Respect! 
Yeah you’re right I believe it’s usually a super sexy Ibanez I see on most of his social media now!
Yeah there was the Live in the Lockdown recording that’s still up on YouTube earlier in the year and then earlier this month was an insane ticketed production from inside a UK venue with the (ex?)drummer from Monuments filling in for Jay as Covid meant he couldn’t safely get over… Amos still played barefoot as always. Was absolutely brilliant!
Loved “French Josh” 
Bass players I like:
Reginald Arvizu - Korn.
Tim Commerford - Rage Against The Machine; nuff said.
Cliff Burton - “Orion” first inspired me to think about playing the bass.
Krist Novoselic - “Lounge Act” by Nirvana had a damned good bass line.
But…if I had to pick one to play like or aspire to be; probably Cliff Burton, tbh.
Orion sounds incredible once someone amplified the bass on the track. RIP Cliff.
Cliff was great. Big influence of mine. Obviously Anesthesia affected many of us. He played with such attitude. Amazing. Ellefson of Megadeth is pretty amazing for metal too, and the Ryan Martine from Mudvayne fused funky sounds into some straight metal that still worked. Dude from Living Colour is badass too.
Naturally I’m listening to more bass players now, I’m learning more songs, I can’t say there is one bassist I aspire to play like, the motown guys and Duck Dunn, the blues guys like Tommy Shannon and Dusty Hill, for rock guys like James Dewar and Tom Hamilton, for slap who wouldn’t love to play like Marcus Miller. I’m just learning from everyone and I’m sure in a few years a style will develop where the note selection and technique has come from all of these guys and some I haven’t even heard of yet.
OK, time for an updated list with your collected input - just for inspiration, no deeper meaning 
There have been quite a few new additions since last I generated a list. Also, interesting in a more bittersweet way, is how many of those names are MIA (I am mainly referring to our fellow Buzzers here!)
Let me know if there are any errors in there!
Go ahead and just change me to Peter Hook. Who am I kidding.
Will do 
(in the next version)!
Vielen dank!
JJ Burnel
https://youtu.be/jLYeYZz1LrM
The Duck did great work with Booker T & The MG’s. “Time Is Tight” is a common staple on my MP3 collection.
Boh is incredible. There’s really just kind of a separate level for Boh. He’s very different in style from what I would ever aspire to play but for what he does, just wow, there’s really very few bassists I can think of like him.
Had to Google him I’m afraid but holy sh1t !
The music scene in Japan is really vibrant right now. A lot of good stuff going on. Misa from Band-Maid is another one to keep an eye on
So many great bassists here, yeah. Most of the current stand-out ones I know of are female, too. Kiyoshi, F-Chopper Koga, Misa, Fumi (Polysics), Miki Furukawa, etc. Boh and Reita (The Gazette) would be exceptions to that.
That reminds me, new Unlucky Morpheus 
They have probably the best metal drummer I have ever seen, and he’s totally unknown outside Japan as far as I know.
Unlucky Morpheus is fantastic.
You can’t leave out Ue-chan from Maximum the Hormone, another good (and male) bassist
Can’t think of his name off hand, but the bassist from Polyphia is crazy good…but then you have to be to keep up with their guitarists…that band is just absurdly musically talented.
GOAT is amazing. That whole band is off the charts.
It’s so interesting…like they are good to a musician…if that makes any sense. I can’t even handle large doses of them. It’s so deliciously complex and incredible, but it’s almost like a high intensity workout for your ears and brain. Which is interesting, the different ways one can be a genius. Dave Grohl can write a catchy, palatable song that is just perfectly well made even in it’s simplicity and on a whim seemingly. That is it’s own skill too, and in a way every bit as impressive as bands like Polyphia. In most moods, Od probably listen to Foo Fighters over Polyphia…though the both have their place.
