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Topic: Metal's greatest bassist?

Mezcalhead
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Member # 26

posted June 28, 2003 17:51

After listening to the three Atheist albums in their entirety(Thanks Hex!) I was astounded to hear the complex runs and total breakass groove of their bass player, TONY CHOY. I've never heard anybody in metal come close to what this guy pulled off on these albums. Its like the drum playing of Brann Dailor, nobody can touch this guy.

So what'cha think? Am I missing somebody here. I'll already go ahead and tell ya your wrong, but....what the hell, I like this "who's the greatest" shit. Its quite amusing when you have the teens going, "its Newsted man, FUCKING NEWSTED!!!!!"

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Skul
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Member # 19

posted June 28, 2003 18:40

That's not Tony on Piece of Time, tho. That's their original bass player Roger Patterson, who died in a van accident. Tony was in Cynic, but bailed out before the making of Focus (he was playing with Atheist and Pestilence and a bunch of other bands during that time anyways). But you probably already knew all that. Atheist gives me a headache, anyways. Too math-metal, and i always hated math.

Alot of bass players are very cool, tho. My favorite is obviously Les Claypool but he never did much metal (except that brief stint in Blind Illusion), so i'll have to go with Geezer Butler. He's always had a great feel and a great groove to his playing. It's not about how many notes they can pull off in 3 seconds flat, it's about carrying the song and get you in the groove, d000d.

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vroomfondel
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Member # 139

posted June 28, 2003 19:43

I agree sort of totally Mr skul. I would like to add Steve DiGiorgio and his performance on Death's Individual Thought Patterns, there's some cool bass sounds going on

I think one certain Blackster did pretty well too

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BlackCloud
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Member # 122

posted June 29, 2003 02:14

JASONIC. Where's your 'fricken' loyalty people?

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LyKcantropen
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Member # 162

posted June 29, 2003 08:25

Steve DiGiorgio.

Go listen to anything by Sadus, now!

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Hatröss
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Member # 7

posted June 29, 2003 11:00

Geezer Butler and Les Claypool \m/right on\m/
Cliff Burton
Steve Harris
Geddy Lee
Blacky
Stuart Hamm (im sure he was metal)

i dont play bass really...

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Syl Disjonk
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Member # 148

posted June 29, 2003 13:02

The bass player that impress me the most is Dominic Lapointe of Atheretic from Montréal. He is over the top !!! A must see live. The sad thing is that we can't ear him that much on the record : Adhesion, Aversion. It's a brutal technical death metal band by the way. I always go see their gig just for him, amazing.

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Motordeth
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Member # 153

posted June 29, 2003 13:54

Yeah that guy in Atheretic rules!

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Juan87
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Member # 87

posted June 29, 2003 23:05

I really don't know who's actually the Best, but I can think of a few that might be:

GZR Butler
Blacky
Geddy Lee
Paul Raven
Jason Newsted
David Vincent
Steve DiGiorgio
Steve Harris

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Mind Running Slow
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Member # 331

posted June 30, 2003 00:12

HANDS DOWN, It's gotta be Ron Royce of CORONER. Dude can play anything...

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h
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Member # 8

posted June 30, 2003 04:42

For technical metal excellence I'd go for Tony Choy, but if we're looking at overall genius in style and content, then it's Sir Cliff Burton. The man ruled.
Then again, seeing as Piggy supposedly taught Blacky, then that technically makes him a bass player too. So I vote Piggy!

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tomsawyer
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Member # 306

posted June 30, 2003 08:36

1. Geezer Butler
2. Roger Glover
3. Les Claypool
4. Flea (ok the band sucks but hes good)
5. Blacky

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Väinämöinen
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Member # 27

posted June 30, 2003 11:18

Definitely great choices there. I'd like to add a couple of my all-time faves:

Dan Lilker - his style and sound was a crucial part of Nuclear Assault. Very aggressive yet groovy!

Jasonic - IMO he is doing a great great job on "Voivod", and I'm really looking forward to hear what he's got reserved for us in the future. He is maybe a bit underrated because he really never got a chance to show his talent in Metallica, and when he was in Flotsam he hadn't yet matured to the full as a bass player.

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Mezcalhead
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Member # 26

posted June 30, 2003 11:57

Thanks for the correction Skul. I'm new to Atheist and didn't know about that. Yeah, Digorgio is killer as well. The ONLY reason to listen to Sadus IMO.

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Matt K.
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Member # 90

posted June 30, 2003 21:11

I don't know if it's been posted before... WheresTonyChoyPage...

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Mezcalhead
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Member # 26

posted June 30, 2003 22:35

DAMNNNNNNN, Area 305(and I thought AudioSlave was a dumb name for a band)stole that look from old Sister Exchange promos.

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Matt K.
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Member # 90

posted July 01, 2003 00:21

I think it's rather sad.

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Mezcalhead
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Member # 26

posted July 01, 2003 06:53

Well, it beats framing houses......

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Slaytanic
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Member # 28

posted July 01, 2003 09:28

LEMMY, the one who invented metal bass playing as we know today.

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Mastermind
Junior VoivodFan
Member # 341

posted July 01, 2003 20:29

LOL!!!

DeMaio

Of course....are you people nuts?

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farside
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Member # 193

posted July 01, 2003 23:32

I love Voivod, and I like Newstead, but he doesn't belong on this list.

1. Geezer Butler
2. Lemmy
3. Steve Harris
4. Cliff Burton

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Mind Running Slow
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Member # 331

posted July 02, 2003 01:31

PLEASE!!! CAN WE JUST END THIS ALREADY??? Is it not so OBVIOUS to us all that in our deepest, darkest realities that the one, and only true best bassist could and only will be the offspring of Gene Simmons and Michael Anthony? I mean, C'mon....

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AngelRat
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