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MEGA THREAD:: Favorite/Best Punk Bassist

#182
1. Freeman
2. The dude from GC5
3. The dude that played bass on Anti-Flag's New Kind Of Army.

There are too many other greats to list.

:Edit: SWEET LORD! I read, like half of this thread after I posted - WHAT ARE SOME OF YOU THINKING!?!?! I dont want to read any more than half after I saw some of what was posted. Some people do not understand punk rock or what its about in the least. I heard mentions of how much money was made from a song, must be good then, right? Note the sarcasim. Also Mark, from Blink because he sings!?!? First off he doesnt come close to a lot of bassist mentioned in this thread. And I didnt know this was a "Favorite/best Punk bassist...Who sings too". Sid was also mentiond. WHY? He was bad, to put it simply. He did not record many if not all of the songs. They unplugged him for more than half of their shows, why? Again, because he was bad. Im sorry for ranting but c'mon!?!? Im gunna go listen to some Radiohead and chill out, I need to after reading this. WOW!
 
#183
punk, you bassist like punk. i thought you only like jazz. i am the bass player in my own punk band called the coarpses. besides me (LOL), Matt Freeman from Rancid is my all time favorite punk bass player. also great too jerry only of the misfits. Eric from sublime is really good too, but i wouldnt call sublime punk.
 
#184
Originally posted by coarp
punk, you bassist like punk. i thought you only like jazz. i am the bass player in my own punk band called the coarpses. besides me (LOL), Matt Freeman from Rancid is my all time favorite punk bass player. also great too jerry only of the misfits. Eric from sublime is really good too, but i wouldnt call sublime punk.
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Coarpses? I hope you guys are better at playing then you are at spelling.

Unless that is somekind of odd play on words, the other of which I can't figure out.

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#186
all i have to say is if your talkin about the best bassist from a punk band at least put one of your picks as some one that was in a punk band not a cheap immitation of one like green day and the best bassist from a punk band is either east bay ray from the dead kennedys or erik from sublime i dont know where all of you got that mike from green day is good
 
#188
Originally posted by dawgawd
dude, I totally forgot to mention Eric Wilson, how could I be so stupid. (I have like, all their albums and about 20 bootlegs ans 3 vinyls, shouldn't be too hard to forget eric wilson). He's the whole reason I started playing. I guess I didn't mention him because I don't consider sublime to be punk. I once heard one of the guys from me first and the gimmie gimmies say "punk is defined by limitations" and sublime doesn't limit themselves at all, they play everything and play it well.

I love NFG, but I don't understand why everyone is picking him? Sincerely Me is a neat bassline, but I don't hear much in his lines usually that stands out too much. Again, I'm not slamming him, I happen to really like NFG.

Has anybody heard a band called Mest? They have a pretty good bass player that I happen to like to listen to.

OH YEAH. The dude from Alkaline Trio! I LOVE his tone. It's like, so muddy and dark, I love it to death, I have no idea how he manages to get his sound, it seems to have lots of high end and low end at the same time, it's so cool.

One of the coolest basslines I've ever heard is in this song by a band called the Madbutchers by the name of "Blind". I found it on a compilation, It's sort of ska, but some of the best bass in punk IS in ska.
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sublime isn't punk you assclown
 
#194
Most of mine have been said before...

Roger-less than jake
Hunter-AFI
Matt-Rancid
Jay-bad religion(most stuff is easy,but once in awhile he puts out something awesome)
#2-anti-flag
dude from The Get Up Kids
dude from h2o(listen to faster than the world,amazing bass)
fat mike-nofx
jason black-hot water music
randy bradbury-pennywise(sometimes he plays really cool stuff)
the dude from AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF THE DEAD(he has such an awesome muddy tone)

I also like any ska bass player,cuz theyre all awesome.
 

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