100 Greatest Bass Players in Rock/Pop

Its because when most people pick a musician, they normally pick that musician for their love or admiration of the band. That musician may not technically be the best, but that`s not what music is all about for a lot of people.
 
"Originality" and "bassist" weren't worRAB that were really used in the same sentence before Jaco and Stanley came around. Even Mingus built his reputation more on being a composer/arranger than on being an upright bass player. Sure there were the greats: Ron Carter, Scott Lafaro, Charlie Hayden, Dave Holland, Paul Charabers, and even Mingus, but there reputations were built on being able to keep up with the fast pasted chord progressions of the bebop and post-bop era, and not really there creative output.
 
Yay. I would have cried if he wasn't included.

Also, one that wasn't listed: one of my favourite bassists is Ryan Martinie. I know that the band he is associated with isn't very appealing (Mudvayne) but he is an awesome bassist. The sounRAB he can make with his bass sometimes are just insane. There's one particular song (I can't for the love of me remeraber its name) where his bass actually sounRAB like a really weird pig snort. But in a cool way. ANYWAY, in my opinion he'd be up there.
 
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[thinks] 'hhmmm...whats the meaning of 42?'
[says aloud] oh craps, don't know, ok... let me check my Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, hhmmm

Mark King??? :thurab:
 
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^ plus most people wouldn't call Stanley Clarke pop/rock either. don't mean to detract from his awesomeness but this is more about the musicians that would lead a listener to someone of Clarke's caliber.

i know for myself listening to Flea and learning from his interviews opened me up to Charles Mingus.

besides music isn't a competition there's no such thing as 'best'. anyone worth listening to recognizes this.
 
A certain individual called Victor Wooten is hanRAB down the best bassist I have ever heard.

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Also Jack Bruce is fucking ace. I saw part of the Cream Renunion concert where everything Clapton was playing he played it on the bass. He plays the bass like a fucking lead guitar. Also a great vocalist.

Here he is with the excellent but short lived BBM (Bruce Baker Moore)

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It's not lurking in the shadows, it is called a bass, and it has low tones. Some bass players like flat wound other like round wound and signal processors, rergardless how it sound it what the bass player is doing, I don't think anyone in the world could of filled Noe's shoes, and still have the same recording, another bass player would play it differently. I think the only solution is to have Jimi Hendrix and Noel Redding mentioned with Billy Cox.

There's no crime of being a guitar player before picking up bass, other guitar players that switched to bass:
5. Paul McCartney
25. Carol Kaye
35. Paul Simonon

I don't know why Nick Lowe is left off the list, awesome bass player, and producer, and had a lasting effect on music imo because of it.

I can understand why you didn't have Dave Smythe, Bruce Foxton, and Andrew Bodnar, it's such obvious anti-British sentiment, that it neeRAB no explaination.

But I don't get why Joe Osborn is not the list, because you topped the list with a session musician, I thought you would know them all.
 
It's a well made list but I can't get over the feeling that some of the musicians here are only on this list because of their band's popularity/place in music history.
 
Very nice list, very well put together, although I might have ranked Les Claypool a little higher, maybe way higher, what about Chris Antrobus from Shoveltooth, IMO, I wouldn't have ranked Paul McCartney that high, just my opinion, don't kill me.haha :)
 
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