Your Top 5 Bass Guitarists Of All Time

[Don Corleone]

no he doesnt. and how can you be so sure? all we really know from interviews is that they go into the studio together. you could at most say they collaborate.

 

[wankerness]

no he doesnt. and how can you be so sure? all we really know from interviews is that they go into the studio together. you could at most say they collaborate.

Well since the bass generally follows the guitar you could SORT OF say that he writes the bass lines but I can guarantee that he doesn't write all the fills and everything. I doubt he ever really tells him what to do besides 'follow the guitars here, fill here' except for probably random instances like say...that part in GoP shortly before the 'GHOST OF PERDITION!" part where the bass keeps wanging on some note that's really dissonant to the guitars...he surely had some specific note in mind and just told him to freak out around it.

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

Yeah, I mean, it's not like you can have a jazz bassline in chordal-based death metal like Opeth. Even in some "single note"/riffing DM bands like Nile, you can't really have a bassline that does more than follow the guitars, because it'd make no sense. It's like having the left guitar do one thing, then have the right guitar play a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT thing. It makes no sense.

 

[Powers]

It's like having the left guitar do one thing, then have the right guitar play a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT thing. It makes no sense.

On the one hand a song like this would sound rubbish, on the other, it would be avante garde as fuck. The kind of shit Beefheart would do.

 

[Hlfreak]

umm... he pretty much writes all the music, i don't know where you get youre info.. he played bass on mayh, but he writes the bass for everything else

And I suppose that is writes all the drum parts also? Watch lamentations.

 

[BurningSky]

Um... I have watched lamentations. He does write drum parts, but not all. I figured it was common knowledge that mike writes like all the music, but i guess not.

 

[MrJack]

umm... he pretty much writes all the music, i don't know where you get youre info.. he played bass on mayh, but he writes the bass for everything else

just because mendez doesn't write his own music makes him a bad bass player. I don't like anybody more or less because they write or they don't write their own music- as long as they can play it and they do well, I like them. Thats why mendez is on my list.

 

[xXBraveMurderDay]

Martin Mendez

Lemmy

 

[BurningSky]

I agree it doesnt make him better or worse, but it's less impressive to me if someone doesn't write their own lines. I like mendez a lot, i can tell he's a really good basis, but i personally like bassists more than do their own thing.

 

[Hlfreak]

Um... I have watched lamentations. He does write drum parts, but not all. I figured it was common knowledge that mike writes like all the music, but i guess not.

So, I guess you missed the part were lopez said that he writes 90 percent of the drum parts?

 

[worldwide_suicide]

don't be stupid!!!! mendez writes his own bass lines, mikael comes up with all the ideas for songs and structures, but it's the other guys who add their own stuff to the songs.... it's just that for the records it's common to say "mikael writes all the songs", but "writing all the songs" is different than "writing all the music"

 

[Hlfreak]

don't be stupid!!!! mendez writes his own bass lines, mikael comes up with all the ideas for songs and structures, but it's the other guys who add their own stuff to the songs.... it's just that for the records it's common to say "mikael writes all the songs", but "writing all the songs" is different than "writing all the music"

Thank you.

 

[BurningSky]

I disagree.

 

[worldwide_suicide]

then there's only one thing we can do.... FIGHT!!!

or... wait til mikael comes and tells us what the truth is!!!

 

[Hlfreak]

I bet that mikael writes peter's guitar solo's as well

 

[worldwide_suicide]

of course he does!!!! dont be a dumbass... mikael writes all the songs, obviously he writes peter's solos ... in fact, he told steven wilson what to play in BWP, D1 and D2... you know, he writes all the songs, there's no other way around it dumbass!

EDIT: grammar error

 

[Rocky Raccoon]

Les Claypool- The god of bass guitar
Cliff Burton- Legendary Metal god
Steve harris- Amazing songwriter and bass player
Justin Chancellor- Tool wouldn't sound the same without him
Paul McCartney:-One of the most amazing sonwriters of all time

 

[Riryoku]

lol. Martin Mendez can beat everyone's sorry ass here at bass. FACT.

Anyway...my top five?

1. Lars Norberg (Spiral Architect)
2. John Myung (Dream Theater)
3. Steve Cloutier (Gorguts)
4. Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse)
5. Steve Digorgio (the list goes on and on)

And you can probably sneak Sean Malone in there somewhere.

 

[BurningSky]

I bet that mikael writes peter's guitar solo's as well

hahahaha....haha.....ha...... .ha....... ...

 

[Led Opeth]

It's like having the left guitar do one thing, then have the right guitar play a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT thing. It makes no sense.

never listend to GnR? lol