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BEST LOOKING BASS PLAYER EVER
Posted by Bodhisattva on 18 January 2011 - 6:57pm.
...and one of the best. Face facts Macca. This just last week too - how old is she now?
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Bass players...
...are often, nay, usually, the sexiest ones in bands. Fact.
*sits back and waits for several examples of ugly bass players and several bass players agreeing*
Then Perhaps
...people might provide us with evidence of "For every Tina Weymouth..."
I'll bite.
Actually, I was perving over Tina Weymouth's seafoam green Hofner replica more than anything.
I've said too much.
Not a bloke
Michael Steele from the Bangles?
oh damn yes
swoons
Kim Gordon - Sonic Youth
Very lovely. And must be about the same age as Tina Weymouth.
Another favourite of mine is Britta Phillips, ex-Luna. Currently half of Dean & Britta, and also Mrs Dean Wareham.
Do keep up.
Come on boys, half an hour in and no-one has mentioned Suzi Quatro yet.
Poor show.
PS I always thought Alex James from Blur was very good-looking. A prize git, but good-looking.
Suzi
Was on Minder this evening (ITV 4). She was playing the part of a bass player (as well as playing a bass). Lots of snogging with the Waterman.
ALEX JAMES!!!!!!!
Oh, how I used to love Alex James
*comes over a bit funny and has to have a lie down*
Easy
I'd always assumed it was
It must be our
very own honorable editor Mark Ellen but I must say Tal Wilkenfeld caught my eye when playing with Jeff Beck recently.
I seem to recall my attention
drifted somewhat onto his female band-mates the last time I saw Joseph Arthur
WHOA!
Just googled "Ugly Bass Player" and there's a site! Of course there's a site....
http://www.uglybassplayer.com/
Kim Deal.
Good looking. Also extremely cool.
Isn't it an acknowledged fact
that's she's just gorgeous?
I remember seeing The Breeders years ago...
... at the QMU in Glasgow.
I think the "entire" room wanted to shag Kim Deal. The only other performer I've seen who had that effect was Jeff Buckley at The Garage.
How to endear yourself to a bunch of middle-aged rock fans
*paging Crowther*
I think we have found the mother of your theoretical children sir!
Ahem
*coughs politely*
Maybe This Slapper Is A Contender
Somebody had to
so it may as well be me
John "ridiculously good looking" Taylor
Mmmm
Major eleven-year-old boy crush. Still glad you did it rather than me, though!
John Taylor..
..absolutely. Could've had his pick of the lasses and married Amanda DeCadenet. Doh!
well...
I woulda
Me too..
..it's just that pick of the lasses clause that divides me and JT, JB.
As so often
We have been here before http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/hot-bassists and then as now the answer is surely Jo Wadeson of The Waterboys and Thea Gilmore's band
Oh yes
Spent a whole Thea Gilmore gig admiring her fine, err, playing. Very charismatic lady.
What? No one has mentioned either Melissa or Gail?
Melissa Auf Der Maur
Gail Ann Dorsey
Erm...
Maybe they're not good photos, but I can't see the appeal myself, not one little bit.
Gail Ann Dorsey
is awesome on any number of levels - her technical ability and singing, to name just two. Well spotted Sir!
Fourteen posts in and not one mention of........
......Paul Simonon? Tsk, tsk......
Then you have the boy Wire and Alex James.
On the other hand, there are numerous who fell from the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.....
Foxton, Wyman, Waters, Guigsy, Mat Osman, Leon Wilkeson, Garry Tallent and Jack Bruce. The sort of photo's you'd put on the mantelpiece to keep the kids away from the fire.
Up arrow for Melissa mind, even though the great muso that is Courtney Love has the sheer frontage to cast aspersions on her technique (!)
How could I have...
...forgotten Paul Simonon? Although, as a girly, he has gone down in my estimation/future husband calculations after running off with his mate's wife.
Simonon...
Aye, if I were a burd i'd probably want to shag him....
Tell you what
He's improved with age.
And so has his tailor.
Isn't it an acknowledged fact
that he's the best looking man on Planet Rock and indeed Earth?
don't forget his understudy
bottom left, best pic I could find of Stan Stammers out of ToH and SoD
Mr Blast
You could be right there.
Aimee Mann
...
/whimpers quietly (it's the shoulders)
Kendra Smith
Moody, nice.
We've come this far without a mention for Gaye Advert?
You beat me to it
So to speak
I win
Always wanted an excuse to share Esperanza
Kim Deal, Sheryl Crowe and JJ Burnel......
Another vote here for Kim Deal and not forgetting Sheryl Crowe and JJ from The Stranglers
Just spent a happy half hour
browsing Stranglers videos, looking for the perfect one to convince you that M. Burnel surely has to win this category.
