Rock + Metal Bassists Play Their Favorite Basslines

[@zaynes5094]

I'm a drummer myself, been in a few bands (although not currently), and I loved hearing great bass playing as it really can get you in the groove for the song. One of my own favorites was N.I.B by Black Sabbath.

[@markbarrett4440]

Greatest bassline in all metal apart from Steve Harris's 'To Tame A Land' 🤘😈🤘

[@randywissler9923]

I'm a drummer, and i could sit and listen to Billy Sheehan all frickin day long!!!

[@hellobiafra]

Whats the song he talked about?

[@randywissler9923]

Lost woman by The Yardbirds.

[@Frankfoot986]

Just sayin, Steve Harris does the gallop With 2 fingers.

[@Phil_Trujeque]

yeah, lots of people still think it's with three, even after the man himself states... "yeah, nah... it's only two"

[@egnbigdave]

Always played Maiden stuff with 2. Serets in the Accenting

[@BaldoFlores_godmetal]

I just saw him live, and i now have my doubts if he does it with one 😅 Steve's right hand is unreal

[@Phil_Trujeque]

@ -- I'm gonna hit up The Slow Mo Guys and have them pay ol' Steve a visit so we can settle this mystery once and for all

[@markbarrett4440]

I once attempted to play Steve Harris 's bass part for To Tame A Land and all my fingers fell off my hands. I'm typing this with my toes.

[@dugdugedugthewrapper]

😂

[@j.d.harvis9184]

Is it me, or does Ellefson look like Owen Wilson ?

[@nathanaelpeace9550]

wow

[@wildtearsaxeman3629]

😂😂😂u right😂😂

[@LRS905]

@@nathanaelpeace9550 😂

[@Bansidhe]

Morrissey with long hair.

[@stevenfrischling5908]

A reference to The Adolescents right out of the gate! Woooo hoooo!! They don't get nearly enough credit for being a great band.

[@kevinkohler2750]

"No Friends"!

[@stevenfrischling5908]

@ Amoeba tops my list.

[@kevinkohler2750]

@@stevenfrischling5908 Kids of the Black Hole for me! One of the records I learned to play drums with. I still have my vinyl copy!

[@Bdoc76]

Ive never heard the song but Pearl Jam totally ripped that riff off on rearviewmirror

[@dundergod]

The Yardbirds 🤘 "Roger the engineer" One of my favorite albums, ever!

[@g-pa-Rok-n-Tok]

Nice shout out to Lost Woman! The first version I heard was a live version by James Gang! Really kickass! Everyone took a solo! It was like 23 minutes long, lol.

[@bassican7]

Jason Newsted is my influence

[@rjc7289]

A great bass line can really gird a song's bottom end and create a foundation for a solid and memorable groove. Some of my favorite bass lines of all-time... "Another One Bites The Dust" -- Queen "N.I.B." -- Black Sabbath "She" -- Kiss "Cities On Flame" -- Blue Oyster Cult "Believer" -- Ozzy Osbourne

[@BobbLobblaw]

Hey! some love for Cronos!! VENOM rocks!

[@GobiPup]

Appreciate the Di’Anno era Iron Maiden stuff 👍

[@drunk247]

Frankie played the Innocent Exile bass riff in this i think. Im not sure,but i know i saw him play it and that helped me learn it. Thank You Frank!

It was killers

[@drunk247]

It was somewhere else i saw it then.

[@Jept]

The bro who hasnt unlocked his character skin yet mentioning steve harris and then busting into WHERE EAGLES DARE!?! That is a hot take and I'm fucking here for it 👏🏻👏🏻

[@RedElephantStampede]

Mike Watt, now that’s a helluva bass player.

[@OtherMike5000]

John Taylor playing Rio

[@igolfjtweetler4097]

Dude with mask is the man

[@saulamr]

"Learn to do the steve harris gallop" proceeds to do it with 3 fingers 😢

[@Peets2024]

It’s nice to see Ellefson playing his bass and not his accordion

[@bobfrapples1208]

rimshot!

