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This is a list of electric bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
 players that have their own separate article in Wikipedia. The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the finger
Finger

A finger is a type of digit , an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of humans and other primates.Normally humans have five digits, termed phalanges, on each hand ....
s (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick
Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a string instrument. For guitars and similar instruments, the plectrum is a separate tool held in the player's hand....
. Since the 1950s, the electric bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
. Bass guitarists provide the low-pitched bassline
Bassline

A bassline is the term used in many styles of popular music, such as jazz, blues, funk, and electronic music for the low-pitched Part#Music or line played by a rhythm section instrument such as the bass guitar, double bass or keyboard ....
s and bass run
Bass run

A bass run is a short instrumental break or fill in which the Bass , such as an bass guitar or a double bass and the bassline are given the forefront ....
s in many different styles of music ranging from rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 and metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 to blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 and jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
.






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This is a list of electric bass guitar
Bass guitar

The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
 players that have their own separate article in Wikipedia. The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the finger
Finger

A finger is a type of digit , an organ of manipulation and sensation found in the hands of humans and other primates.Normally humans have five digits, termed phalanges, on each hand ....
s (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick
Plectrum

A plectrum is a small flat tool used to pluck or strum a string instrument. For guitars and similar instruments, the plectrum is a separate tool held in the player's hand....
. Since the 1950s, the electric bass guitar has largely replaced the double bass in popular music
Popular music

Popular music is music that is accessible to the mainstream and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. It belongs to any of a number of musical genres, and stands in contrast to classical music, which historically was the music of the elite and upper strata of society, and traditional music which was disseminated orally....
. Bass guitarists provide the low-pitched bassline
Bassline

A bassline is the term used in many styles of popular music, such as jazz, blues, funk, and electronic music for the low-pitched Part#Music or line played by a rhythm section instrument such as the bass guitar, double bass or keyboard ....
s and bass run
Bass run

A bass run is a short instrumental break or fill in which the Bass , such as an bass guitar or a double bass and the bassline are given the forefront ....
s in many different styles of music ranging from rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 and metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 to blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 and jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
. Bassists also use the bass guitar as a soloing instrument in jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
, Latin, funk
Funk

Funk is an United States Music genre that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, soul jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music....
, and in some rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 styles. Musicians known mainly as guitar
Guitar

The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles. It typically has six Strings , but Tenor guitar, Seven-string guitar, Eight-string guitar, Ten-string guitar, Eleven-string guitar, Twelve-string guitar, Thirteen-string guitar and doubleneck guitar string guitars also exist....
ists are listed separately in the list of guitarists
List of guitarists

This list of guitarists includes guitarists for whom there is an article in Wikipedia. Only add names here if the person has their own article on Wikipedia, please....
.

For double bass
Double bass

The double bass or contrabass is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument used in the modern orchestra. It is a standard member of the string section of the orchestra and smaller string musical ensembles in European classical music....
 players, see:
  • List of contemporary classical double bass players
    List of contemporary classical double bass players

    Contemporary classical double bass players are performers who play the largest and lowest-pitched Bow string instrument. They perform European art music ranging from Mozart-era Classical pieces to contemporary avant-garde works in a variety of settings, ranging from huge orchestras to small chamber groups, or as soloists....
  • List of jazz bassists
    List of jazz bassists

    This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and, since the development of jazz-rock fusion in the 1970s, electric bass players....
    , which includes both double bass and electric bass players




A

  • Barry Adamson
    Barry Adamson

    Barry Adamson is an English people rock musician who has worked with rock music band such as Magazine , Visage, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electronic musicians Pan sonic....
     (Magazine
    Magazine (band)

    Magazine were a British post-punk group active between 1977 and 1981. Their debut single, "Shot By Both Sides", is now acknowledged as a classic and their debut album, Real Life , is still widely admired as one of the greatest albums of all time The band was formed by Howard Devoto after leaving punk band Buzzcocks in early 1977, deciding...
    , Visage
    Visage

    Visage are a British Pop Music band. Formed in 1978, the band became closely linked to the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement of the early 1980s....
    , Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian Rock music band with multinational personnel, fronted by Nick Cave....
    )
  • Gaye Advert
    Gaye Advert

    Gaye Advert is an England punk rock musician, who played bass guitar in the band , The Adverts, in the late 1970s. She was one of the first female rock music celebrity of the punk rock movement....
     (The Adverts
    The Adverts

    The Adverts were an English punk band who formed in 1976 and broke up in late 1979. They were one of the first bands to concomitantly play punk rock and enjoy commercial success, and their line-up included Gaye Advert, who The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music called the "first female punk star"....
    )
  • Martin Eric Ain
    Martin Eric Ain

    Martin Eric Ain is the left-handed bassist of Swiss thrash metal band Celtic Frost. According to a recent interview, Ain is, in fact, an Pseudonym....
     (Celtic Frost
    Celtic Frost

    Celtic Frost was an influential avant-garde metal band from Z?rich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal and gothic metal genres....
    , Hellhammer
    Hellhammer

    Hellhammer was an influential extreme metal band from Switzerland, active during 1982?1984. They are regarded as a key influence on black metal, and one of the founders of death metal....
    )
  • Dominic Aitchison
    Dominic Aitchison

    Dominic Aitchison is a Scotland bassist. He is best known as the bassist and founding member of post-rock band Mogwai. Aside from Mogwai, he also plays bass guitar in Crippled Black Phoenix...
     (Mogwai
    Mogwai

    The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Yue Chinese word ?? meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon"....
    )
  • Kianna Alarid
    Kianna Alarid

    Kianna Marie Alarid is the lead singer and bass guitarist for the band Tilly and the Wall from Omaha, Nebraska. She was formerly in a band called Magic Kiss with members of Park Ave....
     (Tilly and the Wall
    Tilly and the Wall

    Tilly and the Wall is an indie pop group from Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska. Their name originated from a children's book called Tillie and the Wall, written by Leo Lionni....
    )
  • Juan Alderete
    Juan Alderete

    Juan Alderete is an United States bassist known for his work with the band The Mars Volta. Prior to his work with that band, he was known for playing in Racer X , where he received credit as John Alderete....
     (Racer X, The Mars Volta
    The Mars Volta

    The Mars Volta is an American progressive rock group formed in 2001 by guitarist Omar Rodr?guez-L?pez and vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala. They incorporate various influences including punk rock, jazz fusion, funk and Latin American music into their sound....
    )
  • Miša Aleksic
    Miša Aleksic

    Miroslav "Mi?a" Aleksic is a Serbia musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Serbian and SFRY rock band Riblja Corba.Biography...
     (Riblja Corba
    Riblja Corba

    Riblja Corba is a Serbian and SFRY rock band. Their presence on the scene has lasted from 1978 to today. They reached their peak of popularity in the 1980s, but it has declined in the 1990s, partly due to controversial political attitudes of the band's leader Bora ?ordevic....
    )
  • Dave Alexander
    Dave Alexander (The Stooges)

    David Michael Alexander was an American musician, and the original bassist for influential protopunk band The Stooges.After his family relocated to Ann Arbor from Whitmore Lake, Michigan he attended Ann Arbor Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he met the Asheton Brothers....
     (The Stooges
    The Stooges

    The Stooges are an American rock music rock band that were first active from 1967 to 1974, then reformed in 2003. The Stooges sold few records in their original incarnation and often performed for indifferent or hostile audiences....
    )
  • Rustee Allen (Sly & the Family Stone
    Sly & the Family Stone

    Sly & the Family Stone is an Music of the United States Funk music, soul music and rock music band from San Francisco, California. Originally active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music....
    )
  • Merle Allin
    Merle Allin

    Merle Allin, Jr. is an United States bass guitar and the older brother of the late punk rock singer/songwriter/performance artist GG Allin.Merle Allin performed in three of GG Allin's backing groups: Malpractice , The AIDS Brigade and The Murder Junkies, playing the electric bass guitar....
     (The Murder Junkies
    The Murder Junkies

    The Murder Junkies are an American rock band, most known for being the former backing band of notorious punk rock performer GG Allin. They are the third GG Allin backing band to bear the name....
    )
  • Karl Alvarez
    Karl Alvarez

    Karl Matthew Alvarez is the bass guitar player for both the Descendents and All , the band that resulted after the Descendents disbanded again in 1987....
     (Descendents
    Descendents (band)

    The Descendents are an American punk rock band from Manhattan Beach, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, California....
    )
  • Thierry Amar
    Thierry Amar

    Thierry Amar is a Canadian musician. He is most notable for participating in Godspeed You! Black Emperor, as well as being co-founder of Thee Silver Mt....
     (Godspeed You! Black Emperor
    Godspeed You! Black Emperor

    Godspeed You Black Emperor! is a Canada post-rock band formed in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec. One of the first musical acts to publish their albums through the Constellation Records label, they have since released three studio albums and one Extended play....
    , Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, Black Ox Orkestar
    Black Ox Orkestar

    Black Ox Orkestar is a European Jewish folk quartet of musicians from Montreal, Canada that formed in the summer of 2000 to explore their common Jewish heritage for sounds that could speak to them in the present....
    )
  • Jeff Ament
    Jeff Ament

    Jeffrey Allen Ament is an American bassist and songwriter. Along with Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, and Eddie Vedder, he is one of the founding members of the American Rock music band Pearl Jam....
     (Pearl Jam
    Pearl Jam

    Pearl Jam is an American rock music band that formed in Seattle, Washington in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready ....
    )
  • Migé Amour (HIM
    HiM (band)

    HiM is a dub music influenced post-rock group formed in 1995 in music by Doug Scharin, drummer for the bands Codeine , Rex and June of 44. Their first album, Egg, was their most dub-based effort....
    , Daniel Lioneye
    Daniel Lioneye

    Daniel Lioneye is a side project band from the popular Finland group HIM . Musically, the band produces hard rock/sleaze rock with blues-based guitar solos throughout....
    )
  • Billy Anderson
    Billy Anderson (music)

    Billy Anderson is an influential Record producer, Engineer and Musician. He has worked with hundreds of bands over the past 20 years, including The Melvins, Eyehategod, Mr....
     (Porn
    The Men of Porn

    The Men of Porn, now simply known as Porn, is a San Francisco band consisting of founder Tim Moss, Dale Crover and Billy Anderson.Porn toured with the Melvins on their "Double-Drumming Rock for Peace" tour at the end of 2006....
    )
  • Sean Anderson
    Sean Anderson

    Sean Anderson is the bassist of rock band Finger Eleven. He is also the brother of the singer Scott Anderson. While performing, he is always seen as non-energetic unlike the other four members....
     (Finger Eleven
    Finger Eleven

    Finger Eleven is a Canada alternative rock band formed in 1989. They originated in Burlington, Ontario, as Rainbow Butt Monkeys. They have currently released five studio albums, with their album The Greyest of Blue Skies bringing them into the mainstream....
    )
  • Tai Anderson (Third Day
    Third Day

    Third Day is a Contemporary Christian music and Christian rock band formed in Marietta, Georgia during the 1990s. The band was founded by lead singer Mac Powell and guitarist Mark Lee ....
    )
  • Marten Andersson
    Marten Andersson

    Marten Andersson is the bass guitarist for the hardrock groups Lizzy Borden , George Lynch , Starwood and . He is also known for smaller TV and movie acting parts as well as authoring a successful music reference book....
     (Lizzy Borden
    Lizzy Borden (band)

    Lizzy Borden is an United States Heavy metal music band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. Lizzy Borden is also the name of the band's lead vocalist....
    , George Lynch
    George Lynch (musician)

    George Lynch is a Hard rock guitarist best known as a member of the band Dokken....
    )
  • Simon Andersson
    Simon Andersson

    About Simon Andersson, born December 18th 1980, is a Swedish musician. He was the bass player and background vocalist for the Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation until late 2008....
     (Pain of Salvation
    Pain of Salvation

    Pain of Salvation is a Sweden progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenl?w, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist....
    )
  • Mark Andes
    Mark Andes

    Mark Andes is an American musician, known for his work as a bassist with Spirit , Firefall, Heart , and Robert Mirabal....
     (Heart
    Heart (band)

    Heart is a Rock music band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, Washington, United States in the early 1970s. Going through several lineup changes, the only constant members of the group are sisters Ann Wilson and Nancy Wilson ....
    , Spirit
    Spirit (band)

    Spirit was an American jazz/hard rock/psychedelic music band founded in 1967 in music, based in Los Angeles, California, California....
    )
  • Felipe Andreoli
    Felipe Andreoli

    Felipe Andreoli is a heavy-metal bassist known for playing in the band Angra and Karma .In 2006, along with Angra's members, he participated in F?bio Laguna's Freakeys project....
     (Angra
    Angra (band)

    Angra is a heavy metal music band from S?o Paulo , Brazil known for its use of symphonic interludes, highly technical guitar playing, and regional elements in their songs....
    )
  • Dan Andriano
    Dan Andriano

    Daniel Michael Andriano is the bassist and co-vocalist for the punk band Alkaline Trio. Formerly the bassist for the ska-punk band Slapstick and singer/bassist for Tuesday , Andriano joined the band after original bassist Rob Doran left in late 1997....
     (Alkaline Trio
    Alkaline Trio

    Alkaline Trio is a punk rock band from Chicago, consisting of Matt Skiba on guitar/Singing, Dan Andriano on bass guitar/Singing, and Derek Grant on Drum kit/backing vocals....
    )
  • Tom Angelripper
    Tom Angelripper

    Tom Angelripper is the founding member and main songwriter of the Germany thrash metal band Sodom . In this band he plays the bass guitar and handles the vocals....
     (Sodom
    Sodom (band)

    Sodom is a Germany thrash metal band from Gelsenkirchen, formed in 1982.Along with Kreator and Destruction , Sodom are considered one of the "big three" of Teutonic thrash metal....
    )
  • Josh Ansley
    Josh Ansley

    Josh Ansley was the bass guitar player for the ska band Catch 22 . Raised in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey, United States, Ansley was a Ford model as a child/pre-teen and an actor....
     (Catch 22
    Catch 22 (band)

    Catch 22 is a ska punk band from East Brunswick, New Jersey.The band was formed by guitarist/vocalist/songwriter Tomas Kalnoky and drummer Chris Greer who recruited trumpeter Kevin Gunther, who was working in a local record store....
    , Streetlight Manifesto
    Streetlight Manifesto

    Streetlight Manifesto is an American ska punk band from East Brunswick Township, New Jersey under the creative leadership of Tomas Kalnoky.They released their first album, Everything Goes Numb, which was distributed by Victory Records, on August 26, 2003....
    , HURT
    Hurt

    Hurt may refer to a pain or to a suffering.Hurt may also refer to the following:...
    )
  • Michael Anthony (Van Halen
    Van Halen

    Van Halen is a hard rock band formed in in 1972. They enjoyed success from the release of their Van Halen in 1978. As of 2007 Van Halen has sold more than 80 million albums worldwide and have had the most number one hits on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart....
    , Planet Us
    Planet Us

    Planet Us was a short-lived Supergroup that formed in 2002 with Sammy Hagar on lead vocals, Neal Schon on guitar, Michael Anthony on bass, and Deen Castronovo on drums....
    , Sammy Hagar and the Waboritas
    Sammy Hagar

    Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
    )
  • Alan Anton
    Alan Anton

    Alan Anton is the bassist of the Canada band Cowboy Junkies.External links*...
     (Cowboy Junkies
    Cowboy Junkies

    Cowboy Junkies are a Canada alternative rock band. The group was formed in Toronto in 1985 by Michael Timmins , Margo Timmins and Peter Timmins , and Alan Anton ....
    )
  • James Anton
    James Anton

    James "Jim" Anton, is an United States bassist who has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Steve Tibbetts, Bradley Joseph, Jesse Johnson , Willie Wisely, Choying Drolma, Peter Ostroushko, Mandy Moore, John Gorka, Joey McIntyre, Delta Goodrem, Glen Phillips, and Jonny Lang....
  • Emma Anzai
    Emma Anzai

    Emma Anzai is the bassist and only female member of Australian Rock music Musical ensemble Sick Puppies. She was once proclaimed the "Female Michael Balzary" for her compelling bass lines and lively action on stage by an Australian Television Show....
      (Sick Puppies
    Sick Puppies

    Sick Puppies is a rock band from Sydney, Australia. The band was formed by singer/lead guitarist Shimon Moore and bassist Emma Anzai in the music room of Mosman High School in 1997 in music, where the two connected because of their shared love for Silverchair....
    )
  • Tom Araya
    Tom Araya

    Tom Araya is the Chilean American bassist and vocalist of the American thrash metal band Slayer. Araya's family moved to the United States in 1966, and at the age of eight Araya started playing bass guitar, performing renditions of songs by the Beatles and The Rolling Stones with his older brother....
     (Slayer
    Slayer

    Slayer is an American thrash metal band from Huntington Park, California, formed in 1981. The band was founded by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King....
    )
  • Jennifer Arroyo
    Jennifer Arroyo

    Jennifer J. Arroyo is an American bass guitarist. She is best known for her tenure in the Canadian alternative metal group Kittie.While living in the Washington, D.C....
     (Kittie
    Kittie

    Kittie is a Canada All female band alternative metal band from London, Ontario. The band rose to success in 1999 when the track "Brackish " from their debut album Spit became a hit single....
    )
  • Reginald Arvizu
    Reginald Arvizu

    Reginald "Fieldy/Reggie" Arvizu is the bass guitar player for the band Korn....
     (Korn
    Korn

    'Korn' is an American rock music band from Bakersfield, California, formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200, including a compilation album, Greatest Hits, Vol....
    )
  • Talena Atfield
    Talena Atfield

    Talena A. L. Atfield is a Canadian bass guitar player, best known as a former member of Kittie.Talena was only 14 when she first started playing guitar when her parents gave her one for Christmas....
     (Kittie
    Kittie

    Kittie is a Canada All female band alternative metal band from London, Ontario. The band rose to success in 1999 when the track "Brackish " from their debut album Spit became a hit single....
    )
  • Melissa Auf der Maur
    Melissa Auf der Maur

    Melissa Auf der Maur is a Canada rock musician of France-Switzerland ancestry from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Her career has included 5 years as Bass guitar with the band Hole and she later toured with The Smashing Pumpkins for their 2000 tour....
     (Hole
    Hole (band)

    Hole was an American alternative rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1989 and disbanded in 2002. The band was fronted by vocalist/rhythm guitarist Courtney Love, who co-founded Hole with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson when he responded to an ad she placed in the punk zine Flipside ....
    , Smashing Pumpkins, Auf Der Maur)
  • Bryce Avary (The Rocket Summer
    The Rocket Summer

    The Rocket Summer is an indie rock/power pop band from Colleyville, Texas, composed of musician Bryce Avary who plays and performs all instruments and vocals....
    )
  • Eric Avery
    Eric Avery

    Eric Adam Avery is an United States musician and bass guitar player for the rock band Jane's Addiction. Avery played in Jane's Addiction initially from 1985 to 1991, and rejoined the band in 2008....
     (Jane's Addiction
    Jane's Addiction

    Jane's Addiction is an American alternative rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985. For most of its career, the band was composed of vocalist Perry Farrell, bassist Eric Avery, guitarist Dave Navarro, and drummer Stephen Perkins....
    , Alanis Morissette
    Alanis Morissette

    Alanis Nadine Morissette is a Canada singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actress. She has won eleven Juno Awards and seven Grammy Awards, and has sold over 60 million albums worldwide....
    )
  • John Avila
    John Avila

    John Avila is an Mexican-American bassist and music producer. He is perhaps best known as the bassist of the Los Angeles based New Wave music band Oingo Boingo from 1984 to 1995....
     (Oingo Boingo
    Oingo Boingo

    Oingo Boingo was an United States New Wave music band. They are best known for their influence on other musicians, their soundtrack contributions and their high energy Halloween concerts....
    )
  • Karin Axelsson (Sonic Syndicate
    Sonic Syndicate

    Sonic Syndicate is a Metalcore band from Falkenberg, Sweden. The band was formed in 2002 under the name "Fallen Angels." In 2005, they changed their name to Sonic Syndicate....
    )
  • Kevin Ayers
    Kevin Ayers

    Kevin Ayers is an English songwriter and major influential force in the English psychedelic movement. John Peel wrote in his autobiography that "Kevin Ayers' talent is so acute you could perform major eye surgery with it."...
     (Soft Machine
    Soft Machine

    Soft Machine was an England Rock music band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the so-called "Canterbury scene," and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre....
    )
  • Pedro Aznar
    Pedro Aznar

    Pedro Aznar is an Argentine musician and current solo artist. He is very well-known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius....
     (Serú Girán
    Seru Giran

    Ser? Gir?n is an Argentine rock band....
    , The Pat Metheny Group)


B

  • Bob Babbitt
    Bob Babbitt

    Bob Babbitt is an United States bass guitar, most famous for his work as a member of Motown Records' studio band, the Funk Brothers, from 1966?1972....
     (The Funk Brothers
    The Funk Brothers

    The Funk Brothers was the nickname of Detroit, Michigan, session musicians who performed the backing to most Motown Records recordings from 1959 until 1972, when the company moved to Los Angeles, California....
    )
  • Pat Badger
    Pat Badger

    Pat Badger is the bass guitar in the band Extreme. He is also a former member of Daemon, In The Pink, Super Trans Atlantic, and Tribe of Judah ...
     (Extreme
    Extreme (band)

    Extreme is an American Rock music band that reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.Among some of Extreme's musical influences are Queen and Van Halen; The band have described their music as 'Funky Metal'....
    , Tribe of Judah
    Tribe of Judah (band)

    Tribe of Judah is Gary Cherone's post-Van Halen band featuring several former members of Extreme . An eponymous EP was released in 2001 and a full-length album was released in late 2002....
    )
  • Steve Bailey
    Steve Bailey

    Steve Bailey is a professional bassist who is famous for his pioneering work with the six string fretless bass. He was voted runner up for "Bass Player Of The Year" in 1994 and 1996....
     (Bass Extremes
    Bass Extremes

    Bass Extremes is the name of a collection of works by bassists Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey. It has been released as on CD, video, and in a book of sheet music and tablature....
    )
  • Alec Baillie
    Alec Baillie

    Alec Baillie is an American bassist currently residing in Sacramento, California. Alec grew up in Manhattan and attended the same High School as future band mate Stza....
     (Leftöver Crack
    Leftöver Crack

    Leftover Crack is an United States Ska Punk band formed in 1999, following the breakup of the ska punk band Choking Victim. Primarily playing an amalgam of ska punk, and death metal with anarchism lyrics, they classify themselves as "Crack Rock Steady." The band is currently signed to Fat Wreck Chords for CD releases, and Alternative Tentacle...
    )
  • Harvey Bainbridge
    Harvey Bainbridge

    Harvey Frederick Bainbridge is a British bass and keyboard player. He is best known as the bass player and keyboard player in Hawkwind.He initially joined Hawkwind members Dave Brock and Robert Calvert in 1977 in a band called Sonic Assassins in which he played bass guitar....
     (Hawkwind
    Hawkwind

    Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
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  • Brian Baker
    Brian Baker (musician)

    Brian Baker is an United States punk rock musician. He is best known as one of the founding members of the hardcore punk band Minor Threat, and as a guitarist in Bad Religion since 1994 alongside Greg Hetson and later Brett Gurewitz as well....
     (Minor Threat
    Minor Threat

    Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene....
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  • Peter Baltes
    Peter Baltes

    Peter Baltes, born April 4 1958 is a German musician. He has made 14 albums as bassist with the legendary Heavy metal music group Accept, selling 30 million records around the world....
     (Accept
    Accept

    Accept were a Germany Heavy metal music band from the town of Solingen, originally assembled in the early 1970s by Udo Dirkschneider. They played an important role in the development of speed metal and Teutonic thrash metal, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene to emerge in the early to mid 1980s along with bands such as He...
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  • Michael "Flea" Balzary (Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Red Hot Chili Peppers are a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band formed in Los Angeles, California, California, in 1983. For most of the band's existence, the members are vocalist Anthony Kiedis, guitarist John Frusciante, bassist Flea , and drummer Chad Smith....
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  • Tony Barber
    Tony Barber (bassist)

    Tony Barber is the current bassist in the British pop-punk band Buzzcocks. He joined the band in 1993.He continues to play and tour around the world while producing a number of new bands and is a supporter of animal welfare efforts....
     (The Buzzcocks)
  • Paul Barker
    Paul Barker

    Paul Barker , was bass guitarist, record producer and audio engineer with the industrial metal band Ministry from 1986 to 2004. He sometimes uses the pseudonym Hermes Pan....
     (The Blackouts
    The Blackouts (1979 band)

    The Blackouts were an industrial band from 1979 to 1985.They started in Seattle. They moved to Boston and then to San Francisco....
    , Ministry
    Ministry (band)

    Ministry was an United States industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s....
    , Revolting Cocks
    Revolting Cocks

    Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, is an United States Industrial rock band that began as a musical side-project for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc Van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry ....
    , Lard
    Lard (band)

    Lard is a hardcore punk/Industrial band founded in 1988 as a side project by Jello Biafra , Al Jourgensen , Paul Barker , and Jeff Ward . Biafra is perhaps best known as the former frontman of the punk rock band Dead Kennedys....
    , U.S.S.A.
    U.S.S.A.

