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Your favourite bassist?
Topic Started: Sep 25 2007, 06:30 PM (1,139 Views)
JoDuncan	Sep 25 2007, 06:30 PM Post #1
Advanced Member Posts: 143 Group: Members Member #189 Joined: January 17, 2007	Just curious... who are your favourite bassists? Cliff Burton John Paul Jones Justin Chancellor To name but three... peace and love Jo



zoidbergpsp	Sep 25 2007, 08:38 PM Post #2
Hippy Posts: 765 Group: Members Member #1,068 Joined: August 14, 2007	O god.. John Myung Steve Harris Geddy Lee Billy Sheehan the list goes on
	Check out my band! http://www.myspace.com/sbitheband


+ Rob S	Sep 25 2007, 09:14 PM Post #3
Retired Posts: 918 Group: Retired Member #770 Joined: July 6, 2007	Jimmie Dewar Martin Turner Andy Pyle Bob Skeet Gerry Macavoy Tony Levin Oh Hell there's hundreds of em......... Oh and an Honoury Mention for Paul Macartney
	"Drunk" is feeling sophisticated even though you can't say it!


+ Pantera_fan	Sep 26 2007, 06:39 AM Post #4
Retired Posts: 290 Group: Retired Member #745 Joined: July 3, 2007	Cliff Burton, his bass solo's match up to electric speed, he was really good
	15 years in the academy, he was like no cadet they had ever seen, a man so hard his veins bleed ice when he speaks he never says it twice the call him judge, last name Dredd so break the law and you'll wind up dead!!!


+ johnbrigade	Sep 26 2007, 08:45 AM Post #5
Retired Posts: 199 Group: Retired Member #1,088 Joined: August 15, 2007	hmmmmm.... Cliff Williams Timmy C Lemmy The Ox Jack Bruce
	Playing the right notes in the wrong order since 1994 ______________________________________________ My band


Flying Vee	Sep 26 2007, 10:39 AM Post #6
Weather Presenter Posts: 218 Group: Members Member #1,347 Joined: September 1, 2007	Flea Fat Mike Ali Mcmordie Bruce Foxton
	Boom Boom


MartinBarre	Sep 28 2007, 08:27 PM Post #7
Advanced Member Posts: 110 Group: Members Member #1,543 Joined: September 14, 2007	Steve Harris and Lemmy are obvious choices. Jeffrey Hammond from Tull, Dave Pegg from Tull and Fairport Convention. Rick Savage from Leppard - great vocalist too.



Artheus	Jul 5 2008, 04:59 PM Post #8
Member Posts: 31 Group: Members Member #8,647 Joined: July 5, 2008	It's a hard choice but... 1.Steve Harris (twice!) 2. Jhon Myung 3. Jeffrey Hammond
	Ibanez RG 1570 Line 6 Spider II 212 Marshall JCM 25/50 2554 (1987) ARS LONGA, VITA BREVIS


monwobobbo	Jul 7 2008, 12:24 AM Post #9
Posts: 1,032 Group: Moderator Member #8,625 Joined: June 23, 2008	figure i'll mention a couple of guys who don't get much press but are great players DENNIS DUNAWAY - from the original Alice Cooper band. he has some really cool lines if you take the time to listen. BURKE SHELLEY - from Budgie i figure this being an UK website some of you might know him. the end of Stranded is awesome not tough to play but sounds cool. PETE WAY- from UFO.
	and now for something completely different


z.dixon	Sep 26 2008, 11:06 AM Post #10
Newbie Posts: 5 Group: Members Member #8,849 Joined: September 22, 2008	Flea, without a doubt, not forgetting duff tho!
	I'm on the night train...


mynameisDavid	Sep 26 2008, 09:51 PM Post #11
Member Posts: 1,102 Group: Moderator Member #294 Joined: March 2, 2007	Cliff Burton..
	CHECK OUT MY BAND! Bands we've shared the stage with: TBD! (for now...) http://www.reverbnation.com/newasylum


CarvinGuy	Oct 4 2008, 02:54 AM Post #12
Member Posts: 27 Group: Members Member #159 Joined: December 29, 2006	Steve Harris without a doubt and i know I will get crap for this but the guy from Dream Theater. ( I don't know his name)
	THAT WHICH DOES NOT KILL US, ONLY MAKES US STRONGER!


risklogic	Oct 13 2008, 07:33 AM Post #13
Newbie Posts: 12 Group: Members Member #8,906 Joined: October 11, 2008	KISAKI (various bands), Ray (Aliene Maφriage, ネガ, others), Jasmine You (雀羅, HIZAKI grace project, others), Tsunehito (SCISSOR, D). I think those are my top four right now. Japanese guys so I doubt anyone cares.



chucas	Oct 13 2008, 03:38 PM Post #14
Newbie Posts: 18 Group: Members Member #3,856 Joined: January 24, 2008	1. Jonas Hellborg 2.Billy Sheehan 3.David Ellefson 4.Stu Hamm 5.Victor Wooten



chucas	Oct 13 2008, 03:39 PM Post #15
Newbie Posts: 18 Group: Members Member #3,856 Joined: January 24, 2008	John Myung in place of Victor Wooten, though countless bassists deserve respect and I love Sting's music though not really obsessed with his playing


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