[@danniishaw9732]

I will never feel bad about my string buzz again. Thanks guys!

[@bernarddowd6446]

Some of the best players are kind of sloppy, listen to recordings where they isolate the bass.

[@fxEpT7Si]

Rio by Duran Duran has one of the coolest bassline

[@punkrockstormchaser]

Fat Mike mentioned W

[@joshdrumheller4920]

In a synch, the big 3 of the bass are: Steve Harris, Teddy Lee, and Geezer Butler. In my book, they are THE reason we have so many amazing bassist over the decades!!!

[@fdsfsdfsd1552]

Who's Teddy Lee?

[@ll7868]

I have a beef with Geezer. I was supposed to see Sabbath (with opener Quiet Riot) in the fall of 1983 in Vancouver with my dad, they were his all time favourite band even with Ian Gillan on Born Again, but Geezer had a bout of bronchitis and they cancelled the show. I never got to see Sabbath live, my dad however took his girlfriend to Vegas a couple weeks later to see them and left me in Vancouver because of school. I'm still pretty upset about missing that show with my dad.

[@michelegrassi4385]

15:02 he said he can' t play Louis Johnson... plays perfectly the intro of a Louis jam that you can find on internet :)

[@terraco8868]

Mis líneas de bajo favoritas que me inspiraron a tocar el bajo son: Catupecu machu - calavera deforme Cabezones - a tus pies Limp Bizkit - re-arranged and clunk Tool - schism and 46 & 2 Mudvayne - death blooms.

[@ManeeVaughn]

"Boor Boor Deng! High Five!" - Borat Sagdiyev

[@ll7868]

The last one by Sami; Is he playing Money by Roger Waters of Pink Floyd? I'm a drummer although not really a big Pink Floyd fan but that song instantly popped into my head. The only Pink Floyd song I know how to play is Time, the Wrathchild America metal cover version of it.

[@christhayil8354]

Paranoid by the Dickies, not Black Sabbath ....that was Black Sabbath!

[@skeeter197140]

Different version.

[@raymondsnow7745]

​@@skeeter197140 A cover, yes, but the baseline was completely different

[@skeeter197140]

Did that one guy basically say his favorite bassline was one of his own?

[@acdcking1234]

Marcus from helloween and timi Hansen from helloween are favorites

[@waltermiller249]

No one mentioned Cliff

[@EpictheEpicest]

who cares?

[@russfoulkes5490]

Well, most of them were his contemporaries, and Billy came before him so wouldn't really count him as an influence

[@sundaetheguitar]

@@EpictheEpicestyou’re a genuine asshole

[@JosesAmazingWorlds]

Overrated

[@sundaetheguitar]

@@waltermiller249 Cliff is the GOAT

[@carlstawicki1915]

Nobody was influenced by Seinfeld? 😉

[@darkshiningstar3]

Except its bass sound comes from a synthesizer but whatever

[@raymondsnow7745]

No Lally? Fugazi's Waiting Room intro makes me want to learn bass to this day

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

1:00 boy his C on the A string is dead as fuk. That Fender Precision bass has dead spots.

[@dr.juerdotitsgo5119]

5:55 The Beekeepers

[@skeeter197140]

The way the guy in the mask plays The Number of The Beast looks painful! How he flattens his middle finger to play a note while holding another.....weird!

[@punkrockstormchaser]

Not showing Mike play blocked out should be a crime

[@ChorusArtists]

Gene Simmons' bass lines are so inventive, but he didn't invent or record most of them...

[@kaoko111]

Is a decent player/performer, sings well and plays what is fitting for the songs in my opinion. Nothing extraordinary to be honest, i did learn some kiss songs in bass and are fun to play but creativity wise are very average.

[@prunepurple]

What are you talking about. Obviously he did and invented most of them. Do you think there was guys he paid for doing this job during 50 years?