    U.S.S.A. are a rock music group formed by bassist/programmer/Record producer Paul Barker and guitarist/composer Duane Denison . After their initial collaboration, Barker and Denison recruited vocalist Gary Call and drummer Johnny Rabb....
    , Flowering Blight
    Flowering blight

    Flowering Blight is a solo project by Paul Barker. The first release by Flowering Blight entitled 'The Perfect Pair' was released on the 19th of November 2008 and is available to purchase at ....
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  • Lou Barlow
    Lou Barlow

    Louis Knox Barlow is an United States alternative rock singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.A founding member of the groups Dinosaur Jr....
    , (Dinosaur Jr.)
  • Aston Barrett
    Aston Barrett

    Aston Francis Barrett , often called "Family Man" or "Fams" for short, is a Jamaican bass guitar player and Rastafari movement.He was one of the Barrett brothers who played with Bob Marley and The Wailers Band and Lee Perry's The Upsetters....
    , (Bob Marley & The Wailers
    Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Bob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created in 1974 by Bob Marley, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers ....
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  • Arthur Barrow
    Arthur Barrow

    Arthur Barrow is a multi-instrumental musician, best known for his stint as a bass guitar player for Frank Zappa in the late 1970s and early 1980s....
     (Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
    )
  • Glenn Barry
    Glenn Barry

    Glenn Barry is the bassist for Florida Symphonic power metal band Kamelot. He is the only member other than guitarist/songwriter Thomas Youngblood to appear on all eight of Kamelot's studio albums, although he is not a founding member and was briefly preceded by Sean Christians....
     (Kamelot
    Kamelot

    Kamelot is an United States progressive metal band from Tampa, Florida. They incorporate many elements of symphonic metal and progressive metal into their music....
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  • Mark Bedford
    Mark Bedford

    Mark Bedford , nicknamed 'Bedders', is a bassist and youngest member of the United Kingdom Two Tone band , Madness .Bedford attended William Ellis School in Kentish Town and met with members of the North London Invaders when they played a gig there....
     (Madness
    Madness (band)

    Madness are an English Pop music/ska band from Camden Town, London, that formed in 1976. As of 2008, the band have continued to perform with their most recognised lineup of seven members, although their lineup has varied slightly over the years....
    , Voice of the Beehive
    Voice of the Beehive

    Voice of the Beehive are an English American college rock/Alternative rock musical ensemble, formed in London in 1986 by Californian sibling Tracey Bryn and Melissa Brooke Belland, daughters of The Four Preps singer, Bruce Belland....
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  • Aram Bedrosian
    Aram Bedrosian

    Aram Bedrosian is a bass guitarist known for composing and performing unaccompanied solo bass guitar music. His work has been acknowledged in numerous international publications including Bass guitar Player Magazine, Bass Guitar Magazine and Performer Magazine and he has performed all over North America....
  • Robert Levon Been
    Robert Levon Been

    Robert Levon Been is an United States indie rock bass guitarist, guitarist, and singer. He is currently a member of Los Angeles-based band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and was, for a time, a bass guitar player in The Beggars....
     (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club is an United States alternative rock band from San Francisco, California, now based in Los Angeles. BRMC is known for its brand of garage rock, blues, folk revival, neo-psychedelia, and often religiously inspired lyrics, and its influences are groups and musicians such as The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Rolling...
    )
  • Garry Gary Beers (INXS
    INXS

    INXS is an Australian Rock music and New Wave music band, formed as The Farriss Brothers in 1977 in Sydney. Mainstays are Garry Gary Beers on bass guitar, Andrew Farriss on Keyboard instrument, Jon Farriss on Drum kit, Tim Farriss on lead guitar and Kirk Pengilly on guitar/saxophone....
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  • Nick Beggs
    Nick Beggs

    Nick Beggs is a United Kingdom pop music musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of Kajagoogoo and Iona ....
     (Kajagoogoo
    Kajagoogoo

    Kajagoogoo are a United Kingdom pop band, best known for their first single , "Too Shy", which reached #1 in the UK Singles Chart in 1983....
    , Iona
    Iona (band)

    Iona is the name of a Progressive rock Celtic music rock music band from the United Kingdom, which was formed in the late 1980s by lead vocalist Joanne Hogg and multi-instrumentalists Dave Fitzgerald and Dave Bainbridge....
    )
  • Andy Bell
    Andy Bell (musician)

    Andrew Piran Bell is a British musician, songwriter, singer, producer, DJ and former member of the early 1990s shoegazing band, Ride , and later, Hurricane #1....
     (Oasis
    Oasis (band)

    Oasis are an English rock music band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as "The Rain", the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher ....
    )
  • Bryan Beller
    Bryan Beller

    Bryan Beller is a bass guitarist, much known for his work with guitarists Mike Keneally, Steve Vai, Brendon Small and the "Cartoon Death Metal" band Dethklok, and Dweezil Zappa....
     (Steve Vai
    Steve Vai

    Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an United States instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980....
    , Mike Keneally
    Mike Keneally

    Michael Joseph Keneally is an American guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist and composer. Allmusic says: "With his wide-ranging talents and ability to be creative in almost any musical situation, Keneally is the leading progressive rock genius of the post-Zappa era."...
    , Dethklok
    Dethklok

    Dethklok is both a fictional death metal band featured in the Adult Swim animated program Metalocalypse, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, as well as the virtual band created to perform the band's music in live shows....
    )
  • Frank Bello
    Frank Bello

    Frank Bello is the bass guitar player for the metal band Anthrax . He replaced Dan Lilker on the Spreading the Disease album. After leaving Anthrax in early 2004 Bello joined Helmet - another New York City-based band, for a brief stint....
     (Anthrax
    Anthrax (band)

    Anthrax is a New York City-based Heavy metal music band that released its first full-length album in 1984. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene and is notable for being the first to combine heavy metal with Hip hop music music....
    , Helmet
    Helmet (band)

    Helmet is an United States alternative metalpost-hardcore band formed in New York City by Page Hamilton with Henry Bogdan , Peter Mengede and John Stanier in 1989....
    )
  • Carles Benavent
    Carles Benavent

    Carles Benavent is a flamenco and jazz bassist. Benavent has played alongside Paco de Luc?a, Chick Corea and Miles Davis. He developed a new style of bass that has been integrated into flamenco music....
     (Paco de Lucía
    Paco de Lucía

    Paco de Luc?a, born Francisco S?nchez G?mez , is a Spain composer and guitarist. Recognized as a virtuoso flamenco guitarist all over the world, he is a leading proponent of the New Flamenco style, and is one of the very few flamenco guitarists who have also successfully crossed over into other genres of music....
    , Chick Corea
    Chick Corea

    Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
    , Miles Davis
    Miles Davis

    Miles Dewey Davis III was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s: he played on various early bebop records and recorded one of the first cool jaz...
    )
  • Jo Bench
    Jo Bench

    Jo-Anne Bench is a death metal bass player from Leamington Spa, England. She plays bass in Bolt Thrower on all albums, but not on the demos. She has been vegetarian since 1984....
     (Bolt Thrower
    Bolt Thrower (band)

    Bolt Thrower are an England death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988....
    )
  • Martin Bengtsson
    Martin Bengtsson

    Martin Bengtsson is a Sweden heavy metal music musician. He was a member of the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy between 1997 and 1998, and played bass guitar on their second album, Stigmata ....
     (Arch Enemy
    Arch Enemy (band)

    Arch Enemy is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996 by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage ....
    , Armageddon
    Armageddon (band)

    Armageddon was a Sweden Heavy metal music band, led by Christopher Amott of Arch Enemy . Originally conceived as a melodic death metal band, the group's later efforts fall into the power metal category....
    )
  • Paco Benitez
    Paco Benitez

    Paco Ben?tez is a bass player/songwriter living in Madrid, Spain. Born in Cadiz in 1966 and raised in Miami, he started playing the electric bass in 1983....
  • Pig Benis (Mushroomhead
    Mushroomhead

    Mushroomhead is a metal music ensemble from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in Cleveland's Warehouse District, the band?s music can be described as a synthesis of Alternative music, Heavy metal music, and electro-industrial influences....
    )
  • Jay Bentley
    Jay Bentley

    Jay Dee Bentley is the bassist and co-founding member of the punk rock group Bad Religion. He's played with the band through its whole existence with a small break between 1982 and 1986....
     (Bad Religion
    Bad Religion

    Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
    )
  • Glen Benton
    Glen Benton

    Glen Benton is an American Heavy metal music musician best known as the vocalist and bassist for the death metal band Deicide , although he prefers not to use the 'death metal' terminology....
     (Deicide
    Deicide (band)

    Deicide is an United States death metal band formed in 1987. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion , are ranked second and third place in best-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era....
    )
  • Stevie Benton
    Stevie Benton

    Stevie Benton is an United States bass guitarist performing in the heavy metal music band Drowning Pool. He also provides Backing vocalist for the group....
     (Drowning Pool
    Drowning Pool

    Drowning Pool is a four-piece alternative metal band that was formed in 1996 in Dallas, Texas, Texas, United States. They are currently signed to Eleven Seven Music and have released 3 albums, their most recent being Full Circle which was released on August 7, 2007....
    )
  • Jeff Berlin
    Jeff Berlin

    Jeff Berlin is an American bass guitar player. Since the mid-1970s, he has been known for his virtuosic jazz fusion and progressive rock bass playing....
  • Guy Berryman
    Guy Berryman

    Guy Rupert Berryman is the bass guitar and member of the group Coldplay....
     (Coldplay
    Coldplay

    Coldplay are a United Kingdom alternative rock Musical ensemble formed in London, England in 1998. The group comprises vocalist/pianist/guitarist Chris Martin, lead guitarist Jonny Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman, and drummer/multi-instrumentalist Will Champion....
    )
  • Stephane Bertrand
    Stéphane Bertrand

    St?phane Bertrand is a bassist and composer. He is france born in Cannes in 1967.Bertrand collaborated with Amina Fakhet, Soriba Kouyat?, Jean Marc Jafet, Gilles Choir, Fr?d?ric l'Ep?e, the Curl group and many other artists....
  • Andy Billups
    Andy Billups

    Andy Billups also known as Ms Zsa Zsa Poltergeist, is the Bass guitar player for the The Hamsters.Andy was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire, England but at a young age his parents moved to Spalding, Lincolnshire, Lincolnshire where he lived until the age of 19....
     (The Hamsters
    The Hamsters

    The Hamsters are a UK band originating from Southend on Sea in Essex. They are a three-piece band comprising of Singing/guitarist, drummer and bassist player....
    )
  • Pete Birrell
    Pete Birrell

    Pete Birrell is a United Kingdom musician in the band , Freddie and the Dreamers, which had a number of chart-topper Gramophone record between 1963 and 1964....
     (Freddie and the Dreamers
    Freddie and the Dreamers

    Freddie and the Dreamers were a United Kingdom musical band who had a number of hit records between May 1963 and November 1965. Their act was based around the comic antics of the 5-foot-3-inch-tall Freddie Garrity, who was famous for bouncing around the stage with arms and legs flying....
    )
  • Bob Birch
    Bob Birch

    Bob Birch is a session bass guitarist, mostly noted for his work with Elton John. When he was growing up, he played the bassoon in addition to bass....
     (Elton John
    Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially during the 1970s....
    )
  • Eric Bischoff
    Eric Bischoff

    Eric Baron Bischoff is an United States entrepreneur and former professional wrestling List of professional wrestling terms#B, producer, and on-screen personality, most known for serving as Executive Producer of World Championship Wrestling and later, the Professional wrestling authority figures#Raw brand authorities of World Wrestling Ente...
     (Heaven Shall Burn
    Heaven Shall Burn

    Heaven Shall Burn is a Deathcore band from Saalfeld, Germany. They combine an aggressive metal sound with lyrics that show a militant support of anti-racism and fighting social injustice....
    )
  • Mike Bishop
    Michael Bishop (bassist)

    Michael Bishop is an American musician. Most notably, he was the bass guitarist for the United States Heavy metal music band GWAR. As a member of GWAR, he was the first to play the role of "Beefcake the Mighty") ....
     (GWAR
    GWAR

    Gwar is an American and Grammy nominated rock music band formed in 1985. The band is best known for their elaborate sci-fi/horror film inspired costumes; raunchy, obscene lyrics; and graphic stage performances, which consist of humorous re-enactments of political and moral taboo themes....
    , Kepone
    Kepone (band)

    Kepone was an American indie rock band based out of Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 1991 the band's name is derived from the Kepone crisis that occurred in the Richmond area in the 1970's....
    )
  • Matt Bissonette
    Matt Bissonette

    Matt Bissonette is an American bass player and the brother of drummer Gregg Bissonette. He attended the University of North Texas's jazz music program....
  • Bill Black
    Bill Black

    William Patton "Bill" Black, Jr. was an United States musician. He is noted for being Elvis Presley's bassist....
     (Elvis Presley
    Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley was an United Statesn singer, actor, and musician. A cultural icon, he is commonly known simply as "Elvis", and is also sometimes referred to as "List of honorific titles in popular music" or "The King"....
    )
  • Lori Black
    Lori Black (bassist)

    Lori Black, at Santa Monica, California also known as Lorax, is the daughter of Shirley Temple and Charles Alden Black. She played bass guitar for Clown Alley and for the Melvins....
     (Clown Alley
    Clown Alley (band)

    Clown Alley was a 1980s bay area punk rock band....
    , The Melvins
    The Melvins

    The Melvins are an American sludge metal band that usually perform as a power trio. Aside from the 1984 incarnation which included Buzz, Mike Dillard on drums, and Matt Lukin, Singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover are constant members....
    )
  • Morty Black
    Morty Black

    Morty Black is a bassist mostly known for playing with international bands like J?rn Lande, Ken Hensley, Terje Rypdal and TNT . In addition he has also played for many famous Norwegian artists....
     (TNT
    TNT (band)

    TNT is a Norway hard rock/glam metal band....
    )
  • John Blackburn
    John Blackburn (musician)

    John Blackburn is currently known as a member of Skin's backing band as the bass and keyboard player. His first gig with Skin was on the V Stage for the V Festival in 2003....
     (The Mescaleros
    The Mescaleros

    The Mescaleros were the backing band for Joe Strummer, formed in 1999, which went on to make three albums prior to Strummer's death in 2002. Many of the band members were gifted multi-instrumentalists....
    , Skin)
  • Ron Blair
    Ron Blair

    Ron Blair is the original bassist for Tom Petty. He was the band 's bass guitarist from 1976 to 1981. In 2002, he returned to the group after a 21-year hiatus, replacing his own replacement, the late Howie Epstein....
     (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
    Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

    This article is about the Rock band. For information on the eponymous debut album see Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is an United States Rock music band, formed in 1976 by Tom Petty, Mike Campbell, and Benmont Tench and known for hit singles such as "American Girl ", "Breakdown " and "Mary Jane's Last Da...
    )
  • Blasko
    Rob Nicholson (musician)

    Rob "Blasko" Nicholson is a Hard rock bassist who was born on November 24, 1969. His influences include the rock bands Iron Maiden, Mot?rhead, and Corrosion of Conformity....
     (Rob Zombie
    Rob Zombie

    Robert Bartleh Cummings , better known by his stage name, Rob Zombie, is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer....
    , Ozzy)
  • Johan Blomqvist
    Johan Blomqvist

    Johan Blomqvist is the bass guitarist for Swedish punk rock band Backyard Babies and has been since 1987.Johan Blomqvist var ?ven med som g?stbasist d? den svenska rockgruppen Kent upptr?dde p? Stockholms Stadio ?r 2003, konserten utm?rkte sig d? alla i publiken var kl?dda i vita kl?der....
     (Backyard Babies
    Backyard Babies

    Backyard Babies are a Swedish punk rock band, from N?ssj?, Sweden. The band was formed in 1987, over the years they have released five studio albums and have won a Swedish Grammy....
    )
  • Vicki Blue
    Vicki Blue

    'Vicki Blue' , now known as Victory Tischler Blue, is a bassist and film and television producer. She joined the all-girl rock group the Runaways in 1977 and appeared as a bassist on their albums Waitin' for the Night and And Now......
      (The Runaways
    The Runaways

    The Runaways were a teenage, American all women band rock band that performed in the 1970s. The band is best known for the songs "Cherry Bomb", "Queens of Noise", "Neon Angels " and "Born to Be Bad"....
    )
  • Henry Bogdan
    Henry Bogdan

    Henry Bogdan , is an United States musician. He is perhaps best known as the original bass guitarist and a founding member of the alternative metal band , Helmet ....
     (Helmet
    Helmet

    A helmet is a form of protective gear worn on the head to protect it from injuries, a variation of the hat. The oldest use of helmets was by Ancient Greek soldiers, who wore thick leather or bronze helmets to protect the head from sword blows and arrows....
    )
  • Tim Bogert
    Tim Bogert

    Tim Bogert . He graduated from Ridgefield Memorial High School Ridgefield, New Jersey in 1963. He is a bass guitar player and is best known for his bass solos and his work with Vanilla Fudge and the Power trio Beck, Bogert & Appice....
     (Vanilla Fudge
    Vanilla Fudge

    Vanilla Fudge was an United States psychedelic music band that recorded albums from 1967 to 1970. Members included vocalist/organist Mark Stein , bassist/vocalist Tim Bogert, lead guitarist/vocalist Vince Martell, and drummer/vocalist Carmine Appice....
    )
  • Trevor Bolder
    Trevor Bolder

    Trevor Bolder is an England rock bass guitarist....
     (David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
    's Spiders from Mars, Wishbone Ash
    Wishbone Ash

    Wishbone Ash are a United Kingdom Rock music band who achieved success in the early and mid-1970s with their distinctive mellow sound, and popular records including Wishbone Ash , Argus , There's the Rub and New England ....
    , Uriah Heep
    Uriah Heep (band)

    Uriah Heep are an English people rock music band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice , a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
    )
  • Richard Bona
    Richard Bona

    Richard Bona is a jazz musician and bassist, was born in October 28, 1967 in the town of Minta, in eastern Cameroon.Bona was born into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a young age....
  • Doru "Boro" Borobeica (IRIS
    IRIS (Romanian band)

    IRIS is a well known Romanian hard rock band. It was established in 1977 by Nelu Dumitrescu , Ion Olteanu and Emil Lechinteanu . They achieved huge success, followed by tours throughout Romania and recordings for radio broadcast and are considered one of the best Romanian rock bands....
    )
  • Joe Bouchard
    Joe Bouchard

    Joe Bouchard , joined in the band that would become Blue ?yster Cult as a bassist in the summer of 1970, although he had already been jamming and performing occasionally with the band for a few years....
     (Blue Öyster Cult
    Blue Öyster Cult

    Blue ?yster Cult is an American rock music band formed in New York in 1967 and still active in 2009. The group is especially well known for songs including " The Reaper", "Godzilla", and "Burnin' for You"....
    )
  • Zeta Bosio
    Zeta Bosio

    H?ctor Pedro Juan "Zeta" Bosio is a rock bassist and producer, better known as the bass guitar for the Argentina band Soda Stereo.Bosio, along with Gustavo Cerati and Charly Alberti formed Soda Stereo in 1982....
     (Soda Stereo
    Soda Stereo

    Soda Stereo is an Argentina Rock in Spanish trio formed in 1982 consisting of guitarist and singer Gustavo Cerati, Bass guitar Zeta Bosio and drum kit Charly Alberti....
    )
  • Danny Bourgeois
    Danny Bourgeois

    Danny Bourgeois is the singer/bass guitarist for the New Orleans-based band Punch People. Prior to Punch People, Danny was singer/bassist for local band Feed-Lu and guitarist/vocalist for popular local band Green Leaf Cult....
     (Punch People
    Punch People

    Punch People is a three-piece progressive rock band from New Orleans, Louisiana. The band consist of Danny Bourgeois, Rock Whittington and Neil Bernard ....
    )
  • Will Boyd
    William Boyd (musician)

    William James Boyd , better known as Will Boyd, is the former bassist of alternative metal band Evanescence.Boyd became a full-time member of Evanescence in June 2003, but had co-written two of their unreleased songs, "October" and "So Close," prior to that....
     (Evanescence
    Evanescence

    Evanescence is an American rock music band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody.After recording two private Extended play and a demo CD named Origin , with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen , on Wind-up Records in 2003...
    )
  • Randy Bradbury
    Randy Bradbury

    Randy Bradbury is the current bass guitar player for the Californian punk rock band Pennywise . He joined in October 1995 when founding bass player Jason Thirsk left the band for reasons related to alcoholism....
     (Pennywise
    Pennywise (band)

    Pennywise is an American punk rock band that was formed in 1988, and is named after the It from the Stephen King novel, It .Between their 1991 Pennywise debut and 2005's The Fuse, Pennywise had released an album every two years on Epitaph Records, a label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz....
    )
  • Beverly Breckenridge
    Beverly Breckenridge

    Beverly Breckenridge is a musician, composer, and actress from Toronto, Ontario. She played Bassist for the bands Fifth Column and Phono-Comb....
     (Fifth Column, Phono-Comb
    Phono-Comb

    Phono-Comb is a Canada instrumental rock/modern surf rock group that originated in Toronto, Ontario....
    )
  • Eddie Breckenridge
    Eddie Breckenridge

    Eddie Breckenridge is the bass guitarist of the post-hardcore band, Thrice. Eddie joined the band having virtually no experience playing the bass ....
     (Thrice
    Thrice

    Thrice is an American band from Irvine, California. The group was founded in 1998 by guitarist/vocalist Dustin Kensrue and guitarist Teppei Teranishi while they were in high school....
    )
  • Andrés Bretel
    Andrés Bretel

    Andr?s Bretel is a Peruvian musician and record producer....
     (TK
    TK

    TK, Tk or tk may refer to:In computing and video games:* Tk , a GUI software toolkit* .tk, the top-level domain of Tokelau...
    , Madre Matilda
    Madre Matilda

    Madre Matilda was Peruvian rock band formed in 1996 and disbanded in 2002. Named after a somewhat obscure Pink Floyd track, it had two minor hits in with "Regresa" and "C?rculos."...
    )
  • Dan Briggs (musician)
    Dan Briggs (musician)

    Dan Briggs is the current bass player for progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. He also plays guitar in the band Orbs . He is a vegan....
     (Between the Buried and Me
    Between the Buried and Me

    Between the Buried and Me, often abbreviated to BTBAM, is a progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina.The band's name is derived from a section of lyrics in Counting Crows? song "Ghost Train": "Took the cannonball down to the ocean/Across the desert from the sea to shining sea/I rode a ladder that climbed across the nation/F...
    )
  • Brian Bromberg
    Brian Bromberg

    Brian Bromberg is an United States jazz bassist and record producer who performs on both Bass guitar and Double bass instruments. Though he tends to gravitate towards the genre of smooth jazz, Bromberg has released some straight-ahead jazz records in which he performs with a Trio , and has even ventured into more rock oriented jazz fusion te...
  • Dave Bronze
    Dave Bronze

    Dave Bronze is an English people bass guitarist. The musicians he has worked with include Robin Trower, Dr. Feelgood , The Hamsters, Eric Clapton, Nik Kershaw, Belinda Carlisle, Barbara Dixon, Art of Noise, Be Sharp and Ray Davies....
     (Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
    , Procol Harem, The Hamsters
    The Hamsters

    The Hamsters are a UK band originating from Southend on Sea in Essex. They are a three-piece band comprising of Singing/guitarist, drummer and bassist player....
    )
  • Brown Mark (Prince and the Revolution)
  • Ray Brown
    Ray Brown (musician)

    Raymond Matthews Brown was an United States jazz double bassist. He is considered by many one of the masters of his instrument, as he developed an almost perfect sense of timekeeping and had a hard swing feel to his lines....
     (Dizzy Gillespie
    Dizzy Gillespie

    John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie [/g?'l?spi/] was an United States jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, the youngest of nine children....
    , Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
    , Charlie Parker
    Charlie Parker

    Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
    )
  • Rex Brown
    Rex Brown

    Rex Robert Brown is an United States Heavy metal music bassist. Currently a member of Down , he is most famous as the longtime bassist for the Grammy Award-nominated, RIAA certification-selling band Pantera....
     (Pantera
    Pantera

    Pantera was an American heavy metal music band from Arlington, Texas, Texas, formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Diamond Darrell , then known as Diamond Darrell, in 1981....
    , Down
    Down (band)

    Down is an American heavy metal music band formed in 1991 in New Orleans, Louisiana, Louisiana. The band is a Supergroup , comprising members and former members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Crowbar , Eyehategod and Kingdom of Sorrow....
    )
  • Baron Browne
    Baron Browne

    Baron Browne is an United States bass guitar.Born and raised in Georgia , USA, Baron Browne gravitated to music at a very early age, learning to play his uncle's drumset at 7 years old....
     Jean-Luc Ponty
    Jean-Luc Ponty

    Jean-Luc Ponty is a French virtuoso violinist and jazz composer....
    , Billy Cobham
    Billy Cobham

    William C. Cobham , is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader.Coming to prominence in the late 1960s and early '70s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with Mahavishnu Orchestra, Cobham is, in the words of critic Steve Huey, "generally acclaimed as jazz fusion greatest drummer, "and one of the best in the world" with...
    ,Vital Information
    Vital Information

    Steve Smith and Vital Information is an United States jazz fusion group led by drummer Steve Smith .Vital Information was formed by Steve Smith in 1983 with friends Tim Landers, Dave Wilczewski, Dean Brown , and Mike Stern....
  • Chris Brubeck
    Chris Brubeck

    Christopher Brubeck , better known as Chris Brubeck, is a United States musician and composer, both in jazz and classical music. As a musician, he mainly plays electric bass, bass trombone, and piano....
      (The Dave Brubeck Quartet
    The Dave Brubeck Quartet

    'The Dave Brubeck Quartet' was a jazz quartet, founded in 1951 by Dave Brubeck and featuring Paul Desmond on saxophone and Brubeck on piano. They took up a long residency at San Francisco's Blackhawk nightclub and gained great popularity touring college campuses, releasing a series of albums with such titles as Jazz at Oberlin, Jazz Go...
    )
  • Jack Bruce
    Jack Bruce

    John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
     (Cream
    Cream (band)

    Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
    )
  • Bunny Brunel
    Bunny Brunel

    Bunny Brunel is a France-born United States bass guitarist who has played with various jazz notables including Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and numerous others....
     (CAB
    CAB (band)

    CAB is a jazz fusion musical group featuring Bunny Brunel , Tony MacAlpine , Brian Auger , Patrice Rushen and Dennis Chambers . They have released at least four CDs and three DVDs since 2000....
    )
  • Francis Buchholz
    Francis Buchholz

    Francis Buchholz is a Germany bassist best known as a member of Scorpions.Already at the age of eleven he listened to rock music. His first appearance as a bass player in a high school rock band took place at the age of 15....
     (Scorpions
    Scorpions (band)

    Scorpions are a heavy metal music/hard rock band from Hanover, Germany, probably best known for their 1980s rock anthem "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and their singles "No One Like You", "Still Loving You", and "Wind of Change "....
    )
  • Nicholas Bullen
    Nicholas Bullen