Couldn't find one showing him sashaying round the stage in quite the manner which made such an impression on me in my twenties, but this one has its, er, compensations ...
Thanks, Almost.
And then there's this handsome chap
Oops
I somehow missed him further up the thread. Worth posting twice though. If only as a warning.
Although the documentary
film on him is out soon and its a belter
I've seen it
it's about how awesome Lemmy is backed up by various America rock guys telling us "Lemmy is just awesome'. That's basically it.
doubt I'll watch it again {sniff}
there something about girls playing the bass
Sheryl Crow grooving with Steve Gadd...
Not super- accomplished...
But yum indeed
Nothing for Tal Wilkenfeld?
Just what I was
Just what I was thinking!
Here's hoping she's recovering well from her accident and back out on the road again soon.
Thought someone would have posted this by now...
And while we're at it - Jeff Beck, eh? He doesn't look young but he certainly doesn't look his age. Not much different from the "Blow By Blow" days.
You need to go back a bit
...but Mrs. Prine wins!
....EDIT...and now that I remember, Jennifer Condos does things for this middle ager.
Talk about bum cakes, my girl's got 'em...
Back laydeez!
James Blast in his plank spanking, leather stride, studded belt wearing days
I'm unattached with no baggage so... tonight you could be the special one rrrrr ;D
You
handsome devil.
Tonight...
you could are the special one LOL
We were all young and stoopid once...
Me doing (probably) a Fairport cover at the Greenbelt festival about 20+ years ago. Good grief, was I ever that young?
Yeah, cosmic and all that...
Props to Rika Hamamoto (Melt Banana)
She can play like a demon and it's safe to say I was pretty much mesmerised by her at Supersonic
There's a nice picture here
http://bit.ly/hx6irj
And a mention must go to Vivian Slaughter form Gallhammer (about 2 mins in)
He might not be the best looking
but he has the best look, as well as the best name, and the ladies clearly love him. On bass, ladies and gentlemen, I give you: The House Of Lords....
even
his plank looks meringue
Your entire post scans
perfectly with "Waving My Arms In The Air" by Syd Barrett, which I hope goes some way to compensating for the fact that you're not quite as pretty a bassist as THOL.
Has Jarvis been on the cakes?
Reciting the bassline to Sorted for E's and Wizz obviously sent him to the donuts. Poor chap
I was thinking
more a portly Peter Sellers or a slim Ronnie Barker
Tina Weymouth is 60.
Sixty!!! How did that happen?
may i suggest
Danielle Ward not only a fiesty bass player but also a very witty comic .
Warpaint
She helped me
get through my teenage years. Her and Kim Deal.
I'm going for a lie down. Here's Darcy from the Smashing Pumpkins.
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Mr Corgan may be a twat, but he sure likes female bass players
Paz Lechantin
Ginger Pooley
Nicole Fiorentino
Mrs M always had a thing for bass players….
JJ was her fave…
Sid was super cool
And Gaye looked great (I've got one of these crazy Burns Flyte basses in the collection)
AH!
JJ! ♥
Her out of Elastica
Annie Holland. Cool and sexy.
Back in the day.......
Hilary Woods from JJ72...
Corrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Good call six dog
ForgT all about Hilary and I wa quite a jj72 fan once (well I bought an album)
No crushes or anything,
but one of the few people I've ever wanted to be....Phil Lynott.
....without the, er, 'problems' of course.
As stated in an article many years back, one of the very few people cool enough to wear leather trousers and get away with it.
One for the Ladies
Curt Smith from TFF...now a bit of a silver fox
Can I refer you to the comments about Kim Deal above...grrrrrrrrrr
C'mon!
that's one of the things I could do without
and I always thought he was a bit of a ming-er
Patricia Morrison
Ex-Sisters of Mercy. Here they are in their pomp.
I win. Do I get a prize?
well...
I did want to, so thank you Mr. L
BTW she was pretty hot earlier in her Gun Club days and later with The Damned
She...
...was my immediate knee-jerk reaction when I saw the question.
Sid......super cool......
.....brilliant!
With or without the ugly girlfriend and the needle in the arm?
Erm, is this a test for the first person to say, erm, Paul?
Specifically, late May '66 (I think) and the promos to 'Paperback Writer' and 'Rain'.
Not just the coolest/most beautiful bass player, the coolest/most beautiful person to ever exist.
Saw Ed Harcourt
a couple of years ago and he had stunning femal bassist and a rather gorgeous female violinist too. Dont know who they were but rather nice on the eye.
Nicky
Wire
Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family
She's always had a blissed-out look about her and writes a very handy tune.
Gary Thain out of the
Uriah Heep, well he always looked cool to me
Scott LaFaro (1936-1961)
Forever young and cool
Susan Quatrocchio
I adore Mikko Paananen...
from HIM
is the nicest man I have ever met.
Mike Watt ♥