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Overrated bass players

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#121
I agree with the Blink comment.. the only punk bass player who gets any love from me is Mike Watt..

As for overrated bass players, I dunno.. I think that is everyone's own opinion.. I could tell ya who's underrated though.. but thats not the topic so I won't. I am not Wooten's biggest fan either but you gotta respect that level of talent.
 
#122
Originally posted by lo-end
Please dont kill me for this... but Im not the biggest Victor Wooten fan. This guy whos been playing the bass for like 35 years burnt me one of his CDs and I didnt really like it....... I think its fair to say this as constructive criticism...
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Mmm...

Which album did you listen to?

Victor Wooten plays complicated songs on his solo albums because he is trying to demonstrate his technical skills. I feel he is still quite musical when he plays his solos. You should try to listen to him in a band setting when he plays with his band, Bela Fleck and The Flecktones - this guy can funk and groove.
 
#123
Most rock bass players form the 90s! HeHe!

No blink 182 yeah! Green days bass player,

I will probably get killed for this but id have to say flea! I mean yeah he is good but ive seen old dudes in small nasty night clubs that can funk flea to the grave! Wooten is awsome! You need to go to a bela fleck show and sit and watch him and you will have a much greater worship to him. Claypool is awsome for me because iam amazed and they finger tapping and ful chords he plays! Actually he doesnt do alot of slap! Niether does flea. Just sounds like it! Umm a bass player i think doesnt get enough is steffan from dave mathews band! Ohh and mike gorden!
 
#124
Originally posted by Cogno
Name who you think is an overated Bassist. I personally think Claypool overplays.
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Do you want overrated, or one that overplays? I personally think that a lot of the bassists mentioned on these boards are overrated (Jaco). It would be easier for me to name a few that are underrated (Kip Winger).

Also, why do people post in these types of threads with negative comments? If you read the title and the first post in the thread and it's not something that interests you, don't post! It's like some of you are just trying to bulk up your post counts and the only thing that you can do to accomplish that, is put down someone's thread or individual post. If you can't say something nice...
 
#127
Chi Cheng from the Deftones! OH MY GOD does this guy suck IMHO :mad: he tunes to low C on a 4-string, and his tone suffers really badly live - plus playability on a string that floppy drops to about, oh let's say, ZERO! plus he thinks he's revolutionary because he "still plays without a pick and can still get heard even when there's two guitars both tuned really low" ... ahem, all he sounds like is a stupid rumble underneath this incoherent wall of guitar crap. he needs to get himself a 5-string, tune the B up to a C, and start playing with a pick. i think he's the sole reason that the Deftones' latest effort just ends up sounding like mess half the time.
 
#133
Originally posted by FunkmastaJ
Any rock bassist who overplays. Especially John Entwisle. I know I'm gonna get flamed for this, but he sucks. How lame can you be, seriously. He just plays below average basslines with bad 8th and 16th note runs and you guys think he's god.
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Well, there may be some truth to this, but your tone is so demeaning I am called to a modest defense of Entwistle. He was one who inspired me to
start bass as a kid, among others. He's made significant contributions to the art, did his part in expanding the role of the bass. Good tone. Held down what was essentially a rock trio, instrumentally speaking. Great energy, musically speaking. I certainly don't idolize him, but I wouldn't characterize his rep as "overrated". There's just plenty of folks who like his playing for what it is, IMO.

Furthermore, that fact that his licks are so pentatonic made them learnable to me, which is not altogether a bad thing.

I can't really think of a player who is globally overrated. A given special interest might consider the admiration another special interest has for a certain player as undeserved, but it's usually out of context. Jaco and Victor are often lobbed up there as being globally overrated, but I think it's just a reaction to the attention they get for genuinely innovative and musical accomplishments.

I guess one *area* where I feel like players are overrated, is when they develop a slap thing that's exciting rhythmically and just
the energy of it, but the player hasn't taken it beyond the E dorian whack. That begins to bore me. I see the attention folks get for that and sometimes I feel motivated to develop it so I can get some attention too, or think I've impressed someone in a music store, but I'm too hung up on harmony to make the effort to just whack.

How 'bout this, just for fun... McCartney: overrated as a bassist (but *not* as a musician overall). Legs?

rh
 
#134
personally, i can't stand blink 182. how can you be pop-punk? how much of an oxymoron is that? i accidentally wrote this as another thread, but oh well. Anywho...blink is very overrated...sure they are kinda talented. they can actually play instruments, but they're not that great. i really don't like how they call themselves punk, but whatever. sorry blink fans!
 
#139
Originally posted by EString
Who cares?
Why do we have to think so negatively? If you don't care for a particular bassist, that's your own opinion.
Why don't we spend more time focusing on the positive?
What do we stand to learn from listing overrated bassists?
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i can see your point, but there are many posts about people we all like, so he is entitled to post about those he doesnt like.
 
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