Keira WitherKay wrote:
mmm some of the so called underated faces there have graced the cover of bass player magazine......... i even saw toni levin on the list hello.......i mean this dude is , or rather was in 90's the most in demand session player......used by everyone from simon and garfunkle for their concert in the park to playing for peter gabriel in his regular band ......among multitudes of other ......... .toni underated .... i don't think so
Anthony Jackson, another fab session player, played on the concert in Central Park album.
I'd venture that Tony Levin is better known than Jackson.
"Underrated" is such a subjective or context-sensitive term anyway. Fans of the Rolling Stones may not appreciate how good Darryl Jones is, but those with jazzier listening habits will have a pretty good idea of the calibre of player of he is.
And people learn and get more discerning. It took me some years to realise that John Paul Jones is actually a very good and very tasteful bass player. Jones, I think, is an example of a player who is well known but perhaps under appreciated. "Unknown" and "underrated" are not the same thing. Danny Thompson is not as well known as John Paul Jones (or Bill Wyman or Adam Clayton) but people who have heard him generally recognise that he's a superior player - so Danny is not underrated.
Talking of Wyman, I watched an interview with Nick Lowe recently and he opined that Bill Wyman is generally underrated.
