or less bass players". If you list 12 does that mean you only like those 12 and no more? And if you like more than those 12, why couldn't you just list your top 10, as asked? Not a biggie, I know, just weird.

[Chaser001]

Seems weird that folks can't "list your FAVORITE 10 or less bass players". If you list 12 does that mean you only like those 12 and no more? And if you like more than those 12, why couldn't you just list your top 10, as asked? Not a biggie, I know, just weird.

It's probably because some people have choices they consider co-equal.  Eliminating a co-equal choice might feel arbitrary. 

[Dave W]

That's normal. Ask people for their single most influential and you'll get three from someone, then almost everyone starts listing three or more. Used to make me wonder, now I realize it's the usual on forums.

[clankenstein]

ok then-holger czukay ,jean jaques burnell,jah wobble.

[Hornisse]

Out of my list of 16, 6 are dead so that left the 10 living players.  Just saying.....

[Freuds_Cat]

Obscure to who, non bass players?

Easy fixed if we were made to put them in order. I would put 3 players as equal 1st place 2 players as equal 3rd etc. 

[copacetic]

The top 10 is just a metaphor much like 'the top 10 in Austin'. more or less

[uwe]

ok then-holger czukay ,jean jaques burnell,jah wobble.

What an intellectual show-off you are!!! 

[Basshappi]

Seems weird that folks can't "list your FAVORITE 10 or less bass players". If you list 12 does that mean you only like those 12 and no more? And if you like more than those 12, why couldn't you just list your top 10, as asked? Not a biggie, I know, just weird.

I'm a non-conformist.

[clankenstein]

yes indeed kids,show all intellectuals the off switch!

[clankenstein]

...and another thing...i forgot to mention mick karn, lothar meid and paul keen.oh crap thats more than 3 now.

[Highlander]

I don't think I've ever bought anything because a specific bass-player was on the recording - I've always gone for the "ensemble-piece" - that would be my problem with a "strict" top-ten (Alice Cooper, Allman Brothers, Who, Rush, etc...)

[nofi]

same here.