[@Iceymitsu]

I like to joke that Paul Stanley is my favorite bass player in Kiss. Especially, because of Love Gun

[@christopherandresen1974]

Gary Thain, Trevor Bolder, Joe Bouchard

[@EpictheEpicest]

​@@prunepurple Ace and Paul wrote/recorded many of the bass lines on early Kiss records. Later on it was Bruce Kulick and even Mike Porcaro from Toto who recorded bass tracks. To his credit, Gene did invent all the BS merch you see stamped with a Kiss logo, and trademarked just about every word in the English language.

[@PBP20DD]

What's with the guy with the black head covering.? 🤔

[@jasonvegan5761]

Already seen it

[@Master_Petes_Theater]

No Les Claypool??

[@YoungDoug13]

His stuff got me playing

[@ladinark1672]

They can't play his stuff! LOL

[@EpictheEpicest]

who cares? it's about who influenced them, not who influenced you. Make your own video

[@Master_Petes_Theater]

@@EpictheEpicest I simply made a comment, Karen. Thanks for your hyperbolic rant. 🤣

[@EpictheEpicest]

@@Master_Petes_Theater Cry to someone who gives a F, narcissist snowflake. "I simply made a comment," aka NOTICE ME DADDY. The world doesn't revolve around you. Pick up an instrument, start your own band, write a book or record your own video. Until then stfu, Les Claypool doesn't need you to defend him when his name isn't mentioned in a video,

[@BNatoAk]

He wasn't playing deuce right 😅

[@jasonroth4055]

Fat Mike's picking style weirds me out. Does anyone else up-pick on the beats?

[@lt_johnmcclane]

Did that dude really write a song about his friend’s sister named ‘thirteen and flat’ or did I mishear him lol

[@CapstoneTider]

Greasy Geeze

[@steve_pooch]

I may not be a smart man....but I don't remember hearing anything about Cliff Burton, Les Claypool, Lemmy....

[@EpictheEpicest]

who cares? It's about who influenced them, not who influenced you. You can make your own video where you talk about them

[@Wacnopolose]

So is no one inspired by Les Claypool?!?!?! Les Claypool is best bass player of all time

[@МихаилАлексеев-ч1м]

No

[@edmundvillnave2626]

'If you need more than 4 strings or a pick ,you need to go find yourself a guitar ' - Jamerson-

[@countdankula420_]

The Sublime bass player sucked…🤪😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@q4sbgf9kfgrd6]

i REALLY wish Billy Sheehan would ditch the hat. you’re not fooling anyone bro. You’re bald - big deal. everyone will still think ur a kickass bassist , hair or no hair. just ask Joe Satriani

[@darkxxhimxxlight]

*Squiggles* you are *cringe personified*

[@sullyb23511]

Squiggles?

[@carlosallegretti5631]

david ellefson: please stick to playing with a pick, your finger picking technique sounds awful...

[@MaskedJackal87]

fat mike is sooo sloppy

[@gameboi20]

That’s punk punk always has been sloppy it’s not how perfect a musician you are it’s about the music

[@MaskedJackal87]

@@gameboi20 he's not playing punk music here though and his band usually is on a different level than The Ramones

[@TheMelody911]

No Davie504? Big dislike!

[@humanbass]

Lol dude, those are guys from big to legendary bands, not youtubers.

[@eliottbesse6172]

​@@humanbass Hush, let the memes live on

[@caseyguillot6319]

What band did he play in? Hes a youtuber

[@christhayil8354]

@@humanbass Exactfuckingly!!!

[@m-zm2uo]

fat mike... bro... hes bad...

[@THADTHACKER]

Only 2 real bass players of any notoriety in this entire video, and no mention what so ever of Lemmy? Do better.

[@guttercreekofficial1596]

Billy Sheehan, Frankie Bello, David Ellefson, Tye Trujillo, ....and Frankie did mention the Holy Trinity. Subjective indeed....but the aforementioned 4 players are all solid and relevant ...Trujillo is gonna be better than his dad one day....