Inspired by the first video below, here is a short list of songs in which I’d like to have played bass guitar, on stage with these artists (and no, I was never as good as the featured bassists, but so what):
Little Brown Bird (Tal Wilkenfeld, Clapton/Beck)
The Confessor (Dave The Bass Player, Joe Walsh)
Sometime World (Martin Turner, Wishbone Ash)
Sledgehammer (Tony Levin, Peter Gabriel)
Every time I hear the bass on these songs, I get an attack of the If Onlies…
I will freely admit I had no idea who Ms. Wilkenfeld was till I saw this video of her playing with Carlos Santana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJZW8U9bbmM
BTW Becky G does get my attention as well.
How about “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number”? This is my favorite performance of that song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xN0hmNS_IU
Jeff Baxter, a most interesting man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZKefHuiiOo&t=476s
…and Nathan East on bass.
LOL…it took a second to realize your post TITLE was Bass as in “base” music instruments. I thought it was gonna be about the fish BASS….like I could see Kim out on a BASS boat fishing Lake Ray Roberts north of Dallas…
My hillbilly upbringing betrayed me. I was expecting a column on Bill Dance.
I think it was Ambrose Bierce who defined fishing as a piece of string with a fish at one end and a fool at the other.