January 09, 2004
NOT TO BE UNGRATEFUL, BUT...
I really do appreciate Piero Scaruffi's love (see below), but a list of bass players that doesn't put James Jamerson at 1 and George Porter at 2 is, by definition, useless. And a list of 61 bass players that contains only 3 players of color is more than useless--it's politically and musically embarrassing. I'm happy to see Melvin in the top 10, but the big omissions are Titanic: Robbie Shakespeare, Busta Jones, Larry Graham, Stanley Clarke. Piero doesn't even list Duck Dunn, and he's white! (And Wilbo should be on there if I'm there, for real.)
Posted by Sasha at January 9, 2004 09:53 AM | TrackBack