Guitarists
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@MN5 said in Guitarists:
@MajorRage said in Guitarists:
@MN5 Really doubtt the bassists thread will be big enough to need it's own separate one from this!
Fine…..ok then. Not in order, there’s no standout number one…..
1 Larry Graham ( invented slap bass, enough said )
2 Steve Harris ( his galloping bass lines are genius, in a band full of wicked musos he is the best )
3 Les Claypool ( so weird, so unique, his slap lines and whammy bar work are ridiculously good )
4 Flea ( I mean, he has to be there right ? )
5 John Entwistle ( did some freaky shit that no one has managed to replicate )
6 Robert Trujillo ( a monster for Metallica but he really shines in infectious grooves )
7 Geezer Butler ( along with Tony Iommi created the genre we know and love )
8 John Paul Jones ( some seriously tasteful grooves and riffs )
9 Stuart Zender ( Cool grooves and some wicked effects, made an 8 string bass sound magnificent )
10 Bill Gould ( He can really do all styles brilliantly, shows admirable restraint sometimes compared to others but can also thump with the best )Interesting. Where do you put whichever of the DeLeo brothers who plays bass for STP?
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@MajorRage said in Guitarists:
@MN5 said in Guitarists:
@MajorRage said in Guitarists:
@MN5 Really doubtt the bassists thread will be big enough to need it's own separate one from this!
Fine…..ok then. Not in order, there’s no standout number one…..
1 Larry Graham ( invented slap bass, enough said )
2 Steve Harris ( his galloping bass lines are genius, in a band full of wicked musos he is the best )
3 Les Claypool ( so weird, so unique, his slap lines and whammy bar work are ridiculously good )
4 Flea ( I mean, he has to be there right ? )
5 John Entwistle ( did some freaky shit that no one has managed to replicate )
6 Robert Trujillo ( a monster for Metallica but he really shines in infectious grooves )
7 Geezer Butler ( along with Tony Iommi created the genre we know and love )
8 John Paul Jones ( some seriously tasteful grooves and riffs )
9 Stuart Zender ( Cool grooves and some wicked effects, made an 8 string bass sound magnificent )
10 Bill Gould ( He can really do all styles brilliantly, shows admirable restraint sometimes compared to others but can also thump with the best )Interesting. Where do you put whichever of the DeLeo brothers who plays bass for STP?
I love the band but not sure he’s much of a stand out. I do love the baseline in this one though….He also gets a strangely unique grungy/loungy sound with his bro which I appreciate too…..and kudos to them for finding a singer to match Weiland ! Would love to see them in concert early next year but time won’t allow it.
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@MN5 said in Guitarists:
1 Larry Graham ( invented slap bass, enough said )
No he didn't.
He popularised it, he re-invented it, he arguably invented modern slap bass, but he didn't invent slap bass.
He was about 50 years too late to have invented it. Jazz, swing, rockabilly all used slap.
Still have Graham in my top 10 though. Along with I Jack Bruce, Carol Kaye and James Jamerson
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@dogmeat said in Guitarists:
@MN5 said in Guitarists:
1 Larry Graham ( invented slap bass, enough said )
No he didn't.
He popularised it, he re-invented it, he arguably invented modern slap bass, but he didn't invent slap bass.
He was about 50 years too late to have invented it. Jazz, swing, rockabilly all used slap.
Still have Graham in my top 10 though. Along with I Jack Bruce, Carol Kaye and James Jamerson
debatable, on a bass guitar he did. But yes I get that some guys did a form of slapping on double basses prior to him doing it.
Jack Bruce was pretty overrated IMHO but the other two deserve a mention, both played extremely well on a truckload of well known songs.
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@Tim said in Guitarists:
@voodoo said in Guitarists:
Well I went to the Sum41/Offspring concert last night, and Noodles said he was the best guitarist in history. Looks like you guys all got it wrong
Speaking of ...
I have no idea how you can listen to those clowns Tim!
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@voodoo said in Guitarists:
@Tim said in Guitarists:
@voodoo said in Guitarists:
Well I went to the Sum41/Offspring concert last night, and Noodles said he was the best guitarist in history. Looks like you guys all got it wrong
Speaking of ...
I have no idea how you can listen to those clowns Tim!
Nothing Tim does surprises me
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@Victor-Meldrew Based on that crowd you must like Knopfler then? He did some work with Chet Atkins which is fun to listen to. He is exceptional but probably misses the guitar God category because he is not really a rocker. But the way he strings together notes with different volumes is fantastic.
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the bass player from Korn
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@Crucial said in Guitarists:
Bass
Jamerson
Pastorius
Kaye
Entwhistle
Dunn
Bootsy
Macca
Louis Johnson
JPJ
ShakespeareEdit: honourable mention of Lemmy because….well Lemmy
All worth mentioning apart from a couple who would be absolutely no where near my list.
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@MN5 said in Guitarists:
@Crucial said in Guitarists:
Bass
Jamerson
Pastorius
Kaye
Entwhistle
Dunn
Bootsy
Macca
Louis Johnson
JPJ
ShakespeareEdit: honourable mention of Lemmy because….well Lemmy
All worth mentioning apart from a couple who would be absolutely no where near my list.
I’m guessing Thunder Thumbs and Robbie S?
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@Crucial said in Guitarists:
@MN5 said in Guitarists:
@Crucial said in Guitarists:
Bass
Jamerson
Pastorius
Kaye
Entwhistle
Dunn
Bootsy
Macca
Louis Johnson
JPJ
ShakespeareEdit: honourable mention of Lemmy because….well Lemmy
All worth mentioning apart from a couple who would be absolutely no where near my list.
I’m guessing Thunder Thumbs and Robbie S?
No…..
The Beatle ( seriously, they wrote what people consider great pop songs, but NONE of them were musical prodigies )
…..and “Duck” Dunn ( just a solid blues bassist, nothing more )
Louis Johnson was a fucken awesome player. I learnt a fair bit from his hot licks video…..
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@MN5 you probably noticed that my list had a fair leaning toward creating big selling songs.
Jaco is only there as if he wasn’t someone would scream at the lack of credibility and Bootsy because I love his early playing with James Brown.I thought about whether Macca deserved to be there but when he started experimenting in later Beatles records he showed some very inventive layering to the songs. Plus I had to have a Rickenbacker in there.
Duck Dunn wasn’t flashy but like Kaye you can’t dispute the results.
Favs that I haven’t put on are Pallidino, Watt-Roy, Hook and Foxton
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@Crucial said in Guitarists:
@MN5 you probably noticed that my list had a fair leaning toward creating big selling songs.
Jaco is only there as if he wasn’t someone would scream at the lack of credibility and Bootsy because I love his early playing with James Brown.I thought about whether Macca deserved to be there but when he started experimenting in later Beatles records he showed some very inventive layering to the songs. Plus I had to have a Rickenbacker in there.
Duck Dunn wasn’t flashy but like Kaye you can’t dispute the results.
Favs that I haven’t put on are Pallidino, Watt-Roy, Hook and Foxton
Kaye did this cool bassline which I always admired ( the music is as iconic as the film )
Watt Roy ? Weird looking fucker but shit he did some brilliant lines.
Bootsy was actually pretty restrained with James Brown, he came into his own later on.
The Beatles as I’ve said on here repeatedly aren’t really to my taste overall but I certainly can’t deny their legacy…..but that is as lyricists and song crafters, not musos.