    Nicholas Bullen is a founding member of the band Napalm Death, the band credited with creating the Grindcore genre....
     (Napalm Death
    Napalm Death

    Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
    )
  • Oteil Burbridge
    Oteil Burbridge

    Oteil Burbridge, born 24 August 1967 in Washington, D.C., is an American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age....
     (Allman Brothers)
  • Ian Burden
    Ian Burden

    Ian Burden was a keyboardist with the England synthpop band , The Human League, from 1981 up to 1989.Formerly of Sheffield band Graph, Burden was employed as a session musician keyboard player for the Human League's October 1980 tour, covering for Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh's keyboards after their departure....
     (The Human League
    The Human League

    The Human League are a British people synthpop band. Formed in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1977, they achieved popularity after a key change in line-up in the early 1980s....
    )
  • Hunter Burgan
    Hunter Burgan

    Hunter Lawrence Burgan grew up in Grass Valley, California. He is the third and current bass guitarist of AFI . He played in a band called The Force at the time that he joined AFI....
     (AFI
    AFI (band)

    AFI is an American hardcore punk band from Ukiah, California, California, formed in 1991. They have consisted of the same lineup since 1998, lead vocalist Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade Puget, who both play keyboard and contribute backup vocals....
    )
  • Mike Burkett
    Mike Burkett

    Mike Burkett, better known as Fat Mike, is the lead singer and Bass guitar player of the United States punk rock band, NOFX as well as bassist for the all-star cover band, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes....
     (Nofx
    NOFX

    NOFX is an United States punk rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California , in 1983.The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin....
    )
  • J.J. Burnel (The Stranglers
    The Stranglers

    The Stranglers are an England Rock and roll group, formed on 11 September 1974 in Guildford, Surrey.Scoring a string of UK top ten hits, including "Golden Brown", "No More Heroes " and "Peaches " and UK top forty hits spanning four decades, the Stranglers originally built a following alongside the mid-'70s pub rock scene....
    )
  • Boz Burrell
    Boz Burrell

    Boz Burrell was a Bass guitar guitarist and singer known for his involvement in bands such as King Crimson and Bad Company.Whilst singer in The Boz People in the mid-1960s, Boz was selected to replace Roger Daltrey in The Who when the remaining members of that band were on the verge of firing Daltrey, which ultimately did not happen....
      (King Crimson
    King Crimson

    King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
    , Bad Company
    Bad Company

    Bad Company are an England hard rock Supergroup founded in 1973, consisting of band members from Free , Mott the Hoople , and King Crimson . Bad Company was managed by Peter Grant , who had also guided Led Zeppelin to massive success....
    )
  • Heinz Burt
    Heinz (singer)

    Heinz Burt , and mainly publicised by his first name, was a bass guitarist and singer....
     (The Tornados
    The Tornados

    The Tornados were an England instrumental group of the 1960s who acted as in-house backing group for many of record producer Joe Meek's productions....
    )
  • Cliff Burton
    Cliff Burton

    Clifford Lee Burton was a bassist best known for his work with the American Heavy metal music band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986....
     (Metallica
    Metallica

    Metallica is an American heavy metal music band that formed in 1981 in Los Angeles. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, while going through a number of bassists....
    )
  • Geezer Butler
    Geezer Butler

    Terence Michael Joseph "Geezer" Butler is the founding bassist for the heavy metal music band Black Sabbath. He is currently involved in Heaven and Hell ....
     (Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath

    Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
    , Heaven and Hell
    Heaven and Hell (band)

    Heaven and Hell is a musical collaboration featuring Black Sabbath members Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler along with former members Ronnie James Dio and Vinny Appice....
    , GZR
    GZR

    GZR is a band led by Black Sabbath bassist/lyricist Geezer Butler. The band has actually been marketed with three different names on the three releases they've had....
    , Ozzy Osbourne
    Ozzy Osbourne

    John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
    )
  • Tony Butler
    Tony Butler (bass player)

    Tony Butler , is a rock and roll bassist, best known for his lengthy work with the Scotland rock band, Big Country. He has also worked with On the Air , The Pretenders, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, among others....
     (Big Country
    Big Country

    Big Country were a Rock band from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, popular in the early to mid-1980s but still releasing material for a cult following....
    )


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  • Cone McCaslin (Sum 41
    Sum 41

    Sum 41 is a Canadian Rock music Musical ensemble from Ajax, Ontario. The current members are Deryck Whibley , Cone McCaslin , and Steve Jocz ....
    )
  • Chris Cain
    Chris Cain (We Are Scientists)

    Chris Cain is the bass guitar and backing vocals of New York-based band We Are Scientists. He was born in Montreal, Canada, and grew up in Utah....
     (We Are Scientists
    We Are Scientists

    We Are Scientists is an United States rock band, formed in 2000, featuring Keith Murray , Chris Cain and previously Michael Tapper . In their own words, the band creates "rock music of the thoughtful, sometimes epic, often loud, vaguely danceable, implicitly humanist variety"....
    )
  • John Cale
    John Cale

    John Davies Cale , better known as John Cale, is a Welsh people musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the rock & roll band The Velvet Underground....
     (The Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground

    The Velvet Underground was an American Rock music band first active, in various incarnations, from 1965 to 1973. Their best-known members were Lou Reed and John Cale, who both went on to find success as solo artists....
    )
  • Bernie Calvert
    Bernie Calvert

    Bernie Calvert played bass guitar and keyboard instrument with The Hollies from 1966 until 1981....
     (The Hollies
    The Hollies

    The Hollies are an England Pop music band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s....
    )
  • John Campbell
    John Campbell (bassist)

    John Steven Campbell is the bassist and a founding member of the heavy metal music band Lamb of God . He also plays with Richmond, VA rock band extraordinaire, RPG....
     (Lamb of God
    Lamb of God

    Lamb of God is one of the titles given to Jesus in the New Testament and consequently in the Christian tradition. It refers to Jesus' role as a sacrificial lamb atoning for the sins of man in Christian theology, harkening back to ancient Temple in Jerusalem sacrifices in which a domestic sheep was slain during the passover , the blood was s...
    )
  • Ben Campbell
    Ben Campbell (musician)

    Ben Campbell is the current bassist of New Zealand Rock music band Atlas . He was also the bassist for the band Zed but that band has since broken up. His sister Beth Campbell is one of the singers in Atlas ....
     (Zed
    Zed

    Zed, or zee in American English, is Z the 26th and last letter of the English alphabetZed may also refer to:...
    )
  • Tony Campos
    Tony Campos

    Tony Campos is an Mexican American musician, and the bass guitarist for the industrial metal band Static-X and Frontman/Bassist for Asesino. Tony was the final bassist for Ministry when the band broke up in 2008....
     (Static-X
    Static-X

    Static-X is an industrial metal band. Formed in 1994, they are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released five albums, their most recent being Cannibal , which was released on April 3, 2007....
    )
  • Alain Caron (Uzeb
    Uzeb

    Uzeb was a Canadian jazz fusion band from Montreal, Quebec, who were active from 1976 to 1992. The members were Alain Caron , Michel Cusson , and Paul Brochu ....
    )
  • Julian Casablancas
    Julian Casablancas

    Julian Fernando Casablancas is the vocalist and songwriter of the United States Rock music band The Strokes....
  • Jack Casady
    Jack Casady

    Jack Casady , is an American musician considered one of the foremost bass guitarists of the rock music era and best known as a member of Jefferson Airplane....
     (Jefferson Airplane
    Jefferson Airplane

    Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
    , Hot Tuna
    Hot Tuna

    Hot Tuna is an United States blues-rock band, formed by bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen as a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane. They play acoustic and electric versions of original and traditional blues songs....
    )
  • Gerald Casale
    Gerald Casale

    Gerald V. Casale is the bass guitar/synthesizer player, a vocalist, and one of the founding members of the new wave band Devo. Along with Mothersbaugh, who he met at Kent State University, Casale co-wrote most of Devo's material , designed Devo's distinctive attire over the years with Mothersbaugh, and directed most of Devo's videos....
     (Devo
    Devo

    Devo , often spelled DEVO or DEV-O, is an American Rock music group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1973. They are best known for their 1980 hit "Whip It", which made it to #14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart....
    )
  • Ken Casey
    Ken Casey

    Ken Casey is the bass guitarist and a singer of the Boston, Massachusetts punk rock group Dropkick Murphys. Casey was one of the original members, starting it in 1996 with Rick Barton and Mike McColgan....
     (Dropkick Murphys
    Dropkick Murphys

    Dropkick Murphys are an United States Celtic punk band formed in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. First playing together in the basement of a friend's barbershop, they blended traditional Music of Ireland, folk rock, and hardcore punk....
    )
  • Martyn P. Casey
    Martyn P. Casey

    Martyn Paul Casey is an Australian rock bass guitarist. He is best known as a member of The Triffids and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He is also a member of Nick Cave's new band, Grinderman....
     (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian Rock music band with multinational personnel, fronted by Nick Cave....
    , Grinderman
    Grinderman

    Grinderman is a garage rock band formed by Nick Cave , Warren Ellis , Martyn P. Casey and Jim Sclavunos , all of whom are members of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds....
    , The Triffids
    The Triffids

    The Triffids were an Australian rock band who achieved some international success in the 1980s. Formed in Perth, Western Australia in the late 1970s and disbanded in 1989, their best known songs are "Wide Open Road " and "Bury Me Deep in Love"....
    )
  • Louis Cennamo
    Louis Cennamo

    Louis Cennamo was bass player with the original line-up of Renaissance and later with Steamhammer , Armageddon and Illusion . He also worked with Jim McCarty in Stairway ....
  • Peter Cetera
    Peter Cetera

    Peter Paul Cetera is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitar player and Record producer best known for being an original member of the rock band Chicago , before launching a successful solo career....
     (Chicago
    Chicago (band)

    Chicago is an American pop rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. The band began as a politically charged, sometimes experimental, rock band and later moved to a predominantly softer sound, becoming famous for producing a number of hit ballads....
    )
  • Les Chadwick
    Les Chadwick

    Les Chadwick is a bassist.His bass guitar work can be heard on all of the many sound recording and reproduction made by the merseybeat sound, produced by the 1960s pop music band , called Gerry & The Pacemakers....
     (Gerry & The Pacemakers
    Gerry & the Pacemakers

    Gerry & the Pacemakers were a United Kingdom rock and roll musical ensemble during the 1960s. In common with The Beatles, they came from Liverpool and were management by Brian Epstein....
    )
  • Clive Chaman
    Clive Chaman

    Clive Chaman was born in Trinidad and Tobago and is a UK-based bass guitarist and session musician.After appearing on Ram John Holder's 1969 London Blues album, Chaman became a member of the second The Jeff Beck Group in 1971 until they disbanded in 1973 when he joined Cozy Powell band Hammer....
     (Jeff Beck
    Jeff Beck

    Geoffrey Arnold "Jeff" Beck is an England rock music guitarist. He was one of the three noted guitarists — the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page — to have played with The Yardbirds....
    , Brian Auger
    Brian Auger

    Brian Auger , is a jazz and rock and roll keyboardist, who has specialized in playing the Hammond organ.A jazz pianist, bandleader, session musician and Hammond B3 player, Auger has played or toured with musician such as Rod Stewart, Tony Williams, Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Boy Williamson, Led Zeppelin, Eric Burdon and others....
    )
  • Justin Chancellor
    Justin Chancellor

    Justin Gunnar Walter Chancellor is an English-born musician; the bass guitar player for Tool and formerly of the band Peach . Chancellor is of Norway and England descent....
     (Tool
    Tool (band)

    Tool is an American Grammy Award-winning Rock music band that was formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones , and vocalist Maynard James Keenan....
    )
  • Chas Chandler
    Chas Chandler

    Bryan James "Chas" Chandler was an England musician, record producer and Talent manager of several successful music acts.Born in the Heaton, Newcastle district of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he began his career playing bass guitar in a trio with Alan Price....
     (The Animals
    The Animals

    The Animals were an England music group of the 1960s known in the United States as part of the British Invasion. Known for their gritty, bluesy sound and deep-voiced frontman Eric Burdon, as exemplified by their signature songs "The House of the Rising Sun" and "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place", the band balanced tough, rock music-edged pop mu...
    )
  • Tim Chandler
    Tim Chandler

    'Tim Chandler' is a bass guitar player, best known for his work with the rock music bands Daniel Amos, The Swirling Eddies and The Choir.In 2000, when Daniel Amos was recording its Mr....
     (Daniel Amos
    Daniel Amos

    Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars....
    , The Swirling Eddies
    The Swirling Eddies

    The Swirling Eddies are a band that began as an anonymous spinoff from the band Daniel Amos, along with new drummer David Raven .For each Swirling Eddies release, band members adopted pseudonyms for the liner notes; "Camarillo Eddy" , "Berger Roy Al" , "Gene Pool" , "Arthur Fhardy" , "Spot" , and "Hort Elvison" ....
    , The Choir
    The Choir

    The Choir is an atmospheric alternative Christian rock band, led by Derri Daugherty on guitar and vocals, Steve Hindalong on drums--who also writes most of the band's lyrics--as well as Tim Chandler on bass, Dan Michaels on lyricon, electric flute and saxophone and Marc Byrd on guitar, the latter of whom is a relatively recent addition to the...
    )
  • Chris Chaney
    Chris Chaney

    This article is about Chris Chaney, ex-bass player of Jane's Addiction. For the lead singer/guitarist of the Australian band The Living End see Chris Cheney....
     (The Panic Channel
    The Panic Channel

    The Panic Channel was an alternative rock band featuring members of Jane's Addiction. The band formed in Los Angeles, California....
    )
  • Stuart Chatwood
    Stuart Chatwood

    Stuart Chatwood, is a Canada musician, best known as the bass guitar and Keyboard instrument player for the now defunct rock band The Tea Party....
     (The Tea Party
    The Tea Party

    The Tea Party were a Canada rock and roll band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed "Moroccan roll" by the media....
    )
  • Chi Cheng
    Chi Cheng (musician)

    Chi Cheng, is an United States musician, the bass guitarist in the rock music musical band Deftones....
     (Deftones
    Deftones

    Deftones is an American rock music musical ensemble from Sacramento, California formed in 1988, consisting of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham ....
    )
  • Sheila Chipperfield
    Sheila Chipperfield

    Sheila Chipperfield was, from 1996-1998, the bassist in the London based rock band, Elastica.She is now a successful Disc jockey playing clubs in London and across Europe....
     (Elastica
    Elastica

    Elastica were a United Kingdom alternative rock band, who played punk rock-influenced music. They were best known for their 1995 album Elastica which produced single that charted in the United States and the United Kingdom....
    )
  • Johnny Christ
    Johnny Christ

    Jonathan Lewis Seward, , better known by his stage name Johnny Christ, is the bassist of the band Avenged Sevenfold. Johnny Christ was the fourth bassist to join Avenged Sevenfold in 2002 replacing former members Dameon Ash and Justin Meacham....
     (Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold

    Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock music band from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down ", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day ." The band's success followed with their Avenged Sevenfold...
    )
  • Tony Choy
    Tony Choy

    Tony Choy is an American bass guitar player. He was a session musician for some well-known technical death metal bands such as Atheist , Cynic and the Netherlands band Pestilence ....
     (Atheist
    Atheist (band)

    Atheist are a technical death metal band from Florida, founded in 1984, whose music combined brutal riffs with subtle latin music arrangements and jazz fusion....
    )
  • Chris #2
    Chris Barker (bassist)

    Christopher Barker , more commonly known as Chris #2 and Chris Barker, is the Bass guitar and co-lead vocalist of the American Political Punk rock band Anti-Flag....
     (Anti-Flag
    Anti-Flag

    Anti-Flag is an American punk band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They began in 1988 as a Oi! band with anarchist lyrics , before eventually signing with RCA Records in 2005....
    )
  • Greg Christian
    Greg Christian

    Greg Christian is the bassist for the American thrash metal band Testament . He is an original member, beginning with the band when they were still known as Legacy....
     (Testament
    Testament (band)

    Testament is an American thrash metal band from San Francisco, formed in 1983. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one Top 50 album to its credit in the UK....
    )
  • Sean Christians
    Sean Christians

    Sean Tibbetts, , is an U.S.A. bass guitarist. He was the original bassist for symphonic power metal band Kamelot, and one of the founding members....
     (Kamelot
    Kamelot

    Kamelot is an United States progressive metal band from Tampa, Florida. They incorporate many elements of symphonic metal and progressive metal into their music....
    )
  • Bill Church
    Bill Church

    Bill Church started out playing bass with Van Morrison on his Tupelo Honey album. Also part of Morrison's band at this time was guitarist Ronnie Montrose who went on to Edgar Winter Group's smash They Only Come Out at Night....
     (Montrose
    Montrose (band)

    Montrose was a Californian hard rock band. The band featured Ronnie Montrose on guitar and future solo star and Van Halen member Sammy Hagar. Rounding out the foursome on their Ted Templeman-produced debut, Montrose , were bassist Bill Church and drummer Denny Carmassi....
    , Van Morrison
    Van Morrison

    George Ivan Morrison Order of the British Empire is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who has been a professional musician since the late 1950s....
    , Sammy Hagar
    Sammy Hagar

    Samuel Roy "Sammy" Hagar , known as "The Red Rocker", is an United States rock music guitarist, singer, composer and solo artist. Hagar was one of the three singers for Van Halen, as well as of the early 1970s rock band Montrose ....
    )
  • Dominic Cifarelli
    Dominic Cifarelli

    Dominic Cifarelli is a musician based in Montreal, Canada. His rise in the music world started as guitarist of Montreal Rock music band Pulse Ultra whose 2002 debut album release Headspace earned them a slot on the second stage of the 2002 Ozzfest, alongside bands such as System of A Down, Meshuggah, Ozzy Osbourne and White Zombie as wel...
     (Scars on Broadway
    Scars on Broadway

    Scars on Broadway is an United States rock band, featuring System of a Down members Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan. For live performances the duo were joined by Franky Perez, Danny Shamoun, and Dominic Cifarelli....
    )
  • Al Cisneros
    Al Cisneros

    Al Cisneros is an United States musician from San Jose, California. He has performed bass guitar and vocals for the bands Sleep , Om and Asbestosdeath....
     (Sleep
    Sleep (band)

    Sleep was a doom metal#Stoner doom band from San Jose, California. Active during the 1990s, Sleep earned much critical and record label attention from early in their career....
    , Om
    Om (band)

    Om is a duo formed in 2003 by the rhythm section of the disbanded Doom metal#Stoner doom band Sleep . The band's first three albums feature Al Cisneros on vocals and bass and Chris Hakius on drums....
    )
  • Mark Clarke (Colosseum
    Colosseum (band)

    Colosseum is a British progressive jazz-rock band formed in 1968 by drum Jon Hiseman, tenor saxophone player Dick Heckstall-Smith and bass guitar player Tony Reeves, who had previously worked together in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers....
    , Uriah Heep
    Uriah Heep (band)

    Uriah Heep are an English people rock music band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley to join Spice , a band signed to his own Bronze Records label....
    )
  • Stanley Clarke
    Stanley Clarke

    Stanley Clarke is an United States jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores....
     (Return to Forever
    Return to Forever

    Return to Forever was the name of a jazz fusion band founded and led by keyboardist Chick Corea. The band cycled through many members, with only consistent band mate of Corea's bassist Stanley Clarke....
    )
  • Les Claypool
    Les Claypool

    Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool is a musician, best known for his work with the band Primus and bass work. Claypool's mastery of the Bass guitar has brought him into the spotlight with his funky, creative playing style....
     (Primus
    Primus (band)

    Primus is an United States Rock music band currently composed of singer and bass guitar Les Claypool, guitarist Larry LaLonde, and drummer Tim Alexander....
    , Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, Oysterhead
    Oysterhead

    Oysterhead is a Supergroup Rock music Musical ensemble featuring bassist Les Claypool of Primus , guitarist Trey Anastasio of Phish and drummer Stewart Copeland of The Police....
    , Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
    Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

    Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains was an experimental supergroup featuring bassist Les Claypool, guitarist Buckethead, keyboardist Bernie Worrell and drummer Bryan "Brain" Mantia....
    )
  • Adam Clayton
    Adam Clayton

    Adam Charles Clayton , is the Bass guitar of the rock music band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965....
     (U2
    U2

    U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
    )
  • Rod Clements
    Rod Clements

    Rod Clements is a British guitarist and singer/songwriter....
     (Lindisfarne
    Lindisfarne (band)

    Lindisfarne were a British folk music/rock music group of the 1970s, fronted by singer/songwriter Alan Hull. Their music combined a strong sense of yearning, often for home, with an even stronger sense of fun....
    )
  • Tommy Cogbill
    Tommy Cogbill

    Thomas Clark Cogbill, born 8 April 1932 in Johnson Grove, Tennessee, died 7 December 1982 in Nashville, Tennessee, was a bassist and record producer....
  • Bootsy Collins
    Bootsy Collins

    William "Bootsy" Collins is a funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.Rising to prominence with James Brown in the late 1960s, and with Parliament-Funkadelic in the '70s, Collins' driving bass guitar and humorous vocals established him as one of the leading names in funk....
     (James Brown
    James Brown

    James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
    , Parliament-Funkadelic
    Parliament-Funkadelic

    Parliament-Funkadelic is a funk music collective headed by George Clinton . It specialized in the style of music known as P Funk and performed under the names Parliament and Funkadelic , but also in a score of List of P Funk members....
    , Bootsy's Rubber Band
    Bootsy's Rubber Band

    Bootsy's Rubber Band was a P-Funk musical ensemble led by pioneering bassist, Bootsy Collins. It also included his sibling, Catfish Collins, Kash Waddy, Joel Johnson, Robert Johnson, Gary "Mudbone" Cooper and The Horny Horns....
    )
  • Max Collins
    Max Collins

    James Maxwell Stuart Collins III is the lead singer and bass guitarist of Eve 6. He authored most of the band's songs. He met lead guitarist Jon Siebels in high school, and the two formed a band....
     (Eve 6
    Eve 6

    Eve 6 is a rock band from Southern California who was most well known for their hit "Inside Out " and the slow anthem "Here's to the Night ". They disbanded in 2004 and reunited with two of the three original members in October 2007....
    , The Sugi Tap
    The Sugi Tap

    The Sugi Tap was an alternative rock/power-pop band formed in May 2005. "Sugi Tap" is taken from the Japanese comic Battle Royale . The band primarily played in Southern California venues, with the slightly altered Eve 6 line-up of Max on vocals and guitar, and Tony on drums, accompanied by backing musical tracks, with very sparse electronic...
    )
  • Johnny Colt
    Johnny Colt

    Johnny Colt is an American bassist, and he was the original bassist for The Black Crowes. He went on to form the Brand New Immortals and is currently the bass player for Train and also the temporary replacement for Jason Newsted in Rock Star Supernova....
     (The Black Crowes
    The Black Crowes

    The Black Crowes are an United States of American, blues music-oriented hard rock jam band that have sold over 20 million albums. They were hailed by Melody Maker as "The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World"....
    , Train
    Train (band)

    Train is a Grammy Award-winning rock music band formed in San Francisco, California. To date, three of their albums have peaked in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 and have sold a total of over 4 million albums in the US....
    )
  • Tim Commerford
    Tim Commerford

    Tim Robert Commerford , also known by his various monikers/stage names is the Grammy Award winning Bassist/backing vocalist for American rock band Rage Against The Machine and the now-defunct Audioslave....
     (Rage Against the Machine
    Rage Against the Machine

    Rage Against the Machine is an American Rock music band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1991. The band's lineup, unchanged since formation, consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford, and drummer Brad Wilk....
    , Audioslave
    Audioslave

    Audioslave was an American hard rock Supergroup that formed in Los Angeles, California in 2001. It consisted of ex-Soundgarden frontman and rhythm guitarist Chris Cornell and the former instrumentalists of Rage Against the Machine: Tom Morello , Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk ....
    )
  • Van Conner
    Van Conner

    Van Conner is an United States Rock musician. In 1984 he co-founded the band Screaming Trees with his brother Gary Lee Conner and close friends Mark Lanegan and Mark Pickerel....
    , (Screaming Trees
    Screaming Trees

    Screaming Trees was an American Rock music band formed in Ellensburg, Washington in 1985 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bass player Van Conner and drummer Mark Pickerel....
    )
  • Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival
    Creedence Clearwater Revival

    Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
    )
  • John Cooper
    John Cooper (musician)

    John Landrum Cooper is an American musician. he is the lead singer and bassist of the multiple Grammy-nominated Christian rock band Skillet ....
     (Skillet
    Skillet (band)

    Skillet is an American christian rock band, formed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1996. The band consists of John Cooper , Korey Cooper , Ben Kasica , and Jen Ledger ....
    )
  • Shaun Cooper
    Shaun Cooper (bassist)

    Shaun Cooper is the bassist in the indie rock band, Straylight Run....
     (Straylight Run
    Straylight Run

    Straylight Run is an indie rock Band based in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York, Nassau County, New York, Long Island, New York. They are currently unsigned after being dropped from Republic Records....
    , Taking Back Sunday
    Taking Back Sunday

    Taking Back Sunday is an United States Rock music band from Amityville, New York, Long Island, New York, New York, formed in 1999. The current members are vocalist Adam Lazzara, guitarist and back-up vocalist Matthew Fazzi, guitarist Eddie Reyes, drummer Mark O'Connell, and bassist Matt Rubano....
    )
  • Glenn Cornick
    Glenn Cornick

    Glenn Cornick was the bespectacled, first bass guitar player in the rock band, Jethro Tull .Cornick played bass in a number of bands before joining Jethro Tull, including Jailbreakers, The Vikings, Formula One, The Hobos, The Executives, and John Evan's Smash, and was one of Tull's founding members....
     (Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
    )
  • Andy Cousin
    Andy Cousin

    Andrew 'Andy' Cousin is a United Kingdom bass guitarist and, less commonly, guitarist from Huddersfield in England. He is principally famous for being the bassist of All About Eve although he has also played for The Mission and is a founder member of the The Lucy Nation....
     (All About Eve
    All About Eve (band)

