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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Subject: Re: Best Bassist
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.210238.26782@siemens.com>
- Sender: news@siemens.com (NeTnEwS)
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- Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 21:02:38 GMT
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- >Gee...and I thought the point of this was to list personal opinions on best
- >bassists OVERALL, not just metal.
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- Of course, since it's often not clear just what is and isn't "metal", I try to
- avoid the term anyway.
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- A few years back Jaco Pastorious was widely held to be the best bassist going.
- I knew a guy in college who was very into him (he was even building a
- fretless bass), and was pretty unhappy when Jaco died.
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- While he tended to play pseudo-jazz, he was quite good with his instrument.
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