Best Emo/Post Hardcore Bassist?

Pieterland · #1 12-09-2008, 11:31 PM

Who is (in your opinion) the best Emo/Hardcore Punk/Post Hardcore Bass Player???

Fool · #2 12-09-2008, 11:34 PM

No telling, i don't "dig".

charliet · #3 12-10-2008, 12:08 AM

I really like Paul Hinojos.

Trell · #4 12-10-2008, 12:42 AM

Matt Rubano of Taking Back Sunday was real good on Where You Want To Be.

TimmyDX · #5 12-10-2008, 05:47 AM

hmmm if you include melodic hardcore in that

rob avery, the originial bassist for boysetsfire, had some really tasteful lines particularly on Tomorrow Come Today. There's a really punchy line on release the dogs and a cool chorus'd line on bathory's sainthood.

Joe Principe from rise against too

im not really and emo fan at all.

KPAX · #6 12-10-2008, 09:32 AM

Very good question ...
Who's got the skinniest chick jeans, the most long straight black hair in the front only and the most guyliner???

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Who is (in your opinion) the best Emo/Hardcore Punk/Post Hardcore Bass Player???

BassJunkie730 · #7 12-10-2008, 09:42 AM

Emo or at least the only Emo I listen to.

2 dudes

Matt Sharp - Weezer

Love his tone on Weezer and Pinkerton.

Dan Andriano - Alkaline Trio

Dan has great [up tempo] lines and sings and writes - that makes a great bass player in my book for any genre.

Toshiro · #8 12-10-2008, 09:43 AM

Pete Wentz.

coreyfyfe · #9 12-10-2008, 09:46 AM

Eddie Breckenridge of Thrice has always been one of my favorites. Some of their songs have some neat little lines. Kill Me Quickly off of Illusion of Safety has a neat little guitar and bass tapping bridge part, and in a lot of their newer stuff he's gotten more creative.

As said above Matt Rubano of TBS is a great player, was a session bassist in NY for a while before joinin the band. His work on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is pretty good as well.

Joe Kyle · #10 12-10-2008, 09:47 AM

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Pete Wentz.

Oh GOD YES!!!!

BassJunkie730 · #11 12-10-2008, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by coreyfyfe

Eddie Breckenridge of Thrice has always been one of my favorites. Some of their songs have some neat little lines. Kill Me Quickly off of Illusion of Safety has a neat little guitar and bass tapping bridge part, and in a lot of their newer stuff he's gotten more creative.

As said above Matt Rubano of TBS is a great player, was a session bassist in NY for a while before joinin the band. His work on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is pretty good as well.

+1

but it gets murky in genre classification with all the modalities of "hardcore" out there - so I just stuck to my only Emo favorites.

What I'm really waiting for is someone to tell me Weezer isn't Emo - then I'll have a field day.

andrew · #12 12-10-2008, 09:53 AM

Nick Pie from Shotmaker.

wizay · #13 12-10-2008, 09:55 AM

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Pete Wentz.

adube810 · #14 12-10-2008, 10:02 AM

who cares? emo/post ****core is all some serious garbage

Beachcoma · #15 12-10-2008, 10:08 AM

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who cares? emo/post ****core is all some serious garbage

Mate, I don't like it either. Just leave the hatin' behind.

Peace,

PS: Troll

rakirksey · #16 12-10-2008, 10:10 AM

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Matt Sharp - Weezer

Love his tone on Weezer and Pinkerton.

I'm not sure if I'd consider Weezer emo. I remember when I was going to college when emo was starting to get popular. I saw a few bands like Braid, Campanula Blue, Cap'n Jazz, etc. at house parties. I didn't really like it much then and still think it's pretty tired.

andrew · #17 12-10-2008, 10:14 AM

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who cares? emo/post ****core is all some serious garbage

It's cool that you're so comfortable sharing with everyone how ignorant you are. That's awesome.

adube810 · #18 12-10-2008, 10:16 AM

the reason why i really dont like it is because the music tries to sell this idea of straightened hair, makeup, and add depressing lyrics about how you want to kill yourself or how terrible life is that your girlfriend broke up with you and to make it all worse MTV perpetuates it and incorrectly informs children what good music is. to me, this is not what music is about. for instance, i went to go see minus the bear last year...and walked out after 20 minutes. i heard they were decent, went to go check it out and i was wrong. i have much more i could rant about...but im going to stop

stflbn · #19 12-10-2008, 10:18 AM

Resist's urge to go on rant regarding the trend of putting music into sub-genre's so current bands feel they have a true 'niche'.

Drives me nuts. Be a band... and the music you play will put you into a genre be it Rock, Metal, Punk, etc. If you stand out and are successful will depend on if you're good at what you do not how razor thin of a sub-genre you can target.

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Infernal Affair · #20 12-10-2008, 10:19 AM

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Nick Pie from Shotmaker.

Nice! I would also say Joe Lally from fugazi. He doesn't play anything flashy or fast, but he has a really good sense of time and locks in with the drums very well.

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What I'm really waiting for is someone to tell me Weezer isn't Emo - then I'll have a field day.

I wouldn't say that they are/were.

The only thing vaguely coming close was Pinkerton, but they neither sounded like the early emo bands (Rites of Spring, Moss Icon, etc.), the mid and late 90s bands (Texas is the Reason, Promise Ring, Jawbreaker, etc.), or even the later pop punk stuff that gets called emo these days. You might as well call The Rentals, Pavement, Dinosaur Jr., and all those other popular indie bands in the 90s emo if Weezer is.

"Emo" is a stupid term anyway that just gets tagged onto almost every band at one point. I would just call Weezer a pop-rock band. And they were a good one at that. I still don't get tired of their first album and Pinkerton.