Yeah, another music thread. I propose that Les Claypool from Primus is the best of all time.
Check out this NIB with Primus and Ozzy.
Most Badass bassist of all time.
by sooner7nc 45 Replies latest jw friends
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flipper
Paul McCartney- very underated as a bass guitar player. I have a friend who plays bass in a Beatles cover band in SoCal and he worships McCartney's bass playing. I loved John Paul Jones on Led Zeppelin as well. So many it's hard to remember
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sooner7nc
Cliff Burton also.
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Larry Graham the originator of funk slapping bass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipjTvRe7-Zg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENe5snEvzHM
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Bluegill
I like Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelins John Paul Jones.
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dudeson
I vote Victor Wooten:
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Best of all-time probably goes to Larry Graham.
Claypool's funky, creative playing style on the electric bass mixes finger-tapping, flamenco-like strumming, whammy bar bends (unusual on a bass guitar), a Larry Graham-like slap technique, and Geddy Lee influences.
Claypool developed a bass guitar slap technique listening to other bassists such as Stanley Clarke and Larry Graham.
He (Larry Graham) is credited with the invention of the slapping technique, which radically expanded the tonal palette of the bass, although he himself refers to the technique as "Thumpin' and Pluckin'." [ 1 ]
Graham, who is African American, [ 2 ] played bass in the highly successful and influential funk band Sly & the Family Stone from 1967 to 1972. It is said that he pioneered the art of slap-pop playing on the electric bass, in part to provide percussive and rhythmic elements in addition to the notes of the bass line when his mother's band lacked a drummer; the slap of the thumb being used to emulate a bass drum and the pop of the index or middle finger as a snare drum. [ 1 ] This style has become archetypal of modern funk. Slap-pop playing couples a percussive thumb-slapping technique of the lower strings with an aggressive finger-snap of the higher strings, often in rhythmic alternation. The slap and pop technique incorporates a large ratio of muted or "dead" notes to normal notes, which adds to the rhythmic effect.
This "Slap" bass style was later used by such artists as Les Claypool, Bootsy Collins, Louis Johnson, Mark King, Flea, Peter Hook, Jeff Berlin, Victor Wooten, Geddy Lee, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke, John Norwood Fisher, P-Nut, Danny McCormack, Matt Noveskey, Dirk Lance, Pino Palladino and Kenny Franklin (of San Mateo).
In 1975, Graham became one of Jehovah's Witnesses. [ 3 ]
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sooner7nc
It boggles the mind to realize that the guy who helped inspire "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" was a Dub.