Most aggressive bass tone?

[lokikallas]

DD verni of overkill has an earsplitting tone, but Dan Lilker, and the bassist of Mushugah are the two most aggressive overdriven tones I've heard. All of the most aggressive tend to use picks too.

 

[Corey Y]

Dave Curran from Unsane and Bob Beeman from Stick Men With Ray Guns are two of my favorite "aggressive" bass tones in the context of a band. I know there are band with lead bass and no guitars with really over the top distortion, but I like that thick, grindy, punch in the gut sound in the context of a band, especially if there's really not a lot of over the top distortion in the guitars and the heaviness is more in the riffs and the overall mix.

 

[cableguy]

I've always liked the first 8 bass notes at the beginning of Running With The Devil - Van Halen, it's got a bit of kick to it.

I love this tone. I use a Sansamp BDDI and one of my settings is based on this tone. I think it is the tone that really got me into playing bass. Funny how it's only one note but as a young high school kid listening to it at insane volume it somehow spoke to me. This was when the album 1st came out and VH turned music on it's ear as far as I was concerned.

 

[Duckwater]

John Wetton on King Crimson's Larks' Tongues in Aspic

 

[zachoff]

Sergio Vega of Quicksand has a pretty awesome aggro tone as well.

 

[Electricblue]

Mike Dirnt springs to mind.

 

[groooooove]

roy wood, without question beats everything else i've seen here.

YouTube - ‪The Move - The Minister‬‏

IMO full blown distortion will never sound as aggressive as that.

 

[TubaRick]

Geddy Lee. Listen to Countdown on Rush's Signals album, that tone is epitome of aggressive bass tone. Most aggressive sounding passive basses will always be the 1970's Rickenbacker 4001s. Ceramic magnet pickups + maple body and neck + roundwound strings + bi amp rig = LOUD, IN YOUR FACE, and THUNDEROUS bass tone.

 

[BenHack]

Wow long going thread.....but what the hell

The bass tone Jon Stockman gets is the Karnivool tune Simple Boy had to be one of the heaviestost aggressive bass tones I've ever heard!

Cheers

Ben

 

[bigmoosepi]

Al Cisneros.

 

[MountainTop]

Al Cisneros without a doubt

 

[UncleDomino]

After seeing this video I'd say Timmy C.

 

[Nagchampa]

JimmyM has the best answer. He beat me to it!!

 

[Pitter_Patterns]

I love how aggressive and over the top Andy Rourke's bass sounds in some of the tracks from this live Smiths show, particularly "This Charming Man" and "Barbarism Begins at Home". Hard to believe that anyone could make a P-bass sound like that... wow :

 

[HeavyJazz]

Doug Pinnick on "Dogman"

 

[DeathFromBelow]

Nate Newton.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9wZDd_GgPs

 

[TomA1234]

Alex Webster on Encased in Concrete:


The grind on the low strings is really a thing of beauty

 

[blueburstrick]

The song, "Grind" from Zooma.

 

[Ric5]

http://www.3dentourage.com/425/b 052.jpg

 

[SunnBass]

david wm. sims w/ the jesus lizard
bob weston w/ shellac

same basic rig, one played a jazz bass copy the other a tb2000. world of difference.

+1
Yes, yes and yes.
But don't forget Nick from Young Widows.