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10.46pm
9 June 2010
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*inserts second cough for Sun king's benefit because he happened to do exactly what I was hoping someone would do*
mr. Sun king coming together said And yes, YouTube comments are stupid. But hilariously so.
10.49pm
19 September 2010
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That's what I was going for
10.52pm
9 June 2010
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OK. Let's continue.
*cough*"The End"*cough*
mr. Sun king coming together said And yes, YouTube comments are stupid. But hilariously so.
10.55pm
19 September 2010
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*cough*"Sgt. Pepper's"*cough*
11.00pm
9 June 2010
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*cough*"The Night Before"*cough*
mr. Sun king coming together said And yes, YouTube comments are stupid. But hilariously so.
11.24pm
19 September 2010
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*cough*"And Your Bird Can Sing"*cough*
12.38am
18 March 2010
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Hmm. McCartney or Entwistle, Entwistle or McCartney…
Flip a coin. I love both these guys and they played for my two favorite best bands. McCartney plays the more amazing melodies, while Entwistle (aka, the Ox) is more like anarchy on bass. Those strengths each helped give each band their distinctive styles. When you combined Entwistle's bass with Moon's drums, you got the most anarchic rhythm section that ever existed.
As pointed out, Entwistle rarely sang. Hell, he rarely even spoke. He once said that on stage, he felt he should stand as still as a statue and concentrate on his playing. He felt that as a visual, his stability was needed to balance out Pete Townsend's bouncing around and windmill guitar slashes (often imitated, but Pete invented it), Roger Daltry's prancing and marching, and Keith Moon's all-out assault on his drums.
As an aside, I caught "The Last Waltz" on TV again the other day. I forgot what a great bassist Rick Danko was for The Band. Good stuff.
1.03am
19 April 2010
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I know there's a lot of great bass players out there – but I don't think anyone comes close to Paul's bass playing. There's a reason every ohter bass player is compared to him. He is the standard.
2.48am
1 May 2010
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Not electric, but Blackbird is probably the best acoustic playing in the catalogue.
5.06am
12 December 2010
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Jeez, I'm going to catch a cold or something if you don't stop!
11.21am
12 March 2010
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robert said:
I know there's a lot of great bass players out there – but I don't think anyone comes close to Paul's bass playing. There's a reason every ohter bass player is compared to him. He is the standard.
Being a bass player myself I can say that I was indeed hugely impressed and influenced by Macca's melodic, interesting bass lines. Check out the "Sgt. Pepper's" album and learn what can be done to simple chords with amazing feeling and creative energy.
Is he "THE best" bass player? No, obviously not, since there are so many fantastic, innovative bass players from many different genres.
Is he better than Stanley Clarke? Jaco Pastorius? That slapping guy (Larry something)?
I would agree that in Pop/Rock in the 60s there was no better bass player, although the OX was already there. He's more of a 70s artist for me, though.
But when Disco and the slappers and all the fusion stuff came up, Paul was kind of old news (ironically, he still got voted best bass player by some magazine four times in the 70s, and NEVER in the 60s!!), technically.
So he remains an inspiring source of melodic joy on an underrated instrument he transformed into something special and outstanding. This acchievement will remain untouched.
But to call him THE BEST doesn't do him or all the other great players justice.
12.19pm
9 June 2010
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Number Nine said:
Jeez, I'm going to catch a cold or something if you don't stop!
*sneezes*
Oh, wait. That was real.
(I think I really am coming down with something.)
mr. Sun king coming together said And yes, YouTube comments are stupid. But hilariously so.
12.49pm
19 April 2010
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Well Paulrus, I understand your point and agree to an extent – however at the same time, if we have to pick one bass player as the best – and that's the question, then one has to sort of consolidate all the factors (technique, innovation, influence, etc).
When selecting just one element of playing, say actual technique, then yes we can certainly find someone who is better than Paul. But if we are going to distill all the different factors and come up with THE SINGLE BEST BASS PLAYER over all, and there can only be one, it's Paul McCartney.
Based on the above criteria, who else?
12.52pm
19 April 2010
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Sorry that was supposed to be to paulsbass – apologies to anyone I have offended, slighted or otherwise pissed off!
12.55pm
9 June 2010
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Yoo-hoo! Paulrus!
*1+ (1+1)*
mr. Sun king coming together said And yes, YouTube comments are stupid. But hilariously so.
1.03pm
8 April 2010
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Oh hullo there.
I was wondering why my name was being mentioned… 
1.05pm
9 June 2010
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There should be some way to tag other posters in your posts….
*1+(1+1)*
mr. Sun king coming together said And yes, YouTube comments are stupid. But hilariously so.
12.09am
4 February 2011
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YES HE IS. All the technical geniuses may surpass him technically, but we hear Paul's bass lines in our dreams. H
e set the foundation for a generation and more.
1.55am
19 September 2010
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HE IS THE BEST! IN EVERYTHING!!
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