    All About Eve are a British rock/pop band. The creative core consists of Coventry-born Julianne Regan and Andy Cousin , with other members changing over the years....
    , The Lucy Nation, The Mission
    The Mission (band)

    The Mission were a gothic rock band formed in 1986 from the splinters of the freshly-dissolved rock band The Sisters of Mercy.It was started by frontman Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams , soon adding Mick Brown and Simon Hinkler ....
    )
  • Duncan Coutts
    Duncan Coutts

    Duncan Coutts is the current bass player of Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace....
     (Our Lady Peace
    Our Lady Peace

    Our Lady Peace, often abbreviated OLP, is a Canada alternative rock band consisting of Raine Maida, Duncan Coutts, Jeremy Taggart and Steve Mazur....
    )
  • Billy Cox (Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix

    James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
    , Band of Gypsys
    Band of Gypsys

    Band of Gypsys is a live album and a project by Jimi Hendrix, backed by Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, that followed Hendrix's The Jimi Hendrix Experience project....
    , Charlie Daniels Band)
  • Mikey Craig
    Mikey Craig

    Mikey Craig is a former Disc jockey who became the bassist with Culture Club, one of the most popular bands of the 1980s. He is of Jamaican ancestry....
     (Culture Club
    Culture Club

    Culture Club were a Grammy Award-winning United Kingdom Pop music group that formed in the early 1980s. The band consisted of Boy George , Mikey Craig , Roy Hay , and Jon Moss ....
    )
  • Robbie Crane
    Robbie Crane

    Robert Crane moved to the Fairfax District of Hollywood, California at the age of 9 were he attended Bancroft juinor high and Fairfax high school....
     (Ratt
    Ratt

    Ratt is an United States heavy metal music band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round ," "Wanted Man ," "Lay It Down ," "You're in Love " and "Back For More." Though the group lost popularity in the following decade, Ratt has been recognized...
    , Vince Neil Band, Adler's Appetite
    Adler's Appetite

    Adler's Appetite is a rock and roll band founded by Keri Kelli of Slash's Snakepit and Alice Cooper. Ex-Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler joined in January 2003....
    , Love/Hate
    Love/Hate

    Love/Hate is a Los Angeles, California based hard rock band who achieved their greatest fame in the early 90s....
    , Vertex
    Vertex (band)

    Vertex was a band formed in 1995 featuring singer Stephen Pearcy from , guitarist Al Pitrelli , and drummer Hiro Kuretani.They released a self-titled album in 1996 as well as a single for the track "One Like A Son"....
    )
  • Evan Cranley
    Evan Cranley

    Evan Cranley is a Canada musician based in Montreal, Quebec. He records with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene, although he considered joining the band Metric before finally joining Stars....
      (Broken Social Scene
    Broken Social Scene

    Broken Social Scene are a Juno Award winning Canada indie rock band, a musical collective currently including nineteen members, formed in 1999 in music by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning....
    , Stars
    Stars (band)

    Stars is a Juno Award-nominated band from Canada. Originally formed in Toronto by vocalist Torquil Campbell and keyboardist Chris Seligman, the band relocated to New York City and then subsequently to Montreal....
    )
  • Jim Creeggan
    Jim Creeggan

    James Raymond Creeggan, better known as Jim Creeggan , is the bassist for Canadian band Barenaked Ladies . His most used bass is named "Grammah", after the Ladies tour manager nicknamed him "Grampah" for always complaining and not wanting to get up....
     (Barenaked Ladies
    Barenaked Ladies

    Barenaked Ladies is a Juno Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated Canada alternative rock band. The band is composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Ed Robertson, Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan and Steven Page....
    )
  • Chris Cross
    Chris Cross

    Chris Cross was the bassist in the band Ultravox , until their demise in 1988. His brother, Jeff Allen, played the drums for East of Eden and Hello in the 1970s....
     (Ultravox
    Ultravox

    Ultravox are a British New Wave music band that rose to prominence in the late 1970s/early 1980s. They were one of the primary exponents of the British electronic pop music movement of the early 1980s....
    )
  • Juan Croucier
    Juan Croucier

    Juan Croucier is a Cuban-American Heavy metal music musician....
     (Dokken
    Dokken

    Dokken is an United States Heavy metal music and hard rock band that was formed in 1978. The group accumulated numerous charting singles and has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide....
    , Ratt
    Ratt

    Ratt is an United States heavy metal music band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s. The band is most notable for their songs "Round and Round ," "Wanted Man ," "Lay It Down ," "You're in Love " and "Back For More." Though the group lost popularity in the following decade, Ratt has been recognized...
    )
  • Sheryl Crow
    Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Suzanne Crow is an United States singer-songwriter and musician. Her music blends rock music, country music, pop music and folk music, into one mainstream sound, and she has won nine Grammy Awards....
  • Justin Currie
    Justin Currie

    Justin Currie is a Scottish people singer and songwriter, best known as the founder member of the successful band Del Amitri and, along with Iain Harvie, is one of only two members of the group to be present throughout its entire existence....
     (Del Amitri
    Del Amitri

    Del Amitri is a Scottish pop music-rock music guitar band, formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 1980. The band grew out of Justin Currie's Jordanhill College School band and came together after teenager Currie placed an advert in the window of a music store asking for people who could play to contact him....
    )
  • André Cymone
    André Cymone

    Andr? Cymone is an United States bassist, songwriter and record producer. Cymone was a 'God Sent helper', playing bass guitar for Prince and his touring band, pre-The Revolution ,....
      (Prince & the Revolution)
  • Holger Czukay
    Holger Czukay

    Holger Czukay is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can ....
     (Can
    Can (band)

    Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can incorporated strong minimalism and world music influences....
    )


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  • Patrick Dahlheimer
    Patrick Dahlheimer

    Patrick Dalheimer , is the bass guitar for the band Live . His list of influences include The Specials, Duran Duran, and Neurotic Outsiders....
     (Live
    Live (band)

    Live is an United States alternative rock/post-grunge band from York, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, comprising Edward Kowalczyk , Chad Taylor , Patrick Dahlheimer and Chad Gracey ....
    )
  • Bobby Dall
    Bobby Dall

    Robert Harry Kuykendall also known as Bobby Dall Dall is the youngest of three children. He moved to Florida with his family for a short time, but returned to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania when he was still young....
     (Poison
    Poison (band)

    Poison is an United States hard rock band that achieved great success and popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They have become icons of the 80s MTV era and have had widespread commercial success....
    )
  • John Dalton
    John Dalton (musician)

    John Dalton is probably best known as The Kinks regular bass guitarist from 1969 to 1976, replacing original member Pete Quaife....
     (The Kinks
    The Kinks

    The Kinks are an England rock music group formed in 1963, and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band. The Kinks have been cited as one of the most important and influential rock bands of all time....
    )
  • Mike Daly
    Mike Daly

    Mike Daly is a producer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist who grew up in Roselle Park, New Jersey. Daly attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, graduating in 1994....
     (Whiskeytown
    Whiskeytown

    Whiskeytown was an alternative country band formed in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1994. Fronted by Ryan Adams, other members included Caitlin Cary, Phil Wandscher, Eric "Skillet" Gilmore, and Mike Daly....
    )
  • Rick Danko
    Rick Danko

    Richard Clare "Rick" Danko was a Canada musician and singer, best known as a member of The Band....
     (The Band
    The Band

    The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
    )
  • Sharlee d'Angelo
    Sharlee D'Angelo

    Sharlee d'Angelo is the bassist for Arch Enemy, as well as Spiritual Beggars, IllWill and Mercyful Fate . He was also the bassist for King Diamond from 1990-1993, as well as Dismember , Sinergy, Witchery, and Hemisfear....
     (Mercyful Fate
    Mercyful Fate

    Mercyful Fate is an influential Denmark Heavy metal music band often cited among the influences in the black metal, thrash metal, power metal, and progressive metal genres....
    , King Diamond
    King Diamond (band)

    King Diamond is the Heavy metal music band that King Diamond formed after the split up of his Black metal band Mercyful Fate. Also following the departure of Hank Shermann....
    , Arch Enemy
    Arch Enemy (band)

    Arch Enemy is a Sweden melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996 by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage ....
    )
  • Traa Daniels
    Traa Daniels

    'Mark "Traa" Daniels' is the bass guitarist of the San Diego, California rock band P.O.D.Daniels has been a part of P.O.D. since 1994, and has since released nine albums - Snuff the Punk, Brown , Payable on Death Live, The Fundamental Elements of Southtown, Satellite , Payable on Death, Testify , Greatest Hits:...
     (P.O.D.
    P.O.D.

    P.O.D. , is an American Christian Rock music band from San Diego, California. Formed in 1992, the band's line-up consists of vocalist Sonny Sandoval, drummer Noah Bernardo, guitarist Marcos Curiel, and bassist Traa Daniels....
    )
  • Mike D'Antonio
    Mike D'Antonio

    Mike D'Antonio is best known as the bass guitarist and founder of Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage.D'Antonio's metal bass style is influenced by In Flames and Dark Tranquility, and he cites Cliff Burton and Harley Flanagan of the Cro-Mags as personal influences....
     (Killswitch Engage
    Killswitch Engage

    Killswitch Engage is an American melodic metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts. Formed following the disbandment of the bands Overcast and Aftershock in 1999, Killswitch Engage's lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones , bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, and drummer Justin Foley....
    , Overcast
    Overcast (band)

    Overcast is a metalcore band from Boston, Massachusetts, who some credit as being one of the pioneers in the Metalcore#Metallic hardcore scene....
    )
  • Mike Davenport
    Mike Davenport

    Michael Davenport was born in 1968 in Orcutt, California, sometimes credited as Mike Davenport.He was the bass guitarist of the Pop punk group The Ataris and joined the band prior to the album Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits....
     (The Ataris
    The Ataris

    The Ataris is a pop punk band originally hailing from Anderson, Indiana, Indiana. They have released five studio albums, and their most recent, Welcome the Night, was released on February 20, 2007....
    , Versus The World)
  • Alan Davey
    Alan Davey (musician)

    Alan Davey was the bass player in Hawkwind, Bedouin band, Meads of Asphodel and is now the bass player/vocalist for Gunslinger. His latest bands are Pre-Med, Hawklords and Thunor ....
     (Hawkwind
    Hawkwind

    Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
    , Thunor)
  • Stuart David
    Stuart David

    Stuart David is a Scotland musician, who formerly was a bassist with Belle & Sebastian and then went on to front Looper . He is the author of the novels Nalda Said and The Peacock Manifesto published by I.M.P....
     (Belle & Sebastian
    Belle & Sebastian

    Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow, Scotland in January 1996. They are one of the best-known Scottish bands and are one of the most celebrated groups of the 1990s in music....
    , Looper
    Looper

    Looper are a Scottish indie-pop band, fronted by Stuart David, former Belle and Sebastian bassist.The band formed in 1998 for a show at the Glasgow School of Art, and released their first single "Impossible Things" on the Subpop label a few months later....
    )
  • Jeremy Davis (Paramore
    Paramore

    Paramore is an American Rock music band that formed in Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee in 2004 consisting of Hayley Williams , Josh Farro , Taylor York , Jeremy Davis , and Zac Farro ....
    )
  • Patricia Day
    Patricia Day

    Patricia Day is the Double bass and lead singer for the Denmark rockabilly band HorrorPops....
     (Horrorpops
    HorrorPops

    HorrorPops are a Denmark band that formed in 1996. The band's sound is rooted in New Wave music, punk rock, psychobilly, and rockabilly....
    )
  • John Deacon
    John Deacon

    John Richard Deacon is a retired England musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Rock and roll band Queen . Of the four members of the band, Deacon was the youngest and last to join....
     (Queen
    Queen (band)

    Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
    )
  • Kim Deal
    Kim Deal

    Kimberly Ann Deal is an United States singer, songwriter and musician, best known as the bassist of the alternative rock band the Pixies. Deal first joined the Pixies in January 1986 as the band's bassist, adopting the stage name Mrs....
     (Pixies, The Breeders
    The Breeders

    The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Throwing Muses' Tanya Donelly. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez and Cheryl Lyndsey ; Kim Deal has been the band's sole continu...
    )
  • Mike Dean
    Mike Dean (musician)

    Mike Dean is the bassist for American metal band Corrosion of Conformity. He sang on the band's early recordings from their crossover thrash era before leaving the band in 1987....
     (Corrosion of Conformity
    Corrosion of Conformity

    Corrosion of Conformity is an United States heavy metal music band from Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina formed in 1982....
    )
  • Matt Deis
    Matt Deis

    Matthew Christopher Deis is a professional musician. A former member of the Massachusetts-based metal band All That Remains, Deis is currently a member of Pennsylvania's CKY ....
     (CKY
    CKY (band)

    CKY is an American rock music band that formed in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania in 1998. Currently consisting of vocalist and guitarist Deron Miller, guitarist and producer Chad I....
    , All That Remains
    All That Remains

    All That Remains may refer to:*All That Remains a melodic metalcore band from Springfield, Massachusetts*All That Remains , an album by the band Fozzy...
    )
  • Vance DeGeneres
    Vance DeGeneres

    Vance DeGeneres is an United States actor, film producer and screenwriter, known for his work in television. He is also the older brother of actress and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres....
     (The Cold
    The Cold (rock band)

    The Cold were a New Wave music band that formed in New Orleans in 1979. The band were hugely popular in their home city and throughout the southeastern U.S....
    )
  • Robert DeLeo
    Robert DeLeo

    Robert Emile DeLeo is an United States bass guitar player and harmony vocalist for the rock band Stone Temple Pilots. He has also played in Talk Show and Army of Anyone....
     (Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots

    Stone Temple Pilots is a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band consisting of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
    , Army of Anyone
    Army of Anyone

    Army of Anyone was a Supergroup formed by Filter frontman Richard Patrick with two of the former members of rock band Stone Temple Pilots. In addition to Patrick on vocals, the band featured Dean DeLeo and Robert DeLeo on guitars and bass, respectively, and Ray Luzier on drums....
    )
  • Jay Demarcus
    Jay DeMarcus

    Jay DeMarcus, born Stanley Wayne DeMarcus, Jr. on April 26, 1971, in Columbus, Ohio, is the bassist, harmony vocalist, and song writer in the United States country trio Rascal Flatts....
     (Rascal Flatts
    Rascal Flatts

    Rascal Flatts is an American country pop band founded in Columbus, Ohio. Since its inception, Rascal Flatts has been composed of three members: Gary LeVox , Jay DeMarcus , and Joe Don Rooney ....
    )
  • Joey DeMaio
    Joey DeMaio

    Joey DeMaio is an Italian American bass guitarist and main songwriter for the Heavy metal music band Manowar which he co-founded in 1980. He is also the founder and CEO of Magic Circle Music....
     (Manowar
    Manowar (band)

    Manowar is an United States Heavy metal music band from Auburn, New York. Originally formed in 1980, they are known for writing lyrics with an emphasis on the Heavy metal music itself, fantasy fiction , themselves and mythological topics, particularly Norse mythology....
    )
  • Carlos Dengler
    Carlos Dengler

    Carlos Dengler , previously known as Carlos D., is an United States musician best known as the bassist for the band Interpol ....
     (Interpol
    Interpol (band)

    Interpol are an American band formed in 1997 in New York City.The band's line-up is Paul Banks , Daniel Kessler , Carlos Dengler and Sam Fogarino ....
    )
  • Mike de Albuquerque (Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
    )
  • Paul De Lisle
    Paul De Lisle

    Paul Gerald De Lisle is the bassist for the alternative rock band , Smash Mouth....
     (Smash Mouth
    Smash Mouth

    Smash Mouth is an United States pop rock band from San Jose, California.Formed in 1994, the band comprised Steve Harwell , Greg Camp , Paul De Lisle , and Kevin Coleman ....
    )
  • John DeServio
    John DeServio

    John "JD" DeServio, is the current bass guitarist in Black Label Society, joining after the departure of James Lomenzo in 2005. JD was also a member of Pride and Glory , Wylde's southern rock trio for a short time in December 1994 , and was also Black Label Society's original bass guitarist, playing on the tour supporting their debut album, S...
     (Black Label Society
    Black Label Society

    Black Label Society is a Heavy metal music band formed by Zakk Wylde, with seven studio albums released to date....
    )
  • David Desrosiers
    David Desrosiers

    David Philippe Desrosiers is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for pop punk band Simple Plan. He grew up in Matane, Quebec, Canada....
     (Simple Plan
    Simple Plan

    Simple Plan is a French Canadian pop punk band based in Montreal, Quebec. They have released three studio albums: No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls , Still Not Getting Any... , and Simple Plan ; as well as two widely marketed live albums: Live in Japan 2002 and MTV Hard Rock Live ....
    )
  • Mark Deutrom
    Mark Deutrom

    Mark Deutrom was the founder of the now defunct San Francisco Bay Area independent record label Alchemy Records . In the 1980s he played guitar in the band Clown Alley , and played bass for The Melvins from 1994 to 1998....
     (The Melvins
    The Melvins

    The Melvins are an American sludge metal band that usually perform as a power trio. Aside from the 1984 incarnation which included Buzz, Mike Dillard on drums, and Matt Lukin, Singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne and drummer Dale Crover are constant members....
    )
  • James Dewar (Robin Trower
    Robin Trower

    Robin Trower is an England rock music guitarist who achieved success with Procol Harum during the 1960s, and then again as the leader of his own power trio....
    )
  • Bill "The Buddha" Dickens
    Bill Dickens

    Bill "The Buddha" Dickens is an American bass guitar player. He performed together with Victor Wooten, Steve Bailey and Oteil Burbridge on the concert "The Day The Bass Players Took Over The World"....
  • B. B. Dickerson (War
    War (band)

    War is an United States funk band from California, known for the hit songs "Low Rider ", "Spill the Wine" and "Why Can't We Be Friends ". Formed in 1969, War was a musical crossover band which fused elements of Rock music, funk, jazz, Latin music, Rhythm and blues, and reggae....
    )
  • Marty Dieckmeyer
    Marty Dieckmeyer

    Marty Dieckmeyer was the bass guitar player for the rock band Daniel Amos from 1974 to 1981. Dieckmeyer did the lead vocal on the song "Props" from the ?Alarma! album in 1981....
     (Daniel Amos
    Daniel Amos

    Daniel Amos is a rock band formed in 1974 by Terry Scott Taylor on guitars and vocals, Marty Dieckmeyer on bass guitar, Steve Baxter on guitars and Jerry Chamberlain on lead guitars....
    )
  • Steve Diggle
    Steve Diggle

    Steve Diggle is a guitarist and secondary lead vocalist in the British punk rock band Buzzcocks....
     (Buzzcocks
    Buzzcocks

    Buzzcocks are an England punk rock band formed in Manchester in 1976. They have been led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Pete Shelley for nearly their entire existence....
    )
  • Steve DiGiorgio
    Steve DiGiorgio

    Steve DiGiorgio is an United States musician.DiGiorgio has played bass guitar in heavy metal music bands such as Death , Autopsy , Control Denied, Testament , Vintersorg, Iced Earth, and is a founding member of Sadus....
     (Death
    Death (band)

    Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner, considered a "pioneering death metal vocalist/guitarist"....
    , Testament
    Testament (band)

    Testament is an American thrash metal band from San Francisco, formed in 1983. Testament has two Top 40 albums and one Top 50 album to its credit in the UK....
    , Iced Earth
    Iced Earth

    Iced Earth is an United States Heavy metal music band from Tampa, Florida, Florida that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, opera, speed metal and New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
    , Vintersorg
    Vintersorg

    Vintersorg is a Swedish language folk metal/viking metal black metal band from Skellefte?, Sweden, formed in 1994 under the name Vargatron ....
    , Autopsy
    Autopsy (band)

    Autopsy was a death metal band, founded in 1987 in the United States by Chris Reifert . They disbanded in 1995....
    , Sadus
    Sadus

    Sadus is an United States highly technical thrash metal trio from Antioch, California....
    )
  • Allie DiMeco
    Allie DiMeco

    Alexandra Jean DiMeco is an United States actress and multi-instrumentalist....
     (the Naked Brothers Band
    The Naked Brothers Band

    The Naked Brothers Band may refer to:* The Naked Brothers Band - a neighborhood band ; a band based on the TV series *...
    )
  • Mike Dirnt
    Mike Dirnt

    Mike Dirnt is the American bassist and backing vocalist for the United States punk rock band Green Day. While at school, he would play "air-bass"....
     (Green Day
    Green Day

    Green Day is an American Rock music trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tr? Cool for the majority of its existence....
    , Foxboro Hot Tubs
    Foxboro Hot Tubs

    The Foxboro Hot Tubs are an United States rock n' roll band. The group made its debut in December 2007 with three songs on their website. Soon after, the Foxboro Hot Tubs were discovered and subsequently made headlines, being heralded as the next secret side project of Green Day, ...
    ,The Network
    The Network

    The Network is a six-piece New Wave music band , which is a secret side project of the members of Green Day. They released their debut album Money Money 2020 on Billie Joe Armstrong's independent record label Adeline Records on September 30, 2003....
    ,The Frustrators
    The Frustrators

    The Frustrators is a punk rock band with Jason Chandler , Terry Linehan , Art Tedeschi , and Mike Dirnt . All are members of other bands, Terry Linehan from Waterdog, Jason Chandler and Art Tedeschi from Violent Anal Death, and perhaps most notably, Mike Dirnt from Green Day....
    ,Screeching Weasel
    Screeching Weasel

    Screeching Weasel was an American punk band from Chicago, Illinois. They were formed in 1986 by Ben Weasel and John Pierson . The band gained prominence in the early 1990s after signing a record deal with the East Bay punk label, Lookout! Records....
    )
  • Jerry Dixon
    Jerry Dixon

    Jerry Lawrence Dixon is an American musician, and one of the original members of the 1980s Rock music band Warrant . He was born in Pasadena, California....
     (Warrant
    Warrant (American band)

    Warrant is an United States glam metal band from Hollywood, Los Angeles, California that experienced success in the 1980s and early 1990s with two multi-platinum albums....
    )
  • John Doe
    John Doe (musician)

    John Doe is an United States singer, songwriter, actor, poet and bass player who was the founder of the Los Angeles, California punk rock band X ....
     (X)
  • Pat Donaldson
    Pat Donaldson

    Pat Donaldson is an English bass guitarist.The 2i's Coffee Bar in Old Compton Street, Soho was a legendary hang-out for early rock artists of Britain....
     (Fotheringay
    Fotheringay

    The folk rock group Fotheringay was formed in 1970 by singer Sandy Denny upon her departure from Fairport Convention. The band drew its name from Fotheringhay Castle, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in England....
    )
  • Lawrence Donegan
    Lawrence Donegan

    Lawrence Donegan , is a musician and journalist, currently Golf Correspondent at The Guardian.Donegan was educated at St Modan's High School and the University of Glasgow, where his musical career began....
     (Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
    Lloyd Cole and the Commotions

    Lloyd Cole and the Commotions were a popular United Kingdom pop music band of the mid-1980s, based in Glasgow, Scotland.Line-up:* Lloyd Cole, vocal and guitar, lyricist - ...
    , The Bluebells
    The Bluebells

    The Bluebells were a Scotland popular music band in the 1980s....
    )
  • Lee Dorman
    Lee Dorman

    Lee Dorman is an American bass guitarist best known as a member of the Rock music Iron Butterfly. He also played in the band Captain Beyond. Dorman is from St....
     (Iron Butterfly
    Iron Butterfly

    Iron Butterfly is an United States psychedelic rock and early Heavy metal music band, well known for their 1968 hit "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". They are considered an early heavy metal music band as a result of this song and others like it, as well as the title of their debut album, Heavy ....
    )
  • Gail Ann Dorsey
    Gail Ann Dorsey

    Gail Ann Dorsey is an American bass guitarist and singer with a distinguished session musician career, most notably her long association with David Bowie....
     (David Bowie
    David Bowie

    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and Arrangement. Active in five decades of rock music and frequently reinventing his music and image, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s....
    )
  • Chip Douglas
    Chip Douglas

    Douglas Farthing Hatlelid, better known as Chip Douglas, is a songwriter, musician , and record producer, whose most famous work was during the 1960s....
     (The Turtles
    The Turtles

    The Turtles are an United States Pop music and folk rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who became notable for numerous Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" , and "Happy Together " ....
    , The Monkees
    The Monkees

    The Monkees were a pop singing quartet assembled in Los Angeles in 1965 in music for the United States television series The Monkees , which aired from 1966 to 1968....
    )
  • Dave Dreiwitz
    Dave Dreiwitz

    Dave Dreiwitz is the bass guitar for the band Ween. He was born on January 2, 1966 in New York City, New York. Before joining Ween in 1997, Dave played in the Hoboken, NJ based psych rock band Tiny Lights....
     (Ween
    Ween

    Ween is an alternative rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class....
    , Instant Death
    Instant Death

    The band Instant Death is Dave Dreiwitz and Scott Byrne . Scott and Dave met on French Street in New Brunswick, NJ in the fall of 1986. It was after both had played gigs and Scott was loading his drums into his apartment and Dave was walking down the street with his upright bass ....
    )
  • Chris Dreja
    Chris Dreja

    Chris Dreja is former rhythm guitarist, and later bassist for the mid 1960s UK band , The Yardbirds.His father was of Polish people birth. Dreja was born in Surbiton, and raised in nearby Kingston upon Thames....
     (The Yardbirds
    The Yardbirds

    The Yardbirds are an England Rock music band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page....
    )
  • Adam Duce (Machine Head
    Machine Head (band)

    Machine Head is an American heavy metal music band, formed in 1992 in Oakland, California, California. Founded by singer and guitarist Robert Flynn and bassist Adam Duce, and has only had 3 personnel changes since its inception 17 years ago....
    )
  • Uriah Duffy
    Uriah Duffy

    Uriah Duffy is an american bassist of the "new era". His first appearances alongside artists beginning in the late 90's. It is best known for his Last and current position as bassist in Whitesnake....
     (Whitesnake
    Whitesnake

    Whitesnake is an England hard rock band, founded in 1977 by David Coverdale . The band's early material has been compared by critics to Deep Purple and by the mid eighties Whitesnake were writing in a melodic hard rock style....
    , Lyrics Born
    Lyrics Born

