Hi,

This one may sound silly ... but here goes:

1. David Darling. Someone has got to ask him about the duets with Terje Rypdal. It is the best "chamber music" you will ever hear in your life ... and with a Strat! He also did some other stuff and solos that deserves consideration.

2. Someone ought to talk to those Brazilian bass players that Egberto Gismonti plays with (Academia des Dancas, Sanfona, etc).

2. Holger Czukay. Used to play Bass for CAN ... but he has given that up it looks like. Sadly he was extremely experimental on his early solos and had over layed bass on bass ... and some nifty stuff on his first 2 albums. You can tell him I said they are great ... he tends to think they are not so good now, probably because no one plays them. But they are great.

3. Jah Wobble. Enough said.

4. Lothar Meid. Although he is often thought of as the main lyricist and singer in the oddest and best of bands (Amon Duul 2) ... there is a side to his playing that is ... really special ... and so simple. Check out Wolf City ... and then Yeti ... and if you can stand it ... Dance of the Lemmings and Vive La Trance. It's more than just ... bass!

5. Pekka Pojhola (sorry ... can never spell his name). All you have to do to know how good this guy is, is watch him in the DVD "Exposed".

6. John Glascock. This one will be hard to do. He's long passed away. But in his short time he helped put together a band in LA called "Carmen" that had 3 unbelievably precious albums of the most fascinatingly spanish sounding music ... and then he ends up playing for Jethro Tull ... who no doubt stole him after seeing this band tear up David Bowie on In Concert ...

7. Comedy bass'ists. Someone ought to talk to some of the folks that played for Bonzo Dog Band (including Neil Innes if he's not tired of it and can talk about Randy Rachel!) ... and some other comedy groups. Instrumentalists in these groups are often some of the finest and can play the widest variety of stuff imaginable and not imaginable.

Kinda hard to think names right now in my head ... a couple of italians like the guy from PFM (first edition of the band) and Banco would also be nice, although to my ear these guys were quite clearly classically trained musicians making fun of it with rock'n'roll ... which was a big thing in those days in music in Europe. Today not so much.

Ohhh ... plz ... Jack Casady for sure!