My Top 10 Influential Bass Players /// Scott’s Bass Lessons
One of the most common questions I get asked is “which bass players have had the biggest influence on your bass playing?”…
There are soooooo many, but I thought it’d be fun to put together a “Top 10” video for you as there are some who you may not have heard of. It’s through having studied their musical language that I sound the way I do today.
And – I thought it’d be fun to do a little giveaway too. All you need to do is list your 10 most influential bass players in the comments, I’ll pick somebody at random, and I’ll send them a set of bass strings.
As always, see you in the shed…
Scott 🙂
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Tina Weymouth, Paul Ryder, Mani, Si Jones, James Jamerson, John-Paul Jones, Damon Minchella, Geezer Butler, Davie 504, Guigsy.
Phil Lesh. I feel like he doesnt get the credit he deserves. I would love to see you make a video on him.
Phil Lesh, surprisingly unheralded on bass Youtube.
Have you ever done an in depth look at the bass player Alice Cooper worked with, Dennis Dunaway. He had some great bass lines on Schools Out and Billion Dollar Babies.
When i was 13 it was Flea, Eric Avery, Les Claypool, Victor Wooten… Those were the ones when i started then i heard Jaco and Miller and my whole world changed even more.
What you need is a custom built bass that only has 12 frets lol
Scott is great !! my ten: Verdine White, Larry Graham, Jaco, Anthony Jackson, Percy Jones, Jimmy Johnson, Maurice Fitzgerald, Alphonso Johnson, Tal Wilkenfeld, Peter Inagawa. Greetings. N.B.
in order of when they influenced my playing:
Alex James
Flea
Morgan Nicholls
Justin Rister
Paul Simonon
Tina Weymouth
Les Claypool
Colin Greenwood
Jaco Pastorius
Mick Karn
John Paul Jones
I preface this list by stating I'm not a big jazz fan and not fond of bass solos for the most part. My influences, in no particular order:
Jaco Pastorius
Pino Palladino
Paul McCartney
Chris Squire
Mel Schacher
John Entwistle
Bruce Thomas
Graham Maby
Peter Cetera
James Jamerson
????Holdsworth!!!???? never thought i’d hear his name on this channel lol, but he’s one of my musical heroes
Tommy Simms, Geddy Lee, Mark King, Jimmie Lee Sloas!!
Thanks for introducing me to these amazing artists!
How about a video for a very underappreciated bassist: Jeff Andrews!
Jaco
Tom Kennedy
Richard Bona
Jeff Berlin
Alain Caron
LuizĂŁo Maia
NHOP
James Jamerson
Thiago Espirito Santo
Pino Palladino
Though conversely I thought the fast slap bass guy was more interesting.
Lovely technical ability, but I have to be honest that I find the fast jazz bassists all sound rather the same… though I wish I could do it a bit! Mark…..
soooooo it is true what they say about bass players being failed guitarists ! got you there Scotty
thats really cool that you were an apprentice luthier before all this. Im currently building a bass from scratch and im actually almost done with it. Its basically a PASSIVE Musicman Stingray. I may sound like a cliche millennial but my most influential bassist, in no particular order are…
Joe Dart, Victor Wooten, Davie504. Charles Berthoud, Grant Stinnett, Les Claypool, Jaco Pastorius, Marcus Miller, Henrik Linder, and Dr. Funk. There are definitely more but those are the first 10 I thought of.
Carol Kaye
Francis Rocco Prestia (RIP), Colin Hodgkinson, Graham Maby and Norm Roy Watts
Phil Lesh, the wackiest of them all in terms of the bass guitar's role in music, not technique or fireworks.
Chris Squire, Percy Jones, Tony Levin, Scott Lafarro, Stanley Clarke.
For me, it’s Marcus Miller, Nathan East, Abraham Laboriel, Stanley Clarke, Jaco, Victor Bailey, Pino Palladino, Jimmy Haslip, Anthony Jackson, Alphonso Johnson!
In my case I would say the one and only James Jamerson, the living legend Pino Palladino and also Lalo Carrillo (you definitely need to check this guy out)
Paul Webb of Talk Talk totally amazing and very overlooked,4 string frettless and fretted bass crisp and clean.
Nice list. If I would try to do my personal list, it would look something like this:
1. Steve Harris – my first influence as a bass player, the man who made me a bass player.
2. Geezer Butler – the rock bass player that I have listened to the most.
3. Paul McCartney – one of the greatest songwriters and bass players. So inspiring, musical and versatile.
4. James Jamerson – the man who got me into R&B and soul music for real. One of the masters.
5. Donald "Duck" Dunn – the bass player that influenced me the most in recent years. King of the economical yet memorable, and groovy.