    Lyrics Born , is an United States rapping. He is one half of the group Latyrx with Lateef....
    , Christina Aguilera
    Christina Aguilera

    Christina Mar?a Aguilera is an American pop music/contemporary R&B singer and songwriter. Aguilera first appeared on national television in 1990 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club#1990s revival from 1993?1994....
    )
  • Chuck Dukowski
    Chuck Dukowski

    Chuck Dukowski is an American punk rock musician, best known as a founding member and original bass player for Black Flag . Dukowski wrote some of Black Flag's most popular songs, including "My War," "What I See," "I've Heard It Before" and "Spray Paint." He left the band before the release of My War, and afterward served as Black Flag's man...
     (Black Flag
    Black Flag (band)

    Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach, California. The band was established largely as the brainchild of Greg Ginn: the guitarist, primary songwriter and sole continuous member through multiple personnel changes....
    )
  • Dennis Dunaway
    Dennis Dunaway

    Dennis Dunaway was the bass guitarist for the The Spiders , The Earwigs , Alice Cooper group from 1969-1974. He co-wrote such hits as "Eighteen" and "School's Out"....
     (Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
    )
  • Donald "Duck" Dunn (Mar-Keys
    Mar-Keys

    The Mar-Keys, formed in 1958, were a recording studio session musician band for the Stax Records record label from Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1960s....
    , Booker T. & the M.G.'s
    Booker T. & the M.G.'s

    Booker T. & the M.G.'s are an instrumental soul music band that were popular in the 1960s and 1970s. They are most commonly associated with Stax Records and are often placed in the subgenre of Memphis soul....
    , Blues Brothers)
  • Trevor Dunn
    Trevor Dunn

    Trevor Roy Dunn is an United States musician. His primary instrument is bass guitar and double bass. Dunn has a degree in music, learning double bass at college....
     (Mr Bungle, Fantômas
    Fantômas (band)

    Fant?mas is an avant-garde metal Supergroup formed in 1998 in California, United States of America. The band is named after Fant?mas, a villain featured in a series of crime novels popular in France before World War I....
    )
  • Garron DuPree
    Garron DuPree

    Garron Wade DuPree is the bass guitarist in the alternative rock/pop band Eisley. He was approached by his first cousins from Tyler, Texas to replace former bassist Jon Wilson on July 5th, 2005....
     (Eisley
    Eisley

    Eisley is a Rock music band from Tyler, Texas, Texas, consisting of four siblings and their cousin , all of whom were born and live in Texas....
    )


E

  • Robin "Graves" Eaglestone
    Robin Eaglestone

    Robin Mark Eaglestone is a UK musician. He was the bassist for the Heavy metal music band Cradle of Filth. Also known as Robin Graves, he joined Cradle of Filth in 1992 as 2nd guitarist for the recording of the Invoking the Unclean demo then later changed to bass for the Total Fucking Darkness demo....
     (Cradle of Filth
    Cradle of Filth

    Cradle of Filth are an extreme metal band from Suffolk, England, formed in 1991. They have been embraced and disowned with equal fervour by various metal communities, and their particular subgenre has provoked a Cradle of Filth#Genre....
    , Nightbreed
    Nightbreed

    Nightbreed is a 1990 horror film written and directed by Clive Barker, based on his novella Cabal . To this day, Barker expresses disappointment with the final cut and longs for the recovery of the reels so it might be freshly edited....
    )
  • Nathan East
    Nathan East

    Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, rhythm and blues and rock music bass guitar player. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego ....
     (Eric Clapton
    Eric Clapton

    Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
    , Fourplay
    Fourplay

    Fourplay is a smooth jazz group in the United States. The original members of the group were Bob James , Lee Ritenour , Nathan East , and Harvey Mason ....
    )
  • Kai Eckhardt
    Kai Eckhardt

    Kai Eckhardt is a Germans musician and composer who plays bass, best known for his work with John McLaughlin , the band Garaj Mahal and Billy Cobham....
     (Garaj Mahal
    Garaj Mahal

    Garaj Mahal is a four piece band, based in the United States, playing a fusion of jazz, Indian music, rock, and especially funk: Kai Eckhardt , Fareed Haque , Alan Hertz , and Eric Levy ....
    )
  • Shawn Economaki
    Shawn Economaki

    Shawn Economaki, , in Des Moines, Iowa, is the bassist of United States band Stone Sour.He currently plays Fender American Vintage ?57 Precision Basses....
     (Stone Sour
    Stone Sour

    Stone Sour is a three time Grammy Award-nominated American Hard rock band from Des Moines, Iowa. The band was founded by Corey Taylor, vocalist of Slipknot , and former drummer Joel Ekman....
    )
  • Leif Edling
    Leif Edling

    Leif Edling is best known as the main songwriter and bass player of the Sweden doom metal band Candlemass.Edling started his musical career in the band Trilogy , then under the name of Toxic, as a singer together with Ian Haugland in 1979....
     (Krux
    Krux

    Krux is a Sweden doom metal band, created by Leif Edling after Candlemass fell apart for the second time precedding their reunion tour....
    )
  • Steve Edmondson
    Steve Edmondson

    Steve Edmondson is the bassist and one of the founders of the Heavy metal music band Paradise Lost ....
     (Paradise Lost
    Paradise Lost (band)

    Paradise Lost are a Heavy metal music band formed in 1988 in music in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England....
    )
  • Bernard Edwards
    Bernard Edwards

    Bernard Edwards born in Greenville, North Carolina, was a bass guitar player and record producer, both as a member of Chic and on his own. He died of pneumonia while touring in Japan....
     (Chic
    Chic (band)

    Chic is an United States disco and R&B band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bass guitar Bernard Edwards. It is best-known for its commercially successful disco songs, including "Dance, Dance, Dance " , "Everybody Dance" , "Le Freak" , "I Want Your Love " , "Good Times " , and "My Forbidden Lover" ....
    )
  • John 'Rhino' Edwards
    John 'Rhino' Edwards

    John Victor Edwards - usually known by his nickname, Rhino , is an English people bass guitarist, best known as the bass player in the English rock group, Status Quo....
     (Status Quo
    Status Quo

    Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
    )
  • Richie Edwards
    Richie Edwards

    Richie Edwards was born on 25 September, 1974, in Lichfield, England. Richie is the former bassist of the British hard rock band The Darkness and the guitarist/vocalist of their successor band Stone Gods....
     (The Darkness
    The Darkness

    The Darkness were a multi-BRIT Awards-winning United Kingdom hard rock/glam rock band. Their highly retro style of music was influenced by rock music bands like Queen , Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, M?tley Cr?e, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Sparks , Van Halen, T....
    )
  • Colin Edwin
    Colin Edwin

    Colin Edwin is a member of the United Kingdom progressive rock band Porcupine Tree, where he plays fretted and fretless bass guitar as well as Double Bass....
     (Porcupine Tree
    Porcupine Tree

    Porcupine Tree are a Grammy award-nominated progressive rock band formed by Steven Wilson in 1987 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England. Their music is a combination of Rock music, Ambient music, psychedelic music, and heavy metal music....
    )
  • Steinar Eikum
    Steinar Eikum

    Steinar Eikum was the original bassist in the Norwegian hard rock band TNT . He joined the band after doing an audition in the Easter of 1982, and played on their TNT the same year....
     (TNT
    TNT (band)

    TNT is a Norway hard rock/glam metal band....
    )
  • Samer el Nahhal
    Samer el Nahhal

    Samer El Nahhal is the bassist of the Finland metal quintet Lordi. He goes by the stage name of OX a possible reference to John Entwistle, the bassist for The Who, who was also nicknamed "The Ox." OX plays an Ibanez BTB Bass....
     (Lordi
    Lordi

    Lordi is a Glam rock/Hard rock/heavy metal music band from Finland. The concept for Lordi was devised in 1992, however, the band was not formed until 1996 in music by Tomi Putaansuu of Helsinki, Finland....
    )
  • David Ellefson
    David Ellefson

    David Warren Ellefson is a bass guitar player who is best known as one of the founding members of seminal thrash metal musical band Megadeth in which he played from 1983-2002....
     (Megadeth
    Megadeth

    Megadeth is an American Heavy metal music band led by founder, front man, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. Formed in 1983 by Mustaine and bass player David Ellefson following Mustaine's departure from Metallica, the band has since released eleven studio albums, six live albums, two Extended play, thirty single , thirty-two music video...
    , Avian
    Avian (band)

    Avian is a melodic power metal band founded in 2002 by guitarist Yan Leviathan. The band features singer Lance King and former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson....
    )
  • Shane Embury
    Shane Embury

    Shane Embury is a United Kingdom musician. Shane plays bass guitar in Napalm Death and is the closest person to be called as an 'original member' of the band....
     (Napalm Death
    Napalm Death

    Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
    )
  • Colin Emerle
    Colin Emerle

    Gary Colin Emerle is the bass player for Echo Orbiter and composer for several short films by both Eventide Productions and Get-Kinetic Productions....
     (Echo Orbiter
    Echo Orbiter

    Echo Orbiter is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based indie rock band created by brothers Justin Emerle and Colin Emerle, described by Philadelphia Weekly as being "Widely considered two of the most inventive songwriters on the [Philadelphia] scene."...
    )
  • John Entwistle
    John Entwistle

    John Alec Entwistle was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and Horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band The Who....
     (The Who
    The Who

    The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
    )
  • Lennart Eriksson
    Lennart Eriksson

    Lennart Eriksson, often known by the nickname Fjodor, born in 1956 was the bass player in the rebellious Sweden punk rock band Ebba Gr?n....
     (Ebba Grön
    Ebba Grön

    Ebba Gr?n was a Sweden punk rock band formed in 1977. The original members were Joakim Th?str?m , Gunnar Ljungstedt and Lennart Eriksson . After their second album in 1981 they were joined by a fourth member, Anders Sj?holm ....
    )
  • Roy Estrada
    Roy Estrada

    Roy Estrada is an United States musician and singer, best known for his bass guitar work with Frank Zappa and for co-founding Little Feat....
     (Mothers of Invention)
  • Ean Evans
    Ean Evans

    Ean Evans is the current bass guitar for Lynyrd Skynyrd. He joined the band in 2001 following the death of Leon Wilkeson.Ean was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia....
     (Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
    )
  • Mark Evans
    Mark Evans (musician)

    'Mark Whitmore Evans' is an Australian bassist best known for his membership of Australian hard rock band AC/DC from March 1975 to June 1977. His playing featured on the albums T.N.T....
     (AC/DC
    AC/DC

    AC/DC are an Australian rock music rock band formed in Sydney in 1973 by brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. Although the band are commonly classified as hard rock, and considered pioneers of heavy metal music, they have always classified their music as "rock and roll"....
    )
  • Tom Evans
    Tom Evans (musician)

    Thomas Evans , was a musician who was most notable for his work with the band , Badfinger....
     (Badfinger
    Badfinger

    Badfinger was a rock band formed in Swansea in the early 1960s and was one of the earliest representatives of the power pop genre. During the early 1970s the band was tagged as the heir apparent to The Beatles, partly because of their close working relationship with the 'Fab Four' and partly because of their similar sound....
    )
  • Jason Everman
    Jason Everman

    Jason Mark Everman is an American guitarist who played with Nirvana and Soundgarden. Everman is currently studying philosophy at Columbia University....
     (Soundgarden
    Soundgarden

    Soundgarden was an American Rock music band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1984 by lead singer and drummer Chris Cornell, lead guitarist Kim Thayil, and bassist Hiro Yamamoto....
    , Nirvana
    Nirvana (band)

    Nirvana was an American Rock music band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987....
    )
  • Tobias Exxel
    Tobias Exxel

    Tobias "Eggi" Exxel, born February 27, 1973, is the current bassist for the power metal band Edguy. Tobias was hired by Edguy in 1998 when vocalist Tobias Sammet, who had played bass since the band's formation in 1992, decided the band should have someone who could focus on playing the instrument full-time....
     (Edguy
    Edguy

    Edguy is a power metal band from Fulda, Germany that was formed in 1992....
    )


F

  • Falco
    Falco (musician)

    Johann H?lzel , better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian rap music, Pop music and rock music musician and had four #1 Hits - "Der Kommissar ," "Rock Me Amadeus," "Jeanny," and "Coming Home ." He is the first and so far only artist to score a #1 Hit in the U.S....
     (Drahdiwaberl)
  • Bob Fairfoull
    Bob Fairfoull

    Bob Fairfoull is a Scotland musician. He was the bass guitarist for the Scottish rock band Idlewild . Roddy Woomble - a friend of Fairfoull and Idlewild's lead singer - asked Fairfoull to join in February 1997 following the departure of Phil Scanlon....
     (Idlewild
    Idlewild (band)

    Idlewild are a Scotland rock music band, originally based in Edinburgh. The band is composed of Roddy Woomble , Rod Jones , Colin Newton , Allan Stewart and Gareth Russell ....
    )
  • Pete Farndon
    Pete Farndon

    Pete Farndon was an English people bass guitar and founding member of the rock band The Pretenders. In addition to playing bass with the group, Farndon sang backing vocalist and songwriter two of the group's songs , before being dismissed from the group on 14 June 1982 ....
     (The Pretenders
    The Pretenders

    The Pretenders are a United Kingdom rock music band. The original band consisted of group founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde , James Honeyman-Scott , Pete Farndon , and Martin Chambers ....
    )
  • Sam Farrar
    Sam Farrar

    Sam Farrar is the bass guitar player for American rock 'n roll band Phantom Planet. The band is now on an indefinite hiatus. His father John Farrar was in the Shadows and also carved a successful songwriting career, penning many of Olivia Newton-John's big hits....
      (Phantom Planet
    Phantom Planet

    Phantom Planet is an alternative rock band from Southern California. The band is most widely known in popular culture for its former member, actor and drummer, Jason Schwartzman and its track "California ", which became the theme song for the popular Fox Broadcasting Company Television program, The O.C.....
    )
  • Dave Farrell
    Dave Farrell

    David Michael Farrell is the bass guitarist of the band from Linkin Park.He is an United States musician, and multi-instrumentalist....
     (Linkin Park
    Linkin Park

    Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
    )
  • Nick Feldman
    Nick Feldman

    Nick Feldman is an English musician, who is best known for forming the popular 1980s England new wave music band, Wang Chung . In addition to forming Wang Chung, Feldman also was a member of the one-off band, Promised Land , which featured Jon Moss from Culture Club....
     (Wang Chung
    Wang Chung (band)

    Wang Chung are a UK New Wave music musical group.The group found their greatest success in the North America, with five Top 40 hits in the US, all charting between 1984 and 1987 ....
    )
  • Tracy Ferrie
    Tracy Ferrie

    Tracy Ferrie is the current bass player of Christian metal band Stryper. He was formerly the bass player for Michael Sweet's solo band and also a member of the bands Electrik, Sally Steele, Seraiah, Whitecross,Guardian, Rebecca St....
     (Stryper
    Stryper

    Stryper is a Grammy Award nominated Christian metal Musical ensemble from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in 1983, they are pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian metal music....
    )
  • Jim Fielder
    Jim Fielder

    Jim Fielder is an United States bassist, best known for his work as an original member of Blood, Sweat & Tears.Fielder attended Loara High School in Anaheim, California....
     (Buffalo Springfield
    Buffalo Springfield

    Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina , and is most famous for the song "For What It's Worth "....
    , Blood, Sweat & Tears
    Blood, Sweat & Tears

    Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
    )
  • Ric Fierabracci
    Ric Fierabracci

    Ric Fierabracci, is an United States bassist who has toured and/or recorded with such artists as Frank Gambale, Chick Corea, Dave Weckl, Bradley Joseph, Shakira, Nancy Sinatra, Planet X, The Fifth Dimension, The Beach Boys, and Yanni....
     (Chick Corea
    Chick Corea

    Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
    , Frank Gambale
    Frank Gambale

    Frank Gambale is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques....
    , Yanni
    Yanni

    Yanni is a self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Yanni left his homeland at the age of 18 to attend the University of Minnesota. After receiving a B.A....
    )
  • John Norwood Fisher
    John Norwood Fisher

    John Norwood Fisher is the bass guitar player for the funk/punk/rock/ska/metal/soul band Fishbone. Fisher has played bass in the band throughout its history, even as other members have come, gone, and returned....
     (Fishbone
    Fishbone

    Fishbone is an American alternative rock band that plays a fusion of ska, punk rock, funk metal and more. The band was formed in 1979 in the ghettos of South Los Angeles Los Angeles by Angelo Moore, also known as "Dr....
    )
  • Klaus Flouride
    Klaus Flouride

    Geoffrey Lyall , better known as Klaus Flouride, is best known as the bassist for the San Francisco, California, punk rock band Dead Kennedys from the group's inception in June 1978 until the band's break-up in December 1986, although he also produced four solo albums during the 1980s and 1990s....
     (Dead Kennedys
    Dead Kennedys

    The Dead Kennedys were an United States punk band from the List of musicians in the first wave of punk music of American punk rock, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978....
    )
  • Herbie Flowers
    Herbie Flowers

    Herbie Flowers is an England studio musician specialising in bass guitar, double-bass and tuba, who came to prominence performing with David Bowie and Elton John, and then later Lou Reed....
     (Sky
    Sky (band)

    Sky was a UK-based instrumental group that specialised in fusing a variety of musical styles including light rock, classical and jazz. The group's best known members were classical guitarist John Williams and bass player Herbie Flowers ....
    , Blue Mink
    Blue Mink

    Blue Mink was a United Kingdom five-piece pop music band , that existed from 1969 to 1974. Over that period they had six Top 40 hit singles in the UK Singles Chart, and released five recording studio based albums....
    )
  • John Ford (Strawbs, The Monks
    The Monks

    The Monks are a garage rock band, primarily active in Germany in the mid to late sixties. They reunited in 1999 and have continued to play concerts, although no new studio recordings have been made....
    )
  • Maya Ford (The Donnas
    The Donnas

    The Donnas are an United States all-women band hard rock rock band from Palo Alto, California. They draw inspiration from The Ramones, AC/DC, and Kiss ....
    )
  • Scott Ford
    Scott Ford

    Scott Ford is a bassist. He was the founding bassist for LA supergroup Camp Freddy, and is currently bassist for The Twilight Singers and The Gutter Twins....
     (Twilight Singers, Gutter Twins, Camp Freddy
    Camp Freddy

    Camp Freddy is a group of established musicians who play rock and roll Cover version at various shows around America.The band is named after a character in The Italian Job movie and was created for the sole purpose of having a good time....
    )
  • Tim Foreman
    Tim Foreman

    Timothy David Foreman is the bassist for the band Switchfoot. He was born in Lake Arrowhead, California but grew up in Boston, Massachusetts and Norfolk, Virginia....
     (Switchfoot
    Switchfoot

    Switchfoot is an American alternative rock band from San Diego, California, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley ....
    )
  • Rayna Foss (Coal Chamber
    Coal Chamber

    Coal Chamber was an United States nu metal band from Los Angeles, California. The band formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2003. Former vocalist Dez Fafara and Meegs Rascon started She's In Pain in 1992....
    )
  • Mo Foster
    Mo Foster

    Mo Foster is a British session musician, playing primarily jazz, jazz-fusion and Rock music bass guitar. He is also a music producer and songwriter/composer....
  • Murray Foster
    Murray Foster

    Murray Foster is a Canada musician, playing the electric bass and stand-up bass. The first concert he went to was a Peter Frampton concert at age 12 with Jian Ghomeshi in 1978....
     (Great Big Sea
    Great Big Sea

    Great Big Sea is a Canada folk-rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanty, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, English, and French heritage....
    , Moxy Früvous
    Moxy Früvous

    Moxy Fr?vous was a socially conscious and Political satire folk-pop band from Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. The band was founded in 1989, and was active throughout the 1990s....
    )
  • Tom Fowler (Frank Zappa
    Frank Zappa

    Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer, and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock music, jazz, electronic music, orchestral, and musique concr?te works....
    )
  • Jackie Fox
    Jackie Fox

    Jackie Fox, born Jackie Fuchs was a bassist of a teenage, American all-girl rock band The Runaways. She is the sister of Carol Fuchs and sister in law of Castle-Rock Entertainment co-founder Martin Shafer....
     (The Runaways
    The Runaways

    The Runaways were a teenage, American all women band rock band that performed in the 1970s. The band is best known for the songs "Cherry Bomb", "Queens of Noise", "Neon Angels " and "Born to Be Bad"....
    )
  • Bruce Foxton
    Bruce Foxton

    Bruce Foxton is an English people rock and roll musician who is best remembered as the bass guitar player in punk rock/New Wave music musical band The Jam and Stiff Little Fingers....
     (The Jam
    The Jam

    The Jam were an English Rock music band active during the late 1970s and early 1980s. While they shared the "angry young men" outlook and fast tempos of their punk rock contemporaries, The Jam wore neatly tailored suits rather than ripped clothes and incorporated a number of mainstream 1960s rock influences rather than rejecting them, placing...
    , Stiff Little Fingers
    Stiff Little Fingers

    Stiff Little Fingers are a Punk rock band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, formed in 1977. They started out as a schoolboy band called Highway Star , doing rock covers, until they discovered punk....
    )
  • Andy Fraser
    Andy Fraser

    Andrew McLan 'Andy' Fraser is an England musician, best known for his songwriting and bass guitar playing with Free ....
     (Free
    Free (band)

    Free were an England rock band, formed in London in 1968 and best known for their popular song "All Right Now".Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums....
    , Sharks
    Sharks (band)

    Sharks was a band formed by ex-Free bass player, Andy Fraser, upon his second departure from Free , in late 1972. They were signed to Island Records and were that label's Great White Hope for the 1970s....
    )
  • Matt Freeman
    Matt Freeman

    Matthew "McCall" Freeman is an United States musician. He is best known for his bass guitar work with the punk rock bands Operation Ivy and Rancid ....
     (Rancid
    Rancid (band)

    Rancid is an American punk band formed in 1991 in Albany, California, by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom previously played in ska punk group Operation Ivy ....
    , Operation Ivy
    Operation Ivy (band)

    Operation Ivy was an influential Ska punk band formed in Albany, California. The band consisted of frontman Jesse Michaels , Tim Armstrong , Matt Freeman , and Dave Mello ....
    )
  • Tomethy Furse (The Horrors
    The Horrors

    The Horrors are a British garage rock band who formed in mid-2005. They released their debut album Strange House, which reached #37 on the UK Charts, on 5 March 2007....
    )
  • Nick Fyffe
    Nick Fyffe

    Nick Fyffe is the ex-Jamiroquai bassist who replaced Stuart Zender's role in 1999 with the release of the album 'Synkronized'. He was actually in the process of applying to a Jamiroquai tribute band when he got the offer to join Jamiroquai....
     (Jamiroquai
    Jamiroquai

    Jamiroquai are an England acid jazz/funk/Soul music/disco band. Jamiroquai was initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito , the Brand New Heavies, Galliano , and Corduroy ....
    )


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  • Tim Gaines
    Tim Gaines

    Timothy James Hagelganz, also known as Timothy Gaines is the former bass guitar player of Christian metal band Stryper....
     (Stryper
    Stryper

    Stryper is a Grammy Award nominated Christian metal Musical ensemble from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in 1983, they are pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian metal music....
    , SinDizzy
    Sindizzy

    SinDizzy is Christian metal band co-founded by former Stryper members Oz Fox and Tim Gaines. The band was founded in the mid 1990s after Stryper had disbanded....
    )
  • Noel Gallagher
    Noel Gallagher

    Noel Thomas David Gallagher is the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and occasional vocalist of English rock band Oasis . Raised with younger brother Liam Gallagher in Burnage, Manchester, Gallagher began to get guitar lessons from Dayle Robertson at the age of thirteen during a period of probation....
     (Oasis
    Oasis (band)

    Oasis are an English rock music band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Originally known as "The Rain", the group was formed by Liam Gallagher , Paul Arthurs , Paul McGuigan and Tony McCarroll , who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher ....
    )
  • Jon Gallant (Billy Talent
    Billy Talent

    Billy Talent is a Canada post-hardcore band formed in 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario. The band consists of Benjamin Kowalewicz , Ian D'Sa , Jonathan Gallant and Aaron Solowoniuk ....
    )
  • Simon Gallup
    Simon Gallup

    Simon Jonathon Gallup is an England musician and bassist of the post-punk band The Cure....
     (The Cure
    The Cure

    The Cure are an English Rock music band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several lineup changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member....
    )
  • Craig Gannon
    Craig Gannon

    Craig Gannon , is an England guitar player, best known for being the second guitarist in The Smiths in 1986....
     (Aztec Camera
    Aztec Camera

    Aztec Camera were a Scotland New Wave music musical ensemble from Glasgow. They were a sensitive, tuneful pop music band formed in 1980 and centered around the then adolescence singer-songwriter, Roddy Frame....
    , The Bluebells
    The Bluebells

    The Bluebells were a Scotland popular music band in the 1980s....
    , The Smiths
    The Smiths

    The Smiths were an English Rock music band formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce ....
    )
  • Juan Garcia-Herreros
    Juan Garcia-Herreros

    Juan Garcia-Herreros, also known as "The Snow Owl", is a native born Colombian Bassist & Composer, notable for his virtuoso musicianship and for his use of a customised 6-stringed Electric Contrabass Guitar....
  • Paul Gardiner
    Paul Gardiner

    Paul Gardiner was a British musician best known for playing bass guitar with Gary Numan and Tubeway Army. He also released material under his own name....
     (Tubeway Army
    Tubeway Army

    Tubeway Army was a London-based Punk rock and New Wave music band led by singer/guitarist Gary Numan . Tubeway Army was the first band of the post-punk era to have an electronic hit, with the single "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and its parent album, Replicas , topping the UK Album Chart in mid 1979....
    , Gary Numan
    Gary Numan

    Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of commercial electronic music and has been described as the "King of synthpop." Numan is widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars "....
    )
  • Chuck Garric
    Chuck Garric

    Chuck Garric is a rock music bassist who has played with Turd, L.A. Guns, Dio, and Eric Singer Project . Chuck Garric is the current bassist for Alice Cooper....
     (Alice Cooper
    Alice Cooper

