Top 10 Bassists with the Coolest Bass Guitars
7-string fretless bass. He plays progressive and technical death metal (Obscura, Pestilence, and more).
When do you go get a guitar?
John Alec Entwistle, was an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician, film and music producer. He is mostly known as the lead bassist for the rock band The Who. He loved pointy shapes. The most pointy one was his Custom Peter Cook “Lightning Bolt” bass, featured on the album cover of The Who By Numbers (1975). To me it looks like the ZZTop logo, or something like that.
You can see this model on the list Top 10 Most Pointy Guitar and Bass Designs
He is probably one of the earliest bassists to use multi-neck bass guitars. Cool playing style too. Shreds on his bass.
Leslie Edward "Les" Claypool is an American musician, singer, songwriter, composer, author and actor best known as the bassist and lead vocalist of the band Primus. His six-string fretless looks really cool. Plus his double bass is really beautiful.
Anthony Frederick Levin is an American musician and composer, specializing in electric bass, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel.
Michael Peter Balzary (born October 16, 1962), better known by his stage name Flea, is an Australian-born American musician, best known as the bassist, a co-founding member, and one of the composers of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers with whom he was inducted in 2012 into the Rock and Roll Hall ...read more.
Christopher Tony "Chris" Wolstenholme is an English musician. He is the bassist and backing vocalist for the alternative rock band Muse.
Clifford Lee "Cliff" Burton (February 10th 1962 - September 27th 1986) was an American musician, best known as the second bass guitarist for the American thrash metal band Metallica, recording three studio albums. ...read more.
One of the toys he plays is a hybrid bass “Ibanez Ashula" - a Fretted/Fretless Hybrid Bass with 4 strings on the fretted part of the neck and 3 strings on the fretless part of the neck.
Badass bass!
John Richard Deacon (born 19th of August 1951) is a retired English musician, who is best known as the bassist for the rock band Queen.
Steven Alexander James, FRSA is an English musician and songwriter, as well as a journalist and cheesemaker. Best known as the bassist of the band Blur, he has also played with temporary bands Fat Les, Me Me Me, WigWam and Bad Lieutenant.
Gary Lee Weinrib, known professionally as Geddy Lee, is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock group Rush.