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What ever happened to sessions bassist ' DavePortnoy?"

I guess I just don’t like jazz fusion. I love a great base line that drives a rock song. These clips were hard to listen to. Some of them hurt my head. Talented, yes. Pleasant? Nope.

Wow! Such an exciting list. *yawn*

A Bass player list without Geddy is kinda stupid doncha think

Every one is a jazz genre bassist. What a silly list. 20 bars of semi quavers is very impressive, but for me, where is the groove?

Rename your list "The 25 Greatest Speed Bass Soloists of All Ja Time" because your list completely ignores the most central role of the bass -- to set the groove, feel and anchor for a song. How boring, but living in the [ocket and playing a bass line that serves the song is often a greatest skill that doing speed drills. Solar, Jameson, Kaye, Rainey, Weeks, East...that list is long. Open up your world. You missed Mother Earth.

Its all jazz, jazz fusion but it says best electric bass players. No Squire, Entwistle, Lake, Levin, Wetton, Lee, etc. You know who they are.

Jack Casady is a top ten bass player ❤

After reading a few comments and seeing Entwistle and Lee are not here it is just a favorite of yours

Well i guess i am not up with music as i thought , i just saw a video that said 25 best, Geezer Butler and Leo Lyons were not amongst them, all i can say is I hope this video is better

Awesome bass players that play it like a guitar😂 I would never call them the best . Bass is about grooving on the beat. Playing alot of notes doesn’t make a good bass player sorry

Since when was Henrik Linder Dutch???

You didn't mention the guy who plays at my local pub.

Mark king !

Ever hear of Jimmy Johnson ? Oh yeah , he does not slap.

Les Claypool deserves a spot, guy is a legend in rock!

Charles Berthoud.

Do any of them play actual basslines or do they just try to fit in as many notes as possible and all sound the same?

It's just so refreshing to find a list of bassists where McCartney isn't at #1 😅 I've been playing bass for decades and knew exactly zero of these beyond the top five. Different styles - different circle - different reference points. That's cool though.

Absurd-Jaco is #1, like Hendrix is #1 on guitar-innovation beats everything else; and while Victor Wooten is phenomenal, he is sometimes not spot on, and in any case he would tell you (as Marcus Miller has previously stated), who was and is no.1 !

Les claypool. Rocco p

Danny Partridge !!!

Jaco Pastorius John Patitucci Stanley Clarke Alain Caron Tom Kennedy Marcus Miller Richard Bona Pino Palladino. STOP

Nobody ever mentions Joe Hall of the Blackbyrds he is a very good player. None of these people are actually playing Bass .

If Anthony Jackson isn’t on here, I’m going home.

This should be called top 10 best bass clickers..i didnt hear any low end groovy bass ar all.

Fabulous list… in fact, you could easily have reversed the order and still be right!!! However, there are some omissions: 1. Ralphe Armstrong Amazing bass player with John McLaughlin and Jean Luc Ponty, every bit as good as as any of these other amazing players. 2. Jonas Hellborg 3. Neil Jason Formerly of the Brecker Bros and a session player for decades, a fabulous soloist going back decades. above. 4. Maybe just maybe Alphonso Johnson, though he may be great but more along the lines of Marcus Miller who’s good but not quite top 25. PS. There are three wonderful bass players who have NO business being on this distinguished list despite being quite excellent… -Tal Wilenfeld is decent but NOWHERE near even top 75 (and yea I’ve seen her live just 5 feet away from me and NOTHING impressive by any stretch), come on, Steve Bailey runs circles around her! -And of course Mohini Dey, though she’s quite excellent and decidedly and dramatically better than Wilkenfeld, not quite worthy of a top 50 even. -And yes, we love him but he’s NOT quite top 50 cuz his main (and over used and abused) trick is slapping, and that would be Marcus Miller… I really like Miller as I do Geddy Lee and Les Claypool, but clearly they’re NOT top 50 worthy by any stretch despite my personal love for them as players. These three bass players can’t even touch the 3 omissions from above.

Wow! Thank you for reminding me and introducing me to some amazing bass players.

You bet you missed somebody: Percy Jones!!!

NEVER RATE AGAIN 🔥🔥🗣️🗣️ (nice green screen)

Abraham at 20.... that's pretty amazing. You should have just called it a selection of and not list them

No Bernard Edwards. Lame.

Just started here! He would be my number one! Just calling it like I see it! Greg

Let me name my favorite 25 bassists - about 20 of which - nobody ever heard of or cares about.

wheres buckethead he plays bass

254 comments...

Always gonna be a subjective minefield, but I guess 253 comments is the result. Yeah, half these players are just playing musak. I'm all for virtuosity and technique but surely somewhere there has to be melody and innovation too. That would be Palladino, Sting, Jack Bruce, Simon Gallup...But for the whole package, I find it difficult to look beyond Charles Berthoud, who seems to have it all...and then some. Although interesting to see a couple of players I'd never heard before...interesting though not particularly memorable.

Añadiría a ese excelente listado Jack Bruce de Cream, Stuart Zender de Jamiroquai, Steve Swallow que acompaña regularmente a John Scofield y Nathan East que es fiel escudero de Eric Clapton. Son 4 bestias del bajo.

Level 42's Mark King missing?

The presence of a 6 string bass on screen is a bit of a warning as to what's to come...

It's a dang physical instrument. Those people all look muscular and fit, even more than most drummers. For this type of player, I like George Anderson Junior, from Shakatak. I know this isn't a list of rock stars, but Boz Burrell from Bad Company and King Crimson is one I'd mention. He learned bass in his 20s in King Crimson, and went on to become industry-standard, excelling on fretless bass.

Jonas HELBORG? *Gene SIMMONS* ? You're not Serious, only your Favorit's but none Good or 'Great'! Wasted my Time 😮

If you didn't put Victor Lemonte Wooten at # 1 I was gonna smash the monitor with the hammer.

The two guys that changed bass forever is Jamerson and Graham. Every bassist after them is a copy of them to some extent. Afterward, Jaco P. Without those three at the top, there IS no list.

wow no rock bass players. Weird jazz list. Sklar,Stu Hamm, EntwhistleJack Bruce, Duck Dunn, Carol Kaye etc. I do not get it

Just bologna!!! Why bother when you omit the legendary players??

Percy Jones

No Paul McCartney? No Chris Brubeck?

Percy Jones, Pilichowski, Jimmy Johnson

Nico Assumpcao!!!