Underrated bass players thread

[Kristy]

That's a great tune by them, too. Danko was so underrated as a musician! Elvis Costello recently said that when he first started the only vocalist he looked to for inspiration and guidance was Danko doing his best to try to sound like him.

Ah, but no love for Fred Smith?

I always LOVED Television and their whole "proto-punk" stylings. Verlaine's voice can grate on my nerves at times but it's made up by Richard Llyod's incredible fret work. I always loved Lloyd's tone, too. Simple balls out Strat with little gimmickry and egotism. Here Verlaine just looks like a corpse

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[Kristy]

Even Mick Taylor played the 4 string once or twice...

He did play the bass lines on 'Fingerprint File' which were absolutely amazing.

[chefcraig]

By the way, I don't believe that this one is so awful...

http://www.liquidstoneband.com/music/ONCE.mp3

[FORD]

He did play the bass lines on 'Fingerprint File' which were absolutely amazing.

Yeah, one of the funkiest bass lines ever played by an English white guy, for sure.

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[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

sid vishus is a great bass player.does he tour much these days?

[Blackflag]

Evh ftw.

[Satan]

sid vishus is a great bass player.does he tour much these days?

Yeah, he still tours. Here in Hell.

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

he's dead? i thought he played bass for green day.

[Satan]

You must be getting all your musical knowledge from your boyfriend.

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

when it comes to music he is like totally genious.the rest of the time he pretty much bungles his way throu life.he's posting from that fucking internet cafe place again.
i think he likes to go there so he and talk online to vietnamese himshe's with out me knowing.
he's a sneeky little prick like that.
all i know is that when he gets back he's gonna rub my feet and giving me oral.

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

garys back.time for some fun.good night satan.

[Top Jimmy]

Mars Cowling of Pat Travers.

I talk to Billy Cox occasionally. I don't see him a lot, but he is going to be on the 4th edition of the Experience Hendrix tour in March with Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Brad Whitford, and a truckload of other guitarists. Naturally he was pretty tore up when Mitch Mitchell died. He IS a badass motherfucker on bass.

if you want to hear some of Billy's playing that you've likely never heard before,
check out the trib I drum with from time to time...

https://www.myspace.com/purplehazeexperience

Before I joined, the lead man (Darrell Fields) recorded an album of original blues tunes,
with 2 of Jimi's tunes on the end, to tie the cd into his tribute act.

For the sessions on those two tunes, they got Billy Cox,
and we have those tunes up on the site..

"Hear My Train A Comin" and "Voodoo Chile"....

Man he is solid as a rock...and you can hear it on those tunes,

VERY underrated, but not among those who understand, ya know?

People tend to focus on Noel, and Noel Redding is phenomenal,
but Billy was just so fucking smooth, man, you can't ever deny that.
JIMI knew...even when he got Mitch back and trimmed his band back to a 3 piece, he kept Billy...

I never got to meet him, (this was all before my tenure began..)
and have only spoken with him (and his wife) on the phone a few times late last year.

He is a drummer's bass player, & a GREAT player in my opinion .
I hope I get the priviledge of jamming with him someday.

[fwacf]

Roger glover!

[lesfunk]

Marco Mendoza from Whitesnake and Ted Nugent. I used to go see these same three guys play in a pizza place in the valley when I lived in LA.
Marco doin a little Jaco

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[lesfunk]

Oh yeah... Doug Pinnick and Tom Peterson too