mickb2112
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I often wondered what had happened to Greedminds.
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I often wondered what had happened to Greedminds.
Another pointless meaningless list.Nice to see Bootsy up there
The 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time
From funk masters to prog prodigies and beyond, we count down the players who have shaped our idea of the low-end theorywww.rollingstone.com
Opinions and preferences. No need to be insulting about it, or is that compulsory with your nom de plume?
I follow him on social media, he seems a great blokeI had the great pleasure of interviewing Bootsy a couple of years ago. Great bloke and not quite as wacky as his public persona suggests
Geezer Butler and Les Claypool both way to low. Both take the absolute piss out of Flea yet he sits ahead because he's a more mainstream name
McCartney isn't a bad bassist but he's not exactly great either. He can probably write better songs and sing better than the majority on the list but he shouldn't be int he too 50 just on bass skills.
Can’t get on here anymore. The modem hasn’t been invented yet that can provide him the range he needs to get the internet in his massively huge mansion.I often wondered what had happened to Greedminds.
Nee Sid ViciousNo Mark King?
No Marcus Miller?
No Nathan East?
No Paul Denman?
Nee Sid Vicious simply because he couldn't play the Fecking thing.Nee Sid Vicious
Nee NWR
Nee JJ Burnel
Nee Bruce Foxton
yet Kim Deal gets in
Aye the others are good choices though.Nee Sid Vicious simply because he couldn't play the Fecking thing.
He's wrote way better Bass lines to be fair .Couldnt hum any SC onesPaul McCartney ahead of the likes of Stanley Clarke
It isnt the most skillful .Walking on the moon is a better bass line than some technically knacky 100 mile an hour speed metal song.Geezer Butler and Les Claypool both way to low. Both take the absolute piss out of Flea yet he sits ahead because he's a more mainstream name
McCartney isn't a bad bassist but he's not exactly great either. He can probably write better songs and sing better than the majority on the list but he shouldn't be int he too 50 just on bass skills.
Aye,he sits in the middle as you need to playing that stuff with 1 guitarist"I don't play bass guitar, I play rhythm guitar on the bass"
Lemmy.
i Think they covered all those lumps quite well .I love Geddy but I love Rush songs because of their individual musical brilliance gelled together in a piece not for their message or overall song vibe if that makes sense . I love all the flash players but to me the brief of a Bass player is holding it down for everyone to sound good around ,on a 4 string as well .Another pointless meaningless list.
Do you see bass players as a member of a rythym section or a "lead" player?
Is a complex bass line "better" than a tight groove?
Are great songs better than technical complexity?
Daft really
Any way its Geddy Lee who is the real number 1
Never saw him with The Jam (because I never saw them), but I did see him play a couple of times with SLF.Aye the others are good choices though.
Foxton obviously one of my favourites and much more stylish than Weller too but since The Jam barely sold a record in America not surprising the yanks at Rolling Stone don’t know him or rate him. Problies similar for JJB - despite having a hit with ‘Big in America’ they never actually were!
Is this a fuckin joke?Well yeah definitely then. But unfortunately this is just about bass players and he's not even close to top 50.
Then again I'd say lyrically Geezer Butler wrote a lot of songs better than a lot McCartney wrote but comparing them two is like apples and oranges. Genres just too far out to really compare the writing.
Nah, the likes of War Pigs, Paranoid, Heaven and He'll, Iron Man, Wicked World, NIB, Snowblind, Into The Void, Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath are as good as any Beatles lyrics.Is this a fuckin joke?