Best bassists thread?

Best bassists thread?

None of this fucking Flea shit. Post some real masters or fuck off.

Starting with one of the best in metal/prog. The great Sean Malone.

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based tony blesses this post

I've liked everything I've heard him play on random YouTube videos and the like, but he's always been one of those guys, to me, that are more famous for being a session guy than any particular project or band. Like Lee Sklar or Pino.

What are Tony's best projects?

are you baiting?
80s Crimson

Flea is a pretty rad bassist, original poster. He has many good funks. Bew bum boo bu boo!

Joe Lester of Intronaut. Lesser known, but an amazing player.

nah. I knew he was in LTE but that's it. lol

youtu.be/0mCY88iuzo0

Why does Les never play the Tommy the Cat solo live?

Also, good lord has he become a hack.

everybody in intronaut shreds

so did Zappa in the late 70s/80s
tfw les will never redeem himself by dropping some bad-ass synclavier bleeps

go back to /r/bass

literally anybody can play bass guitar

kek
any body can play simplistic ass bass, hardly anybody is actually good though

anybody can play, sure.

It takes time to master any instrument though

Actual GOAT coming through.

Bombs.

>hippie fashion
>hippie politics
what were they thinking?

You guys are forgetting the true master of rock bass.

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Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Victor Wooten, Marcus Miller are my favorites

>i'm a fag

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wetton>levin
all day err day

Who do you enjoy if I don't mind me asking?

Tony Maimone

>Every good prog bassist either used a Rick or a Fender Jazz/Precision

Makes it easy to know what kind of bass to save up for.

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Nick Lowe
John Paul Jones
Bootsy Collins

Flea too, though.

Definitely. Cool guy too

Victor Wooten
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>squier
>Squier
>SQUIER

john myung

ctrlf+f Mingus, Jimmy Garrison
no results
you should all be ashamed of your pathetic rockist taste

Mike Watt, of Minutemen, fIREHOSE, dos, and at least a dozen other bands
I'd add:
>Jamaladeen Tacuma (harmolodic jazz-funk)
>Bernard Edwards (Chic)
>Larry Graham (Sly & The Family Stone, Graham Central Station)
>James Jamerson (Motown)
>Jimmy Blanton (Duke Ellington's band)
and at least a dozen other worthy people I can't think of right now
and along with Bootsy, I need to add all the rest of James Brown's great bassists:
>Bernard Odum ('59-68)
>Charles Sherrell ('68-'69)
>Fred Thomas ('71-'73)

is geddy lee 2pleb4u all?

Sup Forums is no longer what it was - so thank you for keeping what's good about it going :)

Vern Rumsey, the list goes on...

The problem with all these threads is that people equate shredding to be the best. With that logic, the best classical music would be the one that started and finished the fastest, or a dance that lasts less than three steps.

The point isn't the mechanics. It's the process. Who gives a fuck how fast you can play, slap or shred? Make a worthwhile contribution to the world, or join the GRP All-Stars and jerk off all over yourselves for nine hours...like at open mic night!

Honestly, some of the best bassists are found in reggae. NOT because "dude they shred so hard", but because they have an insane sense of rhythm, which is at the heart of bass. "But I can't get my licks in"...well then you're actually inferior, son. Because you want to show off instead of playing in. Again, GRP All-Stars is waiting for the next 7-string slapper to say "hey look what I can do!"...Also, listen to The Meters, and how they compliment each other without being snobby shred pricks about it.

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If we put them in with the rock ones, you'd accuse us of putting them in just for jazz cred.

There he is

You make some good points, but its not like there's NO value whatsoever in playing hot licks... If that was true, anyone with musical intuition and a good internal metronome could become as good as the best bassist in the world within 20 minutes of picking up the instrument. The point is to know when its appropriate to step up and lay down some filth, and when to get out of the way. The point about The Meters being very un-egoistic players is well taken, but I've seen George Porter Jr. play live, and he can get bombastic with the best of them. He's just very disciplined as to when to let it hang out.

Maybe not the absolute best. But how's that measured anyway. My vote goes to Mick Karn for his unique style and sound.

How did he become a hack? I am not following his current work.

Dan Briggs of BtBaM

The late, great Cliff Burton.

Rain Pohlak

Certainly the first bassist that comes to my mind is Lemmy

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r8 my bass skill m8's

>tfw no sean malone haircut

On the topic of underrated bassists, can we give Andy Rourke his dues? He gets overshadowed by Marr and Morrissey, but he was an integral part of The Smiths' sound. The bassline to Barbarism Begins at Home is one of the GOAT.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to post Mike. By far the best bassist in that scene, and honestly one of the GOAT

Andy is great, I was listening to some of The Smiths on speakers quite loud today and he really shone.

Crime he hasn't been posted yet.

Wait... When did Chet Baker grow a mullet and learn to play bass?

haha no
this faggot pretty much invented overplaying on the bass, he had no idea about subtlety

Mick Karn, Chris Squire and [spoiler] sting [/spoiler]

best bass player coming through

What about the voice of Geddy Lee?

Underrated as fuck

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I still have some of this guy's stuff on cassette

This man knows.

>Overplaying
Nice bait, made me reply. 2/10

Paul Chambers is one of my favorites and one of the best bassists in music.

>so did Zappa in the late 70s/80s
Kill yourself

>that hand position
absolutely disgusting

finally, someone who understands it all

Surprised he hasn't been posted yet.
youtu.be/CrBBHDJMEuQ?t=3m53s
Look at him go.

Yeah some people have faster chops but nobody grooves as well as this man

Yes, Rourke is supremely underrated.

Speaking of groove.

Both Sleep and Om are GOAT

and Al is also top qt

not at all

This. Without their rythm section The Smiths wouldn't be shit.

God tier:

Anthony Jackson
Jaco Pastorius
Hadrien Feraud
Dominique di piazza
Jeff Berlin
Linley marthe
Richard Bona
John Pattituci
Jeff Andrews
Gary willis
Victor wooten
Skuli Sverrinson
Dave Carpenter
Nico Assumpção
Alain Caron

Steve Harris

It's unfortunate that he's not more well known

he really did have such a cool style of playing

WITH A TINY LITTLE MOUSTACHE

Fuck yes.

OMG I love Bangarang haha I'm such an EDM fanqirl :D

>Sheik Yerbouti
>Joe's Garage
>Thing Fish
>great albums
You don't know what you're talking about, do you, peasant?

zappas best work was in the 70s

SY, and JG are both great albums you fuckwit

waka jawaka
the grand wazoo
roxy
one size fits all
bongo fury
zoot allures
you dont know what youre talking about do you peasent

Squarepsuher and Les have already been posted so my vote goes to Donovan

and to add to this joes garage and sheik yerbouti are fucking great

>waka jawaka
>the grand wazoo
not late 70s

>roxy
not late 70s, not great

>one size fits all
>bongo fury
>zoot allures
>sheik yerbouti
>joe's garage
mediocre

>Bongo fury
>mediocre
you have fucking garbage taste m8

great argument, mutant. bet you could explain why too.

youre insane

great buzzword, chum.

THE best

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>10 hours
>STILL no Matt Freeman
Pay respects to the king of punk bass.
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>Pay respects to anything punk
I'd rather not

Matt freeman hands down!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=IOIYDlzwvy4

More matt freeman

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Are you trying to make him look bad?