Posted on 01/31/2023 3:19:59 PM PST by DallasBiff
GOAT hunt: The results are in! As voted for by you, the best of the bass revealed.
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You sure have started something.
I want to recognize you for your very humble demeanor. Bassists are very overlooked, but provide the *je ne sais quoi* that everyone LOVES about a band’s sound. My hats off to all bassists.
Reminds me of my high school days, where we’d all spend our lunch hours arguing over who was the best guitarist, drummer, etc.
Average list, hence I’d only agree with about half of it.
Obvious oversights others already mentioned are Billy Sheehan, and Steve Harris, which pretty much invalidate it from being anything close to definitive.
I’m giving you applause. Can you hear/feel it?
I agree.
She certainly is! What a prodigy! And so many guitars she has to choose from. Sounds like her dad is an aficionado of pop guitar music; but she is a phenomenon!
Head scratcher that he’s not on the list.
Problem is that Chicago wasn’t good enough for Peter and he didn’t want to play bass. Peter wanted to play lead but he was told that Terry was gonna play lead and he was gonna play bass.
Of course there was more to the story... One wouldn’t dare know anything about it but in spite of his own competence playing bass, it just wasn’t good enough for the guy, even as a member of Chicago. He was jealous of Terry Kath, RIP.
Hence his sappy solo career, plus some small roles in movies and stuff.
Bonus Jeopardy Answer:
This “Jazz-rock fusion” drummer has been called not only the best in his style but also one of the best rock drummers ever, period. Unfortunately, he was “not exactly a team player.”
No Lemmy? Absurd.
Danny Seraphine, fantastic drummer.
No Billy Sheehan, obviously the voters never heard anything from Talas.
And where is Lemmy?, one of the most influential bass players/sounding of all time.
Not completely a modern list, and band fame seems to have heavily effected their choices, I cannot disagree with Geddy Lee making the top spot. His style was near-ethereal, magic on a four-string. My opinion, Cliff Burton deserved a top-5 spot simply for his effort on “Call Of The Ktulu”.
Yes, blessed with all that talent, but raised as a young mobster. He could have done a cameo in The Sopranos.
These lists are both fun and aggravating. Fun because it always sparks a chance to do some searching and reminiscing about musicians or athletes or whatever; but aggravating because how impressible it is to please any reader. FWIW, my greatest bassist lit would so very different. Maybe it’s a modern list, but they do have (correctly) Jaco, Jamerson, Kaye, and Stanely Clark. Outside of the top 4 they list, I’m not too sure about anyone else on the list except Wooten, Miller, Collins, especially a You-Tuber!?! Thats a list killer right there. Any bassist list has to have Charles Mingus, Ray Brown, Roy Clark, Paul Chambers, Charlie Hayden etc. Players with proven talent over decades of work.
Just my 2c
The Beatles, despite their modern, somewhat elitist critics, made a mark on music that is arguably unsurpassed.
There were only four musicians that made it all happen in a span of less than ten years, and McCartney was one of them.
And yes, it’s easy to mock drivel like “Let Him In”, and “Wonderful Christmas Time”, but crank up “I Saw Her Standing There”, and “Come Together” and tell me the man couldn’t play bass with the best of ‘em.
3. John Entwistle (The Who)
He has always been #1 in my book
So? “First” is a stupid metric used by liberals. I am sure someone before Ox did it, so claiming first is really dumb.
I said Tim would be in my top five. Jack would be right behind him-—but he made this list and Tim didn’t.
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