Best rock bass player

Doug Ferguson, original bass player in Camel was pretty awesome, as was Andrew Latimer when he picked up a bass guitar as well.

ALso a big fan of Richard Sinclair who played bass mainly with canterbury rock group "Caravan" (it's dromedary day I suppose) and also did a stint as bass player with Camel in teh late 70's.

Also gotta mention Chris Squire (Yes) in the discussion.

While on the prog rock track, in more recent years, how about Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree?

Cym,

So you've heard Bach play then, I assume? :^)

Hard to argue with McCartney, all things considered.

Jamerson did the bass playing for Motown? That's a pretty good resume as well!

I finally investigated and found the name of the bass player from the original soundtrack recording of Hair. I've always loved the fun loving bouncing musical bass lines there!

He is Jimmy Lewis who apparently had an impressive resume prior.

I need to dig deeper into some of those classic artist's recordings that he played on.

Honorable mention for Dee Murray of Elton John's classic band.