Favorite "shred" metal bassists?

[Jkfielder]

ok my top 5 would be:

1. Billy Sheehan (of course)
2. Felipe Andreoli (of Angra, Karma and Paul Di'anno)
3. John Myung (Dream Theater)
4. Cliff Burton (He was destined for great things)
5. Franck Hermanny (Adagio)

of course theres alot of great jazz and funk players who can shred as well

[Depth_Charge]

Cliff Burton ACHIEVED great things ... just look at the adoration he still gets today!! And yeah he's up there in the top shredders on bass.

Dave Ellefson - Megadeth.

Rex Brown - Pantera. I love his work on a lot of their songs especially Primal Concrete Sledge and Domination.

Steve DiGiorgio. I'm listening to a lot of Testament lately.

[Baryonyx]

Sheehan is the one for me.

[Twistad]

Stefan Fimmers of Necrophagist
Erlend of Blood Red Throne

[SirCanealot]

John Myung barely ever shreds

[RoMeRz]

Billy Billy Billy !

Id whap Rex up there, very underrated imo.

[Baryonyx]

I find "shreds" to be such a ridiculous term when applied to bassists. It just conjures up images of Billy Sheehan-wannabe's trying to solo but without any of the class or skill.

[Fishbrain]

dunno bout shreds...but defo one to check out for talent is ryan martinez from mudvayne

[vegas532]

Forgotten to the ages, but awesome nonetheless...Troy Gregory, formerly of Flotsam and Jetsam and Prong. Pick up (or download) Flotsam's "No Place for Disgrace" or Prong's "Prove You Wrong" for a fine example of what a slammin', high speed fingerstylist sounds like.

[Jkfielder]

Steve DiGiorgio ive heard of him before and ive got 4 testament albums but ive never really seen him shred the closest ive seen him do was on "urotsudoki" off low album i think it was called.

Stefan Fimmers of Necrophagist ive only heard this one lick from him that was a cool sweep but like right after wards i saw a lick from franck hermanny that overshadowed it :P

dont underestimate myung either, just listen to metropolis part 1 :P

[bassist 4 life]

Sheehaan \m/!!

Myung does shred, listen to his dance of eternity solo, his ytse jam solo, and he also keeps up playing riffs high on the neck at 200bmp with petrucci.

[Grueber]

Troy Tipton - Zero Hour
Shawn Kascak - Outworld
Franck Hermanny - Adagio
Michael Lepond - Symphony X
Juan Alderete - Racer X

[Jkfielder]

Originally Posted by Grueber

Troy Tipton - Zero Hour
Shawn Kascak - Outworld
Franck Hermanny - Adagio
Michael Lepond - Symphony X
Juan Alderete - Racer X

wow i cant believe i forgot juan, i heard a bass solo from him live on a song called "rock it" he has a crazy tone like all the lows cut off and only high, you can hear it in "day of the baphomets" as well.

i saw troy tipton in the sweep bass thread you posted in before but franck hermanny was the stand out plus i can only sweep using the thumb method and not the cascading finger method

not too familiar with the michael lepond or shawn kascak i guess outworld is rusty coolies (sp) band and i havent heard much symphony x

[Grueber]

Originally Posted by Jkfielder

not too familiar with the michael lepond or shawn kascak i guess outworld is rusty coolies (sp) band and i havent heard much symphony x

Yep, Outworld is Rusty Cooley's band. They just released their debut album in November.

here's Shawn's Myspace with some good clips of his playing
http://www.myspace.com/shawnkascak

[JeffTheBig]

John Myung
Steve DiGiorgio
Rex Brown
.... my mind is kinda blank right now lol haha

[the_fonz]

Originally Posted by Fishbrain

dunno bout shreds...but defo one to check out for talent is ryan martinez from mudvayne

it's martinie, close though

[Jkfielder]

Originally Posted by Grueber

Yep, Outworld is Rusty Cooley's band. They just released their debut album in November.

here's Shawn's Myspace with some good clips of his playing
http://www.myspace.com/shawnkascak

ahh just listened to some of his stuff with outworld very sheehanesque :P especially the title track, i thought they had been around for ages though not just released a debut this year pretty cool nonetheless a band i will have to follow

[excane]

Originally Posted by Chris2112

I find "shreds" to be such a ridiculous term when applied to bassists. It just conjures up images of Billy Sheehan-wannabe's trying to solo but without any of the class or skill.

You forgot tone.

Wait, what am I talking about......Sheehan has tone?
Class & skill yes, but tone is another thing entirely

[excane]

Originally Posted by Twistad

Stefan Fimmers of Necrophagist

+1

[Jkfielder]

sheehan has a very particular tone which comes from alot of compression and splitting his high end and low end between two amps

all basses have tone, i personally like his tone but i dont have the kind of money to duplicate it :P