Cliff Burton, ex-Metallica. Died in 1986 and had played on Metallica's albums Kill 'em All, Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dam i hate when people do this lol. We know who the * he is. no need for facts to make yourself look cool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flea is one crazy * bassist. If you look him up on putfile and that vid is sweet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Jamerson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cliff Burton was sweet bassist too like he said.....

 

 

 

:roll: :roll: :roll: not all people know who he is, especially with all the noobs on these messageboards, it was probably worth mentioning :roll: :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cliff burton for me too

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if your posting in "best Bassist ever" why wouldn't you kno who cliff burton is? but yeah i guess some emo good person kids don't know or some kid who only watches bands on mtv. :roll:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:roll: :roll:

 

 

 

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I'm an emo, and I knew who he was... so stop being dumb and steryotyping

and the bassist from Tool whose name I cannot remember.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justin Chancellor. He's a really weird bassist because he was actually a guitar player first. You can hear alot of that in his playing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My favourite bassists would be Cliff Burton, Geddy Lee, Roger Glover, Jimmy Bain and John Entwhistle.

Gene Simmons or Steve Harris

 

 

 

if i paid you 1 billion whatever your currency is, would you be the meat in a steve harris bruce [bleep]inson manwich?

P-Nut from 311.

FLEA!11!!111111111

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

He is awesome. So are the Chilis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also John Entwhistle (Sp?)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From The Who

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Who are one of the greatest bands ever

John's solo on "I can't explain"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

that should tell you WHO is the best.

bernard georges of throwing muses and 50 foot wave hands down.

FLEA :lol:

I for one didn'tt know who Cliff Burton is/was. I didn't know he was a bandmember from Metallica, and I didn't know he was dead. But then again, I guess I'm some "emo who only watches bands on MTV". " :roll: "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

QUIT THE FREAKING ROLL EYES; THEY DON'T SUIT YOU!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh Btw Sunwarrior.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freddy Mercury from Queen, Bruce [bleep]inson from Iron Maiden, Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin and Rob Halford from Judas Priest are kick wagon vocalists.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like we don't know those guys came with those bands. " :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's a reason you'll barely ever see me using smileys...

Roger Waters... :P

Cliff Burton, John Entwistle, Les Claypoo or Kris Novoselic.

id say adam clayton he does it for u2

Mudvayne's bassist is pretty good, sounds a lot different to most other bassists who tend to just follow the guitar.

Billy Gould from Faith No More is pretty good too.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seems the best bassists are play funk-rock; Billy Gould, as mentioned, Flea from RHCP and Les Claypool from Primus.

Wes Borland from Limp Bizkit, now before I start geting flamed for saying someone from Limp Bizkit, just remember that it's not the band Limp Bizkit you hate, it's the voice behind them.. Fred Durst, besides Wes left Limp and strated his own band and even did a few shows with From First to Last and recorded bass for their new album coming out in March. Also check out the band The Tragic, Jon Weisburg is an amazing bassist, he was the former bassist of FFTL.And also the bassist for Mudvayne is insane.

Wes Borland from Limp Bizkit, now before I start geting flamed for saying someone from Limp Bizkit, just remember that it's not the band Limp Bizkit you hate, it's the voice behind them.. Fred Durst, besides Wes left Limp and strated his own band and even did a few shows with From First to Last and recorded bass for their new album coming out in March. Also check out the band The Tragic, Jon Weisburg is an amazing bassist, he was the former bassist of FFTL.And also the bassist for Mudvayne is insane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't Wes the guitarist? Or does he do both?

 

Wes Borland from Limp Bizkit, now before I start geting flamed for saying someone from Limp Bizkit, just remember that it's not the band Limp Bizkit you hate, it's the voice behind them.. Fred Durst, besides Wes left Limp and strated his own band and even did a few shows with From First to Last and recorded bass for their new album coming out in March. Also check out the band The Tragic, Jon Weisburg is an amazing bassist, he was the former bassist of FFTL.And also the bassist for Mudvayne is insane.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isn't Wes the guitarist? Or does he do both?

I think he may have done guitar, but he's an amazing bassist. But hey he was originally from Limp Bizkit, so oh well.

Cliff Burton or Stever Harris, bot used 4 fingers, amazing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

like most of the people you guys named use pics...like gene simmons. he couldnt play worth crap

i'd say geddy lee or john myung.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just listen to yyz or metropoils from the bands they are in. metropolis has my favourite bass solo in.. and i've seen myung play it live.

John Myung from Dream Theater. His solos just own.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fieldy is a good slapper, like Flea.

i'd say geddy lee or john myung.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just listen to yyz or metropoils from the bands they are in. metropolis has my favourite bass solo in.. and i've seen myung play it live.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i have rush in rio and watching yyz and thier other "soloish" stuff like 2112 just blows your mind. everyone in that band has enough talent to feed all the starving kids in africa

Has to be Cliff Burton.

Victor Wooten (who was inspired by Jaco...so you can make a case either way). He is a pioneer of many bass techniques such as the amazing double-thumbing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's a link to a vid of him playing Amazing Grace. He starts of with just a nice solo. Then he goes into some faster stuff and ends up on Amazing Grace. This song is played on harmonics (technique originally spread by Jaco). He does some truly amazing things in this vid, so watch all the way through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... tor+wooten

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(It's google...safe link)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Second vid. Interested in some of the BEST slap bass/chicken-picking you've ever seen? Yeah, watch this vid. It's Vic and I think his bro who plays guitar having a sort of duet/battle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.planetvids.com/html/Amazing- ... attle.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Warning: That site contains some PG-13 material. Just in case you're worried)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Watch these vids, especially the second one, before you try and convince me otherwise. Victor Wooten is an amazing bass guitarist.

Victor Wooten is great

John Deacon or Roger Walters