yeah stu hamm, flea, claypool... genius

Anyway, if dont you include all the classic Motown bassists like James Jamerson(who would own the list if you did.)the list would go something like this IMO.

1.Flea
2.John Entwhistle
3.Larry Graham
4.Geddy Lee
5.Les Claypool
6.Chris Squire...I can't believe he hasn't been mentioned already. :(
7.Jack Bruce
8.Bootsy Collins
9.Tony Levin
10.Cliff Burton
11.John Paul Jones
12.Paul Maccartney
13.Phil Lesh
14.Geezer Butler
15.Greg Lake
16.Stu Hamm
17.Jack Casady
18.Steve Harris
19.John Myung
20.Billy Sheenan

Honorable mentions to John Wetton, John Deacon, Mike Gordan, Oteil Burbridge, Billy Cox, Mike Watt, Mike Rutherford, Dirk Lance, Roger Waters, Trevor Bolder, Krist Novoselic...I might have commited bass sacrilage with that last one. :)

Haha maybe. So much for picking the best. That was a boo boo :rolleyes:

anyone wondering who is the greatest bassist of all time should just listen to primus's "fish on" I'll describe it as a bass epic.

what about Willie Dixon, who Led Zeppelin, Cream and the Doors totally ripped off

Jaco Pastorius.

Oops, i forgot to mention that my list was just a rock list, didn't know we were doing all genres here, in that case i would have Jaco in the top ten, possibly top 5....Would have Jamerson way up there too, i was putting more emphasis on greatness than the best anyway, sorry for that....Can't really pick a number 1 though.

Every time they ask this question, people clamor to be the first to write Vooten or Pastorious. Tonight I will pray that all of you get hit in the face with the sharp end of a rake.

Sting or Paul McCartney.

Sting is a pretty underrated bassist, wouldn't say he was one of the best, but then again i named Krist Novoselic as a honorable mention. :rofl:

Though i would put Sting and Novoselic in the same catagory, 2 bassists who from a technical standpoint were not impressive at all and were average at best, but nonetheless they were very creative and made some great lines, neither are really top 50 though, i only mentioned Novoselic because i know that no one else will, i think people dont cut him enough slack, but yeah, i expect to get a lot of flaming for that, not that i care.

Peter Hook and Kim Deal, they've done some of my favorite baselines.