Best Male Bassist Living....

**Bossk77** · 06-01-2005

Originally Posted by Monstermile

Didya ever get a chance to see Cliff live Bossk?? He was a madman on stage. Incredible is all I can say. I'm glad I got a chance to see him perform before he died.

Alas, no i was going to see him and i got the Pox...

i did see Newstead. choke.... Lemmy is good and so is Van Stienstine or what ever his name is from the Misfits.

The defining line of a basist is do you sit and play root notes or do you write your own and go from there and improvise. The answer is an easy one. BTW the Bassist from Mudvayne is pretty good as well.

Long live the bassist from MAN O WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FEEL THE POWER OF MY SWORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**Bacta Beast** · 06-02-2005

1. Abraham Laboriel
2. John Pattitucci
3. Tommy Sims
4. Billy Sheehan
5. Randy Jackson (No I'm not joking, the Dawg can play!)
6. Les Claypool
7. Geddy

**2-1B** · 06-02-2005

"The Tall Cool One," Tom Hamilton.

**JimJamBonds** · 06-02-2005

While not a bass player persay Viv Savage layed down some nasty bass lines when filling in for Nigel Tufnel on Big Bottom!

Jim Jam

**2-1B** · 06-02-2005

Of course he did, as he said "sure, I've got two hands."

**mabudonicus** · 06-02-2005

Originally Posted by Bossk77

Long live the bassist from MAN O WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FEEL THE POWER OF MY SWORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joey DeMaio (sp??)
That guy is incredible- I've seen Maiden live a few times and Harris is good, REAL good, and Lemmy is a TRUE powerhouse, but I would consider him a rock bassist- he doesn't flaunt his chops like he could if he weren't the leader of MOTORHEAD (IMO the only performer in MOTORHEAD who gets to show his true talent is Mickey D- even Phil Campbell is amazing but with the arrangements the way they are you'd never know it) DeMaio takes the cake, he's like the 6 million dollar bassist- when he plays that crazy piccolo bass you can't even see his hands, and he has the full bag of wacky techniques that he can actually pull off and he fully understands how much is too much- his structures are insanely complex and yet easily accessible, so alas, my vote must be for him....
In the deceased column, it'd be Jaco Pastorius (a jazz guy but most of this list would not exist without what he did for electric bass in general)

**basschick** · 06-02-2005

the first ones who come to mind are:

flea - when he wants, he can be very versatile.
les claypool
bootsy collins
fieldy from korn - whether ya like the music or not, he helped bring bass to the front of metal instead of the one repeating note bass lines like you find in old priest.

**mabudonicus** · 06-03-2005

Originally Posted by basschick

fieldy from korn - whether ya like the music or not, he helped bring bass to the front of metal instead of the one repeating note bass lines like you find in old priest.

Uhhhhh.... KORN didn't do anything for anyone, the bassist from Deep Purple beat them goofballs to it by about 20 years

All KORN did was prove that even the term "Metal" can have shameful connotations

**arctangent** · 06-03-2005

imo its got to be Geddy Lee

**evenflow** · 06-03-2005

Peter Steele is awesome, and it made my day to see the thread start out with him since i have been a huge Type O fan since the beginning. Still, I have to go with Les Claypool. Having seen Les play in several of his different bands, and each time i am completely amazed.