Least favorite bassist?

[WhiskeyMan13]

I shy away from saying "worst" bassist, because thats objective. Who is your least favorite bassist? It can be someone from popular music or someone you know (if it's not someone in the popular conciousness, include a brief story containing reason you dislike this person from a personal or musical standpoint.

I'd like to nominate Pete Wentz, but that's almost cleche now. I'll go with the current "bassist" for a band I joined after I had been playing for 3 months. Needless to say, after another month, I realized these guys had no idea what they were doing, and left after they asked me to go on tour with a Christian rock festival in Tennessee (I live in Maine). This guy started as the singer, then moved to bass after I bounced.


*Note* The drummer was a friend of mine, and left for the same reasons at the same time I did. We jam about once a week, and just for laughs, one of us will break into the opening of the "signature" song we had. It always ends with him hammering the double bass pedals and me reverting to Fieldy-type click-clacking

 

[emor]

Gene Simmons. (The Rush Limbaugh of bass.)

 

[Jmassie]

Feildy. No doubt my least favorite. Giving slap bass a bad name every time he touches(Abuses) his bass

 

[TAOspeedwagon]

Mark Hoppus??? if he is even considered a bassist

 

[Otso]

I am.

 

[RexNFX79]

I'd like to nominate Pete Wentz,

+1 I second that!

I can't stand that guy.

 

[Jared Lash]

I've never really thought about it and I can't come up with a good answer now. If I don't like a band/artist's music I don't listen to them or the bassplaying so I guess I don't have a "least favorite" bass player.

 

[Stickk]

It's a 3-way tie between Fieldy, Pete Wentz, and Gene Simmons (the trifecta from hell IMO).

 

[Bass2Bass7]

Gotta go with Feildy! The fact that he thinks he's good is what kills me! "Killin me Smalls"

 

[aus_bass]

I'd like to nominate Pete Wentz,

+1 I second that!

I can't stand that guy.

+100000

 

[mokkat]

Feildy gives me the chills. And why oh why did he make an instructional dvd?!

 

[Jmassie]

DVD on what? How to piss of your bass tech?

Step one: Break lots of strings ( whether it be playing or just throwing the bass across the room, both work best on stage.)

step two: have zero tone control ( its best of you go all treble. all bass and no mids)

step three: Use lots of distortion to the point of blowing out your speakers ( Just have your endorser begrudingly send you new ones!)

 

[J. Crawford]

Pete Wentz.

Period.

 

[drudonit]

Gene Simmons. (The Rush Limbaugh of bass.)

true that!

 

[torlind]

Don't forget Stuart Hamm! One of the worst out there. I can't understand why he is so hyped about in magazines. I find his playing very sloppy and with no groove at all.

 

[Stickk]

Don't forget Stuart Hamm! One of the worst out there. I can't understand why he is so hyped about in magazines. I find his playing very sloppy and with no groove at all.

I hope that this is an april fool's joke.

 

[Mikio]

Jaco Pastorious, I mean no offense and I don't want to make any type of discusion, I just think he's the MOST overated bassist of ALL time.

 

[gweimer]

Jaco Pastorious, I mean no offense and I don't want to make any type of discusion, I just think he's the MOST overated bassist of ALL time.

I wouldn't go that far, but I would say he's my least favorite. I know that every instrument needs its visionaries to carry the instrument forward, but I just don't care for what I hear from him. I think his disciples will find a way to take what he did and make it more palatable.

 

[fretlessguy]

I cannot really criticize anyone who makes more money and is much better known than I.

FG

 

[Natrix]

I tend to forget the names of players I don't dig .
Sloppy time &/or bad intonation fretless are two things that'll shut me down pretty quickly though.