best/favorite punk bass player?

[jckmcgrth]

my favorites are

tony lombardo - descendents
mike dirnt - green day
paul simonon - the clash
matt freeman - rancid

what do you think?

 

[ccbass71]

Karl Alvarez - Descendents/ All

 

[Rawkabilly]

Ditto on Matt Freeman and Paul Simonon
Also.....
Karl Alvarez with the Descendents
JJ Burnel with the Stranglers
Mike Watt with anyone he's ever played with

 

[RD]

John Doe of X combines alot of skills with some tasty bass playing.
RD

 

[Prahainspring]

Mike Watt on bass.


/thread.

 

[sensible68]

Ali McMordie - Still Little Fingers

Captain Sensible (no relation) - The Damned

 

[i_got_a_mohawk]

This has been done loads of times before.

Craig Setari - Sick of it All
Fat Mike - NoFx (very underrated player)
Greg K - The Offspring
Brett Rasmussen- Ignite

Theres many many more too, but im just awake, brain not initiated.

Also, IMO, Matt Freeman isnt that good, from seeing Rancid live a few times, they just sound like a mess, sloppy as hell. Sure, he plays interesting lines, but, pretty overrated.

 

[vindy500]

Mike Herrera MXPX

 

[Oric]

I'm not a whole lot into punk, but Klaus Flouride of Dead Kennedys is good. The bassline from Holiday in Cambodia (actually kind of surf rock-y) convinced me of this.

 

[bassist 4 life]

Mike Dirnt.
nuff said.

 

[kevteop]

Paul Simonon. Top bassist and style icon.

I'm also going to sneak into post-punk so I can say Bruce Foxton, for tunes like this. He really powered The Jam's stuff along.

 

[BNiedz13]

some of my fav's are:

Chris #2- Anti-Flag
Randy Bradbury- Pennywise
Fat Mike- NoFx
Matt Freeman- Rancid

 

[Infernal Affair]

In no order:

Jason Black - Hot Water Music
Brendan Kelly - The Lawrence Arms
Patrick Costello - Dillinger Four
Darryl Jenifer - Bad Brains
Dan Andriano - Alkaline Trio/The Falcon
Mike Watt of course


I also like Mike Dirnt, Fat Mike, Chris #2, and Matt Freeman, but enough people already mentioned them.

 

[saltymonkey]

Mike Watt-Minutemen
Tony Lombardo-Descendents
Karl Alvarez-Descendents
Chuck Dukowski-Black Flag

 

[Malpractice]

Mike Watt
Klaus Flouride
Chuck Dukowski
Paul Raven(Killing Joke...you knowPOSt punk sorta counts.)

 

[lomky]

I allways thought Jim Cherry (RIP) had some killer lines for Strung Out.

 

[sublimestylee]

some of my fav's are:

Chris #2- Anti-Flag
Randy Bradbury- Pennywise
Fat Mike- NoFx
Matt Freeman- Rancid

Randy Bradbury is amazing... he had some killer basslines back in days of the falling idols

anways matt freeman, eric wilson, are also some of my favorites

 

[The Owl]

Mike Watt

Klaus Flouride (Dead Kennedys)

 

[JohnSS]

Tom Robinson and Glen Matlock should also be given props for interesting and underrated bass work and songwriting. Matlock has a very short lived band w/TRB guitarist Danny Kustow called The Spectres which was a killer band.

 

[foyos]

jerry only from the misfits
mike dirnt from green day
deedee ramone
are my favorites,best i think they all are