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10-26-2010, 07:14 PM
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I has been a few years since this topic was discussed so I am curious to see if perceptions have changed. Which bass players to think are overrated? Here is my list.
Flea – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tony Kanal – No Doubt
Mike Dirnt – Green Day
Duff McKagan – Guns ‘n’ Roses
Nikki Sixx – Motley Crue
Krist Novoselic – Nirvana
Jason Newstead – Metalica, Ozzy Osbourne
Lemmy Kilmster - Motorhead |
10-26-2010, 07:16 PM
| | | | I'd agree with all except Flea. |
10-26-2010, 07:19 PM
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10-26-2010, 07:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Dallas, TX | | | all those guys are great players man. we all do what we do differently, but that is a good thing.
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10-26-2010, 07:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Chicago | | A few years? Really? Seems like only yesterday. 
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Originally Posted by relacey  If I were forced to play a bass equal to my talent/ability I'd have a washtub and a stick. And it would probably be a dirty stick. | |
10-26-2010, 07:33 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Pennsylvania | | | You are overrated. |
10-26-2010, 07:35 PM
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10-26-2010, 08:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Atlanta, GA | | | Problem is most people here mistake gymnastics for talent. I bet Nikki Sixx laughs his ass off on the way to the bank with the checks he gets from writing almost ALL of the Motley stuff himself. I'd take that talent over the slappidy slap crap any day! But of course YMMV...
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10-26-2010, 08:55 PM
| | | | lemmy may not be the most technical bassist, but that ol sumbitch is, and always will be a legend. |
10-26-2010, 08:58 PM
|  | Livin' it up at the Hotel California | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sacramento California | | | Me!
People keep coming up to me after gigs and telling me how great I am.
That crap needs to stop, and it needs to stop NOW!!
...cause it makes my life a living HELL, okay?....a living HELL!
and THAT'S why I won't do two shows a night. I won't do it! I won't!!
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10-26-2010, 09:07 PM
|  | Thunder-Bringer...annnnd Brony | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Houston, TX | | | Are we going on their bass parts played in songs, or off some instance where someone has seen them "get down" and play a solo or something?
I've been completely blown away by bassists who play pretty straightforward in their songs, but could really thump on their own and have serious chops. Sometimes it just depends on what goes best with the song, not what's most impressive for you.
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10-26-2010, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by SactoBass Me!
People keep coming up to me after gigs and telling me how great I am.
That crap needs to stop, and it needs to stop NOW!!
...cause it makes my life a living HELL, okay?....a living HELL!
and THAT'S why I won't do two shows a night. I won't do it! I won't!! | |
10-26-2010, 09:12 PM
| | | Nikki Sixx?
I've never heard of him being over rated. I usually hear smack talk! 
To me, a lot of jazz and funk players are worshipped mostly due to chops it seems...
Or, i'm crazy.  |
10-26-2010, 09:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: california | | | i agree with all cept duff nikki lemmy and jason those guys are good nirvana dude especially i dunno why anyone would say he's any good then again i hate seattle grunge crap cept for alice in chains |
10-26-2010, 09:16 PM
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10-26-2010, 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by whathefunk I'd agree with all except Flea. | word
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10-26-2010, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by maevinj Most of the people on TalkBass | Don't you blaspheme. DON'T YOU BLASPHEME!!!!
Good heavens man......don't spill the beans. The word might get out, and then, it's all over for us.
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10-27-2010, 01:36 AM
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Originally Posted by cwest lemmy may not be the most technical bassist, but that ol sumbitch is, and always will be a legend. | yea...i don't think anyone really "overrates" lemmy as a bass player. never heard it myself anyway.
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10-27-2010, 01:50 AM
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10-27-2010, 08:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Saratoga county,New York,U.S.A | | I didn't know any of them were rated...I know Flea is highly thought of by a few,however, the rest of that list,I would say their popularity is due to being with the bands they're connected with...Take Lemmy for instance. I never heard of him being a "bass" god as much as a "metal" god(and we all know Lemmy IS god ) but, I think its more about the man then his chops..I mean,who's more METAL than Lemmy?  .....I think most would say they(the ones on that list) are pretty good or he's their favorite but,I never really heard anyone put them in the same class as Geddy or Jack Bruce or Jaco or Jamerson ect....
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