Bass players most influential

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it's a hard question but I finaly landed on Flea (though hes not my biggest influence personly) but he's tone is so solid and he's slapping is fenomenal, from when he started those nice melodic bass lines and nice harmonising bass lines you just feel happy, and he's sound realy have influenced most of the more advanced modern bass-players.

+ he grooves live (and play trumpet) 

(also a warm mentioning of Sting which could have ended up on the list (but I think he's songwriting is more infuencual then he's bassplaying but I mye be wrong on that)

Poll Question: bass players who are overall influencual on the way bass is played...
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
James Jamerson	1	[7.69%]
Verdine White	0	[0.00%]
Larry Graham	1	[7.69%]
Paul McCarthney	1	[7.69%]
John Entwistle	2	[15.38%]
Jaco Pastorius	0	[0.00%]
Stanley Clark	1	[7.69%]
Bootsy Collins	1	[7.69%]
Tony Levin	0	[0.00%]
Leland Sklar	0	[0.00%]
Mike Porcaro	0	[0.00%]
Mark King	0	[0.00%]
Michael Balzary (Flea)	1	[7.69%]
Les Claypool	0	[0.00%]
Geddy Lee	3	[23.08%]
Chris Squire	0	[0.00%]
Jack Bruce	1	[7.69%]
Victor Wooten	0	[0.00%]
Marcus Miller	0	[0.00%]
John Myung	1	[7.69%]
John Paul Jones	0	[0.00%]
Pino Palladino	0	[0.00%]
John Patitucci	0	[0.00%]
Chuck Rainey	0	[0.00%]
other	0	[0.00%]
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Icarium Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: March 21 2008 Location: Tigerstaden Status: Offline Points: 34055	Posted: August 17 2010 at 18:29
	it's a hard question but I finaly landed on Flea (though hes not my biggest influence personly) but he's tone is so solid and he's slapping is fenomenal, from when he started those nice melodic bass lines and nice harmonising bass lines you just feel happy, and he's sound realy have influenced most of the more advanced modern bass-players. + he grooves live (and play trumpet) (also a warm mentioning of Sting which could have ended up on the list (but I think he's songwriting is more infuencual then he's bassplaying but I mye be wrong on that)