Best Bassists that AREN'T Slap/Poppers or Funk

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I don't get the hate but Chip Znuff deserves to be in this thread.
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Pat Badger from Extreme doesn't get anything like the credit he deserves. Steller player with amazing vocals too.
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Steve Harris - Iron Maiden
Simon Gallup - The Cure
Andy Rourke- The Smiths
Frank Bello - Anthrax
DD Verni - Overkill
Matt Freeman - Rancid
Mike Dirnt - Green Day
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Sleek wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 2:53 pm My holy triumvirate for rock: Entwistle, McCartney and Dennis Dunaway, John Paul Jones.
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One not mentioned

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Listening to the first Whitesnake album, 1978’s “Trouble”, and Neil Murray is KILLING it! Such cool bass lines…. Great player!
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Listening to the first Whitesnake album, 1978’s “Trouble”, and Neil Murray is KILLING it! Such cool bass lines…. Great player!
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Eric Avery of Jane's Addiction
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mrspeedgene wrote: ↑Tue Feb 07, 2023 9:02 am One not mentioned

MEL SCHACHER
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MIInsane wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 1:41 pm I've always thought that Eric Avery from Jane's Addiction doesn't get half the credit he deserves.

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The bassist for Al Solo in Buenos Aires. The dude is is a pain the ass, however, he's a GREAT player. Top notch. He can play everything, he has the perfect "fender precission" motown bass sound, etc etc.
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As a former bass player back in the day: For bands covered on this board, Geddy Lee, Steve Harris and Billy Sheehan seems the obvious answers to me.
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Tony Levin
Pino Palidino
Pete Trawaves
Paul McCartney
Early Gene Simmons
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Ozzy Stradlin wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:53 pm
Aerosmith87 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 6:32 pm I've always liked Sami Yaffa's playing. It's always fitting to the music.
I concur.

I’ll add:

Tom Petersson (Cheap Trick)
Simon Gallup (The Cure)
Tommy Stinson (The Replacements)
Paul Raven (Killing Joke)
All excellent choices.

Came to post Sami Yaffa too. He really drives the songs and has the perfect rock bass sound.
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Lot of great bassists out there! I always harken back to motown/funk/soul bassists, a la James Jamerson
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cowpins wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:26 am The bassist for Al Solo in Buenos Aires. The dude is is a pain the ass, however, he's a GREAT player. Top notch. He can play everything, he has the perfect "fender precission" motown bass sound, etc etc.
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Bono Nettencourt wrote: ↑Sat Feb 04, 2023 4:28 pm Tony Levin slaps...
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Robert DeLeo is so underrated with crafting and laying down that big STP bottom end.
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mike dean (corrosion of conformity)
markus großkopf (helloween)
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Alex Griffin (Ned's Atomic Dustbin)
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For me it’s the ones who you can tell from their style and/or can write a song as well as play within it:

Lemmy
Duff
Steve Harris
Nigel Mogg
Kelly nickels
The guy from the stranglers

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mightybombjack wrote: ↑Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:09 pm mike dean (corrosion of conformity)
markus großkopf (helloween)
tony lombardo (descendents)

i was going to mention helloween's bass player.
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