A bassist is an musician who plays a bass guitar or double bass. This page lists famous bassists in four categories, depending on whether they are primarily known for playing bass guitar, double bass, both, or their main instrument is unknown. Certain musical genres tend to use one or the other (for example, bass guitar for rock and roll or pop music but double bass for classical music and jazz) but the rule is not hard and fast.

The lists are organised by alphabetical order of surname and brief mention may be made of their specific contribution or famous groups they have worked with.

Contents

1 Bass guitar 2 Double bass 3 Bass guitar and double bass 4 Unknown 5 See also

Bass guitar

• Reginald Arvizu from Korn
• Cliff Burton formerly from Metallica
• Justin Chancellor from Tool
• Les Claypool from Primus
• Adam Clayton from U2
• Tim Commerford from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
• Joey DeMaio from Manowar
• John Deacon from Queen
• Mike Dirnt from Green Day
• John Entwistle from The Who
• Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Roger Glover from Deep Purple
• Lincoln Goines
• Mike Gordon from Phish
• Larry Graham
• Colin Greenwood from Radiohead
• Steve Harris from Iron Maiden
• Jimmy Haslip
• Peter Hook from New Order, Monaco and Joy Division.
• Mark Hoppus from blink-182
• Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple
• Anthony Jackson
• Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher
• James Jamerson
• John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin
• Lemmy Kilmister from Motörhead
• Steve Lawson
• Geddy Lee from Rush
• Will Lee
• Phil Lesh from The Grateful Dead
• Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne
• Sir Paul McCartney from The Beatles
• Marcus Miller
• Me'shell Ndegeocello
• Jason Newsted from Voivod, formerly of Metallica
• Jaco Pastorius
• Francis "Rocco" Prestia from Tower Of Power
• Suzi Quatro
• Noel Redding from The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Mike Rutherford from Genesis
• John Taylor from Duran Duran
• Ross Valory from Journey
• Sid Vicious from the Censored page
• Roger Waters from Pink Floyd
• Miiko Watanabe from the Screamin' Sirens and American Girls
• Jeordie White from A Perfect Circle
• Leon Wilkeson from Lynyrd Skynyrd
• Victor Wooten from Bela Fleck & the Flecktones
• D'Arcy Wretzky formerly of The Smashing Pumpkins

Double bass

• Wellman Braud
• Brian Bromberg
• Ray Brown
• Ron Carter
• Mark Dresser
• Pops Foster
• Milt Hinton
• Bill Johnson
• Edgar Meyer
• Charles Mingus
• Slam Stewart

See also: Double bass

Bass guitar and double bass

• Stanley Clarke
• Sting from The Police

Unknown

• Kelly Grouchet from Electric Light Orchestra

See also

• List of jazz bassists