Geezer Butler is the best bass player of all time
When will you zoomers accept reality?
Geezer Butler is the best bass player of all time
Joseph Rivera
Cameron Reed
Geezer is an absolute god, but James Jamerson was the GOAT. I guess once you get as good as those guys, though, it just comes down to personal tastes.
Good on you for picking a tasteful bassist like Geezer instead of some tapa-tap slappity slap pop cornball like Victor Wooten. Great player, boring compositions, 0 good records.
This may not be your cup of tea, but actually listen to it and check out those basslines. Perfectly in the pocket, but also super melodic and up/down the neck.
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Jason Ramirez
He's fucking underrated. The way he counterpoints Iommi's riffs is unparalleled
Ethan Powell
Have recently got back into bass after a long time and trying to play his shit is kicking my ass
Like 90% of a song will be simple and then he'll just pull something improvised or very dextrous out of the bag that takes more time to learn than the rest of the track put together
I also want to learn how to improvise basslines but have no idea what I'm doing
Parker Sanchez
That's a banger, I think that style of music produces a lot of fun basslines, it just suits it
I honestly don't get why so many bassists play stuff like grunge/punk/thrash when other styles have so much more going on for bass.
Stoner metal is one I think produces some interesting basslines, I think probably because of the Sabbath influence. Nick Olivieri has some tricky stuff here and there in between beating his wife
Jeremiah Sanders
Two words for you, Cliff Burton.
Adrian Perez
victor wooten faggot
Easton Scott
Cliff was fantastic too but the guy died age 24, it's hard to compare him properly to someone who's been playing for decades
Definitely a real talent though. I feel like Jason Newsted is a good player but completely different, he's a solid workhorse whereas Cliff was an artist
Julian Campbell
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Yeah he's a king
Anthony King
Great player, but all of the tracks he plays on are boring to listen to. Just like all of those 80s shredders who can shred with machine-like efficiency but never really made a good song.. like Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Angelo Batio, etc.
Angel Taylor
>in between beating his wife
What did she do?
Hunter Bennett
Jeremiah Ortiz
>Nick Olivieri
>On July 10, 1999, Oliveri and Josh Homme were involved in an altercation with English rock band Terrorvision while Queens of the Stone Age were on tour in London. Oliveri was arrested as a result, but was released several hours later without being charged.[43]
>On January 19, 2001, Oliveri was arrested after a performance at Rock in Rio III in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for performing nude on stage. He apologized for the incident and stated that he was not aware that it was a crime in Brazil.[44]
>In January 2004, following a string of dates touring in Australia, Oliveri was fired from the band, with reasoning at first being aggressive treatment of the band's fans, later being accusations of possible abuse to his girlfriend. Oliveri has said to have come to the conclusion himself that during a sound check at a show in Spain in 2003 he acted too aggressively to Josh Homme over his relationship with then-girlfriend Brody Dalle after getting too drunk on wine, raising tension between the two.
>On July 12, 2011, Oliveri was arrested for suspicion of felony domestic violence after a standoff with police SWAT team. He allowed his girlfriend to exit the house two hours into the standoff and two hours before the SWAT team made entry into the home and arrested Oliveri. Drugs and a loaded rifle were found in the home.[45][46][47] In August 2012, Oliveri's lawyer reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in his case. His lawyer, Freddy Sayegh, told TMZ, "Mr. Oliveri agreed to plead to one count of possession of cocaine and a dismissal of the remaining six felony counts." Oliveri's record in the case will be expunged as long as he completes court-ordered community service, anger management, and remains out of trouble for six years.
Joshua Harris
>Kyuss and QOTSA founding member
>Is a drug addicted lunatic
I'm shocked
Evan Gray
Jaco was, is, and always will be the GOAT
Jaxson Cox
Kek, he won me over as I watched
Kayden Sullivan
Andrew Rogers
Faggot died in one punch
Levi Johnson
What do you think of Les Claypool? Not a Wooten Fan either. Yeah technically a goat but would i listen to it, no. Claypool on the other hand at least has fun slap verses.
Justin Phillips
The chad way
Brandon James
Huge Les Claypool fan. He's always pushed the boundaries of the instrument but it's still nice and listenable. He does a nice job weaving in clean melodic stuff along with the tapping/slapping, but I'm a bit biased because I love Primus so much lel. I actually developed my ear when I first started playing by crudely following along to his stuff on youtube/downloads from Limewire ages ago.
Good taste, I dig Olivieri's playing, too. Sure, he's a degenerate nutcase, but I tend to separate the art from the artists. You run out of shit to listen to really fast if you don't lel
I always loved his playing on this track. On the whole album, really.
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