Best bass player in all of rock, all-time

Setanta wrote:

But i was just layin' back on ya . . . waitin' to set this one up . . . Lola will be here to dance and shout if she sees this one . . .

THE GREATEST BASS PLAYER OF ALL TIME:

WILLIAM "BOOTSY" COLLINS

BOOTSY BABY!

My vote goes with Bootsy. After all, he did usher in my first serious trip on mushrooms when I was seventeen. I'd had a few stems, a few caps, and by the time Bootsy took the stage in the middle of one of those infamously long P-Funik shows, light seemed to stroke me in waves, Bootsy had his back to the crowd, his braids swinging in what seemed like stop-motion, crazy space sounds burping forth from his guitar.

Also, Funkadelic is way too often overlooked. One of my favorite bands right now.

"****, goddamn, get off your ass and jam!"

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I would say Nikki Sixx. Motley Crue had the most complex bass lines. Either him, or the guy from Blink 182.

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OK, so where is Kicky?

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OK, so where is Kicky?

i don't think kicky is a very good bass player...

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VICTOR WOOTEN of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

Look search him on a site like youtube, he's about as good as it gets.

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ossobuco wrote:

OK, so where is Kicky?

I'm right here. Where is Osso?

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I like that guy from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

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boomerang wrote:

I like that guy from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Flea can play.

For five seconds he was in this great hardcore band called Fear.

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Flea is one funky sum bitch....no doubt.....and just who is one of Flea's major influences?....Bootsy.

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CarbonSystem wrote:

VICTOR WOOTEN of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

yep, Victor is great. So is Stanley Clarke. We caught Clarke playing with Bela Fleck and Jean-Luc Ponty last year- great show!

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Bi-Polar Bear wrote:

I repeat... CHRIS SQUIRE...

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He was the uncredited bassist on most of Motown Records' hits in the 1960s and early 1970s, and he has become regarded as one of the most influential bass guitar players in modern music history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson

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John Paul Jones anyone?

Stanley Clarke

Victor Wooten

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Mike Watt. Case closed

From the minutemen

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great thread

but no idea who is best

i've learned a hell of a lot from Mani (stone roses) and flea (red hots)
(mostly, that I'm never going to be an especially good bass-guitarist)

i've an ear for Roger Glover (Deep purple) and i think James Jamerson (motown session man) gets overlooked

check out Jamerson here, 'sitting in' (how big was this guy?) on Marvin Gaye's (still apt for today)
What's Going On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiZC_WrCqKk&mode=related&search=

(30 years on - and we still don't know what the f*ck's going on)

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I saw Stanley Clarke when he played with Return to Forever a couple years after they won a Grammy for the album 'No Mystery'.

...don't know if those references mean anything to anyone here, but...

Stanley Clarke is an amazing bassist, and I don't know how anyone could be better.

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snood wrote:

I saw Stanley Clarke when he played with Return to Forever a couple years after they won a Grammy for the album 'No Mystery'.

...don't know if those references mean anything to anyone here, but...

Stanley Clarke is an amazing bassist, and I don't know how anyone could be better.

my thoughts, exactly. watching him with those spider-like fingers struck awe in me the first time i saw him perform.

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I checked out Stanley Clarke here

http://www.stanleyclarke.com/frontpage.htm

(his offical website)

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Another vote for Mike Watt. Minutemen, fIREHOSE, and now the Stooges.

And can you believe he actually sat in for a few tracks on Kelly Clarkson's new album?

http://www.gibsonbass.com/graphics/mikewatt8.jpg

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I'm going with Les.

I'll throw out these for consideration:

John Myung-Dream Theater
Steve Harris-Iron Maiden
Cliff Burton-Metallica

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my beloved '71 Jazz bass...I played bass for 20 years and Jamerson was who I admired. Also Chas Chandler of the aAnimals.
Then came Jaco Pastorious and I sorta got left behind...awestruck

Paul McCartney I think was the best at supporting melodies and vocals...now Victor Wooten holds me spellbound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWb-aCWR8U

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