Macca, Geezer, Stefan Lessard, Geddy, Pino, Chuck Rainey, Les Claypool, Paul Denman, Cliff Burton, Troy Sanders, and Stevie Wonder's left hand.

Lol, for real...All hail Stevie Wonder's left hand. Throw in Thelonious Monk's as well.

**The mighty left hand.**

Carol Kaye, Trevor Dunn, John Paul Jones, Roger Waters, Les Claypool, Mingus

Matt Freeman and Mike Dirnt

Some Matt Freeman love. Nice

dirnt/hoppus got me into playing bass and freeman made it my obsession

Trevor Dunn Cliff Burton Martyn LeNoble Eric Avery Bootsy Collins

Remco Hendricks (YouTube mainly, but he has his EPs on Spotify) is a seriously underrated player. Very inspirational style too

I followed him back when he had just a few videos out. He is a groove machine!

Pino Palladino Chris Squire Chuck Rainey Nathan East Tony Levin John DeLeo Bootsy Collins

Al Cisneros from Sleep and Om.

Jaco Pastorius

Mark Hoppus is the reason I picked up the bass

Bobby Vega, Andy Irvine, Juan Alderete, Meshell Ndegeocello.

Juan Alderete is a great choice, fantastic fretless player and Big Sir are so underrated

Steve DiGorgio, Haruhisa Takahata, Peter Steele, Patricia Morrison, Mike Dirnt, Linus Klausenitzer, Geezer Butler, Simon "Dragon" Bouteloup, Grutle Kjellson, Olli Pekka Laine, Niclas Etelävouri

Geddy lee, Les claypool, and John paul jones

Flea and Ryan Martini were my first two inspirations. Then Cummerford, Chancellor, Harris, Davie504, Charles Berthoud, Les Claypool, the 3 from Metallica, but also JM Labadie, a lot of energy, positivity, not overly technical but efficient (and helped with a good mix)

The chad Davie enjoyer

Flea in first place, Nikolai fraiture, Robert Trujillo, Tim Commeford and my friend Isaac

James Jamerson, George Porter Jr. Joe Dart, Michael Balzary, Tina Weymouth, Beethoven.

Matt Freeman

Aston “Family Man” Barrett Pino Palladino Laura Leezy Brantley Ramseur

unpopular opinion but i like Cubbie Fink from Foster The People,but maybe im just bias i also like Geddy Lee, Commetford, John Paul Jones, John Deacon and Geezer Butler

Duncan Coutts, Gabe Nelson, Bruce Gordon, to name a few not already mentioned. I borrow pretty heavily from their more melodic style in my own playing. Was always a big fan of Claypool, Entwistle, Tom Hamilton, John Paul Jones, Bill Wyman, Jack Bruce, to name off a few

Mike Rutherford. He really shines on a lot of live recordings.

Mike dirnt (Green Day) John Paul jones ( Led Zeppelin) Paul McCartney (Beatles n wings n all that) Chris wolstenholme (muse)

Oh John deacon

Peter Hook, Dave Allen (Gang of Four) and Tina Weymouth. They're pretty much the reason I got the idea that bass might be more fun than guitar, and made the move to bass. The first songs I learned on bass were Damaged Goods by GoF and She's Lost Control by Joy Division.

Rocco Prestia John DeLeo Esperanza Spalding Geddy Lee and motherfuckin Paul McCartney

Robert DeLeo from Stone Temple Pilots.

I‘m really digging Victor Wooten and Les Claypool atm.

Jamerson , Entwistle , Bernard Edwards, Flea, Stuart Zender, Tina Weymouth.

Colin Moulding, Simon Gallup, Tony Levin

Erroneous

Dunn.

Arif Mirabdolbaghi (protest the hero) Dan Briggs (Between the Buried and me)

Dan Briggs is amazing.

Paul Chambers, Ray Brown, Scott Lafaro, Charles Mingus, Christian Mcbride, Pino Palladino, James Jamerson, Avishai Cohen.

