OFF BASS

Re Megan Fenner’s letter (Aug. 27) proclaiming Kristen Pfaff to be “the greatest bass player of all time”:

Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Bill Wyman on the rock ‘n’ roll side, Stanley Clarke and Ron Carter on the jazz side. These are pretty good bass players. I never heard of Kristen Pfaff before she died, but I know that she couldn’t carry those bassists’ instruments.

Great? Not even close. Broaden your horizons, Megan.

JEFF PETERSON

Huntington Beach

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If anyone deserves the title, it would probably be James Jamerson (who, incidentally, was the Motown sound) and could play things 30 years ago that bass players are still wrestling with. He died with hardly a peep from the press, yet people who OD their way to stardom are praised beyond all reality.

LEON DIXON

Santa Ana