SteveStrummerUK
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Bass players are the coolest of all...
Guitar heroes may be considered cool, but a cool bassist is the coolest of all... My top five: Jean Jacques Burnel (The Stranglers)  Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy)  John Taylor (Duran Duran)  Paul Simonon (The Clash)  Ed (The CHB) 
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/10 19:40:47
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That last one looks really cool.
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/10 20:05:30
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You missed a few...   And my personal favorite... 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/10 22:21:01
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Jonbouy
That last one looks really lazy
Even for such a young guy.
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 02:20:08
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 02:48:22
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 03:20:52
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Jonbouy
That last one looks really lazy
Even for such a young guy.
Wow! All that hair. When did you take that photo--last week? 
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 08:33:10
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I'm a big fan of: Bob Babbitt (I prefer his stuff to James Jamerson) Adam Clayton (U2, very tasteful) Stefan Olsdal (Placebo, not a virtuoso but always plays the right lines) John Deacon (Queen - Another One Bites The Dust & Under Pressure - who else got basslines noticed by the general public?) But for coolest bass icon, Paul Simonon's photo above is one of my favourite live-band photos. That should be etched on his gravestone.
post edited by Slugbaby - 2011/06/11 08:35:08
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 09:34:08
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 10:12:02
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paulo
Many moons ago in my teens at a Stranglers gig there was guy a few rows back giving JJB a fair amount of abuse - can't remember what about now, but after talking it for a while he put his bass down between songs jumped into the crowd, punched the guy, then got back on stage and continued as if nothing had happened, much to the amusement of the rest of the audience. Happy days !
Seems to be pretty much a standard thing back then Paul! I saw them on the Black & White tour (with the excellent Skids) in 1978 up the road at the Malvern Winter Gardens and JJB twatted some bloke with his bass for gobbing on him paulo
Good call on JT too BTW - very under-rated and often overlooked IMHO.
Well he was a massive poseur (weren't they all!) but he did look pretty cool and he can definitely play. Three more to add perhaps... His Lemuelness (Motörhead):  Dee Dee:  And how could I have forgotten Suzi: 
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 10:32:16
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Old55
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Jonbouy
That last one looks really lazy
Even for such a young guy.
Wow! All that hair. When did you take that photo--last week?
Hardly. That was before my son was even conceived (circa 1974). Did you notice the sleeves on the shirt. Very pouffy.
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 10:58:09
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bapu
Hardly. That was before my son was even conceived (circa 1974).
Did you notice the sleeves on the shirt. Very pouffy.
Mid-seventies, long hair, pouffy sleeves....  You could be twins 
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 11:21:24
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bapu
Moobs are not big enough
I don't think the gorgeous, pouting Mr Halford has much need of anything ending in oobs
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 11:37:58
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Stu Hamm
Tal Wickenfeld
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Bunny Burrell
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 11:45:43
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 13:04:16
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bapu
Old55
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Jonbouy
That last one looks really lazy
Even for such a young guy.
Wow! All that hair. When did you take that photo--last week?
Hardly. That was before my son was even conceived (circa 1974).
Did you notice the sleeves on the shirt. Very pouffy.
Didn't everyone have pouffy sleeves back then? I don't think they called them pouffy at the time. Were they... hip or rad? We did and said some silly things while we were growing up. Hell, I still do and say them. 
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 13:06:06
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Old55
We did and said some silly things while we were growing up. Hell, I still do and say them.
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 13:28:58
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Old55
We did and said some silly things while we were growing up. Hell, I still do and say them.
+347.98080238 for The Bapu, too. Just ask Mooch.
I used to be young and foolish. It's so much different now that I'm old and foolish.
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 14:30:49
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+1 and Tony Levin
Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.
Karma has a way of finding its own way home.
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 14:39:05
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I'll never forget seeing Stanley Clark in '78.
He was the first to just drop my jaw so he's special.
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 15:42:09
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Surprisingly, this guy was one of my early favorites ...... Phil Upchurch. I had the honor of seeing him play guitar with George Benson's Band, Great guitarist but also a great Bass Player. 
post edited by Tap - 2011/06/11 15:43:36
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 17:24:28
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Someone said I look cool playing a bass. :)
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 17:29:33
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Janet
Someone said I look cool playing a bass. :)
Pictures, or it didn't happen! You should know the rules by now Janet
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 18:25:43
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 There ya go. :)
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 18:29:59
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Janet
There ya go. :)
Now that is cool - nice one Janet
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Janet
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Re:Bass players are the coolest of all...
2011/06/11 18:31:05
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:) Maybe some day I'll even record that thing...if I can figure out how! :)
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