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    Posted: September 10 2006 at 11:10
I had a very quick flick through a bass guitar magazine in the newsagents yesterday morning, when the cover indicated it was publishing an all time top 20  bass guitarists list. Geddy Lee 7, Flea 3, and guess what Jaco No.1  Anybody had time to properly browse and assimilate the full list?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2006 at 11:29
Haven't seen that particular one Dick but bass guitar pollls in these magazines are usually dominated by Jaco and Flea.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2006 at 11:51
Flea= great musician but heavily overrated


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2006 at 12:12
Squire and Entwisle , imo, deserve to be the top two regardless.  I think rutherford is underrated and deserves to be somewher in the top ten.  Geddly Lee is great, but I dont believe hes the best, he should be up ther though.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2006 at 12:14
In any publication, Jaco has to be number.  However my lists of top bassists would have to be:

Michael Manring
Jaco Pastorius
John Myung
Chris Squire
Tony Levin
Jonas Reingold
Geddy Lee
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2006 at 22:52
I personally think that Les Claypool and Chris Squire are the best bassists around, but their styles are different enough that comparing them sometimes gets down to a matter of preference.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2006 at 23:59
I hate lists.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 04:52
Originally posted by Zoso Zoso wrote:

I hate lists.


Me too, for the most part. My mind changes too much, which is the reason I never make lists like that of my one. Regarding lists in magazines, I always disagree with them, since the same people are always at the top. Jaco was surely amazing, but one of his old friends an pupils, Michel Hatzigeorgiou of the Belgian fusion band Aka Moon is quite a bit ahead of him. However, Aka Moon is realtively unknown, which is the reason why you don't see either of them (they're a trio) in any of these polls. Their drummer is seriously wicked aswell.

Another bassist I didn't see mentioned in this thread is Billy Sheehan. Surely one of the best!


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2006 at 05:08
Mine would definitely include Dany Thompson, Jack Casady, John Entwistle and Jack Bruce.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2006 at 02:13
These polls are always falsified by the factor of players famousness. There can be a real guru in some basement playing much better than Flea.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2006 at 09:29
Originally posted by Zoso Zoso wrote:

I hate lists.


I go a little way with the sentiment.


Polls on TV and in the media are usually corrupted by having first been passed by a committee of a few people, who are both biassed and rarely have a comprehensive overview of their subject. (The 20005 Mojo poll of alltime prog albums had an element of that about it). When the public have a free vote (but how often is that?) artists and/or albums (or singles, if come to that) released in the last year seem to feature disproportionately (because the public can have a very short term collective  memory). Maybe in the case of albums, banning inclusion of recordings less than 2 or even 3 years young may give focus to recordngs which have legs and long term appeal. Last time I saw a poll of all greatest rock albums which appeared to make some unbiassed sense and had  an absense of recent releases, was published (of all magazines) Rolling Stone about 20 years ago!!! (But then the list of British albums threaded here at a fortnight ago had something about it...)


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 14 2006 at 22:33
but lists are fun to bitch about hehehe.........but i suppose when they are done up by obviously uninformed hacks/posers and released to 'impressionable' younglings that def sucks!!!!
 
imagine some sh*tty lifestyle fashion mag tries to do up a top 20 prog albums list.........u can smell the stench of ignorance!!!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 15 2006 at 18:37
Jack Bruce should be up there somewhere.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 16 2006 at 16:08

Lists need to be treated with suspicion..or even contempt?? It's music we're talking about, not a Formula 1 race! But nonetheless there's nothing quite like a poll to stir up a bit a discussion!! (Not suprised to hear Jaco was No1)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 18 2006 at 13:07
Geddy Lee of course
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2006 at 17:12
Victor wooten,chris squire,tony levin,geddy lee  and,there are many brazilians jazzrock and jazzfusion with brazilian rythms that are incredibles bassists

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2006 at 17:22
John Paul Jones should be on that list. But obviously not as high as Chris Squire or Geddy Lee,imo, but still Led Zeppelin's bassist is pretty underrated from what I have heard from people.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 07 2006 at 19:22
Lists always piss me off! I'm the greatest and bass is only my 2nd instrument!
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