Is this guy not amazing? He has to be the best bass player around.

He's pretty good. Sublime used to be my all time favorite band, and he was my hero..but..i grew out of it. My only complaint is that he improvises too much. I have yet to get the Date Rape song down pact cuz i can't seem to tab all his improv...oh well. Cool guy.

I'm learning "Santeria" for a band I'm working with. It's a nice jumpy little bass line, and I like the song. My impression is that he uses patterns around chords, so it wasn't overly hard to figure out. If you can't figure out his improv, do your own; it wasn't meant to have definite structure in the first place! ;)

yeah eric is the man...
his best basslines in my opinion are the ones in 40 Oz to freedom...then in Robbin´ the hood and finally in self titled cd.

this means that he did a splendid job in their first CD but it feels like they were going to get more pop, so the bass were "softened" in a way. you can hear the diference between the first and the last record.

but anyway he´s great.

(I haven´t heard him with the long beach dub allstars, but i´m willing to)

see ya

eric's the guy who made me want to play bass, because he dominated the band, musically. i love brad nowell's voice but all he did musically was throw in some choked-off ska riffs from time to time, so the songs were really built around eric. he's great in LBDAS as well.

he is a great bass player. Sublime was a sweet ska band(even though i think ska isn't really that good).he is probably the main reason i liked them

I'm going to bring back a 9 year old thread just to add this:
Eric Wilson is Jesus.

I'm going to bring back a 9 year old thread just to add this:
Eric Wilson is Jesus.

9 years later. Yes, still true.

But John Lennon is bigger than Eric Wilson.:D

But John Lennon is bigger than Eric Wilson.:D

Ohh, so that's what he meant :p

I love Eric's playing with Sublime: my bro in law has made me listen to Sublime's best every time we take a yearly trip and it is one of the best things about the drive!



Eric Wilson is Jesus.

When Eric dies on the cross for our sins- then we'll see... but I highly doubt it ;)

Eric Wilson looks like he ate John Lennon.....

Eric Wilson looks like he ate John Lennon.....

Harsh..

He single handedly led me to purchase my very first bass!

Eric is my all time favorite bass player. When he plays live, no matter what he is playing, he makes it look like the easiest line in the world!

Eric Wilson makes Sublime sublime.