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- From: cblanc@pomona.claremont.edu (Muffavore)
- Subject: Another Useless Thread As Bored Metal Fans Attempt to Cope With Life
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.015807.1@pomona.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Pomona College
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 01:58:07 PST
-
- >>> 1.Terry 'Geezer' Butler (Black Sabbath)
-
- Good bassist, blues background showing, also wrote the lyrics, no?
- which would make him doubly talented, esp. compared to funk bands, who can't
- write lyrics worth writing down period.
-
- >>> 2.Cronos (ex-Venom)
-
- um...like him better for his vocals...
-
- >>> 3.Steve Harris (Iron Maden)
-
- go, Steve, go. incredible sense of power in his playing, knew how to
- structure a band around bass.
-
- >>> 5.Cliff Burton (R.I.P. ex Metallica)
-
- Incredible sense of the symphonic and emotion in his bass playing.
- Reportedly he was a master technicalist as well, but I enjoy early Metallica
- stuff for the depth of emotion in the musicianship...for "Orion" he should be
- given some form of medal posthumously...
-
- >>
- >>Shows what you know about bassists. Venom's reputation was built on
- >>musican ineptitude.
-
- Same with some of the greatest punk bands, who seemed to have about the
- same amount of musical knowledge common to your average death metal band today.
-
- >
- > What's wrong w/ VENOM? He used to play bass really col and neat. One of the
- > best bassist. And I don't give much fuck abt PRIMUS maybe they are good musicia
- > ns (sure cuz Larry is from incredible death metallers POSSESSED) but it's
- > fucking NOT metal.
-
- It's not metal, but it is fairly incredible musically. I'd put it down
- as a guitar-based prog-rock band that somehow ran into a funk bassist...very
- good musicians. Of course, it is completely emotionally flat, and for that
- reason it bores me after a few songs, but as pure musical flailing it's
- interesting.
- I'm sort of fucking sick and tired of hearing about Primus, The Red Hot
- Chilipeppers, etc. in a metal newsgroup. Is alt.pop.alternative.elite.bullshit
- still around? Flea might be a competent bassist, but he belongs to a band with
- very little originality and lyrics with the IQ of your average toaster oven.
- The same goes to Primus, btw: the lyrics attempt to be clever, but end up
- cretinous.
- If you want a good bassist: Mike Watt. Don't know any of his earlier
- stuff, but I liked his work with Dos, a band he and his SO/fellow bassist Kira
- formed. They shouldn't have put in vocal tracks; however, the bass work is
- excellent.
- I happen to be a Tony Choy fan as well, and appreciate the work of
- Atheist's other bassist (whose name has escaped me at this moment) -- they have
- the same technical power as many of the others mentioned, but they also managed
- to cram in some of the emotion and intellect that good metal (that is, not some
- band called "Rotting Arm," to rip off a quote from Chuck Schuldiner) has always
- had.
-
- >
- >>1) Les Claypool
-
- Also one of the more annoying personalities in rock, right after Dave
- "Fuck You, I'm Me" Mustaine.
-
- Muffavore
-