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following from the success of the Best of 80's and 70's threads i thought well why not do one for this era...

i'll start it i personally love Mike Dirnt's style i don't know if he's neccaserily a nice guy, but i love his simple yet solid lines....

let it roll people........

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Bassassin Grand Master

Bassassin

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Chancellor, James, Zender, Myung were all 90s (Mike Dirnt's technically 80s!) - and I saw Muse supporting Skunk Anansie in 1999...

Tricky decade so far, there have been some great new bands, but no bassist has yet made much of an impression on me.

I was going to say Martin Mendez from Opeth - but he first recorded with them in '99.

/Gives up. :)

Jon.

allighatt0r Community Regular

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The [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Nicholson"](first)[/url] bassist from the Arctic Monkeys was not necessarily a stunningly technical bassist, but he did make some very good bass lines, and the Arctic Monkeys formed in 2002. :)

Musky Proficient

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[quote name='Bassassin' post='157882' date='Mar 15 2008, 10:43 AM']Chancellor, James, Zender, Myung were all 90s (Mike Dirnt's technically 80s!) - and I saw Muse supporting Skunk Anansie in 1999...

Tricky decade so far, there have been some great new bands, but no bassist has yet made much of an impression on me.

I was going to say Martin Mendez from Opeth - but he first recorded with them in '99.

/Gives up. :)

Jon.[/quote]

Exactly what I was thinking Jon. There don't really seem to have been any real bass heroes this decade - plenty of well regarded players that play in successful bands, but no-one that Joe Public would recognise as a stand out member of the band in the way Burnell or Flea were. Maybe it accounts why bass players seem to be a bit thinner on the ground now, judging by the ammount of 'bass player wanted' ads in the classifieds.

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[quote name='Buzz' post='157800' date='Mar 15 2008, 02:08 AM']Alex James?


/runs before the lynching team arrives and my head rolls[/quote]

MB1. :)
Mr "Now im a Farmer" Cheesey Arga! :huh:

stingrayfan Rising Star

stingrayfan

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Michele Stodart from the Magic Numbers is a great player. Listen to "Undecided" on their most recent album, it's really clever. Apparently she only learned to play a few years ago.

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barry44 Apprentice

barry44

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carlos d of interpol is a solid bassist, i think his work on their first cd is really good.

also whoever is playing bass at any given time in the shins always plays some nice lines

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LukeFRC Grand Master

LukeFRC

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I remember seeing bloc party on later and getting very excited by the bassline to helicopter. At that stage it wasc doing something I hadn't thought you coul do on a bass.
So bloc party's bass player.

Doddy Mentor

Doddy

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Bryan Beller-He did some great work in the '90's with 'Z',but has really kicked ass with Mike Keneally an Steve Vai over the last few years. Bryan's solo album 'View' is the best bassist-lead album for years and his column in 'Bass Player' is worth the price of the magazine.

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