Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site g.cs.cmu.edu Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!g.cs.cmu.edu!ckk From: ckk@g.cs.cmu.edu (Chris Koenigsberg) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Bass players Message-ID: <325@g.cs.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 17:49:12 EST Article-I.D.: g.325 Posted: Fri Nov 1 17:49:12 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 04:44:13 EST Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 12 Eh, did you say Bass players? For electric bass guitars, I like Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Stanley Clarke (in the old days), Tony Levin, Jack Bruce, Ray Shulman (Gentle Giant), Chris Squire, Jaco Pastorius, Alfonso Johnson, and the twin bassists with Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society, forget their names. Eberhard Weber is in a different category, he plays a "stick" that is NOT the Chapman Stick but more like an electric viola da gamba, upright but much smaller than a contrabass. For contrabass, Bertram Turetzky, Miroslav Vitous, Stanley Clarke again, Sirone, Ron Carter, Cecil McBee, Charlie Haden,....could go on and on.