best female bassist

[YDload]

im not putting this in the bass forum cause they dont know NUTHIN. i figure since this area of music has the most female bassists, this would be the best place for it.

i think Tara Jane O'Neil from Rodan is the best i've heard recently. the band plays this brooding, Slint-like music laced with outbursts of heavy post-hardcore rage. the bass almost never plays the guitar's root notes, instead going off on its own little melodies. its one of the things i look for when i consider a bassist, and O'Neil did it well with Rodan

so who are your picks? and please dont say Kim Gordon, she doesn't even consider herself a musician. she's an integral part of SY but her bass playing really has nothing to do with it.

[okay]

i would say Caithlin De Marrais and Naomi Yang, their stuff isnt super technical or groundbreaking but i like both of their stuff.

[asdf]

I am a fan of Yula Be'eri from World/Inferno Friendship Society and Nanuchka.

[sweboy]

This thread is sexist.

[niobium]

Maybe for pure skill, Tal Wilkenfeld.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRFkOrnds8I

Rodan is sweet.

[okay]

what a dirty hippie

[Robert Crumb]

Is Tara Jane O'Neil's solo stuff the antithesis to Rodan?

[Graffito]

Jennifer Finch from L7 is pretty good.

[Thanks]

Chicks can't rock.

[Jacaranda]

andy rourke

[ATM]

Takeshi Ohtani

[Anxious]

Kira Roesellar.

[Ficus]

tina weymouth
it fits so gooood

[Bordello]

Kim Gordon is a genius. Downstrokes and eighth notes had never been done before she picked up a bass.

[User Name]

Andrea Fisset of Arab on Radar, assuming that really was a girl. There's like, no information on her whatsover.


I like her tone and her parts.

[Catchthe22]

tina weymouth

[Gnarmageddon]

Kira Roesellar.
First name that popped into my head.

[Krash100]

Melissa Auf der Maur

[poopie]

is she the smashing pumpkins bassist? i remember hearing that the smashing pumpkins bassist girl was in auf der maur. that chick was the first to come up in my head but only cuz shes a female bassist like i really cant participate in this thread i guess i am not familiar with enough female bassists

[Matt?]

came in here to post "girl from rodan"

stayed to confirm op

[horseypie]

is she the smashing pumpkins bassist? i remember hearing that the smashing pumpkins bassist girl was in auf der maur. that chick was the first to come up in my head but only cuz shes a female bassist like i really cant participate in this thread i guess i am not familiar with enough female bassists

she was the fillin bassist when d'arcy the first bassist left. they were good but form what i understood billy basically wrote everything and then the girls just played their pieces.

i think paz lenchantin is awesome, for her work with APC even though billy howerdel wrote a lot of it. she plays violas and stuff which also makes her cool.

[Robert Crumb]

chick drummers > chick bassists

[YDload]

theres only like two chick drummers worth a damn (Yo La Tengo + Unwound) but dozens of chick bassists worth as many as TWO damns!

[Robert Crumb]

Nah, what about Janet Weiss, man, she's quite a broad. Or what's her face from the Boredoms. Or Mo Tucker. They're out there, man.

[Jacaranda]

lol mo tucker.

[Thanks]

The drummer in Old Time Relijun right now is a chick, and she rules.

[Mahavidya]

is that mabsd

[tracyjacks]

tina weymouth