Gibson's 10 Best Bassists List (merged)

[lowend1]

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/top-bassists-0328-2011/

[Dave W]

The example for Les Claypool is Primus' fifth-rate version of Making Plans For Nigel, while Colin Moulding (who also wrote it) gets no mention. Nice. 

OTOH at least they're all respected bassists.

[Freuds_Cat]

I was amazed that Stanley Clarke and Victor Wooten weren't on the list but then I read through the list and couldn't work out who to drop in their place.

....stupid lists.....!

[uwe]

According to Gibson at least:


http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/top-bassists-0328-2011/#


I don't have an issue with any (being in a mild mood today, that includes even JPJ!   ) of the gentlemen named (or twenty others they could have named instead), but trust Gibson to forget on their own corporate site an - actually the most - iconic Gibson bass player like Jack Bruce.   I re-scrolled again and again a couple of times not believing they would shoot a turkey like that. Gibson has people working on this site who (1) don't know who Jack Bruce is and (2) don't know that he played an EB-3 all through the late sixties and early seventies and an EB-1 again in the last ten years. Because they don't know what EB-3s and EB-1s are either. A-m-a-z-i-ng. They must breed them somewhere.

I am 100% sure had Fender done something similar, they would have listed Jack Bruce and tipped their hats with a comment like "although never really a Fender player except in the early days of Cream when he played the odd duck of the Fender VI ...".

Gibson is so oblivious of its bass playing legacy it sometimes even still hurts after decades of ignorance.

[Dave W]

Already here: http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=5441.0

[Chaser001]

I knew all was lost when people complained that they didn't know know who Jack Bruce was when he was on the cover of Bass Player magazine ten years ago. 

[OldManC]

I swear these people are retarded.

Flea originally relied on traditional basslines before beginning to incorporate a Bootsy Collins-inspired slap bass style into hit album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

I'm not a huge RHCP fan, but please... The album they reference came out around 1991 or 2.

From 1984:



Yeah, no slapping there...

[Rhythm N. Bliss]

The list is upside down. JPJ is Number One! 
I also agree that Jack Bruce should be on the list--in the 2 spot & bump Claypool off.

[Aussie Mark]

Jack Bruce is indeed a glaring omission from that list.  I'm cool with the rest of the list generally, although I don't rate Flea or Claypool either.

[Freuds_Cat]

I think trying to work out weather Tony Levin is a better bass player than Claypool is a completely pointless exercise. Like arguing over weather peas are better than beans or similar.

[Dave W]

Moving and merging.

[Pekka]

Using a pick and only the neck pickup, Squire developed his signature aggressive sound by incorporating guitar effects like tremolo, phasing and the wah-wah pedal into his bass technique.

Only the neck pickup? Where did they get this info? Oh, from the internet of course...

[gearHed289]

I swear these people are retarded.

I'm not a huge RHCP fan, but please... The album they reference came out around 1991 or 2.

Yeah, no slapping there...

What? Wow! Talk about a complete lack of doing any research before writing....

Using a pick and only the neck pickup, Squire developed his signature aggressive sound by incorporating guitar effects like tremolo, phasing and the wah-wah pedal into his bass technique.


Only the neck pickup? Where did they get this info? Oh, from the internet of course...

Ugh... more stupidity. More like "using a pick and sending each pickup of a Rickenbacker bass to a different rig, including a Marshall stack..."

[nofi]

now your briscoe darlin', dave. one of my favorite quotes from that show.

[Dave W]

now your briscoe darlin', dave. one of my favorite quotes from that show.

Too bad he couldn't win Aunt Bee's hand.