Wiktionary
bass guitarist
n. Someone who plays, or performs on, the bass guitar.
Usage examples of "bass guitarist".
Meaning Danny Gitt, the former lead bass guitarist for the Slut Puppies.
They didn't have a drummer who missed the drums and a bass guitarist with the same natural rhythm as a traffic accident.
While I'd never been allowed to meet Ricky's musicians, I knew their names, and he had told me that Peter was his bass guitarist and a very good one.
The bass guitarist seems to have run pell-mell into his stack of amplifiers, and seems to be trying to topple the precarious stack of speakers down on top of himself.
I see the same thing here on the street: Some asshole of a bass guitarist chokes on his own ralph (or fries on his own amplifier)—.