Name a better bassist.
Pro tip: You can't. And if you do, you're lying.
>people who think that rock is the only music that exists
Dave Holland btw
blanton.
>>63551729
no
no, i cant.
you got me op.
>>63552033
his tone makes my hard cock gently weep
>>63551729
Jacob Pasto...
No, you're right OP.
>>63551729
My nigga
I'll let myself admit they're on the same level, since they're both equally dead now.
>>63551729
geddy lee
SCOTT FUCKING REEDER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM-dM7WoPIo
>Skip to 3:48 for a godly bass groove
lol
>>63553714
I love this guy
Chris Squire
John Wetton
Larry Graham
Stanley Clark
Who cares dude? Its just bass....
uk john wetton
>>63551729
Tony Levin
>>63552079
>jacob
loooooool
>implying
Al Cisneros
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK6wJUNirbs
>>63552087
>using a pick to play bass
Fucking disgusting
>>63552087
Haha he sucks at bass
>>63554092
this desu
He's not the best but he's my personal favorite.
>>63554156
Well he made a successful career out of playing bass with a pick and you haven't
>>63551729
charles mingus
>>63554259
THIS
>>63554249
Just because you're successful doesn't mean you're good.
>>63552079
Bruh
>>63554249
who says i haven't faggot
and he only got to where he is today because of pink floyd as a whole, not because of his own efforts
All these posts and no fucking Jannick Top?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t3dVwE8W79w
>>63554249
no he made a successful career out of songwriting and his ideas for concept albums. His actual bass playing is not that great, mostly just covering the bare necessities for bass. Even the more creative use of bass, most notably the fretless bass on The Wall, were played by Gilmour.
>>63551729
Flea
Brian Ritchie
Bootsie Collins
Remember, just because they came first doesn't make them the best
rofl ezmode
>>63553736
Man, that chick on the far right is ugly.
I kid, I kid. Speaking of ugly Canadian bassists who overplay their instrument, have some Rob Wright.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppR6LcGnkUY
>>63554531
>selected discog
>selected
>>63554169
Pink Floyd is one of my absolute favorite bands but you're very right, roger waters is kinda bad at bass. When I read that gilmour had to play the bass part for him on pigs that really cemented it for me.
>bass guitars
>>63551729
Not as far as my favorites, but as far as who I think are the best, he's in the top five
>>63552153
>>63552160
>>63552215
Would be three others in the top five, James Jamerson would round it out
>>63552087
>>63554169
Waters wasn't a great bassist but he did what he needed to for the song and that did alot for their sound desu
>>63555359
>>63554477
Waters was capable of doing these basslines, with Animals most the songs were performed prior to recording and he played them live beforehand, he wasn't that bad, not like the basslines were these godly difficult lines, most bassists could easily do them if they aren't completely new to the instrument
>>63553714
Great bassist but nearly as good as Enswhistle. I liked him better than Kyuss era Oliveri but Oliveri was better in QOSTA than Reeder imo. Also I think Geezer Butler did the groove bass in stoner rock better
>>63553893
Larry and Stanley are the shit. Wetton is really underrated, did some great stuff in King Crimson and an insane bass tone. Also >>63554049 UK was good, but his playing in Crimson was better
>>63554092
>>63554137
>>63554531
Good picks, great all around players
>>63554511
Flea is meh, but Bootsy is great and Brian Ritchie is one of the most under appreciated bassist ever, the Violent Femmes first album is a bass player essentials album
>>63554156
And there is the shitposter
>>63554531
Excellent choice! Good players who predominantly play fretless are few and far between, sadly.
Skip Battin, bassist of the latter day Byrds
Is thundercat over rated or under rated?
Larry Graham and Rustee Allen are also pretty good
jack bruce
>>63552153
Came here to post this guy.
>>63551729
My boy Chris
>no claypool
k you gay idiots
>Ctrl+F
>No Victor Wooten
Wtf are you guys doing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9uPv_Fxuc
>>63557629>>63557632
based af
seriously.
>>63557250
yeah brian ritchie is awesome, and that acoustic bass sound he used sounded great
Mark Sandman
>>63551729
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRWVkg9jeRc
>>63554235
gay
as
fuck
>>63554235
Just got Uroboros off Discogs from Japan. No Regratz
>>63557880
impressive
but still a musical piece of crap
>>63557919
As a lifelong fan of classical, jazzz, and metal...bruh....
>>63557838
Also Kevin Rutmanis, who influenced Mark Sandman to play slide bass after seeing him playing with a beer bottle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbBfxVqL1zU
>>63557838
Sandman is GOAT, getting the bass to work with a sax is usually nothing short of impossible.
Les claypool
>>63557596
he sounds like guitar desu
John Entwistle often overplayed his bass lines - they were unnecessarily complicated for the songs in which they appeared. A bass player who had the perfect balance between technicality and song suitability is John Paul Jones. I'd argue that he is a better bassist than Entwistle was.
>>63551729
>>63558954
He may not be as technical as Entwistle, but he has some excellent bass lines.
>>63551729
You're right, it just isn't possible.
This guy invented bass-playing as we know it today.
You guy might hate Seventh Wonder, but you can't argue that Blomqvist is one hell of a bass player.
>>63560192
This.
easy, Trevor Dunn
>>63551729
You can't.
Mike Watt and Simon Underwood
implying it isn't macca
>>63561614
This
Mick Karn
>>63560043
>>63561614
Hit the nail right on the fuckass head m8ties.
Let's not forget to pay homage to the brilliant Tim Smolens
Jaco Pastorius
Chris Squire
Jack Bruce
Ray Brown
Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen
Geddy Fucking Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtHbxsdExlE
>>63554132
Think his Bass part on Question and Ride My See-Saw are one of the best bass lines I ever heard.
>>63554249
>you have to be as good as someone to criticize them
>>63560043
this period
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I63bOi477cA
If John Entwistle could play like this when he were alive, then I'll quit playing bass.
listen to Jaco's fucking bass solo on this tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXiYkOEBv8U
(happens around 1:15)
I'm /thread-ing this thread
>>63564195
yeah you wish
>>63564228
True, Jaco is pretty much my favourite, only he's been posted here before
Fucking love his tone
>>63554092
that chapstick tho
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
played with Ornette Coleman, James Blood Ulmer and Ronald Shannon Jackson - I don't know if there was a greater harmolodic bassist
also, Michael Henderson anyone? from Jack Johnson to Agharta, Miles Davis' music from the 70's is marked from beginning to end by this guy's distinctive playing
>>63561737
>Mike Watt
>>63557600
Sly Stone had some of the greatest players
>>63565833
>I don't know if there was a greater harmolodic bassist
leaving aside Charlie Haden, of course (who I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned up 'til now)
>>63551729
Les Claypool
Phil Lesh
Bootsy Collins.
Maybe not better, but most certainly equal to......
We got a bassist thread, and nobody mentions Lemmy? O.K. maybe Entwhistle is better, but, c'mon! C'MON! LEMMY!
>>63558026
SHOVE IT SHOVE IT SHOVE IT
>>63551729
He was for sure on the top of the rock bassist list
More people should play like him
>>63566048
Lemmy isn't even that good of a bassist. Sure he's pretty good with a pick but he doesn't even compare to other bassists.
>>63564195
His solos are fucking lame but he's a reaaaaally solid bass player
>>63566048
Lemmy wasn't even that good, it was all in the character desu
>>63552067
George Harrison?
