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12-04-2010, 01:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Houston, Tx | | | Bassists you like for their genius basslines, whos not known for that.
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My personal favorite is Mike Dirnt. I went back through all my old greenday albums and was listening to them. His basslines aren't hard or complicated or anything. The best way I could describe them is "Mike Dint bassline". I think his basslines have gotten more and more less genius since american idiot. But on albums like Dookie or Smoothed Out slappy Hours the writing is amazing, and people often over look his writing ability.
I guess my examples are Welcome To Paradise, Basket Case and She. And of course EVERYBODY knows about Longview.
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12-04-2010, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hermitage, PA | | | Mike Dirnt's a good one.
My other two would be Krist Novoselic and Gene Simmons, especially Gene.
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12-04-2010, 01:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: montesano, washington | | | Agree on Mike Dirnt. I was never into Greenday, but a friend gave me a bunch of old albums and there are actually some pretty sweet basslines. New greenday on the other hand...
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12-04-2010, 01:26 PM
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12-04-2010, 01:27 PM
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12-04-2010, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Noseferatu Mike Dirnt's a good one.
My other two would be Krist Novoselic and Gene Simmons, especially Gene. | Gene has GREAT lines. Krist too, especially on lithium and about a girl. Quote:
Originally Posted by drewfunk Agree on Mike Dirnt. I was never into Greenday, but a friend gave me a bunch of old albums and there are actually some pretty sweet basslines. New greenday on the other hand... | Yeah. I bought the new album out of excitement, and it sucked pretty bad. |
12-04-2010, 01:32 PM
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Matt Freeman = Rancid
Paul McCartney = Beatles
James Jamerson = MOTOWN
This is a good three for me as they run the gamuit from punk to R&B to ...well ...The Beatles! I could think of alot more. but my list would be uber long 
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12-04-2010, 01:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Saratoga Springs, NY | | | Tom Scholz on the 1st Boston album - yes that is Tom on bass, most people think it's Fran, but it is indeed the masterful Tom on bass. Awesome bass album/CD!!
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12-04-2010, 01:50 PM
| | | | Dennis Dunaway from Alice Cooper. Dennis laid it down great and would then come up with a line that was SO out there but yet it would fit like a glove.
Brilliant player who never got his full due. Very melodic player. |
12-04-2010, 02:02 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | | Nate Mendel pre Foo Fighters in Sunny Day Real Estate. Especially the Diary album and the LP2 (pink) album. He was walking around on the fretboard like a drunk monkey style fighter. You had no idea what he was going to do next but he did with razor precision.
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12-04-2010, 02:15 PM
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12-04-2010, 02:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Houston, Tx | | | I would have to mention Noel Redding. Genius basslines TBQH (IMHO of course.) |
12-04-2010, 02:25 PM
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Also Matt Wong from Reel Big Fish
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12-04-2010, 02:55 PM
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12-04-2010, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Tommygunn I would have to mention Noel Redding. Genius basslines TBQH (IMHO of course.) | You beat me to it.
Also Rutger Gunnarsson
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12-04-2010, 03:00 PM
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12-04-2010, 03:18 PM
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Kind of had a upper hand considering he wrote most of the first two albums, but man that guy had some catchy melodies integrated in what most of us would consider "straight forward metal riffs". |
12-04-2010, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by JosephJavorsky +1 for Dennis Dunaway.
Also Matt Wong from Reel Big Fish | I'll make that a +2 on Dunaway. Guttercat vs The Jets, Halo of Flies, Crazy Little Child...
The man is brilliant and was a favorite even before I started playing.
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12-04-2010, 03:46 PM
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Colin Moulding of XTC
Peter Cetera of Chicago (seriously, listen!) |
12-04-2010, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by emblymouse Peter Cetera of Chicago (seriously, listen!) | Those first couple double-albums, especially the first: what a great environment for a great bass player. Challenging material with lots of changes, really it must have been exciting figuring out what basslines would go with all that other stuff. He really rose to the occasion on all fronts. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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