What makes a good bass player?

**Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:32 am**

Not being musically minded I can't tell a good bass player, from an ordinary bass player, maybe somebody could tell me?

Is it basically ones ability to stay in time with the drumm and/or the rest of the band? Or is it the ability to make louded noises than other bass players?

When people ask me my favourite bass player I just give them a list of bass players that happen to be in my favourite bands.

1) Phil Lynot
2) Andy Bell
3) Daryl Hunt

I don't even no if they are particaly good. :shock:

**Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:59 pm**

there's good bass players that just do very simple stuff, but play it good and don't need to get any difficultier.
And good bass players that play very complicate stuff.
And there's all shades within those two extremes.

A good bassist should make the bass first of all FIT perfectly in the song, and then COUNT in the song.

Try listening to "Town called malice". The bass fits perfectly in the song. And the song would be half of its beauti without the bass.

**Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:47 pm**

Thanks Billie. :shock:

**Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:06 pm**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfDE-ZvfOwU

**Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:18 pm**

Smerker wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfDE-ZvfOwU

Yeah and his successor with the Who: Pino Palaldino

Saw him play again this week and that guy is sooooooooooooooo good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rb69Q-68tQ

**Sun Jun 24, 2007 2:09 pm**

Mick Molloy wrote:
Smerker wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfDE-ZvfOwU

Yeah and his successor with the Who: Pino Palaldino

Saw him play again this week and that guy is sooooooooooooooo good!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rb69Q-68tQ

I'm seeing the Who on Wednesday. Very excited.

**Sun Jul 15, 2007 12:14 pm**

The guy from the red hot chilli peppers is good and the blur bass player is good and sid vicious was very good.

**Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:04 pm**

dawson wrote: and sid vicious was very good.

WTF??? good at making a scene maybe, not good at playing the bass. Half the time he wasn't even plugged in.

**Mon Aug 06, 2007 8:24 pm**

Yeah, may you eat those words dawson, Sid Viciou a great bass player, not even close to being accurate. Sid didn't even play a bass note on Never Mind the Bollocks, with the possible exception of Bodies, but even then his playing was shuffled underneath. I'm a huge Sex Pistols fan I think it was a sham and just downright stupid when they kicked out Glen Matlock. Sid was there only for image, however he did make a rather conscious effort to learn the bass when he first joined the Pistols, but his relationship with Nancy, his heroin addiction, and the fact he wanted to upstage Johnny Rotten proved to be his downfall.

Iain

**Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:50 pm**

pogues24 wrote:Yeah, may you eat those words dawson, Sid Viciou a great bass player, not even close to being accurate. Sid didn't even play a bass note on Never Mind the Bollocks, with the possible exception of Bodies, but even then his playing was shuffled underneath. I'm a huge Sex Pistols fan I think it was a sham and just downright stupid when they kicked out Glen Matlock. Sid was there only for image, however he did make a rather conscious effort to learn the bass when he first joined the Pistols, but his relationship with Nancy, his heroin addiction, and the fact he wanted to upstage Johnny Rotten proved to be his downfall.

Iain

amen to that.

Les Claypool

and i gotta love

Jay Bentley.

**Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:09 am**

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