You like the bass player….. but not so much his/her band.

[casapete]

5 minutes ago, cetera said:

I always preferred their drummist John Taylor

 

Doh, shouldn’t post when I’ve just woken up. Fixed. 😆

[BigRedX]

Never happens for me.

 

I really don't care about the individual musicians. It's the songs and the overall arrangements that are important.

 

Good bands are always greater than the sum of their parts anyway.

Edited September 6, 2023 by BigRedX

[ahpook]

Chris Wolstenholme - amazing bass lines, but Muse ? No ta.

 

Same with Justin Chancellor and Tool. I can manage the odd song, but again...no.

 

[MacDaddy]

I'm not a disco fan but Bernard's basslines are often amazing and great fun to play.

[chris_b]

I'm rarely going to like a player if I don't like the band.

 

If I don't like the band I'm probably not going to hear more than a few bars anyway. So not enough time to to like or dislike.

[Barking Spiders]

50 minutes ago, chris_b said:

I'm rarely going to like a player if I don't like the band.

 

If I don't like the band I'm probably not going to hear more than a few bars anyway. So not enough time to to like or dislike.

 But there's loads of vids on YT with players either showing their chops or of footage where bass parts have been isolated, so it's easy to separate them out from their bands. Drums are my main thing and I'll watch metal and fusion drummers for tips and challenges as often as I watch those from my preferred genres e.g. funk.  I'm mostly influenced by the likes of James Brown's drummers and Ziggy Modeliste but it's also great watching top notch metal players doing blast beats

[Gasman]

John McVie - tasteful, solid, super sound. FWM in general - not really keen, too many drama queens...

[Beedster]

Jaco

[chris_b]

18 minutes ago, Gasman said:

John McVie - tasteful, solid, super sound. FWM in general - not really keen, too many drama queens...

 

John McVie was my biggest bass playing influence from the 60's and early 70's. I've seen him live more than any other bass player, first with John Mayall, then with Fleetwood Mac. I didn't see the second FM but have all the records. When Buckingham Nicks came onboard he stepped up and created some great bass lines.

[gafbass02]

Another vote for muse here. Great player, cool lines, but just don’t ‘get’ the final product. 

[Skybone]

53 minutes ago, gafbass02 said:

Another vote for muse here. Great player, cool lines, but just don’t ‘get’ the final product. 

 

Likewise, just don't get Muse, so haven't listened to any of the bass lines.  

[casapete]

18 hours ago, Gasman said:

John McVie - tasteful, solid, super sound. FWM in general - not really keen, too many drama queens...

 

17 hours ago, chris_b said:

 

John McVie was my biggest bass playing influence from the 60's and early 70's. I've seen him live more than any other bass player, first with John Mayall, then with Fleetwood Mac. I didn't see the second FM but have all the records. When Buckingham Nicks came onboard he stepped up and created some great bass lines.

Always liked John’s playing, but later FM stuff didn’t interest me much, mainly due to not being able

to get past the vocals of Stevie Nicks. One of my least favourite singers ever, just don’t understand why

her voice is so well liked, and much preferred the FM stuff with lead vocals by other band members.

[snorkie635]

My own band springs to mind. 🤣

[Waddo Soqable]

1 hour ago, snorkie635 said:

My own band springs to mind. 🤣

You've been posing in the mirror again haven't you..... 

[Beedster]

20 hours ago, Beedster said:

Jaco

 

That was serious BTW, the lines he played were sublime, many of the tracks and bands in which he played them are to me the worst type of 70's/80's self-indulgent fusion. Probably true of many other virtuoso, Rocco Prestia perhaps? 

[snorkie635]

23 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

You've been posing in the mirror again haven't you..... 

Damn! Must get those curtains fixed.

[Reggaebass]

For me it’s Earl Falconer, he’s a great bass player but certainty since UB40 parted ways they are dreadful, I’ve seen them many times and been backstage ,Signing Off is a great album  and their best work ever