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Best Punk Bassist
- Thread starter Kazz3lrath
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Mike watt is definite favorite and best for me
Chuck dukowski would be up there for favorites too
And Matt freeman up there for best
Chuck dukowski would be up there for favorites too
And Matt freeman up there for best
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Gotta say Freeman doesn't even make my top 100.
I agree, and I've said it before Sid should never make the list. (Never played. Really.)
Punk as a true musical movement dies by 1983. Height about '77-'79. So for me to put anyone on this list past bands of those dates would be fraudulent.
Dee Dee was a friend, so he gets a vote. Foxton gets a vote because they really were what punk was about but soo different they couldn't be categorized. Maby, who I see all the time here, made basslines of the time move. JJ Was cool punk.
Finally Richard Hell. He really sucked at playing but he was integral to everything going on in NYC at the time. So Richard, am I still part of the "Blank Generation" ?
I agree, and I've said it before Sid should never make the list. (Never played. Really.)
Punk as a true musical movement dies by 1983. Height about '77-'79. So for me to put anyone on this list past bands of those dates would be fraudulent.
Dee Dee was a friend, so he gets a vote. Foxton gets a vote because they really were what punk was about but soo different they couldn't be categorized. Maby, who I see all the time here, made basslines of the time move. JJ Was cool punk.
Finally Richard Hell. He really sucked at playing but he was integral to everything going on in NYC at the time. So Richard, am I still part of the "Blank Generation" ?
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Meh, I like your influences but to the whole 77 and punk is dead thing...
"Punk Rock is a term based on contempt." -Iggy Pop
"Punk is whatever we made it to be." -D. Boon
Freeman and Fat mike.
Listen to NOFX The Idiots are taking over or Am i going to hell for this one, Amazing basslines that Fat puts down. Also the intro for Kids of the k hole. Fat mike knows i think when he needs to put down a complicated bassline and when to just keep it simple and i think that's what makes an amazing bassist. His entire basstone on So long and thanks for all the shoes is just amazing as well (Deluxe Fender precisions
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Listen to NOFX The Idiots are taking over or Am i going to hell for this one, Amazing basslines that Fat puts down. Also the intro for Kids of the k hole. Fat mike knows i think when he needs to put down a complicated bassline and when to just keep it simple and i think that's what makes an amazing bassist. His entire basstone on So long and thanks for all the shoes is just amazing as well (Deluxe Fender precisions
)
SirMjac28
Patiently Waiting For The Next British Invasion
Hate to tell you, but The Jam was NOT "what punk was all about". They also weren't that "different" , at the time. Their were alot of bands like them, they just happened to be the "best"(argueable to some).I love the Jam. But they really didn't give two ***** about the punk "movement". They were soul boys. Maximum RnB. New Wave.
I did however see Stiff Little Fingers a few years ago, with Bruce Foxton playing bass for them. That was a great show.
Actually, I kind of liked Hell's playing on the Voidoids LPs although it could well be that someone else did that. He did truly suck during Television days, though, and he dumbed down his playing on the live recordings so that he could sing (I suppose).
Lotsa tasty picks in the thread, these are the ones that influenced me before I even took up bass...
Rob Wright
Paul Simonon
Mike Watt
Steve Garvey
JJ Brunell
Bruce Foxton (Though I have to say I never thought of The Jam as punk)
John Doe
Doh! Forgot about the Undertones, my perfect cousin.
And for the helluvit: Randy Rampage of DOA. Not the best, but DOA were influential.
Rob Wright
Paul Simonon
Mike Watt
Steve Garvey
JJ Brunell
Bruce Foxton (Though I have to say I never thought of The Jam as punk)
John Doe
Steve Garvey. C'mon, how long would it have taken you to look it up on Google if you really liked him?
Yep, you missed it, 36 posts before yours.
Didn't know Dennis Hopper played.
He's still my idol!... Billy Zoom is now a good buddy, which really freaks me out sometimes...he was my idol as a kid
Doh! Forgot about the Undertones, my perfect cousin.
And for the helluvit: Randy Rampage of DOA. Not the best, but DOA were influential.
I realize he sucks, but I've always had a soft spot for Greg K of the Offspring. The bass lines from Gotta Get Away and Dirty Magic were my high school bass playing career in a nutshell.