    Alice Cooper is an American rock music singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, and boa constrictors, Cooper has drawn equally from horror movies, vaudeville, heavy metal music, and garage rock to create a theatrical brand of rock musi...
    )
  • Matthew Garrison
  • Rosko Gee
    Rosko Gee

    Rosko Gee is a bassist who has played with the England band Traffic on their album When the Eagle Flies and the Germany band Can , along with former Traffic percussionist Rebop Kwaku Baah, appearing on the albums Saw Delight, Out of Reach and Can ....
     (Can
    Can (band)

    Can were an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the most important krautrock groups, Can incorporated strong minimalism and world music influences....
    , Traffic
    Traffic (band)

    Traffic was an England rock band formed in 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason. They began as a psychedelic rock group influenced by The Beatles when releasing early pop rock singles , and diversified their sound through the use of instruments such as musical keyboard, reed instruments, and by incorporating jazz an...
    )
  • Björn Gelotte
    Björn Gelotte

    Bj?rn Gelotte is a songwriter and guitarist for the Sweden band In Flames. He joined the band as the drummer in 1995 and continued his position as drummer during The Jester Race and Whoracle....
     (In Flames
    In Flames

    In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre....
    )
  • Maurice Gibb
    Maurice Gibb

    Maurice Ernest Gibb Order of the British Empire was a musician and singer-songwriter. He was born in Douglas, Isle of Man, Isle of Man, the twin brother of Robin Gibb, and younger brother to Barry Gibb....
     (Bee Gees
    Bee Gees

    The Bee Gees were a singing trio of brothers ? Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb. They were born on the Isle of Man to England parents, lived in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, England, United Kingdom and during their childhood years moved to Brisbane, Australia, where they began their musical careers....
    )
  • Derek Gibbs
    Derek Gibbs

    Derek Gibbs is the current bass player for Reel Big Fish, and the now defunct Forces of Evil and Jeffries Fan Club. He was chosen to replace the band's previous bass player Matt Wong, who left the band to spend more time with his family and new born child....
     (The Forces of Evil
    The Forces of Evil

    The Forces of Evil was an Orange County, California-based third wave ska band, formed in January 2001 with the intention of creating a ska supergroup....
    , Reel Big Fish
    Reel Big Fish

    Reel Big Fish is an United States ska punk band from Huntington Beach, California, best known for the 1997 hit "Sell Out ." The band gained mainstream recognition in the mid-to-late 1990s, during the Third wave ska with the release of the album Turn the Radio Off....
    )
  • Melvin Gibbs
    Melvin Gibbs

    Melvin Gibbs is an American bass guitarist, composer, and producer who has appeared on close to 200 albums in diverse genres of music.Melvin has been called "the best bassist in the world" by Time Out New York magazine....
     (Rollins Band
    Rollins Band

    Rollins Band was an American rock group led by singer and songwriter Henry Rollins.They are best-known for the songs "Low Self Opinion" and "Liar ", which both earned heavy airplay on MTV in the early 1990s....
    )
  • Brian Gibson
    Brian Gibson (musician)

    Brian Gibson is a musician and artist based out of Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Gibson is best known as the bassist for the band Lightning Bolt , alongside drummer and vocalist Brian Chippendale, and as the drummer of Wizardzz, with Rich Porter of Bug Sized Mind....
     (Lightning Bolt)
  • John Giblin
    John Giblin

    John Giblin is an internationally renowned session bassist who has worked with artists such as:-* Metro* Joan Armatrading* Peter Gabriel * Simple Minds ....
  • Christian Giesler
    Christian Giesler

    Christian "Speesy" Giesler is the Bass player for Kreator. He uses a Jackson Randy Rhoads Custom bass when he is on stage. He has been in Kreator for more than 10 years....
     (Kreator
    Kreator

    Kreator are a Germany thrash metal band from Essen, Germany. They started their career in 1982, under the name Tormentor. They originally played thrash metal with Venom influences....
    )
  • Peter Gifford
    Peter Gifford

    Peter Gifford , sometimes known as "Giffo," is an Australian musician. From 1980 until about 1989 he played bass guitar for the rock band Midnight Oil....
     (Midnight Oil
    Midnight Oil

    Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
    )
  • Josh Gilbert
    Josh Gilbert

    Josh Gilbert is the bass guitar player and back-up vocalist for the metalcore band As I Lay Dying . He is featured on the band's new album An Ocean Between Us....
     (As I Lay Dying
    As I Lay Dying (band)

    As I Lay Dying is an American Grammy Award-nominated metalcore band from San Diego, California, formed in 2000. Their band name derives from the novel by William Faulkner with As I Lay Dying ....
    )
  • Kristoffer Gildenlöw
    Kristoffer Gildenlöw

    Kristoffer Gildenl?w is a Sweden musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work as Bass Guitar in the band Pain of Salvation, a band started by his older brother Daniel Gildenl?w....
     (Dial
    Dial (band)

    Dial is a progressive metal band based in the Netherlands....
    , Pain of Salvation
    Pain of Salvation

    Pain of Salvation is a Sweden progressive metal band featuring Daniel Gildenl?w, who is the lyricist, chief composer, guitarist, and lead vocalist....
    )
  • Chad I Ginsburg (CKY
    CKY (band)

    CKY is an American rock music band that formed in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania in 1998. Currently consisting of vocalist and guitarist Deron Miller, guitarist and producer Chad I....
    )
  • Joe Gittleman
    Joe Gittleman

    Joe Gittleman is an United States musician....
     (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

    The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are an American third wave ska band from Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts.Formed in 1983, the Bosstones are credited with the creation of the ska-core genre, a form of music that mixes elements of third wave ska and hardcore punk....
    , Avoid One Thing
    Avoid One Thing

    Avoid One Thing was started as a side project by Mighty Mighty Bosstones' bassist Joe Gittleman. The Boston, Massachusetts-based group's first album, titled "Avoid One Thing ", was released in 2002 on Side One Dummy Records....
    , Gang Green
    Gang Green

    Gang Green is a hardcore punk band originally from Braintree, Massachusetts. The first incarnation of the band in 1980 consisted of 15 year olds Chris Doherty, Mike Dean, and Bill Manley and contributed seven tracks to the This Is Boston, Not L.A. compilation in 1982....
    )
  • John Glascock
    John Glascock

    John Glascock was the bass guitarist for the rock band Jethro Tull from December 1975 until August 1979. He died in 1979, at the age of 28, as a result of a congenital heart defect....
     (Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
    )
  • Roger Glover
    Roger Glover

    Roger David Glover is a Wales/England bassist, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. Glover is best known as the bassist and songwriter for Rock music Musical ensemble Deep Purple, and he is also well known for his work with Rainbow ....
     (Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
    , Rainbow
    Rainbow (band)

    Rainbow were a hard rock and Heavy metal music band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975 in music. In addition to Blackmore, the band originally consisted of former Elf members; lead singer Ronnie James Dio , keyboardist Mickey Lee Soule, bassist Craig Gruber, and drummer Gary Driscoll....
    )
  • Jimi Goodwin
    Jimi Goodwin

    Jimi Goodwin is the bass guitar, singer and guitarist for Doves. He was born in Manchester, England. Before their incarnation as Doves, the three members were a dance-club music trio called Sub Sub....
     (Doves)
  • Kim Gordon
    Kim Gordon

    Kim Althea Gordon is an American musician, vocalist, and artist. She sings, plays Bass guitar and guitar in the alternative rock band Sonic Youth....
     (Sonic Youth
    Sonic Youth

    Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
    )
  • Martin Gordon
    Martin Gordon

    Martin Gordon is an English people musician, who plays bass guitar and piano....
     (Sparks
    Sparks (band)

    Sparks is an American rock music and pop music band formed in Los Angeles in 1970 by brothers Ron Mael and Russell Mael , initially under the name Halfnelson ....
    , Radio Stars
    Radio Stars

    Radio Stars are an England New Wave music group formed in early 1977. They released three albums and had one UK Singles Chart single . A lack of further chart activity sees Radio Stars join the list of one-hit wonders; a list that includes other UK punk or new wave acts such as The Banned, John Cooper Clarke, The Flying Lizards, Graham Fellow...
    , Jet
    Jet (UK band)

    Jet from London formed in 1974. Members were Andy Ellison , Martin Gordon , Chris Townson , David O'List and Peter Oxendale . They released one eponymous album in 1975, that was produced by Roy Thomas Baker....
    , John's Children
    John's Children

    John's Children, formerly "The Silence", were a Leatherhead, England 1960s pop-art/mod band featuring future T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan, whose 1967 single "Desdemona " was banned by the BBC for the controversial lyric, "Lift up your skirt and fly"....
    )
  • Mike Gordon
    Mike Gordon

    Mike Gordon is a bass player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion....
     (Phish
    Phish

    eruses4|the band|deceptive internet practices|Phishing}}Phish is an United States band noted for their musical improvisation, extended jam sessions, exploration of music between genres, and their "fiercely loyal fans." Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983, the band's four members performed together for over 20 years until their hia...
    )
  • Billy Gould
    Billy Gould

    Billy David Gould is a musician and music producer. He is noted for playing Bass guitar in the band Faith No More....
     (Faith No More
    Faith No More

    Faith No More is an American alternative metal band who formed in San Francisco, California, and were active between 1984 and 1998. Faith No More combined elements of heavy metal music, funk music, progressive rock, hip hop music, hardcore punk, thrash metal, and jazz, among many others, and have been hailed as an influential rock band....
    )
  • Graham Gouldman
    Graham Gouldman

    Graham Gouldman is an English people songwriter and musician who is a long-time member of British band 10cc....
     (10cc
    10cc

    10cc were an England art rock rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. Initially comprising four musicians ? Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme ? who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the ?10cc? name in 1972....
    )
  • Larry Graham
    Larry Graham

    Larry Graham, Jr. is an United States baritone singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known as both the bass guitar player in the popular and influential psychedelic soul/funk band Sly & the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station....
     (Sly and the Family Stone, Graham Central Station
    Graham Central Station

    Graham Central Station was a funk music band named after founder Larry Graham and is a pun on New York City's Grand Central Station.The band's origins date from when Santana guitarist Neal Schon formed the band Azteca along with Larry Graham and Gregg Errico , both from Sly & the Family Stone, and Pete Sears , from Hot Tuna and Jefferso...
    )
  • Paul Gray
    Paul Gray (musician)

    Paul Gray was the original bassist for Southend teen rockers Eddie and the Hot Rods, scoring several hit singles and albums in the late '70's including the seminal summer anthem "Do Anything You Wanna Do"....
     (Eddie and the Hot Rods, The Damned
    The Damned

    The Damned are an English Rock music band formed in London in 1976. They are notable for being the first punk rock band from England to release a single , an album , and to tour the United States....
    , UFO
    UFO (band)

    UFO is a British hard rock/heavy metal music band formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal music and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal....
    )
  • Paul Gray
    Paul Gray (Slipknot)

    Paul Dedrick Gray , also known by his number #2, is an American musician best known as the bass player of Slipknot ....
     (Slipknot
    Slipknot (band)

    Slipknot is an American heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray , Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor....
    )
  • Ric Grech
    Ric Grech

    Richard Roman Grech was an English musician.Born in Bordeaux, France in 1946, Grech was a versatile, accomplished, and sought after British rock musician....
     (Family
    Family

    Family denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the concept of consanguinity originally referred to relations by "blood," some cultural anthropology have argued that one must understand the idea of "blood" metaphorically, and that many societies understand 'family' through other concepts r...
    )
  • G. C. Green
    G. C. Green

    G. C. Green is a United Kingdom Bass guitar-player. In 1988 he founded the band Godflesh with Justin Broadrick. In 2002 he left the band, which disbanded shortly afterwards, largely due to Broadrick not wanting to continue the project without him....
     (Godflesh
    Godflesh

    Godflesh were an industrial metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1988 in music by Justin K. Broadrick and G. C. Green . The band is highly regarded as one of the pioneers of industrial metal and post-metal....
    )
  • Karl Green
    Karl Green

    Karl Green was bass guitarist and backing singer for the 1960s United Kingdom band , Herman's Hermits, which featured Peter Noone. Green songwriter a number of songs for the band, and was a capable player but was replaced by session players on some of Herman's Hermits mid-career singles....
     (Herman's Hermits
    Herman's Hermits

    Herman's Hermits were an England pop band, formed in Manchester in 1963 as 'Herman & The Hermits'. The group's management and producer Mickie Most emphasized a simple, non-threatening and clean-cut image, although the band originally played Rhythm and blues numbers ....
    )
  • Colin Greenwood
    Colin Greenwood

    Colin Charles Greenwood , also known as Coz, is a member of England rock band Radiohead. He is best known as their bass guitar player, although he does play other instruments ....
     (Radiohead
    Radiohead

    Radiohead are an English alternative rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire. The band is composed of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway ....
    )
  • Billy Greer
    Billy Greer

    Billy Greer is the current bass guitarist for the band Kansas . He joined the band in 1986 in time for the Power album. He had previously worked with vocalist Steve Walsh in the band Streets , and is currently working with his own band Seventh Key, as well as maintaining his status in Kansas....
     (Kansas
    Kansas (band)

    Kansas is an United States progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"....
    )
  • Paolo Gregoletto
    Paolo Gregoletto

    Paolo Gregoletto is the bass player for the band Trivium and ex-member of Metal Militia. Gregoletto resides in Pompano Beach, Florida....
     (Trivium
    Trivium (band)

    Trivium is an American Heavy metal music band formed in 2000 in Orlando, Florida. The band has released Trivium discography, eleven singles, and twelve music videos....
    )
  • Paul Grey
    Paul Gray (Slipknot)

    Paul Dedrick Gray , also known by his number #2, is an American musician best known as the bass player of Slipknot ....
     (Slipknot
    Slipknot (band)

    Slipknot is an American heavy metal music band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray , Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor....
    ) * Markus Grosskopf
    Markus Grosskopf

    Markus Gro?kopf, born September 21 1965 in Hamburg, Germany, is the bass guitarist, and one of only two remaining original members of the German power metal band Helloween ....
     (Helloween
    Helloween

    Helloween are a Germany power metal/speed metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands, being part of the German Heavy metal music/speed/power metal scene that included Accept, Running Wild , Blind Guardian, Grave Digger , Sinner , and Rage ....
    )
  • Richard Grossman
    Richard Grossman (musician)

    Richard Grossman is an Australian Rock music musician who has played bass guitar for two iconic bands Divinyls and Hoodoo Gurus. Hoodoo Gurus iconic status on the Australian rock scene was acknowledged when they were inducted into the 2007 ARIA Hall of Fame....
     (Divinyls
    Divinyls

    Divinyls are an Australian Rock music band formed in Sydney in 1980 and featuring Singer Christina Amphlett and guitarist Mark McEntee. As the focal point, Amphlett performed on stage wearing a school uniform and fishnet stockings, often using an illuminated neon tube as a prop and displaying aggression towards band members and the audience....
    , Hoodoo Gurus
    Hoodoo Gurus

    Hoodoo Gurus are an Australian rock band, formed in Sydney in 1981, by the mainstay Dave Faulkner and later joined by Richard Grossman , Mark Kingsmill , and Brad Shepherd ....
    )
  • Kelly Groucutt
    Kelly Groucutt

    Kelly Groucutt...
     (Electric Light Orchestra
    Electric Light Orchestra

    Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001....
    )
  • Patrice Guers
    Patrice Guers

    Patrice Guers is the bass instrument of the Italian symphonic metal band Rhapsody Of Fire. He joined the band after Alessandro Lotta left the band....
     (Rhapsody Of Fire
    Rhapsody of Fire

    Rhapsody of Fire is an Italy Symphonic metal power metal band led by Luca Turilli and Alex Staropoli. Since forming in 1993, the band has released seven studio albums, one live album, one EP, and a live DVD....
    )
  • Trey Gunn
    Trey Gunn

    Trey Gunn is an United States musician probably best known for his membership in progressive rock King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Chapman stick and Warr Guitar....
     (King Crimson
    King Crimson

    King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
    )
  • Jeremy Guns
    Jeremy Guns

    Jeremy Guns is an USA Bassist.He is the bassist of the version of L.A. Guns featuring singer Marty Casey, lead guitarist Tracii Guns, rhythm guitarist Alec Bauer, and drummer Chad Stewart....
     (Brides of Destruction
    Brides of Destruction

    Brides of Destruction are a hard rock Supergroup containing Nikki Sixx of M?tley Cr?e and Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns amongst others. Its debut album Here Come the Brides reached the top 100 of the US album charts and launched a headlining tour of the US in April 2004....
    )
  • Erik Gustafsson
    Erik Gustafsson

    Erik Gustafsson is a bass guitarist of Therion and Dismember . He currently plays bass for Lust Murder Box in Austin, Texas....
     (Therion
    Therion (band)

    Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
    , Dismember
    Dismember (band)

    Dismember is a Sweden death metal band that formed from members of Carnage in 1988. They are well known in the extreme metal underground....
    )


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  • Bruce Hall
    Bruce Hall (musician)

    Bruce Hall is the current bass guitarist for the rock and roll band REO Speedwagon. He joined the band in 1977, making an appearance on the album, You Can Tune a Piano but You Can't Tuna Fish released the following year....
     (REO Speedwagon
    REO Speedwagon

    REO Speedwagon is an United States Rock music band that grew in popularity in the Midwestern United States United States during the 1970s and peaked in the early 1980s....
    )
  • Billy Hamilton
    Billy Hamilton

    William Robert "Sliding Billy" Hamilton was a 19th century Major League Baseball player. He holds a number of offensive records that still stand today and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1961....
     (Silverstein)
  • Tom Hamilton
    Tom Hamilton (musician)

    Thomas William Hamilton is an United States musician, best known as the bassist of the band Aerosmith. He began playing guitar at the age of twelve, then switched to bass because the only local band needed a bassist....
     (Aerosmith
    Aerosmith

    Aerosmith is an United States hard rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston, Massachusetts" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band"....
    )
  • Stuart Hamm
    Stuart Hamm

    Stuart "Stu" Hamm is an American bass guitar player, known for his session and live work with numerous artists as well for his unconventional playing style and solo recordings....
     (Joe Satriani
    Joe Satriani

    Joseph "Satch" Satriani is an United States multiple nominated Grammy Award multi-instrumentalist, best known as an instrumental rock guitarist....
    , Steve Vai
    Steve Vai

    Steven "Steve" Siro Vai is an United States instrumental rock guitarist, songwriter, vocalist, record producer, and actor. After starting his professional career as a music transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, Vai would also record and tour in Zappa's backing band starting in 1980....
    , Frank Gambale
    Frank Gambale

    Frank Gambale is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He is renowned for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques....
    )
  • Didz Hammond
    Didz Hammond

    David Hammond , better known as Didz Hammond, is an English bassist. He was the bassist and backing vocalist in The Cooper Temple Clause , and in Carl Bar?t's Dirty Pretty Things ....
     (The Cooper Temple Clause
    The Cooper Temple Clause

    The Cooper Temple Clause were a five-piece alternative rock musical ensemble originating from Wokingham, Berkshire, England. Formed in 1998, the band quickly gained a following through their live concerts, and have produced three albums, the latest being Make This Your Own....
    , Dirty Pretty Things
    Dirty Pretty Things (band)

    Dirty Pretty Things were an England band fronted by Carl Bar?t, a former member of The Libertines. The formation of the band was announced in September 2005, after a dispute between Bar?t and Pete Doherty led to the breakup of The Libertines in 2004....
    )
  • Fred Hammond
    Fred Hammond

    Fred Hammond is a gospel music singer, bass guitar player, and record producer....
     (Commissioned
    Commissioned (gospel group)

    Commissioned is an United States Gospel music group. The group recorded twelve albums over a period of seventeen years....
    )
  • Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond
    Jeffrey Hammond

    Jeffrey Hammond was a bass guitar player for the progressive rock band Jethro Tull .Hammond adopted the name "Hammond-Hammond" as a joke, since both his father's name and mother's maiden name were the same....
     (Jethro Tull
    Jethro Tull (band)

    Jethro Tull are a United Kingdom rock music group formed in 1967. Their music is characterised by the songs, vocals and flute work of Ian Anderson , who has led the band since its founding, and guitarist Martin Barre, who has #Lineups....
    )
  • Steve Hanley
    Steve Hanley (musician)

    Steve Hanley is an English musician, based in Manchester. He is best known for playing bass guitar in The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers....
     (The Fall, The Lovers
    Tom Hingley and the Lovers

    The Lovers are a United Kingdom punk rock band formed by Tom Hingley with Steve Hanley and Paul Hanley , both former members of The Fall , and Jason Brown and Kelly Wood....
    )
  • Timi Hansen
    Timi Hansen

    Timi "Grabber" Hansen is a Danish bass player. He played in the Danish heavy metal music bands Danger Zone, Mercyful Fate from 1981 to 1985 and from 1992 to 1993, and King Diamond from 1985 to 1987....
     (King Diamond
    King Diamond (band)

    King Diamond is the Heavy metal music band that King Diamond formed after the split up of his Black metal band Mercyful Fate. Also following the departure of Hank Shermann....
    , Mercyful Fate
    Mercyful Fate

    Mercyful Fate is an influential Denmark Heavy metal music band often cited among the influences in the black metal, thrash metal, power metal, and progressive metal genres....
    )
  • Steve Hansgen
    Steve Hansgen

    Steve Hansgen was a bass guitar player in the legendary Hardcore punk band Minor Threat, joining them in the fall of 1982 to allow bassist Brian Baker to switch over to second guitar....
     (Minor Threat
    Minor Threat

    Minor Threat was an American hardcore punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. Despite being so short-lived, the band had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene....
    )
  • Robert Hardy
    Robert Hardy (bassist)

    Bob Hardy is the bassist for the Glasgow based band , Franz Ferdinand ....
     (Franz Ferdinand
    Franz Ferdinand (band)

    Franz Ferdinand are a Scotland Rock music band that formed in Glasgow, Scotland in 2002. Named after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the band comprises Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Nick McCarthy , and Paul Thomson ....
    )
  • Nick Harmer
    Nick Harmer

    Nicholas Harmer is the bass guitarist for the group Death Cab for Cutie....
     (Death Cab for Cutie
    Death Cab for Cutie

    Death Cab for Cutie is a Grammy nominated American indie rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Benjamin Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nicholas Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
    )
  • Douglas Hart
    Douglas Hart

    Douglas Hart was the original bassist and a founding member of the Scotland Band The Jesus and Mary Chain, and played with the group from 1984 to 1991....
     (The Jesus and Mary Chain
    The Jesus and Mary Chain

    The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim Reid and William Reid ....
    )
  • Todd Harrell (3 Doors Down
    3 Doors Down

    3 Doors Down is an United States Rock music band formed in 1994 in , by Brad Arnold , Matt Roberts and Todd Harrell . The band signed to Universal Records after the success of their song "Kryptonite "....
    )
  • Tim Harries
    Tim Harries

    Tim Harries is a British bass player.Tim Harries studied music at the University of York, graduating in 1981 before going on to study Double Bass with Tom Martin at the Guildhall School of Music....
     (Steeleye Span
    Steeleye Span

    Steeleye Span is a British electric folk band, formed in 1969 and remaining active today. Along with Fairport Convention they are amongst the best known acts of the British folk revival, and were among the most commercially successful, thanks to their hit singles Gaudete and All Around My Hat....
    )
  • Jet Harris
    Jet Harris

    Jet Harris was the bassist of The Shadows until April 1962 and had subsequent success as a soloist and as a duo with drummer Tony Meehan ....
     (The Shadows
    The Shadows

    Nick-named: the Shads, The Shadows are the most successful United Kingdom instrumental and vocal group from the 1950s to the 2000s with an aggregate total of at least 64 UK hit singles....
    )
  • Steve Harris
    Steve Harris (musician)

    Stephen Percy Harris is the bassist, band leader and primary composer of the Heavy metal music band Iron Maiden. In addition, he plays keyboards, and sings backing vocals....
     (Iron Maiden
    Iron Maiden

    Iron Maiden are an English Heavy metal music band from Leyton, East London, England, formed in 1975. The band is led by founder, bassist and songwriter Steve Harris ....
    )
  • Nigel Harrison
    Nigel Harrison

    Nigel Harrison is a musician, and best known as the bass guitar player of the power pop/New Wave music band , Blondie .In the early 1970s Harrison lived in Princes Risborough near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire....
     (Blondie
    Blondie (band)

    Blondie is an United States rock music band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and has so far sold over 30 million albums. The band was a pioneer in the early American New Wave music and punk rock scenes....
    )
  • Jimmy Haslip
    Jimmy Haslip

    Jimmy Haslip is an American Bass guitar Bassist and record producer best known as a founding and current member of the pioneering Jazz fusion group Yellowjackets....
     (Yellowjackets
    Yellowjackets

    The Yellowjackets are an United States jazz fusion quartet....
    )
  • John Hassall
    John Hassall (musician)

    John Hassall was the bassist for The Libertines. He now performs with his own band, Yeti . He has been described by Dirty Pretty Things bassist Didz Hammond as "...a fucking class bass player....
     (The Libertines
    The Libertines

    The Libertines were an English rock music band. Formed in London in 1997 by frontmen Carl Bar?t and Pete Doherty , the band also included John Hassall and Gary Powell for most of its recording career....
    )
  • "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff (Bloodhound Gang
    Bloodhound Gang

    The Bloodhound Gang is an American alternative rock rock band from Quakertown, Pennsylvania. Their songs typically have humorous and off-beat, often satire lyrics....
    )
  • Robin Hawkins
    Robin Hawkins

    Robin Hawkins, commonly known as Rob is the primary vocalist, and bass guitar for Welsh band The Automatic....
     (The Automatic
    The Automatic

    The Automatic, , are a Wales based rock music band. The three remaining original members James Frost, Robin Hawkins, and Iwan Griffiths are from Wales; new addition Paul Mullen is from Sunderland....
    )
  • David Hayes
    David Hayes (musician)

    David Hayes is an American bass guitar player.Hayes has worked with Van Morrison, The Rowans , Terry & The Pirates, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Country Joe McDonald and others....
  • Daryl Hayott
    Daryl Hayott

