Who's you favorite?

#42
LowWay said:
Totally agree. I remember fondly the day J Mascis came to see my little band in ‘94 in a local club and bought a CD. Bug and Green Mind were in constant rotation for me for years. Others too of course, but those were my favorites then.
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For me it's their first 2 albums, the self titled one and then "You're Living All Over Me", from respectively 1985 and 1987, especially the latter, which might be their absolute best album.

"Little Fury Things" from that album even being one of my absolute favorite songs of all times, and the guitar solo in "Raisins" probably being the best rock guitar solo ever in the entirety of music history, so damn absolutely heart-wreckingly beautiful and full of emotions, it literally feels as if J. Mascis is tearing out his heart right in front of you and making you feel it too.

Though I love "Where You Been" and "Without a Sound" too, respectively 1993 and 1994, from after Dinosaur Jr. more or less turned into J. Mascis solo project, but which are among the absolute best Dinosaur Jr. albums as well, as far as I am concerned.

Of the newer ones, after they reformed with the original lineup, I like the first one, "Beyond" from 2007, the best, which featured two absolutely killer songs written by Lou, though my favorite song from the newer albums is probably "Love is...", also written by Lou, from their previous 2016 album "Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not".
 
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My favorite will always be Geddy Lee. Mostly because Rush is my favorite band and he was the most influential in getting me started.

Other than that I don't really have favorites. They're all good!
 
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Paul Chambers, because he always plays the right note right on time.
Bootsy, because of Lickin Stick.
Marcus Miller, because he's the perfect bridge between past and present.
Mike Watt, because he plays loud, real weird, but never too much or too fast.
Pino on Voodoo, because that sh!t is slick.
 
#48
dalkowski said:
Way to go, Sebadoh! (I know, he didn't play bass with them...)
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That's correct, though he might have played bass on some of the songs on the albums.

Also actually he original started out playing guitar in a hardcore punk band called "Deep Wound", where J. Mascis played drums, before they formed Dinosaur Jr. and J. decided to pick up guitar, because he wasn't satisfied with how anyone else did it, so he figured he had to take care of that himself.

On the first couple of Dinosaur Jr. albums J. also pretty much wrote all the drum parts and told/snowed Murph meticulously how to play them (and after he fired Lou somewhere after their third album, so around 1989, and Murph eventually decided to quit, I think somewhere between "Where You Been" and "Without a Sound", so around 1993, what more or less had turned into J's solo project, J also took care of all the drum parts recorded for the albums forward on, up until J. Mascis decided to disband the band completely, somewhere around 1998. After the reunion, somewhere around 2005, with the original line up, Murph is back on drums though).

He did leave the bass parts entirely up to Lou however.
 
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Jorgebassguy said:
I would like to know who your favorite bassists are, and if you dont mind what about them makes you love their playing so much?

Ill go first,
Cliff Burton (his solos just made me happy)
And Tim Commerford (i love his tone and his place in all his bands)
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Joseph Troy

Tim Commerford

Sean Yseult

Matt Freeman

Fat Mike

Greg K

Lonnie Turner

Fuzz Kmak
 
#55
thabassmon said:
I like lots of players, but very rarely do I listen to anything because of a particular bass player, it more like I listen to songs/tunes and coincidentally a player whose playing I enjoy happens to be on it (I usually listen to music on Random so if it is music that I've never heard I can listen to it without bias or expectation). I also don't really think in terms of favourites but here's some whose playing I often appreciate.

Red Mitchell (Sense of melody), Ray Brown (Outstanding swing and instrument mastery), Christian McBride (Complete player, Arco solos), Nels-Henning Ørsted Pederson (Ridiculous upright facility), Scott LaFaro (Melodicism, implied time feel), Stuart Zender (Driving funky groover), Me'Shell NdegeOcello (Excellent feel and articulation), Bootsy Collins (Funk master), James Jamerson (Deft use of rhythm and melody, but still playing for the song), Thundercat (Modern songmeister with crazy facility), Richard Bona (Multilayered rhythmic feel), Bakithi Kumalo (Groovy and melodic), Tim Commerford (In most cases, his lines are the song).
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Christian McBride is my favourite. Whether his Trio or his Big Band or when he plays with the other Jazz Greats. He is truly amazing as he lays down the bottom end while pulling everyone else together. Live he is an excellent entertainer as the joy of his music oozes out of him. (How I miss living in NYC and seeing him regularly.)
 
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Jorgebassguy said:
I would like to know who your favorite bassists are, and if you dont mind what about them makes you love their playing so much?

Ill go first,
Cliff Burton (his solos just made me happy)
And Tim Commerford (i love his tone and his place in all his bands)
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I agree with Cliff Burton for sure. Also, Steve Harris cuz I loved his sound mostly and obviously his playing style is amazing.
 
#57
BazzaBass said:
Christian McBride is my favourite. Whether his Trio or his Big Band or when he plays with the other Jazz Greats. He is truly amazing as he lays down the bottom end while pulling everyone else together. Live he is an excellent entertainer as the joy of his music oozes out of him. (How I miss living in NYC and seeing him regularly.)
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I think he's great, I've been listening to him for quite a long time. And it was through listening to him I became aware of the pianist Christian Sands who I find outstanding as well.
 
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lowdownthump said:
Larry Graham
James Jamerson
Bobby Watson
Louis Johnson
Nate Watts
Allen McGrier
Mark Adams
Carol Kaye
Meshell Ndegeocello
Esperanza Spalding
Janice Marie Johnson
Tina Weymouth
Bootsy
Marcus Miller
Aaron Mills
Prince
Mono Neon
Fred Hammond
Debra Killings
Sting
John Deacon
Phil Lynott
Geddy Lee
Bernard Edwards
Joseph Lucky Scott
Maurice Gibbs
Justin Raines
Sharay Reed
Alan Snoop Evans
Pino Palladino
John Taylor
Paul S. Denman
Stuart Zender
Paul Turner
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I forgot Anthony Jackson.
 
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