Favourite bass player

Pugsley

Everyone knows all the great guitarists, but whos your favourite bassist, these guys rarely get a mention so might aswell give them a thread


Mines Les Claypool from Primus, feck can that man play! He has some really mad intro's to some of their songs.

Id put John Wyeung (spelling?) from Dream Theatre in at second, who is also a great bassist.

Dr. Loon

Originally posted by Pugsley
Mines Les Claypool from Primus, feck can that man play! He has some really mad intro's to some of their songs.
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I'd have to agree with you there, he's amazing.
Otherwise, although not rock\metal I'd go for ex-Jamiroquai bass player Stuart Zender.

smackbunnybaby

who i think is superb, id say justin chancellor from tool.he really provides a great foundation for the songs to be built around.

i also really liked what krist did in nirvana.


basic is best!!

davej

Les Claypool, Stanley Clarke, Robert trujillo (sp?).

davej

CRONIC ARSE

mine would tave to be rex brown(pantera,down) and clif burton the original bass player from metallica

cournioni

Well heres my top five anyway...

1. Les Claypool (Primus)
2. John Myung (Dream Theater)
3. Justin Chancellor (Tool)
4. Cliff Burton (ex-Metallica)
5. Rex Brown (Pantera)

Les is simply unbelieveable, I mean who else could play bass solos while keeping rhythm at the same time? You'd know Satriani taught him.

John Myung, this man is the complete bass player. I had a look at some of his bass tabs and in some cases he goes from the third fret to the sixteenth! Put this together with the amount of rhythms Dream Theater play and you'll find it simply in-human.

Justin Chancellor. What can you say about this guy? He simply has the sound that Tool need to be a complete band. And thats saying something when you have the likes of Danny Carey, Maynard Keenan, and Paul Jones in the band.

Cliff Burton was the masterclass behind Metallica's success. I cant say I can think of a song anything less than average that was written by Cliff Burton. He brought the classical aspect to their music that made them so great.

Rex Brown. I just love the way this guy plays bass. He keeps everything together when Dimebag is on one of his awesome solos. He brought the exact same to what was missing in Down. Songs like Domination, Cemetery Gates, Avoid The Light etc. are just some of examples of his ability.

Don1

Stuart Zender for being damn cool and Flewa for shear ability.

mechanix

it has to be cliff burton

Lucutus

Stu Hamm

Kylereese

Simon gallup (the cure) - that guy was kooler than kim deal....!!
stef olsdal (placebo)
peter hook....
peter steele!

Vlad Drac

Trevor Dunn
Alex Webster
Les Claypool
Billy Gould

Karl Hungus

Makis from Necromantia is truly awesome.
He plays 'lead' on an 8-string bass.
Has to be heard to be beleived.

And the guy from Marduk, very unconventional.
Breath-taking bass work altogether.

Robin Eaglestone for pure style and songwriting.

Pugsley

Originally posted by AngelWhore
Makis from Necromantia is truly awesome.
He plays 'lead' on an 8-string bass.
Has to be heard to be beleived.

You can get 8string bass's? mines only a 5 string (most songs only use 4 tho, which kinda sucks).

ps: Les Claypool plays lead in primus, does most of the solo's and is the vocalist, hes more or less the whole band, drummer damn good aswell, guitarist doesnt really get a chance with Claypool there tho.

ManWithThePlan

Cliff Burton without a doubt.
R.I.P dude.

fuse

Marcus Miller
Stanley Clarke
Larry Graham
and flea.....surprised he hasn't been mentioned?

I reckon the best bassist I've heard is Jaco Pastorius although, his stuff is hard to listen to, wouldn't be one of my favourites.

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Pete Steel
Evan Seinfield
Tom Araya
Byron Stroud

Neil3030

Flea - RHCP
Roger - Less than Jake

francie brady

it has to be Joey DeMiao of ManOwaR cos while other bands play, Manowar kill!!!