    Daryl Hayott is a Brazilian artist/musician. He was born in S?o Paulo and raised in New York City....
  • Heath (X Japan
    X Japan

    is a Japan band founded in 1982 by Toshi and Yoshiki . Originally named X , the group achieved its breakthrough success in 1989 with the release of their second album Blue Blood ....
    )
  • Brian Helicopter
    Brian Helicopter

    Brian Helicopter is the stage name of Gareth Holder , an English musician, based in the United States. He is best known for playing bass guitar for the UK punk rock band The Shapes....
     (The Shapes)
  • Richard Hell
    Richard Hell

    Richard Hell is an United States singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and writer.Hell is probably best known as frontman for the early punk rock band Richard Hell & The Voidoids....
     (The Voidoids
    The Voidoids

    The Voidoids, also known as Richard Hell and The Voidoids, were an American rock music rock band from the first wave of punk rock, fronted by Richard Hell, a former member of the Neon Boys, Television and the Heartbreakers....
    )
  • Jonas Hellborg
    Jonas Hellborg

    Jonas Hellborg is a Sweden bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin , Ustad Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Bill Laswell, Shawn Lane, Jens Johansson, Michael Shrieve, V....
     (Bill Laswell
    Bill Laswell

    Bill Laswell is an American bassist, Record producer and record label owner. He is married to Ethiopian singer Gigi .Laswell ranks among the most prolific of musicians, being involved in hundreds of recordings with many musicians from all over the world....
    , Shawn Lane
    Shawn Lane

    Shawn Lane was an United States musician. He quickly became a noted player in underground guitar circles and joined Black Oak Arkansas when he was just fourteen years old....
    , Buckethead
    Buckethead

    Brian Patrick Carroll, better known as Buckethead, is an American musician and songwriter. He has released 25 solo albums and performed on over 50 more....
    )
  • Mike Herrera
    Mike Herrera

    Michael Arthur Herrera is an American musician most widely known as the vocalist and bass guitarist for the pop punk band MxPx.Mike is the primary songwriter, and plays the bass guitar as well as performs the vocals in the pop punk band MxPx....
     (MxPx
    MxPx

    MxPx is a pop punk band that officially formed in Bremerton, Washington, Washington, United States as teenagers. The band has recorded eight studio albums, four Extended play, four compilation albums, a live album, a VHS tape, a DVD and released 20 singles....
    )
  • Marco Hietala
    Marco Hietala

    Marco Hietala is a Heavy metal music vocalist and bassist. In Finland he is often seen as an icon for the Finnish metal scene. Internationally, he is most known as the current bassist and the male vocalist of the symphonic metal band Nightwish....
     (Nightwish
    Nightwish

    Nightwish is a Finns symphonic metal power metal band, formed in 1996 in Kitee, Finland. The band has sold more than 4 million CDs, DVDs and online material internationally....
    , Tarot
    Tarot (band)

    Tarot is a Heavy metal music band from Finland. They are most famous for the song ?Wings of Darkness? from the 1986 album Spell of Iron. While having enjoyed a broad underground popularity in Finland, the band has never been very famous elsewhere until gaining new success in the recent years when their singer Marco Hietala joined Nightwis...
    , Sinergy
    Sinergy

    Sinergy is a Finns power metal band, formed in an effort to present a "balls-out female-fronted metal band" to the world, by United States of America vocalist Kimberly Goss, who was keyboarding for Dimmu Borgir at the time, and In Flames rhythm guitarist Jesper Str?mblad in 1998....
    )
  • Dusty Hill
    Dusty Hill

    Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill is the bass guitarist and vocalist with Texas Boogie-Blues-Rock group ZZ Top. Hill is noted for his solid, unadorned bass playing, "leather-lung" vocal stylings and his love of Elvis Presley....
     (ZZ Top
    ZZ Top

    ZZ Top is an American Rock music trio formed in late 1969 in Houston, Texas, United States. The group members are Billy Gibbons , Dusty Hill , and Frank Beard ....
    )
  • Ian Hill
    Ian Hill

    Ian Hill moving there in 1955 is a founding member and bassist for the Birmingham-based Heavy metal music band, Judas Priest.Hill learned how to play the double bass from his father, a bass player for local jazz acts....
     (Judas Priest
    Judas Priest

    Judas Priest is an England Heavy metal music band formed in 1969 in Birmingham. Judas Priest's core line-up consists of bass player Ian Hill, vocalist Rob Halford and guitarists Glenn Tipton and K....
    )
  • Bones Hillman
    Bones Hillman

    Bones Hillman is a New Zealand musician.He played bass guitar in his first band The Masochists, an early New Zealand punk rock act, formed with friends from the Auckland suburb of Avondale, Auckland ....
     (Midnight Oil
    Midnight Oil

    Midnight Oil, or the Oils to fans, was an Australian rock band from Sydney originally performing as Farm from 1972 with drum kit Rob Hirst, bass guitarist Andrew James and keyboard instrument/lead guitarist Jim Moginie....
    )
  • Chris Hillman
    Chris Hillman

    Christopher Hillman was one of the original members of The Byrds in 1965 with Roger McGuinn, Gene Clark, David Crosby, and Michael Clarke .Along with frequent collaborator Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman was a key figure in the development of country rock, virtually defining the genre through his seminal work in The Byrds and The Flying Burrit...
     (The Byrds
    The Byrds

    The Byrds were an American Rock music band. Formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964, The Byrds underwent several lineup changes, with frontman Roger McGuinn remaining the sole consistent member until the group's disbandment in 1973....
    )
  • Mike Hindert (The Bravery
    The Bravery

    The Bravery is an United States Rock music band from City of New York that consists of Sam Endicott, John Conway, Anthony Burulcich, Michael Zakarin, and Mike Hindert....
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  • Taka Hirose
    Taka Hirose

    Taka Hirose is the Japanese bassist for the successful Wales rock band, Feeder ....
     (Feeder
    Feeder (band)

    Feeder are a Music recording sales certification-selling Welsh rock band, formed in Newport, South Wales during 1992 by Lead singer-songwriter-guitarist Grant Nicholas, and Drum kit Jon Lee....
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  • Derrick Hodge
    Derrick Hodge

    Derrick Hodge is an African-American bassist, composer, and music producer. He is also the founder of Son Of Knowledge Music and Son of Knowledge Entertainment....
  • Annie Holland
    Annie Holland

    Annie Holland was the bass guitarist for the britpop band , Elastica.The quietest and perhaps most enigmatic of the group, Annie had an Elastica song named in her honour....
     (Elastica
    Elastica

    Elastica were a United Kingdom alternative rock band, who played punk rock-influenced music. They were best known for their 1995 album Elastica which produced single that charted in the United States and the United Kingdom....
    )
  • Peter Hook
    Peter Hook

    Peter "Hooky" Hook is an English people bass player.He was a co-founder of the post-punk band Joy Division along with Bernard Sumner in the mid-1970s....
     (New Order
    New Order

    New Order are an English alternative rock/electronic band formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris . New Order was formed in the wake of the demise of their previous group Joy Division, following the suicide of vocalist Ian Curtis....
    , Monaco
    Monaco (band)

    Monaco was a side project of New Order bassist Peter Hook. Together with David Potts, the only remaining member of Revenge , the band was formed in 1995....
    , Joy Division
    Joy Division

    Joy Division were an English Rock music band formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. Originally named Warsaw, the band primarily consisted of Ian Curtis , Bernard Sumner , Peter Hook and Stephen Morris ....
    )
  • Dave Hope
    Dave Hope

    Dave Hope played bass guitar for the American rock band Kansas from 1973 until the band split in 1983. He then started the Christian band AD with Kerry Livgren and others....
     (Kansas
    Kansas (band)

    Kansas is an United States progressive rock band which became a popular arena rock group in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind"....
    )
  • Hugh Hopper
    Hugh Hopper

    Hugh Colin Hopper is a progressive rock / jazz bass guitarist and composer. He has been a prominent member of the Canterbury scene....
     (Soft Machine
    Soft Machine

    Soft Machine was an England Rock music band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the so-called "Canterbury scene," and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre....
    )
  • Mark Hoppus
    Mark Hoppus

    Mark Allan Hoppus is an American musician and record producer. Hoppus is one of the founding members of the pop punk rock band Blink-182 and the pop punk/Alternative rock band +44 ....
     (blink-182
    Blink-182

    Blink-182 is an United States Rock music trio formed in 1992 in Poway, California that predominantly plays pop punk music. The band, then known simply as "Blink", was originally composed of Tom DeLonge , Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor ....
    , +44
    +44 (band)

    +44 is an alternative rock and pop punk band. The band was formed by current Blink-182 members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker , also consisting of former Transplants touring guitarist Craig Fairbaugh and the lead guitarist of The Nervous Return, Shane Gallagher....
    )
  • Hub
    Hub (bassist)

    Leonard "Hub" Hubbard is a former band member of The Roots and played bass for the Philadelphia outfit from 1992 to 2007. He has played on all of their records, including 1999's Things Fall Apart and 2004's The Tipping Point ....
     (The Roots
    The Roots

    The Roots is a Grammy award-winning United States hip hop music band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.They are famed for beginning with a jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which still includes live instrumentals....
    )
  • Mike Huckabee
    Mike Huckabee

    Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee is a Republican Party politician, Former Arkansas Governer and political commentator for Fox News Channel who served as Governor of Arkansas of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007....
     (Capitol Offense
    Capitol Offense (band)

    Capitol Offense is the rock music of Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas and Mike Huckabee presidential campaign, 2008....
    )
  • Peter Hume
    Peter Hume (musician)

    Peter Elisha Hume is a musician from New Zealand. He plays the bass guitar and keyboard/piano in the alternative rock band Evermore , with his two brothers, Jon Hume and Dann Hume....
     (Evermore
    Evermore

    Evermore is an indie rock/alternative rock band originally from Feilding, New Zealand, New Zealand, now based in Melbourne, Australia. The band consists of the Hume brothers ? Jon Hume , Peter Hume and Dann Hume ....
    )
  • Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
    , Trapeze
    Trapeze (band)

    Trapeze were an English rock band formed in March 1969, by vocalist John Jones and guitarist/keyboardist Terry Rowley , with guitarist Mel Galley, singer/bassist Glenn Hughes, and drummer Dave Holland ....
    , Black Sabbath
    Black Sabbath

    Black Sabbath are an English Rock music band. Formed in Birmingham in 1968 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward , the band has since experienced multiple lineup changes, with a total of twenty-two former members....
    )
  • Darryl Hunt
    Darryl Hunt (musician)

    Darryl Hunt is an England musician, most famous as the bass guitar of The Pogues from 1986 until their breakup ten years later. He currently fronts the band BISH and has performed with The Pogues since their reunion in 2001....
     (The Pogues
    The Pogues

    The Pogues are a band of mixed Irish and English background, playing traditional Irish music with influences from punk rock and jazz, formed in 1982 and fronted by Shane MacGowan....
    )
  • Carl Hunter
    Carl Hunter

    Carl Hunter was the bassist in the Liverpool based pop music group, The Farm .He was part of the second wave of members who joined in 1986, and apart from his musical contributions, he also helped to design their Compact disc album cover and sleeves....
     (The Farm
    The Farm (band)

    The Farm were a band from Liverpool, England. They were popular through the early 1990s. Their album Spartacus stormed to number one in the UK albums chart when it was released in April 1991....
    )

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  • Mark Ibold
    Mark Ibold

    Mark Ibold is a New York-based bass guitarist, and was a member of the indie band Pavement from 1992 to 1999. He is currently in the influential alternative rock band Sonic Youth....
     (Pavement
    Pavement (band)

    Pavement was an United States indie rock musical band in the 1990s. Although they experienced only moderate commercial success, they achieved a significant cult following and were one of the more popular and influential Lo-fi music rock bands of the 1990s....
    )
  • John Illsley
    John Illsley

    John Illsley is a musician who rose to fame as the Bass guitarist of the BRIT award and Grammy Award-studded England rock band, Dire Straits....
     (Dire Straits
    Dire Straits

    Dire Straits were a United Kingdom Rock music, formed in 1977 by Mark Knopfler , his younger brother David Knopfler , John Illsley , and Pick Withers , and managed by Ed Bicknell....
    )
  • Michael Inez
    Mike Inez

    Michael "Mike" Inez is a rock music musician. He is perhaps best known for his role as the bass guitarist of Alice in Chains throughout much of the 1990s....
     (Alice in Chains
    Alice in Chains

    Alice in Chains is an American Rock music band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1987 by guitarist Jerry Cantrell and vocalist Layne Staley. Although widely associated with grunge music, the band's sound incorporates Heavy metal music and acoustic music elements....
    , Ozzy Osbourne
    Ozzy Osbourne

    John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is a Grammy Award winning England singer-songwriter, whose career has now spanned four decades. Osbourne rose to prominence as lead vocalist of pioneering English heavy metal music band Black Sabbath, and eventually achieved a multi-RIAA certification solo career which revolutionized the heavy metal genre....
    )
  • Ricardo Iorio
    Ricardo Iorio

    Ricardo Iorio is an Argentina heavy metal music musician who participated in various of the most important metal bands in the country.He was one of the founders of V8 and later founded the successful band Herm?tica ....
     (V8
    V8 (band)

    V8 is an Argentina Heavy metal music band created in 1982, one of the first notable Argentine bands of that genre. After its dissolution former members have continued their careers starting other heavy metal bands, Herm?tica, Horcas , Rata Blanca, Logos and Almafuerte ....
    , Hermética
    Hermetica

    Hermetica is a category of popular Late Antiquity literature purporting to contain secret wisdom, and generally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes", a syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth....
    , Almafuerte
    Almafuerte (band)

    Almafuerte is a Heavy metal music band from Argentina, formed by bassist and lead singer Ricardo Iorio in 1995 after the dissolution of Herm?tica....
    )
  • Jeff Irwin
    Jeff Irwin

    Jeff Irwin is an East Nashville, Tennessee based multi-instrumentalist. He has performed with Griffin House, , Cerys Matthews , Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken, Mat Kearney, Taylor Sorensen & the Trigger Code , and many others including the Counting Crows....
     (Griffin House
    Griffin House

    Griffin House is a singer/songwriter, born in Springfield, Ohio. House is currently based in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, having also lived in Cincinnati, New York City, and Europe....
    , Cerys Matthews
    Cerys Matthews

    'Cerys Matthews' is a Welsh people Singing and songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of the Welsh Musical ensemble#Rock and pop bands Catatonia , for her 1999 Christmas duet with Tom Jones and her 2007 appearance on I'm a Celebrity......
    , Mat Kearney
    Mat Kearney

    Mathew Kearney is an United States singer-songwriter born in Eugene, Oregon, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Kearney has received critical acclaim and widespread recognition for his Columbia Records debut, Nothing Left to Lose....
    , Eliot Morris
    Eliot Morris

    Biography Eliot Morris grew up one of six kids in his parent?s house in Mobile, Alabama, Alabama. A typical southern upbringing with typical boyhood interest, until the day his father brought home a CD player and a Motown compilation....
    )
  • Fredrik Isaksson
    Fredrik Isaksson

    Fredrik Isaksson , also known as "Fredda" or "Flap", is a Sweden bass guitarist, member of Heavy metal music bands: Therion , Grave and Excruciate....
     (Grave
    Grave (band)

    Grave is a Swedish death metal band that formed in 1986....
    , Therion
    Therion (band)

    Therion is a Swedish Heavy metal music band founded by Christofer Johnsson in 1987. The word "therion" comes from the Greek language therion , meaning "Beast," i.e., that of the Christianity Book of Revelation....
    )
  • Michael Ivins
    Michael Ivins

    Michael Lee Ivins is the Bass guitar and one of the founding members of The Flaming Lips.Along with Mark Coyne and Wayne Coyne, he formed The Flaming Lips in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma....
     (The Flaming Lips
    The Flaming Lips

    The Flaming Lips is an United States Rock music band.The band is known for their lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, space rock lyrics and bizarre song and album titles ....
    )
  • Anders Iwers
    Anders Iwers

    Anders Iwers is a Sweden bass player, member of Tiamat .He is brother of current In Flames bassist, Peter Iwers. He is pretty well known in the Sweden Heavy metal music scene....
     (Tiamat
    Tiamat (band)

    Tiamat is a heavy metal music band that formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1988. Their music has been the subject of debate, utilizing subgenres like black metal, Progressive metal, Doom metal/Death metal and Gothic metal, but more recently they have focused on what has been described as "rock music"...
    , Cemetary, Mercury Tide
    Mercury Tide

    Mercury Tide is a German power metal band fronted by vocalist Dirk Thurisch. The band was started as a side project while Thurisch was still singing for Angel Dust....
    )
  • Peter Iwers
    Peter Iwers

    Peter Iwers is the current bass player of the Sweden band In Flames. He has played in In Flames along with Daniel Svensson since their 1999 album Colony , replacing Johan Larsson....
     (In Flames
    In Flames

    In Flames is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. The band is considered to be a pioneer and major influence to the melodic death metal music genre....
    )

J

  • J (Luna Sea
    Luna Sea

    Luna Sea is a Japanese Rock music band. It was formed in 1989 by Ryuichi Kawamura, SUGIZO, Inoran, J and Shinya Yamada, a lineup that remained consistent until the band's breakup in 2000....
    )
  • David J
    David J

    David J. Haskins , better known as David J, is a United Kingdom alternative rock musician. He was the bassist for the seminal gothic rock band Bauhaus ....
     (Bauhaus
    Bauhaus (band)

    Bauhaus were an England Rock music band formed in Northampton in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy , Daniel Ash , Kevin Haskins and David J ....
    )
  • Adrian Jackson
    Adrian Jackson

    Adrian Jackson is My Dying Bride's former bassist. He was a member of the band from 1991 until January 2007 when he moved to the USA....
     (My Dying Bride
    My Dying Bride

    My Dying Bride is a United Kingdom Doom metal band formed in 1990. My Dying Bride is one of the three bands responsible for the formation of death/doom metal, along with Anathema and Paradise Lost ....
    )
  • Anthony Jackson
    Anthony Jackson

    This article is about the musician. For the English actor, see Anthony Jackson .Anthony Jackson, is a Grammy Award-nominated United States bass guitar player based in New York City....
     (Chick Corea
    Chick Corea

    Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is a multiple Grammy Award winning American jazz pianist, keyboardist, drummer, and composer.He is known for his work during the 1970s in the genre of jazz fusion....
    , Chaka Khan
    Chaka Khan

    Chaka Khan is an American singer known for hit songs such as "I'm Every Woman", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire ", also sang a modernized theme song for the hit children's TV show, Reading Rainbow in the show's later years....
    , O'Jays, Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
    )
  • Eddie Jackson
    Eddie Jackson (musician)

    Eddie Jackson is the bass guitarist for the progressive metal band Queensr?che. He has been with the group since 1981, when they were known as The Mob....
     (Queensr˙che
    Queensr˙che

    Queensr?che is an United States heavy metal music / progressive metal band formed in 1981 in Bellevue, Washington. The band has released ten studio albums and several smaller releases including Extended plays and DVDs and continues to tour and record....
    )
  • Marcel Jacob
    Marcel Jacob

    Marcel Jacob, born in January 1964 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the bassist in the hard rock bands Talisman and Last Autumn's Dream. In 1978, he formed the band Rising Force together with guitarist Yngwie J....
     (Europe
    Europe (band)

    Europe is a Sweden Rock music band formed in Upplands V?sby in 1979 under the name Force by vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum. Although widely associated with glam metal, the band's sound incorporates heavy metal music and hard rock elements....
    , Talisman
    Talisman (band)

    Talisman are a Sweden/United States hard rock band characterized by an international melodic/powerful sound....
    )
  • Jermaine Jackson
    Jermaine Jackson

    Jermaine LaJaune Jackson or Muhammad Abdul Aziz , is an United States Grammy Award-nominated singer, bass guitarist, former member of The Jackson 5 and older brother of United States Pop music stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson....
     (Jackson 5)
  • Lee Jackson
    Lee Jackson (bassist)

    Keith Lee Jackson is a UK Bass guitar and singer, best known for his work in The Nice.Jackson rose to prominence in the 1960s in the progressive rock group The Nice with keyboardist Keith Emerson and drummer Brian Davison ....
     (The Nice
    The Nice

    The Nice were an England progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their unique blend of Rock and roll, jazz and european classical music....
    )
  • Randy Jackson
    Randy Jackson

    Randall Darius "Randy" Jackson is an United States bassist, singer, record producer, music manager, and former A&R. He is best known as a judge on American Idol and Executive Producer for MTV's America's Best Dance Crew....
  • James Jamerson
    James Jamerson

    James Lee Jamerson was an American bassist. He was the uncredited bass guitarist on most of Motown Records' hits in the 1960s and early 1970s , and he has become regarded as one of the most influential bass guitar players in modern music history....
     (Funk Brothers)
  • Alex James
    Alex James (musician)

    Steven Alexander James is an England musician, songwriter and journalist best known as the bass guitar player and occasional vocalist of band Blur ....
     (Blur
    Blur (band)

    Blur are an English alternative rock band who formed in London in 1989. The four members of the band are singer Damon Albarn, guitarist Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave Rowntree....
    )
  • Rick James
    Rick James

    Rick James was an American musician. He was one of the most popular artists on the Motown Records label during the late 1970s and early 1980s....
  • Tony James
    Tony James

    Tony James is a British musician, best known as a bassist of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.After graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in mathematics and computing, James worked as a computer programmer....
     (Generation X
    Generation X (band)

    Generation X were an English punk rock band , formed on 21 November 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe....
    , Sigue Sigue Sputnik
    Sigue Sigue Sputnik

    Sigue Sigue Sputnik are a British new wave music band led by former Generation X bassist Tony James. The band played a style of New Wave music music similar to New York electronica duo Suicide and Swiss techno-rock duo Yello, by layering vocals, yelps, guitar riffs, electronic sound effects and short sampling over pulsating synthesizer bas...
    )
  • Steve Jay
    Steve Jay

    Eugene Stephen "Steve" Jay is a bass guitarist best known for working with the singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic.Jay was born in Florida....
     ("Weird Al" Yankovic
    "Weird Al" Yankovic

    Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, music producer, actor, comedian and satire. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts....
    )
  • Jerry Jemmott
    Jerry Jemmott

    Gerald Joseph Stenhouse "Jerry" Jemmott is an United States bass guitarist. Also known as Gerald "Fingers" Jemmott, Rasan Mfalme or "the Groovemaster," Jemmott was one of the chief session musician bassists of the late 1960s and early 1970s, working with a veritable who's who of the periods most well known soul music, blue...
  • Neely Jenkins
    Neely Jenkins

    Neely Jo Jenkins is a musician from Omaha, Nebraska best known for being a singer in the band Tilly and the Wall. She was also a member of the band Park Ave....
     (Tilly and the Wall
    Tilly and the Wall

    Tilly and the Wall is an indie pop group from Omaha, Nebraska, Nebraska. Their name originated from a children's book called Tillie and the Wall, written by Leo Lionni....
    , Park Ave.
    Park Ave.

    Park Ave. was an indie pop band which started in January 1996 in Omaha, Nebraska.The band lasted only two and a half years, but still retains a substantial fanbase....
    )
  • Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains
    Bad Brains

    Bad Brains are an American hardcore punk/roots reggae band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1977. They are widely regarded as being among the pioneers of the genre, though the band's members objected to the term "hardcore" to describe their music....
    )
  • Jerry Only
    Jerry Only

    Jerry Only is an United States rock musician. He is the current bass guitar and vocalist for the horror punk band Misfits . He also has had a semi- successful wrestling career....
     (The Misfits)
  • Chris Joannou
    Chris Joannou

    Christopher John Joannou is an Australian musician, best known as the bass player for the successful alternative rock band Silverchair. Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, he has a twin sister and an older sister....
     (Silverchair
    Silverchair

    Silverchair is an Australian alternative rock band . The band formed as Innocent Criminals in Newcastle, Australia, New South Wales, in 1992, with their current lineup of vocalist and guitarist Daniel Johns, bass guitarist Chris Joannou, and drummer Ben Gillies....
    )
  • Phil Joel
    Phil Joel

    Philip Joel Urry is a musician known as a solo artist in addition to being the former bassist for the Christian rock Group, the Newsboys. He uses the name Phil Joel professionally due to pronunciation issues with his surname....
     (Newsboys
    Newsboys

    Newsboys is a Grammy Award-nominated Christian pop rock band . The band was formed in Australia in 1985 and has been one of the most popular and best-selling Christian music artists of the past two decades....
    )
  • Gordon Johnson
    Gordon Johnson (musician)

    Gordon "Gordy" Johnson, is an United States bassist who has toured and/or recorded with numerous artists, a few of which include Bill Carrothers, Lorie Line, Chuck Mangione, Dewey Redman, Greg Brown, Peter Ostroushko, Paul Winter Consort, Cliff Eberhardt, Maynard Ferguson, Becky Schlegel, Benny Weinbeck, Bradley Joseph, and Stacey Kent....
  • Jimmy Johnson
    Jimmy Johnson (bassist)

    Jimmy Johnson is an American bass guitarist, best known for his work with James Taylor, Allan Holdsworth, and Flim & the BB's.Born in 1956 into a musical family, his father was a 47-year member of the Minnesota Orchestra's bass section, his mother a piano teacher and accompanist, and his brother Gordon Johnson is also a professional bassis...
  • Louis Johnson
    Louis Johnson (bassist)

    Louis Johnson is an American musician regarded as one of the best bass guitarists of the 20th century. Best known for his group The Brothers Johnson and his session musician on several hit albums of the 1970s and '80s including the "best selling album of all time" Thriller ....
     (Michael Jackson
    Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
    , Quincy Jones
    Quincy Jones

    Quincy Delight Jones, Jr. , is an United States music Conductor , record producer, musical arranger, film composer and trumpeter. During five decades in the entertainment industry, Jones has earned a record 79 Grammy Award nominations, 27 Grammys, including a Grammy Legend Award in 1991....
    , Brothers Johnson
    Brothers Johnson

    The Brothers Johnson is a band consisting of American musicians, and brothers, George aka 'Lightnin' Licks' and Louis Johnson aka 'Thunder Thumbs'....
    )
  • Rick Johnson
    Rick Johnson (musician)

    Rick Johnson is an American musician who is best known as the bass player of Grand Rapids, Michigan's Mustard Plug. He also has done solo work with The Rick Johnson Rock And Roll Machine....
     (Mustard Plug
    Mustard Plug

    Mustard Plug is a third wave ska band from Grand Rapids, Michigan, Michigan. Their songs usually include raspy vocals, fast singing, sing-along choruses, an upstroke guitar technique, distorted guitars, power chords, walking basslines, 4/4 drumming, and catchy horn parts....
    , Bomb the Music Industry!
    Bomb The Music Industry!

