Bass Player Appreciation Thread

Waters isn't very good . . . .There, I said it! OxO


If you want really amazing Bass players on par with the Guitar gods of our world, think:

Victor Wooten (great Jazz-Rock Bassist with an unlimited amount of style),
Geddy Lee (well, you know how good he is, 'cause you listed him),
Justin Chancellor (Plays his Bass with distortion like a lead Guitar)
Chris Squire (Plays leads all the time with his treble cranked up. Signature style right there!)

 . . . and that really, really tall guy who plays Bass . . .

CHRIS SQUIRE WINS.

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Any Colour You Like wrote: p0mt3 wrote: Waters isn't very good . . . .There, I said it! OxO Haha, I know that, Gilmour played some of the more difficult parts anyway. Victor Wooten is amazing, but I still beleive that his technicality needs to be kept in check, otherwise he just sounds like a rambling, eccentric (but brilliant) mess.

Yep pretty much spot on.

I think Waters song writing is a fair trade for his bass playing.He's almost his Ying to Gilmour's yang (awaits flame)

mrcozdude wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: p0mt3 wrote: Waters isn't very good . . . .There, I said it! OxO Haha, I know that, Gilmour played some of the more difficult parts anyway. Victor Wooten is amazing, but I still beleive that his technicality needs to be kept in check, otherwise he just sounds like a rambling, eccentric (but brilliant) mess. Yep pretty much spot on. I think Waters song writing is a fair trade for his bass playing.He's almost his Ying to Gilmour's yang (awaits flame)

Waters was an exceptional songwriter in Pink Floyd. He has never been a very capable musician.

Captain Capricorn wrote: Bill Laswell is up there for me ...most of my favorite bass players come from a jazz background, e.g., Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke, Charles Mingus, etc.   I just recently bought an upright myself ...it's like riding an elephant

Great list there,I think their all great except I need to hear more lasswell.I only know him through painkiller,praxis and some Zorn.

I would love an upright but right now I need to get my self together of my electric haven't played bass properly for ages.I've been in a few uninspiring bands and I almost ripped my thumb of this year.

Btw Have you heard Duke Ellington's Money Jungle? Heard it today for the first time, perhaps one of my favourite Mingus performances for me.

progkidjoel wrote: On the note of Waters, its important to remember he basically wrote all of THE WALL Maybe not technically good, but as a writer, brilliant.

again, I seem to be ignored . . .

p0mt3 wrote: Waters was an exceptional songwriter in Pink Floyd. He has never been a very capable musician.

Any Colour You Like wrote: Ok, so now that we have established that Roger Waters is an average musician but talented songwriter, shall we move on? Favourite basslines? Or bass driven songs?

By who, Waters? None.


I am being a fanboy by saying this of course, but I like Tool's "Wings for Marie". Very Bass-heavy, and beautiful.

lol, not just by Waters - I'm not really a fanboy of his 

Colin Edwin's work on the Arriving Somewhere... DVD is really slick, especially Hatesong. (That's the PT fanboy in me)

The Quiet One wrote: Great, but not given all the credit they deserve: - Neil Murray - Dougie Thompson - Peter Trewavas - Ray Shulman - Gordon Haskell - Jonas Reingold - John Gustafson - Jeffrey Hammond

I guess I never really pay as much attention to those guys on their own as I do the bands they are in as a whole.

Padraic wrote: Hugh Hopper