Best bassists in the last 5 years?

saustindavis · #1 04-14-2011, 07:18 PM

I know who most of the greats from 20-30 are, but what about bassists that have emerged in the last 5 years... Who are considered to be the best "new" bassists? The guy from Coldplay is alright, but I can't think of any others.

cjmodulus · #2 04-14-2011, 07:26 PM

There are lots of great bassists coming out of a bunch of genres right now. Dan Briggs with between the buried in me is amazing. His first album with them came out in 2005 IIRC. There's also Arif Mirabdolbaghi with protest the hero. I wouldn't go so far as to call either of them the best bassist In the last five years, but IMO they're both fantastic players.

loinmute · #3 04-14-2011, 08:13 PM

The bassist for Muse? I don't know his name.

MikeBalzaryFTW · #4 04-14-2011, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by loinmute

The bassist for Muse? I don't know his name.

His name is Chris Wolstenholme i believe. He has to be one of my favorites. Another is Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys. He's primarily guitar, but his bass lines are very "swingy" and I can seriously get into them.

reubmister · #5 04-22-2011, 08:25 AM

WOLSTENHOLME ALL THE WAY

nocontrols · #6 04-22-2011, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeBalzaryFTW

His name is Chris Wolstenholme i believe. He has to be one of my favorites. Another is Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys. He's primarily guitar, but his bass lines are very "swingy" and I can seriously get into them.

I agree with both of these. By the way, your username is Flea (nothing gets by me

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I would recommend Joe Lally. He has been around a hell of a lot longer than 5 years but has just within the past few years broken out and become a name for himself solo. His solo albums have Ian and Guy on guitar but, otherwise, they don't sound precisely like Fugazi... in that vein but more groove-oriented. Very cool stuff.

JimiLL · #7 04-22-2011, 09:55 PM

TAL!!!!!!

brndn123 · #8 04-22-2011, 09:55 PM

Hadrien Feraud. Like him or not, he's quickly turning A LOT of kids on to not only bass, but fusion. On top of that, excellent player.

nocontrols · #9 04-22-2011, 09:59 PM

Also, he doesn't meet the qualifications of this thread's title but I'm going to go ahead and recommend him anyway... Mark Sandman is really cool. Yes, it's been 12 years since he passed (RIP) but Morphine remains one of the most criminally underheard bands I've come across, relative to how cool they sound. I still recommend them to people the same way I would a brand new band because they're tragically underappeciated.

rtslinger · #10 04-29-2011, 09:03 AM

Chris Wolstenholme from Muse as well

daveh30 · #11 04-30-2011, 02:54 AM

Johnny Christ from Avenged Sevenfold is very talented, great bassist. I think he's been playing with them for about 7 years now. Definitely one of my favs.

joe vegas · #12 04-30-2011, 04:52 PM

hadrien. i believe he's the current lead jet in that great, elite flying V-formation of janek, matt garrison, mike pope, alain caron and him.

betardfoosier · #13 04-30-2011, 04:55 PM

Melik · #14 04-30-2011, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by brndn123

Hadrien Feraud. Like him or not, he's quickly turning A LOT of kids on to not only bass, but fusion. On top of that, excellent player.

And handsome too

Casperrobo · #15 04-30-2011, 05:30 PM

Cole Whittle from Semi Precious Weapons, so energetic and a very talented musician

GregC · #16 04-30-2011, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by JimiLL

TAL!!!!!!

I gotta say, some of the most interesting (I can't do "best") bass players to come up in the last few years have been women. Julie Slick, Esperanza Spalding and Tal come to mind.