    Bomb the Music Industry! is a musical collective originally from Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. They write, produce, record, and distribute all of their music under the leadership of their lead songwriter and producer Jeff Rosenstock....
    )
  • Bruce Johnston
    Bruce Johnston

    Bruce Arthur Johnston is a member of The Beach Boys and a Grammy Award-winning songwriter for composing "I Write the Songs." Johnston was not one of the original members of the band....
     (Beach Boys)
  • James Johnston
    James Johnston (Scottish musician)

    James Roberto Johnston is a bassist, vocalist, and songwriter, best known for his work with Scotland group Biffy Clyro....
  • Darryl Jones
    Darryl Jones

    Darryl Jones , also known as "The Munch", is an United States bass guitarist. He is highly regarded for his stylish bass-playing in jazz, blues, and rock music....
     (The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
    )
  • John Deacon
    John Deacon

    John Richard Deacon is a retired England musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the Rock and roll band Queen . Of the four members of the band, Deacon was the youngest and last to join....
     (Queen (band)
    Queen (band)

    Queen were an England rock music band formed in 1970 in London by guitarist Brian May, lead vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Meddows-Taylor, with bassist John Deacon completing the lineup the following year....
    )
  • John Paul Jones
    John Paul Jones (musician)

    John Paul Jones is an England musician, composer, orchestration, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist musician.Best known as the bass guitarist, keyboardist and, less often, mandolin player for Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a successful Solo career, and is widely respected as both a musician and a producer....
     (Led Zeppelin
    Led Zeppelin

    Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
    )
  • Percy Jones
    Percy Jones (musician)

    Percy Jones is a Wales bass guitarist, and was a member of Brand X from 1974 to 1980, and a reformed version which lasted from 1992 - 1997. He currently is the bassist in the jazz/fusion band Tunnels_ , along with drummer Walker Adams and midivibist Marc Wagnon....
     (Brand X
    Brand X

    Brand X is a classic jazz fusion band, noted for including Phil Collins in its ranks. Its original incarnation was active between 1974?1980. Other important members were John Goodsall Percy Jones , Robin Lumley and Morris Pert ....
    , Tunnels, Melon
    Melon

    Melon is a name given to various members of the Cucurbitaceae family with fleshy fruit. Melon can refer to either the plant or the fruit, which is a Epigynous berry....
    )
  • Richard Jones
    Richard Jones (bassist)

    Richard Jones is bassist with United Kingdom band The Feeling.Jones attended the BRIT School in Croydon. He is married to pop star Sophie Ellis-Bextor, with whom he has two sons, Sonny, born in April 2004, and Kit, born in February 2009....
     (The Feeling
    The Feeling

    The Feeling are a five-piece 2007 BRIT Awards-nominated United Kingdom Band from Sussex and London. The band categorise their music as "pop music"....
    )
  • Richard Jones
    Richard Jones (Stereophonics)

    Richard Jones is the bassist and backing vocalist for the popular Welsh rock band Stereophonics, and well known for the voice for Joey in Oggy and the Cockroaches, playing alongside Kelly Jones and Javier Weyler....
     (Stereophonics
    Stereophonics

    Stereophonics are a Wales rock band consisting of Kelly Jones, Richard Jones , Javier Weyler and Adam Zindani. Since their d?but album Word Gets Around which peaked at #6 in the album charts they have had five consecutive albums reach #1 in the UK....
    )
  • Simon Jones
    Simon Jones (musician)

    Simon Robin David Jones is an England bass guitar player. He plays bass and provides backing vocals for the England musical band, The Verve....
     (The Verve
    The Verve

    The Verve are a British people Rock music band formed in Wigan, Greater Manchester in 1989 at Winstanley College, by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones , and drummer Peter Salisbury....
    , The Shining
    The Shining (band)

    The Shining were an England rock band formed in 2000. The band comprised Duncan Baxter , Dan MacBean , Mark Heaney , Simon Jones and Simon Tong , the latter two both ex-members of The Verve....
    )
  • Eric Judy
    Eric Judy

    Eric Scott Judy is the bass guitarist and founding member of the indie rock band Modest Mouse. He has a wife and two children, and resides in Seattle, Washington....
     (Modest Mouse
    Modest Mouse

    Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in the Seattle suburb of Issaquah, Washington by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock , drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy....
    )
  • Larry Junstrom
    Larry Junstrom

    Larry Junstrom is the bassist of United States rock n roll band 38 Special . He was also one of the founding members of Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd....
     (Lynyrd Skynyrd
    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Lynyrd Skynyrd is an United States Southern rock band. The band became prominent in the Southern United States in 1973, and rose to worldwide recognition before several members, including lead vocalist and primary songwriter Ronnie Van Zant, died in a plane crash in 1977....
    , 38 Special)

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  • John Kahn
    John Kahn

    John Kahn was an American rock music bass guitar player. For a period of about twenty five years Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead....
     (Jerry Garcia Band
    Jerry Garcia Band

    The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side-projects until his death in 1995....
    )
  • Jari Kainulainen
    Jari Kainulainen

    Jari Kainulainen is the Finnish born bassist of the progressive power metal band Evergrey. He was previously a member of Stratovarius.Kainulainen plays Music Man Music Man Bongo basses and uses Ampeg amplifiers....
     (Stratovarius
    Stratovarius

    Stratovarius is a Finland power metal band that formed in 1983. Their material contains elements of power metal and symphonic metal....
    )
  • Kalma (Lordi
    Lordi

    Lordi is a Glam rock/Hard rock/heavy metal music band from Finland. The concept for Lordi was devised in 1992, however, the band was not formed until 1996 in music by Tomi Putaansuu of Helsinki, Finland....
    )
  • Tony Kanal
    Tony Kanal

    Tony Kanal is a British people-born United States musician, record producer and songwriter. Kanal is the bassist for the American rock music band No Doubt....
     (No Doubt
    No Doubt

    No Doubt is an American Rock music band from Anaheim, California, founded in 1986. The ska-pop music sound of their first album, No Doubt , failed to make waves due to the popularity of the Grunge music movement at the time....
    )
  • Arthur Kane
    Arthur Kane

    Arthur Kane was a musician best known as the bassist for the pioneering glam punk band the New York Dolls. He stated in the 2004 documentary film New York Doll that his nickname, Arthur "Killer" Kane, was inspired by an early New York Dolls concert newspaper review in which the journalist remarked about his "killer bass" playing...
      (New York Dolls
    New York Dolls

    The New York Dolls are an American rock music band, formed in New York City in 1971. In 2004 the band reformed with three of their original members, two of whom, David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, continue on today and released a new album in 2006....
    )
  • Mick Karn
    Mick Karn

    Mick Karn is an England multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter, most noted as the bassist for the art rock band Japan , from 1974 to 1982....
     (Japan
    Japan (band)

    Japan were a United Kingdom pop/rock group, formed in 1974 in Lewisham, southeast London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s/early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement ....
    )
  • Carol Kaye
    Carol Kaye

    Carol Kaye is an United States musician, best known as one of the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists in history, playing on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions....
  • Jesse F. Keeler
    Jesse F. Keeler

    Jesse Frederick Keeler is a Canadian musician. He is best known as the bassist of former Canadian dance punk duo Death from Above 1979, and for being one half of the electronic music duo MSTRKRFT....
     (Death from Above 1979
    Death from Above 1979

    Death from Above 1979 was a Toronto based Canadian dance-punk duo. The members were Jesse F. Keeler on bass guitar, Synthesizer, backing vocals and Sebastien Grainger on vocals, drums....
    )
  • Martin Kemp
    Martin Kemp (actor)

    Martin John Kemp , brother of Gary Kemp, is an England actor and former bass player with the New Romantic band Spandau Ballet....
     (Spandau Ballet
    Spandau Ballet

    Spandau Ballet are a popular United Kingdom band famous in the 1980s. Initially inspired by the New Romantic fashion, they quickly steered in to a mixture of funk, jazz, soul and synthpop, then eventually mellowed into a mainstream pop music act....
    )
  • Rick Kemp
    Rick Kemp

    Rick Kemp is an England bass guitar player, songwriter, singer and record producer, best known for his work with the pioneering electric folk band , Steeleye Span....
     (Steeleye Span
    Steeleye Span

    Steeleye Span is a British electric folk band, formed in 1969 and remaining active today. Along with Fairport Convention they are amongst the best known acts of the British folk revival, and were among the most commercially successful, thanks to their hit singles Gaudete and All Around My Hat....
    )
  • Ben Kenney
    Ben Kenney

    Ben Kenney, , is a musician from the United States, and the bass guitar for the band Incubus .Ben Kenney played guitar for the hip-hop group The Roots before he joined Incubus in 2003 after the departure of bassist and founding member Alex Katunich aka Dirk Lance....
     (Incubus
    Incubus (band)

    Incubus is a Grammy-nominated alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California, California. Formed by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while in high school in 1991, the band grew to include bassist Alex Katunich , and Gavin Koppell , both of whom were eventually replaced by bas...
    )
  • Andy Kent
    Andy Kent

    Andy Kent is the bass player for Australian rock band You Am I. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand and met up with Tim Rogers in Canberra to form You Am I....
     (You Am I
    You Am I

    You Am I is an Australian alternative rock band, fronted by vocalist/guitarist and main songwriter Tim Rogers. They were the first Australian band to have three albums successively debut at #1 on the ARIA Charts, and are renowned for their live music performances....
    )
  • Yűki Kikuzawa
    Yu~ki

    Yu~ki is the former bassist of the Visual kei band Malice Mizer. He had been with the band from its beginning until they announced they'd be going on an indefinite hiatus in December, 2001....
     (Malice Mizer
    Malice Mizer

    Malice Mizer is a visual kei rock band from Japan. They were active from January 1992 to December 2001. Formed by Mana and K?zi, the band's name stands for "malice and misery", extracted from "nothing but a being of malice and misery" ? their reply to the question "what is human?"....
    )
  • Steve Kilbey
    Steve Kilbey

    Steven John Kilbey is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church , an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, bus driver and painter....
     (The Church)
  • Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister (Motörhead
    Motörhead

    Mot?rhead are a British hard rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Mot?rhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Singles Chart....
    )
  • Tad Kinchla
    Tad Kinchla

    Thaddeus Arwood Kinchla is an United States musician, most famous as the bassist for the jam band Blues Traveler.He was born in Princeton, New Jersey, Kinchla is the younger brother to long-time Blues Traveler guitarist Chan Kinchla....
     (Blues Traveler
    Blues Traveler

    Blues Traveler is an American rock music band, formed in Princeton, New Jersey in 1987. The band has been influenced by a variety of genres, including blues-rock, psychedelic rock, folk rock, soul music, and Southern rock....
    )
  • Mark King
    Mark King (musician)

    Mark King is an England musician. He is most famous for being the lead singer and bassist of the band , Level 42. In the early 1980s King popularized the 1970s-era slap and pop style for playing the bass guitar by incorporating it into pop music....
     (Level 42
    Level 42

    Level 42 is an England pop rock and jazz-funk music band who had a number of worldwide and UK hits during the 1980s and 1990s. The band gained fame for its high-calibre musicianship - especially that of Mark King , whose percussive Slapping guitar technique provided the driving groove of many of the band's hits....
    )
  • Tim Kingsbury
    Tim Kingsbury

    Tim Kingsbury is a Canada musician and member of the indie rock band Arcade Fire. He plays bass guitar, guitar, and occasionally keyboards.He spent his early years living in and around Guelph, Ontario....
     (Arcade Fire)
  • Karl Kippenberger
    Karl Kippenberger

    Karl Brenton Jamie Kippenberger , grandson of Captain E.T Kippenberger, great nephew of Major-General Sir Howard Kippenberger, is the bass guitarist of the New Zealand band Shihad....
     (Shihad
    Shihad

    Shihad is a rock band, originally from Wellington, New Zealand, and now based in Melbourne, Australia. Formed in 1988 by vocalist Jon Toogood and drummer Tom Larkin, who were still in school at the time....
    )
  • Cris Kirkwood
    Cris Kirkwood

    Cris Kirkwood is the bassist and a founding member of the Meat Puppets, an alternative/punk rock band.Cris took up the banjo after seeing Deliverance, moved on to guitar, and ultimately picked up the bass guitar when he started playing together in bands with his older brother Curt Kirkwood....
     (Meat Puppets
    Meat Puppets

    The Meat Puppets are an United States Rock music band formed in January 1980, in the "Sunnyslope" neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood , his brother Cris Kirkwood , and Derrick Bostrom ....
    )
  • Kisaki
    Kisaki

    is a Japanese musician who has worked with several visual kei bands, including Dir en grey, Syndrome, Kisaki Project and Phantasmagoria . Besides playing bass guitar and Composer music, he also works as a Record producer, previously for the Matina label and currently for Undercode Productions....
     (Phantasmagoria
    Phantasmagoria (band)

    Phantasmagoria was a Japanese visual kei band formed in November 2004 in Osaka by Kisaki, the Executive of Under Code Production, a Visual Kei indies label located in Osaka, Japan....
    )
  • Grutle Kjellson
    Grutle Kjellson

    Grutle Kjellson is a Norway vocalist and bass player for the black metal/viking metal band Enslaved . He is one of only two founding members left in the current line-up with Ivar Bj?rnson being the other one....
     (Enslaved
    Enslaved (band)

    Enslaved is a progressive metal black metal Band formed in 1991 in Haugesund, Norway, Norway, and currently based out of Bergen, Norway, Norway....
    )
  • Mark James Klepaski (Breaking Benjamin
    Breaking Benjamin

    Breaking Benjamin is an alternative rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. Their music is most often classed as alternative rock or post-grunge....
    )
  • Steve Kmak
    Steve Kmak

    Steve "Fuzz" Kmak is an United States bass guitar player, best known for his work with the Rock music band Disturbed.Fuzz founded the band, Brawl in 1996 with guitarist Dan Donegan and drummer Mike Wengren....
     (Disturbed
    Disturbed

    Disturbed is a rock music band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1996 when musicians Dan Donegan, Steve Kmak, and Mike Wengren hired singer David Draiman....
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  • Bob Knarley
    Bob Knarley

    Bob Knarley is a Los Angeles-based professional musician. His primary instrument is the bass guitar, though he has been known to play the ukelele, electric guitar, and his impressive collection of synthesizers....
     (Dread Zeppelin
    Dread Zeppelin

    Dread Zeppelin is an United States band best known for Cover version the songs of Led Zeppelin in a reggae style sung by an Elvis Presley Elvis impersonator named Tortelvis , though their act now encompasses many other songs and other styles of music....
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  • David Knights
    David Knights

    David Knights was the original bass guitarist in Procol Harum. He played bass on the chart-topper single "A Whiter Shade of Pale". He was in the band long enough to play on their first three albums....
     (Procol Harum
    Procol Harum

    Procol Harum are a United Kingdom Rock music band, formed in the 1960s, which built an important foundation for what would become progressive rock, or perhaps more closely, symphonic rock....
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  • Ivan Kral
    Ivan Kral

    Ivan Kral is a Czechoslovakian musician who is best known as a member of the Patti Smith. He was co-director of the 1976 punk rock documentary The Blank Generation, and has been nominated for Czech Lion award for Best Music in the 2001 film Cabriolet....
     (Patti Smith
    Patti Smith

    Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an United States singer-songwriter, poet and artist who was a highly influential component of the punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses ....
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  • Geoff Kresge
    Geoff Kresge

    Geoff Kresge is a songwriter, guitarist, bassist, who played with AFI for most of their early career, from 1992 through 1997, and co-wrote the majority of their early material alongside frontman Davey Havok....
     (Tiger Army
    Tiger Army

    Tiger Army is an American psychobilly band that was formed in 1996 in Berkeley, California. ...
    , AFI
    AFI (band)

    AFI is an American hardcore punk band from Ukiah, California, California, formed in 1991. They have consisted of the same lineup since 1998, lead vocalist Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade Puget, who both play keyboard and contribute backup vocals....
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  • Greg Kriesel
    Greg Kriesel

    Gregory David Kriesel , best known by his stage name Greg K., is an United States bass guitarist and backing vocalist for the punk rock band , The Offspring....
     (The Offspring
    The Offspring

    The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....
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  • Mike Kroeger
    Mike Kroeger

    Michael Douglas Henry Kroeger, more commonly known as Mike Kroeger, is the bass guitarist for the band Nickelback. He is the elder brother of Chad Kroeger, Nickelback's frontman....
     (Nickelback
    Nickelback

    Nickelback is a Canadian Rock music band formed in Hanna, Alberta by Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake and then-drummer Brandon Kroeger ....
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  • Bakithi Kumalo
    Bakithi Kumalo

    Bakithi Kumalo is a bass guitar from South Africa, notable for working with Paul Simon as the backing bass player on Simon's albums from Graceland in 1986 to You're the One in 2000....
     (Paul Simon
    Paul Simon

    Paul Frederic Simon is an United States singer-songwriter and musician, perhaps best known for his partnership with Art Garfunkel in the duo Simon & Garfunkel....
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  • Hansi Kürsch
    Hansi Kürsch

    Hans J?rgen K?rsch, better known as Hansi K?rsch is the lead vocalist of power metal band Blind Guardian. Together with Andr? Olbrich, he is also the principal songwriter for the band....
     (Blind Guardian
    Blind Guardian

    Blind Guardian is a Germany heavy metal music band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in power metal and speed metal subgenres, being part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene that included Helloween, Running Wild , Accept, Grave Digger , Sinne...
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  • Adam Kury
    Adam Kury

    Adam Kury is a Bassist and vocalist based in Los Angeles California. He has performed with notable acts such as Candlebox, Legs Diamond , Jagger Cook and several others....
     (Candlebox
    Candlebox

    Early HistoryCandlebox is a Rock music band from Seattle, Washington. Formed in November 1991, the band originally went by the name Uncle Duke; they later changed their name purportedly as a tribute to a Midnight Oil song of the same name....
    , Legs Diamond
    Legs Diamond (band)

    Legs Diamond are a rock and roll band that has often been called "The American Deep Purple". They formed in Los Angeles, California in the mid 1970s and released their self-titled debut album for Mercury Records in 1977....
    , The Kings Royal
    The Kings Royal

    The Kings Royal is an United States alternative rock Indie rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in early 2007. The band is made up of founder Benny Marchant , Sean Hennesy , Adam Kury and Brian "Dogboy" Burwell ....
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  • Alexander Kutikov
    Alexander Kutikov

    Alexander Kutikov is a Soviet/Russian musician, record producer, and businessman, of Jewish background. He was an avid fan of groups such as the Beatles during his secondary school years....
     (Mashina Vremeni
    Mashina Vremeni

    Mashina Vremeni , which formed in Moscow in the late 1960s, is recognized as one of the two "patriarchs" of Russian rock music . This indirectly dates the Soviet/Russian Rock and Roll tradition: the leaders of both bands were born in 1953 and admitted to getting into rock-n-roll due a high-school fascination with The Beatles....
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Abraham Laboriel
Abraham Laboriel

Abraham Laboriel, Sr. is a Mexico bassist who has played on over 4,000 recordings and soundtracks. Guitar Player Magazine described him as: "the most widely used session bassist of our time"....
 Greg Lake
Greg Lake

Greg Lake is an England bass guitarist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer, best known as a founding member of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer....
 (King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an England progressive rock Supergroup . In the 1970s, the band was extremely popular, selling over 35 million albums and headlining huge concerts....
) Joe Lally
Joe Lally

Joe Lally is a bass guitar player, primarily known for his work with Fugazi . He has also contributed occasional lyrics and vocals to Fugazi songs....
 (Fugazi
Fugazi (band)

Fugazi is an United States punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band's continual members were guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty....
) Adrian Lambert
Adrian Lambert

Adrian Lambert is an England bassist and songwriter who currently plays for thrash metal band Biomechanical and progressive rock band Son of Science....
 (Biomechanical
Biomechanical

Biomechanical may refer to:*Bioengineering*Biomaterial*Biomechanical *Biomechanics*Biorobotics*Bioship*Cyborg*Organic ...
, DragonForce
DragonForce

DragonForce is an English Grammy-nominated power metal band formed in 1999 in London. They are known for fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game influenced sound....
) Alan Lancaster
Alan Lancaster

Alan Lancaster is a bass guitar and a founding ex-member of the England rock band, Status Quo. As well as contributing to songwriter, he was lead vocalist on album song such as "Backwater", "Bye Bye Johnny", "High Flyer" and "Roadhouse Blues"....
 (Status Quo
Status Quo

Status Quo, also known as The Quo or just Quo, are an England rock music band whose music is characterized by the twelve-bar blues....
) Dirk Lance (Incubus
Incubus (band)

Incubus is a Grammy-nominated alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California, California. Formed by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while in high school in 1991, the band grew to include bassist Alex Katunich , and Gavin Koppell , both of whom were eventually replaced by bas...
) Teddy Landau (Michelle Branch
Michelle Branch

Michelle Jacquet Branch is an Demographics of the United States singer, songwriter and guitarist. She made Broken Bracelet in 2000, and released the platinum album-selling albums The Spirit Room and Hotel Paper in August 2001 and June 2003 respectively....
, The Wreckers
The Wreckers

The Wreckers were an American country pop duo formed in 2004 by singer-songwriters Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp, both of whom had solo recordings before the duo's foundation....
) Ronnie Lane
Ronnie Lane

Ronald Frederick "Ronnie" Lane was an English singer, songwriter and bass guitar player best known for his membership in two prominent English rock bands, the Small Faces and Faces ....
 (The Small Faces
The Small Faces

Small Faces were an England Rock music group from East London, England, heavily influenced by United States rhythm and blues. The group was founded in 1965 by members Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane, Kenney Jones, and Jimmy Winston ....
, Faces
Faces (band)

Faces were a rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces after Steve Marriott left that group to form Humble Pie . The remaining Small Faces - Ronnie Lane , Ian McLagan and Kenney Jones - were joined by Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart , both from The Jeff Beck Group, and the new line-up was renamed the Faces....
) Alora Lanzillotta (Lemon Demon) Dave LaRue
Dave LaRue

Dave LaRue is a bassist who has performed with the Dixie Dregs since 1988 and with the Steve Morse since 1989. He also has worked with Dream Theater John Petrucci, Mike Portnoy and Jordan Rudess....
 (Dixie Dregs
Dixie Dregs

The Dixie Dregs are a jazz fusion band formed in the 1970s. Their mostly instrumental music fuses jazz, southern rock, bluegrass music and european classical music forms in an often unique, virtuostic style....
, Steve Morse Band
Steve Morse

Steven J. Morse is an United States guitarist, best known as the founder for the Dixie Dregs, and the guitar player in Deep Purple since 1994....
) Tim Landers
Tim Landers

Timothy Gerard Landers is an United States bass guitarist, composer and record producer.He graduated from Brockton High School in 1975 and attended the Berklee College of Music from 1976 to 1977, studying under Neil Stubenhaus and Whit Browne....
 (Steve Smith
Steve Smith (musician)

Steve Smith is an American drummer who has worked with hundreds of artists in his career. Modern Drummer readers voted him the #1 All-Around Drummer five years in a row....
, Vital Information
Vital Information

Steve Smith and Vital Information is an United States jazz fusion group led by drummer Steve Smith .Vital Information was formed by Steve Smith in 1983 with friends Tim Landers, Dave Wilczewski, Dean Brown , and Mike Stern....
) Chad Larson (The Aquabats
The Aquabats

The Aquabats are an United States Rock music band formed in 1994 in Huntington Beach, California and currently recording for Nitro Records. They have released four full-length studio albums and have toured internationally....
) Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell is an American bassist, Record producer and record label owner. He is married to Ethiopian singer Gigi .Laswell ranks among the most prolific of musicians, being involved in hundreds of recordings with many musicians from all over the world....
 Blackie Lawless
Blackie Lawless

Blackie Lawless , is an USA singer, songwriter and musician best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for heavy metal music band W.A.S.P....
 (W.A.S.P., New York Dolls
New York Dolls

The New York Dolls are an American rock music band, formed in New York City in 1971. In 2004 the band reformed with three of their original members, two of whom, David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain, continue on today and released a new album in 2006....
) Jack Lawrence
Jack Lawrence (bassist)

"Little" Jack Lawrence is a musician from Northern Kentucky, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee. He plays bass guitar in The Raconteurs and The Greenhornes, as well as the autoharp and banjo in Blanche....
 (The Greenhornes
The Greenhornes

The Greenhornes are an American garage rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio....
, Blanche
Blanche (band)

Blanche is an American alternative country band from Detroit, Michigan. Their music is based in Americana, early country music and folk blues with a touch of haunting Southern Gothic stylings and garage rock mentality....
, The Raconteurs
The Raconteurs

The Raconteurs , are an American rock band formed in 2005, featuring four members known for other musical projects: Jack White , Brendan Benson , Jack Lawrence , and Patrick Keeler ....
) Steve Lawson
Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson is a United Kingdom solo Bass guitar and Music loop.He has released a number of albums on his own Pillow Mountain label, including solo works and various duets....
 Jimmy Lea (Slade
Slade

Slade are an England glam rock band. Slade were one of the most recognizable acts of the glam rock movement and were, at their peak, the most commercially popular band in the UK....
) Frédéric Leclercq
Frédéric Leclercq

Fr?d?ric Leclercq is the bassist for power metal band DragonForce and the frontman in his own band, Maladaptive , where he sings and plays guitar....
 (DragonForce
DragonForce

DragonForce is an English Grammy-nominated power metal band formed in 1999 in London. They are known for fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game influenced sound....
) Brett Lee
Brett Lee

Brett Lee is an Australian cricketer.After breaking into the Australian Test team, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket....
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