Tony Levin is the Greatest Bassist of All TIME!

What about Jaco? What about Chris Squire? What about Flea? There are so many good bassists it's impossible to say that one is definetly the best.

 

Yeh, right then. Why have I not heard of him if he's so damn good then? And trust me, I know my bassists.

 

I'm VERY surprised you havn't heard of him then, because that means you probably havn't heard of King Crimson or Liquid Tension Experiment, among other things.

 

With all due respect, if you "know your bassists" then you will know of Tony Levin, whether you are a fan of his or not... therefore it must be presumed that you DON'T "know your bassists!"

However, to address the original post - he is not the best, he is simply one of the "greats"

 

Tony is one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE players ever. Good call Matt!

 

It's about time someone realises this.

Flea is overrated, Tony is underrated. Flea was still wetting his bed when Tony was already a studio man.

 

I dig flea... but Tony IMO is a much better bassist. I think if you asked Flea directly, he'd agree too

 

I love Tony Levin. His lines are so graceful and grooving. He was a huge influence on my fingerstyle playing and he was a musical influence even before I started playing bass (I've been listening to King Crimson since 1st grade or so).

Matt,
Does the greatest hits cd have "Don't Give Up" on it? I have Peter Gabriel's "Secret World Live" both on CD and on video and he's awesome on that. I also have this CD of a Christian artist named Jennifer Knapp that has Tony on bass and Vinnie Cauliuta on drums. It sounds so good...those two guys are basically the reason I bought that CD. Just goes to show that Tony doesn't just deliver the goods on his main gigs such as Crimso, Gabriel and Seal but also on his everyday sessions.

brad cook

 

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

brad cook

 

Flea makes me frown.

 

Dude.. You don't know who Tony Levin is? (Yet you know of Flea. What a suprise :scowl: )

 

Leland Slkar ? I think he takes the cake with like 5 Gajillion albums.

 

Let's not get into the "Who's played on more albums?" thing again. We had a whole thread about that before and it just got tedious. Yes, we know that Jamerson, Palladino, Sklar, Levin and whoever else has played on a whole lot of albums.

brad cook

 

lay off the kid...
he's on'y 16/17.

nonetheless,
ask Les Claypool where he got his concept from and i bet he will tell you TONY LEVIN...or just watch the Primus DVD and listen to him playing SATORI IN TANGIER while warming up.

 

Whoever it was who said I won't have heard of King Crimson, of course I've bloody heard of them! LOL. I've heard of a lot of bassists, seeing as my dad was heavily into music through out the 70s, when some of the best bassists ever like Chris Squire, Jaco, etc... were about. I still think that Geezer Butler is an awesome bassist too.

 

The how can you know King Crimson without knowing of Tony Levin?

 

I guess he doesn't know that the 80's incarnation of crimson had levin on bass / chapman stick.


Fact of the matter is that you've prolly heard him on a ton of recordings (IIRC he did A momentary lapse of reason for Pink Floyd, one of John Lennon's solo albums, and a bunch of other stuff)