Vote all you want, just make sure that the guy STARTED playing no more than 25 years ago. This eliminates guys like Geddie Lee, John Entwistle, Ray Brown, and so on.
My vote goes to the amazing Victor Wooten, with Les Claypool running a close second.
I’d have to say Oteil Burbridge, who I imagine a Victor Wooten fan would’ve heard of, but not a lot of other people.
A vote for Les.
Can I nominate Justin Chancellor and Paul D’Amour from Tool?
Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, too.
Flea and Les Claypool.
gotta be Vic Wooten
Marley23, Yes I know Oteil, and that is a great suggestion. Looks like there might not be a lot of big bass lovers in this forum tonight, hopefully we will pick up some new stuff by tomorrow.
I gotta go with Les Claypool on this one.
Shavo from SOAD…
Greg K from Offspring…
While I don’t listen to a lot of new new new music, what I have heard of the modern metallists shows little of the inventivenes of Les Claypool. He’s the Neil Peart of bassists, to me.
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I think its actually a guy called Michael Manring. I’ve heard one piece of his on the radio. It was a solo bass piece of unbelievable complexity and musicality. It made anything I’ve heard by my favourite rock bassists sound very pedestrian.
Here are two sites about him. bassically.net has a profile. Check out the transcriptions. His own site lists his concert dates. Apparently he can get away with doing solo gigs playing 3 basses at once.
I can’t find any of his music in Australia. Has anyone else heard him or heard of him.
Les Claypool naturally.
Honorable mention to Matt Freeman (because I rarely recognize musical talent and he’s one of the few bassists besides Claypool that really blows me away)
Another vote for Les. His new album Purple Onion is great if you haven’t heard it. The Frog Brigade puts on a great live show as well.
Justin Chancellor has done some interesting work with Tool since joining the group in late '95. He won’t set any speed records, but he does some creative things with effects.
Mark King, from Level 42? Might be too old. Otherwise, Red Hot Chilli Peppers dude.
Tye Zamore from Alien Ant Farm can really lay down the tracks.
…Peter Hook from Joy Division/New Order…didnt we just do this topic,or was it somewhere elese?..:dubious:
Damn beaten to it. I second Peter ‘Hookie’ Hook.
This might be a technicality, but in the original post, Moejuck requested one who didn’t start playing more than 25 years ago. Les Claypool and Flea are both about 40, and I believe both were playing bass by age 15; they just weren’t famous yet.
Actually, Joy Division (then known as Warsaw) formed in 1977. teherfore Peter Hook must of been playing for at least 26 years.