Kim du Toit put up this post about good bass players and rhythm sections. He left one good one out: Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice of Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, and Beck, Bogert, and Appice. This gives me a reason to feature Cactus again. This was from a concert in Memphis which is the last time the original lineup played together. From what I read about them, they fought all of the time. One of the fights was about Bogert wanting his bass to play more of a lead role. They may have fought, but on stage they were a really tight band and Bogert and Appice formed a really good back beat.
Although the representative sample is fairly small, what about Berry Oakley?