Bass Player Appreciation Thread
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genocide roach
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Jean-Pierre
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The Grimace said:In that "Dream Lineup" thread a while ago I think literally half the people put him as the bassist. The guy's awesome, but he's not the most melodically intricate or even particularly diverse bassist around. He just throws wicked solos. And he has a cool tone (which I totally stole for my fretless playing.)
Well, in reference to my list, his sound is always a good compliment to some raging Thrash, more than most bassists. :Spin:
andrew_plamondon
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Patterson wrote most of the basslines on Unquestionable Presence too, Choy just had to listen to some tapes and play it again. He added some of his riffs though, but not that much.plaguewilder said:
genocide roach
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hail!xxChaoticManifestoxx said:Genocide Roach, the pic in your signature rocks
thats one of the guys in turisas, and i hope you knew that. if not, got get battle metal now! the bass player is pretty decent! hehe
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Les Clapool pwns all bass players with his trickery, riffery and talent. He is the guy for the hardcore bass enrthusiast.
Geezer Butler ands Steve Harris are the most Metal bassists.
Geezer Butler ands Steve Harris are the most Metal bassists.
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Yup. In the end, there really ain't no other. Les is better than everyone, period.
sumairetsu
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Profanity said:
Claypool isn't all that original...listen to King Crimson and you'll hear all kinds of stuff ripped off from them in his playing.
Harris needs to abandon the galloping bass line for an album. Yes, we know he can do it...knock it off, already!
sumairetsu said:
Go eat a dick. Claypool is that original, and what little he may have stolen, he did better than anyone. Nobody has his feel doing percussive thumb playing at that speed. Wooten doesn't have that kind of feel and transition.
Poison God Machine
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Phil Lynott from Thin Lizzy occasionally did some trippy rhythms.I never realized what a good oldschool band they were till I picked up the Whiskey In The Jar cd
NAD
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What eras of Crimso are you referring to? Granted, some amazing players have been in the Fripp camp (John Wetton and Trey Gunn in particular), but if Claypool ripped anyone off it'd probably be Stanley Clarke. And no I'm not saying he did, I've been a Claypool fanboy for 13 years, about the same amount of time I've been playing bass.sumairetsu said:
Melvin Gibbs of the Rollins Band, that dude used a massive envelope filter to make this wickedly heavy tone, and had a lot of fun using doublestops and upper register work. My technique has borrowed his for many years.
David Ellefson was absolutely astounding on Rust in Peace, that is my favorite metal bass performance ever because it is just flashy enough to not get tedious, and the rest of the time just completely rock solid.
Alex Webster of course, that dude is a machine.
Janis Tanaka and later Jamie Myers of Hammers of Misfortune, both have great tone, great counterlines, and great vocals as well.
Many others, I'm just sticking with primarily metal bassists.
NAD
What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
No clue, but I haven't looked him up or anything. I always assumed he went back to the jazz circuit from whence he came. Just watching him play was fun, him and Robert Trujillo had that Imposing Bassist Stance down perfectly. Speaking of Trujillo, there's an awesome player letting his talents go to absolute waste right now. I still use Violent and Funky by Infectious Grooves to impress the ladyyyyzzzzz. :Spin:
Ah yah, the bassist for that English metalcore/prog/crossover/whatever band SIKTH is a fucking behemoth, one of those players who genuinly impresses me with his unique tricks, but everyone in that band is fucking amazing besides. Anyone who hasn't checked them out yet, do so immediatly, they completely live up to the hype.
anonymousnick2001
World's Greatest Vocalist
Sean Yseult from White Zombie. Fuckin' HEAVY tone, and FUCKING HOT chick. Good combination, methinks.
Amen to the Les Claypool. And the dude from Suffocation whose name escapes me. Pierced From Within just seethes with short-soiling basslines from that dude.
Amen to the Les Claypool. And the dude from Suffocation whose name escapes me. Pierced From Within just seethes with short-soiling basslines from that dude.
dill_the_devil
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The Grimace said:
Not to sound too much of an ass-suck, but I'm coming to believe that you are right in every word you say... seen Sikth live five times now, and I've been employing people to remove my teeth from the venue floor each time. Stunning band.
Also, Claypool rules supreme - first time I heard that bootleg mp3 of Claypool playing the lead guitar to Master Of Puppets... on bass... I nearly wept from my cock.
dill_the_devil said:
Bastard!
South Texas gets shit for non-major bands, even ones from America.
dill_the_devil
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That's harsh man, Sikth are definitely a band that needs to be experienced live - they've got the energy of hyperactive five year olds on a diet of speedballs.
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