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Re: top 5 greatest bassists of all time
Feb 11, 2014, 15:32
This is a tough choice, and there are different standards for different kinds of music. As a bass player I have a lot of favourites! To make it easier for me, I'll stoop to categorising and give my top 5 for a couple of different broad 'genres'. These are favourites rather than me claiming they are the best players ever. If it was more than 5 I could certainly cram some more on the 'rock list' ;-)

ROCK
Cliff Burton
John Entwistle
Jack Bruce
Joey DeMaio (even if you don't like Manowar in general - I admit to liking some of their stuff - Joey's 'Sting of the Bumblebee' bass solo is all the evidence you need!)
Tim Bogert

JAZZ
Stanley Clarke
Reinhard Karwatky (Dzyan)
Bernard Paganotti
Barry Tiplady (Quasar [the Australian band - broadly jazz rock but really a lot more, as with Dzyan])
Charles Mingus
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