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Bill Wyman is underrated.
He wasn't a flashy player, but he was an essential bassist for the Rolling Stones.

Thanks for talking about Bill Wyman, the most underrated Bass player ever.

I love Bill Wyman's bass playing in Mother's Little Helper

Bill Wyman's bass lines are so vital to so many songs. Always a solid bottom and supporting the song, not his ego.

Some say Bill is not the most technically gifted bass player (whatever they mean) but he is definitely one of the most musical. Really compliments the ensemble.

I admit I never really appreciated Bill until recently. I'm so in awe of Keith and Mick T that I never really concentrated on Bill's playing. He's friggin' great.

I would love to see an episode on Burke Shelley from Budgie. He was not just the bassist, but also the singer, lead writer, and general driving force behind one of the most underrepresented pre-metal bands in history.

I always appreciate your analysis of bassist styles and compositions. It really helps me understand what I like and why. Thanks Paul!

Bill is a humble man but a great artist on his bass and I always missed him with the Stones~!

Bill Wyman live! Pure joy! Heard him around a dozen times. Swing for days.

Undercover of the night is the perfect example of Wyman's groove! Great video!

Yeah ... 6:22 Bill and John Deacon!

I read that the Miss You bass line was Billy Preston's idea. Always liked his bass line for I Wanna Be Your Man.

I’d like to add some notes, at first when I listened to the stones I thought that there wasn’t much going on with Wyman’s playing but the more and more I study his bass playing the more and more I realize how musical he is:

-I think the most important part about wyman’s playing is the focus on rhythm rather than melody. When Taylor, Richards or woods plays bass on a stones song they play lines that are interesting melodically but often I can’t dance to them. Every song wyman plays on I can easily dance to. I think that one thing lost on bassists often is that one of our jobs is to put the dance in the pants for people. If you can get people to dance people will love your music, it becomes fun. It’s very abstract though, you can play a rhythmically interesting line that doesn’t make people dance, it helps to be a dancer yourself like wyman is.

-wyman doesn’t get married to a key. In major keys he might use major notes, then throw in a minor third in the same line

-wyman did not seem to be a busy player in the studio but that’s largely due to his lines being burried, if you scour YouTube for isolated tracks you’ll find he is hardly a root fith player, listen to live albums (some girls 78) and you’ll hear his bass loud and he plays some pretty involved interesting lines

-a common pattern that wyman uses live is root, fifth above, back to the fifth, octave. He’ll mess around with the order of that pattern rhythmically and sometimes throws a 6th or a walk down. It’s an easy way to add rhythmic movement to any chord

-Wyman often relies on traditional blues bass patterns in rock contexts. A lot of rock bassists will use simplified guitar lines but Wyman is pretty traditional

As a teenager in 60's I can remember a day at school after Top Of The Pops  and the 'Stones new single had us all buzzing as Bill Wyman had come up with a then unheard of bass sound. It was 19th Nervous Breakdown and he stole the show on that one.

Bill Wyman (as John Entwistle) is my model for stage attitude : absolutely no jump!

I really appreciate Bill's minimalist approach to playing the bass.  Understated elegance.

His single , "Si Si - Je Suis Un Rock Star" —great bass line :)

He came up with the riff to Jumpin' Jack Flash but not only didn't get credited, he didn't even play the bass on it!