6. David Hood – the ultimate pocket player, with a style similar to Duck Dunn.
7. Paul Chambers – one of the most melodic jazz cats.
8. Ron Carter – Mr. Jazz himself, such memorable yet economical lines.
9. Jack Bruce – one of the greatest rock and blues players, injecting his Classical and jazz influences into his contrapuntal style.
10. Leland Sklar – the bass player I have listened to the most lately. Master of playing for the song.
What’s the reason you wear a glove on your hand while playing bass?
1. Roger Waters, the reason I even started playing bass
2. Les Claypool, the reason I got any good at bass
3. Chris Squire, the reason I play my original stuff almost exclusively with a pick now
thanks for 10 great bassist, But still, for me still Stanley Clarke and Jaco Pastorius and then Richard Bona-John Patitucci-Marcus Miller. 10 without Stanley Clarke and Jaco seem so quiet world to me.
Chris Squire Jaco Pastorius Stanley Clarke, John Entwhistle, and the vastly underrated Nick Beggs
Paul (hors concours), Jack Bruce, Chris Squire, James Jamerson, Rutger Gunnarsson, John Entwistle, John Deacon
Larry Graham, Stuart Zender and Sam Wilkes are my top three influences on bass at the moment ????
When I bought a bass I really didn’t have anyone I was “inspired” by. But I absolutely loved the sound of the bass, and I listened to a lot of thundercat and I thought he was really cool but I wouldn’t consider myself inspired by him.
A few years later just being on YouTube and watching videos on bass and bass people everyone kept mentioning this one guy, Jaco Pastorius. So after hearing his name so much while working my job I looked him up on Apple Music and the first song I listened to was portrait of Tracy and I was like “wtf is this shit” (in a good way). And then I watched the JACO documentary on him, watched a whole lot of live performances, and I learned a little bit of portrait of Tracy.
And if there’s anything I learned from watching Jaco is that music comes from the heart, made me realize how to make music from the heart and how it’s really not just something corny that people say.
Even after death he inspired me, fucking crazy.
Here’s my biggest influencers:
10. James Jamerson.
9. Paul Gray – Slipknot (Original)
8. John Deacon – Queen (Original)
7. Les Claypool – Primus
6. Geezer Butler – Black Sabbsth.
5. Geddy Lee – Rush.
4. Flea – Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
3. Cliff Burton – Metallica (Original)
2. John Myung – Dream Theater.
1. Chris Wolstenholme – MUSE.
They’re all shredders apart from pino lol
My list would be:
1. Steve
2. Cliff
3. Geddy
4. Geezer
5. Stu
No last names needed. Also, various Motown, and specific songs. For example, Roger Waters’ bass playing is not great (although his song writing), but Money and Young Lust bass lines are awesome), Bob Daisley’s opening on Crazy Train…
I realised a while back that looking at the past musical trios are pretty much my favourite type of bands, exactly for the reasons you mention (space, freedom). My current favourite trio: Gogo Penguin ????????‍♀️????
The most influential bassists are Geezer Butler and Steve Harris
How can Jaco Pastorious, Stanley Clark and Victor Wooten not be on anyone's top ten? Also some great rock/prog rock players, Chris Squire, Geddy Lee, John Entwhistle.. It'd be like having a top ten guitar players without SRV on your list.
Joe Dart, Geddy Lee, Colin Greenwood
In no particular order.
John Deacon
Bernard Edwards
Duff
Jaco
Flea
Mick Karn
Pino
McCartney
John Entwistle
Nick Beggs
My list:
1 – James Jamerson
2 – Pino Palladino
3 – Robinho Tavares
4 – Bernard Edwards
5 – Aston Barrett
6 – Rocco Prestia
7 – Louis Johnson
8 – John Entwistle
9 – Geezer Butler
10 – Geddy Lee
i started playing bass since january of this year, my influences are:
1:Peter Hook
2:Lemmy
3:Jhon Entswistle
4:Geezer Butler
5:(not an especific dude, sorry) city pop
d u d e
In the past year or so my biggest inspirations has been Joe Dart and Louis Johnson
Justin Chancellor, Chris Wolstenhome, Cliff Burton, Steve Harris and Simon Gallup for me.