Greatest Rock Bassist of all Time?

victor wooten, stanley clarke, les claypool, noel redding..

Why the fuck is this in babe movies???!!!!!

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Just a Few to throw a Spanner into the works , These guys may not Be technical Wizards but they have what every good bass player should really have, and thats Good Rythm and they are solid as fuck.

After all Bass Is primarly a rythm instrument.

Philip Lynott from Thin Lizzy
Simon Gallup from The Cure.


Still its hard to go past the briliance of Claypool

I think no one mentioned Tony Levin

Oh and I forgot Lars K. Norberg from Spiral Architect

Les Claypool - Primus, Sausage, Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, etc.

Ryan Martinie - Mudvayne (I don't care if he's newer, he's better than most mentioned.)

Billy Sheehan - Talas, DLR, Vai solo, Mr. Big and a bunch of others.

Cliff Burton - Metallica (Might not be the most technical but made a huge impact in metal)

Stu Hamm - A bunch of stuff, but I mainly know him from Joe Satriani.

Flea - Chili Peppers, Fear, The Mars Volta on De-Loused in the Comatorium.

As far as like Stanley Clarke and a couple of others, he's not really a rock musician. Right??

Phil Lynott - Thin Lizzy

Cliff Burton

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Victor Wooten

hell yes victor wooten! then geddy lee, claypool, and allen woody from gov't mule

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Victor Wooten

hell yes victor wooten!
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He's not really rock. Is he??

hmm i guess it depends what you consider bela fleck and the flecktones...they're sorta one of those in between-ish bands that blend a bunch of music so im not sure

Marcus Miller. Will Lee.

nikki sixx

There is only one greatest rock bassist of all time - the one and only John Entwhistle of The Who...hands down, no questions asked !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Big up to John Deacon!!!

@rainbowdemon (and to all other Queen fans): Did you know that Freddie forced him to change his name to "Deacon John" at the beginning ?? he thought John Deaco n was too boring..

i didnt see Sting (Police)mentioned?

or Tommy Shannon ?
( played bass with Stevie ray Vaughn and beofre that with Johnny Winter at Woodstock)

Rudy Sarzo! (Quiet Riot, Ozzy)

all my other favorites were already mentioned like:

Steve harris
Les Claypool
Cliff Burton
Jason Newstead
Geddy Lee
Stanley

100% Don Brewer of Grand Funk Railroad

Cliff, Flee, Paul McCartney, Chancellor just to name a few. its really hard to say who is THE greatest because there are so many styles and methods of playing bass. it's kinda like trying to name the greatest guitarist ever. i don't think its really possible.

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Cliff, Flee, Paul McCartney, Chancellor just to name a few. its really hard to say who is THE greatest because there are so many styles and methods of playing bass. it's kinda like trying to name the greatest guitarist ever. i don't think its really possible.

best guitarist ever is Stevie Ray Vaughn, thats a no brainer



well that is if you dont take into account Jimi Hendrix