Best Bassists Over This Past Decade?

[KingLouieLouie]

This list shall be very interesting to compile and perhaps somewhat complex... The best bassists since '95 in no particular order...

1) Les Claypool
2) Flea
3) Bill Gould
4) Peter Steele
5) John Myung
6) Eddie Jackson
7) Doug Pinnick
8) Nick Oliveri
9) Stuart Hamm
10) Tim Commerford

Honorable Mentions:
Paul Blackburn
Robert Trujillo
Justin Chancellor
Chi Cheng

 

[Assface]

Matt Freeman of Rancid.

Maxwell Murder

 

[thirty-two]

Mark Hoppus of Blink 182?

 

[Assface]

Mark Hoppus of Blink 182?

He's seriously underrated. Same goes for Fat Mike of NOFX.

Another great bassist is Joe Principe formerly of 88 Fingers Louie and now in Rise Against.

 

[Ryanwb]

10) Tim Commerford

Yeah baby, a little love for RATM

 

[Ryanwb]

Mike Dirnt of Green Day is pretty solid

 

[Assface]

Mike Dirnt of Green Day is pretty solid

Ugh, how could I have forgotten him.

 

[Ryanwb]

Ugh, how could I have forgotten him.

Probably because he likes me more than you

 

[thirty-two]

Ugh, how could I have forgotten him.

Cuz deep down inside you REALLY do hate green day

 

[Assface]

Hanson sucks. They're not even good enough to have a bass player.

 

[thirty-two]

they ran out of siblings

 

[Ryanwb]

they ran out of siblings

Wait, they have a guitarist, a drummer.... what does the other guy do?
tambourine?

 

[Assface]

Wait, they have a guitarist, a drummer.... what does the other guy do?
tambourine?

Keyboard.

 

[Ryanwb]

Keyboard.

That's a step above washboard

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[Brandon_Webb]

Claypool, probably my favorite musician regardless of instrument
Tim Commerford
Flea
John Myung
Justin Chancellor (he could be up here even if Schism was his only ever song recorded

 

[vince56]

Claypool, probably my favorite musician regardless of instrument
Tim Commerford
Flea
John Myung
Justin Chancellor (he could be up here even if Schism was his only ever song recorded

What he said. I'll say Stu Hamm as well because the guy just plays some sick stuff that no one else can.

 

[blindseyed]

Wow how could ya not even mention Billy Sheehan...oh wait...I just did!...

 

[KingLouieLouie]

Yeah baby, a little love for RATM

Yeah.. and we must not forget his "bone-crunching" bass playing for Audioslave either... I'm actually starting to like them more, however, still of course rather have both Soundgarden and RATM both respectively reunite, but of course that's an entirely different subject.......

Mike Dirnt of Green Day is pretty solid

Matt Freeman of Rancid.

Mark Hoppus of Blink 182?

Wow.. it seems that I completely overlooked the genre of Punk... I forgot about Dirnt's solid bass in both "Warning" and "Majority" (would say his best was "Longview" but that was of course before '95)....

I havent listened to Rancid in quite some time, but must do so..... Blink 182 had some excellent bass-lines in their songs.....

I guess my mind recently has been focused on a lot of progressive/metal when I've any discussion of music has come up regarding this past decade...

Wow how could ya not even mention Billy Sheehan...oh wait...I just did!...

Definitely another good one that I overlooked... He was awesome with Mr. Big and the other performers he's done session work for.....