Greatest rock bass players
of all time
TM, ®, Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi
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- Les Claypool (Primus)
- Jack Bruce (Cream)
- Jah Wobble (Public Image Ltd)
- Tony Levin (King Crimson)
- Melvin Gibbs (Rollins Band, Arto Lindsay)
- Michael "Flea" Balzary (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu)
- Bill Laswell (Material)
- Fred Chalenor (Caveman Shoestore, Tone Dogs)
- Colin Hodgkinson (Back Door)
- Larry Graham (Sly & The Family Stone)
- James Jamerson (all Tamla Motown hits)
- Bernard Edwards (Chic)
- Mark Sandman (Morphine)
- Billy Sheehan (Mr Big)
- Chris Hillman (Byrds)
- Dave Pajo (Slint, For Carnation, Tortoise, Aerial M)
- Andrew Weiss (Gone)
- Juliana Hatfield (Blake Babies)
- Ethan Buckler (Slint)
- Johnny Temple (Girls Against Boys)
- Fred Erskine (June Of 44)
- Doug McCombs (Eleventh Dream Day, Tortoise)
- Mike Watt (Minutemen)
- Doug Wimbish (Tackhead)
- Reggie "Fieldy" Arvizu (Korn)
- Cliff Burton (Metallica)
- Sasha Frere-Jones (Ui)
- Jussi Lehtisalo (Circle)
- John Entwistle (Who)
- Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and Me)
- Bill Black (Elvis Presley)