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10/4/05 12:40am
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Dead- Cliff Burton
Alive- Tom Araya
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10/4/05 12:41am
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i hate how people think that flea is the best bassist of all time. even for his genre he is not as good as everyone thinks he is. I have 3 choices for best bassist of all time.
1. Les Claypool
2. Victor Wooten
3. Jaco Pastorius
yes, jaco pastorius was a great bass player, but i do not think he was the best. Victor Wooten is just as good as Jaco Pastorius. But, I believe Les Claypool is by far the best bassist of all time. I have seen him live twice and it is incredible. There is no one not even Jaco Or Victor Wooten that can play the bass like les claypool. I also believe that Les claypool is the most rounded bass player, if you listen to primus he has rock, funk, jazz and many more styles incorporated into his bass lines. if les claypool played bass like Victor Wooten or Jaco Pastorious i believe he could play jsut as well as either of them. I do not feel the same vice versa.
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Les is probably the most outrageous bassists ever, but not on my list of best bassists. Everything he does seems centered around strangeness done on the bass. He doesn't adapt well to others and that (in my book) takes points away. Not saying he isn't great, but rather that I find others to be functionally much better.
yesill agree that les is a strange person, but he does not do anything strange centered on the bass. he created his own insstrument called the whamola which is a one stringbass that he plays with a drumstick, yes a little weird but extremly innovative, not one other bassist could do that. also his style of music fits perfectly with the way he plays bass. id describe it as funk metal or funk rock, he can playy jazzy like victor wooten. he is definetly a best.
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Yossarian_42  Title: RUSH > ALL
Posts: 1,046
Registered: 2002-2-28 11:23:20
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Geddy Lee
Without question in my mind.
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Billy Sheehan
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_Brude_ Posts: 2
Registered: 2002-11-20 05:38:25
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Les Claypool
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my god rides a skateboard
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Les Claypool puts them all to shame.Thank you, and I whole-heartedly agree with you.
I mean, who else plays a six string, fretless bass, without a pick, AND sings those crazy ass songs?
LOL nice criteria. It immediately brought to mind "This amp goes to 11!"
Strange and unique do not automatically translate to best. I do not deny his skill and talent, but I'm a longtime bassist and I doubt he would crack my top 10. I've seen him live and he's certainly entertaining for whatever that's worth. Sheehan probably put on the best bassist live show I've ever seen with Mr. Big. The music was... well nm the music, him and Paul Gilbert working off of each other was spectacular. I've also enjoyed watching Geddy Lee and Doug Pinnick live. Pinnick had the bass tone from hell (I guess a wall of SVTs doesn't hurt. Much...).
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Steve DiGiorgio.
Awesome technical skills.
Very innovative.
Makes a fretless bass sound great in some extreme metal bands.
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Kah_HG  Title: Sorta like a dream, no... better.
Posts: 462
Registered: 2000-12-13 16:31:18
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Let's just end this
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Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase
Lions mauling humans, ain't no passing craze!
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xzibit & snoop dog from twisted transista
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