Darkillion

Jeff Ament
Mike Starr
Mike Inez
Robert Trujilli
Flea

TARE

What bands are they in Darkillion? besides Flea of course...

Darkillion

Jeff Ament - Pearl Jam
Mike Starr - Alice In Chains
Mike Inez - Alice In Chains, Ozzy Osbourne
Robert Trujillo - Jerry Cantrell, Suidical Tendacies, Ozzy Osbourne

Dun

Cliff Burton was the master. Just listening to Orion - the coolest instrumental ever, though Ktulu comes close too.

Johnny_the_fox

Philip Lynott!!!!

Giblet

Flea...So damn Funky!
Les Claypool...Man Winonas Big Brown Beaver, what a bass line:D

ManWithThePlan

Cliff Burton was the master. Just listening to Orion - the coolest instrumental ever, though Ktulu comes close too.

Also listen to Metallica - Anesthesia(Pulling Teeth). It's a bass solo all the way through. Class.

kingconor

What about Geezer Butler of the little known Birmingham beat combo Black Sabbath?
Check out the bass intro to N.I.B!!!

Pugsley

Originally posted by kingconor
Check out the bass intro to N.I.B!!!

If I heard correctly that intro was done by Les Claypool from Primus when they done an NIB cover.

domeara01

cliff burton RIP and flea is good too.

Morello

Maaaaany great bass players were mentioned here but I believe Marcus Miller is best. He's not as popular coz he isn't part of any band but Jaysus.....

Here's his cool website (includes sound samples!)

http://www.marcusmiller.com/

Darkillion

Ben Shepard (Soundgarden)
Tim Commerford (Audioslave, RATM)

Mewzel

Flea

ManWithThePlan

No one has mentioned Jacko Pastorius!
He was a legend.
Tragic end to a bass god.

Giblet

Jaco was good with Weather Report, but to be honest, he played ALOT of shíte.

Jaicster

Well i'd go for any good lookin female bass players but i don't know of any that play bass well,

So i'd go for the bass player out of that band 'Primus' they do the theme tune for south park if u don't know em the stuff he comes out with...

ManWithThePlan

Originally posted by Jaicster
Well i'd go for any good lookin female bass players but i don't know of any that play bass well

Nadja Peulen(Coal Chamber)
Paz Lenchantin(A Perfect Circle and Zwan)

Darkillion

JJ72's bass player

/V\etalfish

cliff burton !! musical genius ... RIP

cournioni

David Ellefson from Megadeth isn't a bad bassist either. Just listen to Peace Sells. Magic!

Morello

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
David Ellefson from Megadeth isn't a bad bassist either. Just listen to Peace Sells. Magic!

Yeah he rocks! Here you raise another point though: plectrum or fingers? Lots of great bassists (like Ellefson indeed) use a plectrum but I can't help thinking bass must be finger-picked or it sounds too much like a guitar....

TriggerGene

please lads

some respect for the past masters

john entwistle
john paul jones

people forget the oldies -sure there wrinkled and decayin but hell theyre the stuff of legend!

TriggerGene

and i forgot another one - cant remember his name
but the bass player for bob marley was class - i know this is a rock message board but an honourable mention surely
and while im at it james brown never had a bad rythmn section!!

the Guru

Cliff Burton

SouperComputer

yip cliffo, his freaky fingers and classical influence! He da man

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John Deacon

hickm4

Mr Cliff Burton wasnt bad was he!

superconor

hmmmmmmmmmm
steve harris - iron maiden
flea - Red hot chilli peppers

excellent
hey kingconor, you should hear declan play NIB. its class!
finger or pick, i suppose finger is faster but i amnt a bassist so im gonna stop speaking......

exiztone

Les Claypool

byte

Cliff Burton (RIP) was class

Chaos-Engine

Frank

unfortunitly he left Séan's Band and has returned to Rome

Darkillion

pick for me

domeara01

the best bassest has to be cliff burton.
if you ever get a live version of master of puppets with cliff burton then you are in for a treat with cliffs live bass solo.
it is really hard to get your hands on though,