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12-13-2006, 08:22 PM
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Okay, I've got a speech thing I have to write and we need our topics for tomorrow. I'd like to get everyone's opinion of the top 3 bassists, I don't want to start an arguement about styles.
I just would like to know who you think are the 3 most revolutionary bassists, preferred to have lived in the past 20 years or so, but it doesn't matter much to me.
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12-13-2006, 08:50 PM
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12-13-2006, 11:18 PM
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12-13-2006, 11:52 PM
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1. Derek Smalls
2. Joey Arkenstat
3. Peter Tork
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12-14-2006, 12:10 AM
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12-14-2006, 08:01 AM
|  | prefers electric miles davis | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | FOR ME
Jamerson
Jaco
Bootsy |
12-14-2006, 08:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: New York | | | jamerson, jaco and te third is tough for me...i would say a toss up between marcus miller, vic and bootsy.
my 2 personal favorits right now are richard bona and oteil burbridge
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12-14-2006, 08:14 AM
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Originally Posted by markjazzbassist  FOR ME
Jamerson
Jaco
Bootsy | +1 |
12-14-2006, 08:47 AM
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But if i have too ...
1.Jaco
2.Patitucci
3.Etienne Mbappe
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12-14-2006, 09:09 AM
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Jack Bruce
Jaco
Mike Manring
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12-14-2006, 09:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Philadelphia PA area | | | I would vote this as they "defined" a style or genre of music.
I will give you my top 6
1) Jamerson - Motown
2) Jaco - Jazz
3) Steve Harris - Metal
4) Leland Sklar - Contemporary
5) Flea/Geddy - Rock (tied)
6) Bootsy - Funk
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12-14-2006, 09:20 AM
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12-14-2006, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Joshua You could write a paper on how artists (and art itself) cannot be quantified as "best". | +1
exactly! |
12-14-2006, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by CoDBassPlayer I just would like to know who you think are the 3 most revolutionary bassists, preferred to have lived in the past 20 years or so, but it doesn't matter much to me. | Revolutionary?
James Jamerson
John Entwistle
Jaco Pastorius
These 3 guys revolutionized the electric bass guitar. I suppose you could take out Jaco and add in a Larry Graham, simply because of what slap and pop did for bass playing, but life would go on without slap and pop. We'd all be playing the root if not for the above 3 I listed. In my most humble opinion of course. |
12-14-2006, 09:57 AM
| | | | +1 for Joey Arkenstat
add to my list Danny Partridge and...ah, let's put Arkenstat on there again.
1.) Joey Arkenstat
2.) Danny Partridge
3.) Joey Arkenstat
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12-14-2006, 01:19 PM
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I guess there is no wrong answers?
1-Pino
2-Jaco
3-Jonas Hellborg
Ask me next week I'll give you three different names. |
12-14-2006, 02:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Kane, PA | | | in no particular order (as none are better, just different)
wooten, jaco, and bootsy
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12-14-2006, 02:54 PM
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12-14-2006, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: New York, NY | | | 1. Niels Pedersen
2. John Patitucci
3. Geddy Lee |
12-14-2006, 03:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | I would have to say...
1. Jaco, because he showed the rest of us what could be done with the bass
2. Anthony Jackson, becausse he is to me what I call completely unencumbered by his instrument, the music just seems to effortlessly flow from his brain to the amplifier via the bass.
3. James Jammerson, just came up with and played great bass lines.
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