Jonas Hellborg is the best bass player in the world. I think. He can do things that even Marcus Miller can't and his music is very beautiful and spiritual and all that good stuff. He plays the acoustic bass guitar a lot. Unless he's rocking out with his avant-garde noise trio. Then he's VERY LOUD. And he can slap this fast: xxxxxxxxxlhjdgv kjhdvgksdjhgvkdjhvgkdjhgvakhjvgaskjdhvgkajshdv
And please, no sarcastic responses like McCartney.
I am not sure that McCartney was intended as a sarcastic response by the person who posted it, nor should he be. Whatever you think of McCartney's often fluffy songwriting (solo, especially), he is widely respected as a musician and frequently appears on serious best-bassists lists. For example, this one. Listen to McCartney's playing on "Rain" - one of the best "unknown" Beatles songs - and tell me the guy is/was not a great player.
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No doubt.
Originally posted by tonton
Who else?
john entwistle (rest in peace)
christopher squire
Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies)
Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band)
Both of them preform some amazing Bass solos
John Entwhistle
Jack Bruce
Jaco
whatever the guys name is that played with Yanni at the acropolis.... he was awesome
Originally posted by BRussell
The best bassists are those that don't have solos.
i agree, but an exception must be made for entwhistles little fills on "my generation"
Jeff
Originally posted by jeffyboy
Paul McCartney!
Jeff
CRAN........BERRY.......SAUCE...........
Listen to his playing on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and try to argue that it gets any better than that.
Jonas Hellborg is the best bass player in the world. I think. He can do things that even Marcus Miller can't and his music is very beautiful and spiritual and all that good stuff. He plays the acoustic bass guitar a lot. Unless he's rocking out with his avant-garde noise trio. Then he's VERY LOUD. And he can slap this fast: xxxxxxxxxlhjdgv kjhdvgksdjhgvkdjhvgkdjhgvakhjvgaskjdhvgkajshdv
Originally posted by tonton
And please, no sarcastic responses like McCartney.
I am not sure that McCartney was intended as a sarcastic response by the person who posted it, nor should he be. Whatever you think of McCartney's often fluffy songwriting (solo, especially), he is widely respected as a musician and frequently appears on serious best-bassists lists. For example, this one. Listen to McCartney's playing on "Rain" - one of the best "unknown" Beatles songs - and tell me the guy is/was not a great player.
but he is really good...
Billy Sheehan isnt it ?
but geddy lee was always underated in my book.
oh yeah, and judah bauer of jon spencer blues explosion.
i'd also like to give props to the best dual bassist threat
to every walk the earth in the form of matt cheslin and
alex griffin of ned's atomic dustbin fame.
And the Black Sabbath bassist... GEEZER!
Also... Roger Waters
and the amazing Nathan Watts (stevie wonder's main man)