MEGA THREAD:: Favorite/Best Punk Bassist

[sluggy]

Originally posted by lo-end


the name of the string is FAVORITE/best punk bassist, not BEST punk bassist.

yeah note the best part! It says best, so I commented on best, only because someone said he was 1 of the best because he could play and sing. I mean, anyone can play and sing, just it all depends on the quality, and personally, MARK HOPPUS IS CRAP.

Ian Ryan Grushka RULES, and SO DOES NFG. Oh yeah, all their songs rule!

[TheTestvb]

Punk bands are talentless losers!

[sluggy]

Originally posted by TheTestvb
Punk bands are talentless losers!

Thanks for sharing that, now go back to your hole and sulk in your own misery!

[NewWaveBasser]

Maybe... but when your boss is an a-hole..if you have a job coz me my university degree has proven worthless...if you got no luck with women coz they say they want something and go for the contrary, etc. etc.... when life kinda sux...Green Day's "Burnout" or something like that...oooooooh yeah that's quite a release!! Jump like crazy and scream fuk the world...same goes for hard rock metal...or even some of the faster "guitarer" new wave, like early Police.

So talent only goes so far...sometimes the good stuff comes in threes (chords)...

[sluggy]

Originally posted by NewWaveBasser
So talent only goes so far...sometimes the good stuff comes in threes (chords)...

Thats a good point!

[Bruce Lindfield]

I would say - give me a definition of "punk" - and then I'll tell you!

[dancehallclasher]

i think you hit it on the head, bruce. as far as i'm concerned, you can't define it, you have to feel it.

[mr. roboto]

Matt Freeman is the best punk bassist. Listen Axiom, Black Lung, or Maxwell Murder, those songs are incredible. Mike Watt, Hunter, and Fat Mike (listen to the decline) are also very good.

[Snafu]

one of my most all time punk bassists is Fat Mike From NoFx.his lines on the decline are the best in punk.in my opinion that is.also,Roger from Less Than Jake,i know he is ska,but i love his tone,it is mad punchy

[joel the bass player]

Mike Herrera- The Theme Fiasco
I enjoy listening to Mike's playing. Pretty good tone too. With his bass slung low and jumping around so much, it is amazing he plays as well as he does.

[HWK2]

I am out of touch with the whole "punk" thing.. but I will say that the bassist from Rancid is by far the best bass player in that genre... and pretty damn good in any other genre.. I don't know his name..

[Snafu]

yeah,fat mike is really talented,there are a lot of other great punk bassists out also

[the Qintar]

mike watt

[RedGrange]

Come on people... no other person said Jason Black from Hot Water Music... he beats everyone anyone else mention (Sans Watt... he is a legend). He plays G&L.. sometimes 5 strings.. FINGERSTYLE... he has talent, instead of doubling the guitar ... you should really check him out.. songs like us and chuck, just don't say you lost it, and radio free gainsville are amazing!

This is all if the broad since of the word punk, since hot water music is 'Emocore'.

[dawgawd]

less than jake is sort of ska/punk, but listen to their bass player some time. Roger is unbefrickinlievable. I also am a big fan of mike from green day, he's always turned out quality basslines to compliment billy's powerchords. The Living End is an all around unbelievable band. You gotta love the upright bass.

[dawgawd]

dude, I totally forgot to mention Eric Wilson, how could I be so stupid. (I have like, all their albums and about 20 bootlegs ans 3 vinyls, shouldn't be too hard to forget eric wilson). He's the whole reason I started playing. I guess I didn't mention him because I don't consider sublime to be punk. I once heard one of the guys from me first and the gimmie gimmies say "punk is defined by limitations" and sublime doesn't limit themselves at all, they play everything and play it well.

I love NFG, but I don't understand why everyone is picking him? Sincerely Me is a neat bassline, but I don't hear much in his lines usually that stands out too much. Again, I'm not slamming him, I happen to really like NFG.

Has anybody heard a band called Mest? They have a pretty good bass player that I happen to like to listen to.

OH YEAH. The dude from Alkaline Trio! I LOVE his tone. It's like, so muddy and dark, I love it to death, I have no idea how he manages to get his sound, it seems to have lots of high end and low end at the same time, it's so cool.

One of the coolest basslines I've ever heard is in this song by a band called the Madbutchers by the name of "Blind". I found it on a compilation, It's sort of ska, but some of the best bass in punk IS in ska.

[RedGrange]

Dan from AK3 plays fender jazz basses.. he now has a custom shop 72 model.. (I think).. through a mesa boogie 400+ head. He uses dunlop picks.. whatever gauge the orange ones are. He is a really cool good... and yes he has a really good tone, but sadly enough Matt (guitar/vocals) wrote all the music. He actually had the mids up higher than I would think with the style of music.

Ian from NFG isn't very good. When they went major label he playing suffered. But back when they were on drive-thru he was a little better recorded. But again, another band where the guitar players wrote everything.

Everyone needs to check out Jason Black http://hwm.indiepress.com he is damn good

[dawgawd]

The guitar player might write the basic structure of the song, like the chord rotations and such, but it seems to me like the bass player has a lot to do with dressing that up to make it a little more flavorful. I of course do not know what their song writing process is like... I mean, for all I know, one guy could write every single note for every instrument and pass out instuctions to the whole band... It just doesn't seem to me like this is how it would be done. So I still credit the bassist for the lines he comes up with, even if they are based more or less around the guitar part. SOMEBODY has to come up with the main structure of the song no matter what, and all the intruments SHOULD be playing roughly the same thing, or something close to the same thing, so I don't take that away from the bassist if somebody else happens to write the songs.

[bassboy_jordan]

I'd have to say Mike Dirnt on albums like dookie.
What he plays isn't hard but it's very important to the music and really stands out.

[ARA punk]

Matt Freemon is the best. Fat Mike is my fav.