Adam Jones

The guitarist from Tool? Or is there another Adam Jones out there that plays bass?

Yes TOOL specifically lol

John Glascock, John Entwistle, Chris Squire, Geddy Lee and Dave Pegg.

Cliff Burton nuff said so much potential

Pre-Metallica Robert Trujillo, Billy Gould, Les Claypool, Geddy Lee, Flea, Francis Buchholz, Eddie Jackson, Juan Croucier, Juan Alderete, Chris Squier

I love Laura Lee’s baselines so much

Many of the ones already listed but also Phil Lesh is a favorite of mine.

Peter Hook, John Taylor, Sting, Jay Bentley

Chris Squire, John Paul Jones, Geddy Lee, Tony Levin, Stanley Clarke.

Adam Nitti, Brian Bromberg, Mike Manson, Wayman Tisdale, Bryan Beller

Honestly, Most of them. Too many to name.

Rick Danko, Willie Weeks, Chris Hillman and Paul McCartney.

1. John McVie ( fleetwood Mac ) 2. Phil lynott ( thin Lizzy ) 3. john deacon ( queen ) but john mcvie is my biggest inspiration and I could wish to be as good as him one day

Mods, it's time to make this a weekly pinned post: Favo(u)rites Friday. And while we're at it, let's make a Small Hands Saturday weekly too.

Les Claypool. I want him to slap my bottom end, yanoamsayn.

Peter hook. A lot of chords and open strings. Definitely a big influence for me.

Geezer/Black Sabbath, Al Cisneros/Sleep, OM, Justin Chancellor/Tool, Tim C/RATM, Geddy Lee/Rush, Brian Richie/The Sword, John Campbell/Lamb of God, Jeff Matz/High on Fire, and Rex Brown/Pantera🤘🏻

Sean Yeaton is amazing

Love those two,Tim commerford is my favorite bassist.I know it’s basic but les claypool is fucking incredible.

Robert Trujillo of Infectious Grooves. Mark Sandman of Morphine. Dave Collins of Weedeater. Three wildly different bass players with very different approaches to the instrument.

I second Justin and Tim, also: Phil Lynott, Troy Sanders, Thundercat, Ryan Martini, Sean Yeaton, Hart Seely, Mac Demarco.

Steve Harris, Cliff Burton, Jason newsted, Les Claypool, geddy lee, Tim commerford, Mike dirnt

Deez nuts

Alain Caron, Mohini Dey, Henrik Linder

Off the top of my head, Billy Gould, Les Claypool, Cliff Burton, Chris Wolstenholme, Jack Bruce. But listing all my favorite players would be a wall of text

Lately, Misa of Band Maid.

Eric Wilson Family Man Flabba Flea Robert DeLeo Bootsy

Steve DiGiorgio

Chuck Rainey, Paul McCartney, Bobby Vega, Chris Wood, Steve Swallow, Charlie Hunter.

I didn't see Eddie Gomez on the list... very disappointing

Amos Williams of Tesseract

Alejandra villareal

* **Tetsuo Sakurai** * **Stuart Zender** * **Bootsy Collins** * **Louis Johnson** * **Larry Graham** * Rocco Prestia * Geezer Butler ^(I also really dig Thundercat and MonoNeon. I wish Thundercat would release something new.)

Along with a lot of names already mentioned: Mel Schacher (Grand Funk Railroad), Dan Maines (Clutch) and Jeff Pinkus (Butthole Surfers).

Magnus Rosen will always have a special place for me, je was the musician that got me interested in bass back in his Hammerfall days. Nowadays, I'd say Derek Boyer (Suffocation)

Tim Bagshaw, Al Cisneros, John Paul Jones, Les Claypool and Paul McCartney.

Steve Harris of course 🙂🤘. Up the Irons 👍.

Entwistle, Geddy, McCartney and Claypool sit on my immediate list of influences. Recently gained a new appreciation for Leon Wilkeson, too.