Seeker of Rock
The One and Only
Along the same lines of Jaco and kind of encouraging my friend who has recently gotten into recording thinking GarageBand bass app will do magic for him (and in a way it can sound really good) and my counterpoint that bass as an instrument is a deep rabbit hole, I was driving for 3 hours today and decided on The Monkees on the way down (something fresh and I love the tunes that weren’t written by them but many actually recorded with Davy Jones doing vox), and The Who on the way back up from the 1.5 hr drive south. John Entwistle is one of the underrated bass players in the rock era. Keith Moon overplayed but it worked with Townsend’s songs. Entwistle walked and played all over the place but it never came off as overplaying. That’s a good bassist right there.