favourite bass sounds?

I like a multiplicity of bass tones:

Anthony Jackson to put it mildly is a GENIUS!! Between his unique dark, piano-like 6-string sound, his ability to reharmonize music spontaneously and a number of other abilities makes him a real standout to me. Check out his playing with Steve Khan's Eyewitness band (www.stevekhan.com ) and pianist Michel Camilo as killer examples of his playing. He cited influences as far flung as James Jamerson (Motown session guru), Jack Cassidy (Jefferson Airplane) and classical composer Oliver Messaien.

Jaco Pastorious needs no introduction

Chris Squire's on "Relayer" (a bit bit less treble but LOTS of growl like a panther).

Janick Top, Bernard Paganotti or any of the Magma fuzz-bassists. It amazes me how they could play with this heavily distorted sound and yet play so musically, clean and precise! Not an easy task.

Percy Jones with his slithery, stuttering fretless growl and all that crazy stuff he does with natural and artificial harmonics.

Colin Hodgkinson: Back Door's master of chordal strums, melody and extreme bluesiness. Very innovative player.

Stanley Clarke's Alembic tone w/ RTF (especially on Where Have I Known You Before and Romantic Warrior)

Jimmy Johnson with his super-melodic Alembic sound, super clean yet so rich sounding.

John Wetton w/ King Crimson and UK, very cutting and fierce especially live.

Michael Manring  A walking encyclopedia of 1000 things you can do with a fretless in crazy tunings.

Hard to believe Randy Jackson went the route he did, a great, very capable player just submerged in all this CRAP!! What anyone sees in a bimbo like Pariah Scarey is beyond me!

Edited by The Owl

Colin Hodgkinson: Back Door's master of chordal strums, melody and extreme bluesiness. Very innovative player.

Good choice - but why did Jan Hammer only employ him as a vocalist until those Neil Schon albums - wasteful? And why whilst in Whitesnake, did he sound ordinary?

CH is best  playing the blues, (as with Back Door - thank goodness Warners reissued the first two albums on CD - and there is an excellent video of Hodgkinson and  great late Alexis Korner playing live).

My bass hero Jonas Hellborg is on record stating: Hodgkinson rather than Pastorius influenced him most.