Terence Micheal Joseph "Geezer" Butler is an English musician and songwriter. Also it galvanized this idea in my head that any time you get more than one guy playing together in an ensemble, you try to make a conversation, an interesting one.” Taking that democratic maxim to heart, Watt helped rethink punk music from the ground up, creating short, sharp songs that incorporated funk, jazz, folk, blues, and even rap into their sound. “I’m still trying to do that.”, “There must be hundreds of better bass players than me,” Bill Wyman told Rolling Stone in 1974. Can you do a gig at the Hollywood Bowl in three days’ time?’ You don’t turn down something like that. When Metallica formed, all James Hetfield, Dave Mustaine, and Lars Ulrich wanted to do was rage on finger-breaking thrash metal — until they met Cliff Burton. Listen to him chugging away on classic compositions like “II B.S.” and “Better Get Hit in Your Soul,” aligning with drummer and musical soulmate Dannie Richmond, and you’ll get a sense of the strength and grace of his playing, the way he could make a walking line sound both hulking and nimble. Kilmister’s approach perfectly matched his sandpapery voice and underdog wit, and it made him unique — a distinction he was proud of. By that point, the Welsh musician had played with everyone from Jeff Beck and Elton John to John Mayer, Don Henley, and B.B. The 10 Spookiest Guitar Riffs of All Time With Halloween right around the corner, it’s time to pull out your axe, sharpen your chops and practice some of your favorite spooky guitar songs. Geezer smacks the ever-loving shit out of his strings on the bottom part of his fretboard. Shortly after joining Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler switched from rhythm guitar to bass and divined his own freewheeling style. As with our 100 Greatest Drummers list, this rundown of the 50 greatest bassists of all time celebrates that entire spectrum. Here we pay tribute to 50 musicians who have found that same exalted state via the bass, and changed the world in the process. No other musical entity in the post-Marley era has been so omnipresent in shaping the sound of Jamaica and bringing it to the world. And it’s a grave injustice that Byrne has always gotten the lion’s share of the credit for their accomplishments. His sense of musicality would guide him well past his time in Led Zeppelin, too. “I was something new; I was a player.”, The Talking Heads’ 1977 breakthrough single “Psycho Killer” sets an ominous mood before frontman David Byrne even sings a word. Almost like reggae meets Steve Harris (before Steve became famous). “Joseph Makwela was the first person I saw playing an electric bass,” Kumalo told Bass Player in 2016. And from then on, everything we did was funky for real, no matter how pop we tried to be.”, The Who’s John Entwistle had a lot of nicknames, including the Ox, due to his imposing build and endless appetites, and the Quiet One, because of his stoic demeanor. “[Bass] is just like playing the guitar without the top two strings,” Kilmister once said. Porter credited his unique style to a diverse musical background. As a result, Lesh ignored standard walking-bass clichés: “I didn’t think that would be suitable for the music I would make with Jerry, just to do something somebody else had done,” he said in 2014. Nobody wants to play bass, or nobody did in those days.” But he made the instrument his own, particularly as the Beatles’ studio adventures took off in the second half of the Sixties and he switched out his Hofner for a Rickenbacker. Play hard over the end of the neck, very far away from the bridge, and lots of pentatonic runs, and a lot of bluesy bends. More than anything else, Claypool has liberated the bass from simply holding down the bottom. Starting as a violin prodigy, Spalding found her way to the bass by accident in high school. “He’s such an essential portion of this pie that it’s impossible to think that the band would exist without him.”, Shortly after joining Black Sabbath, Geezer Butler switched from rhythm guitar to bass and divined his own freewheeling style. I felt my job was not to become a good bass player.” Gordon’s signature sound — a guttural groove that sounds like an oncoming subway train — is heard throughout the band’s discography, from early, dark rumbles like “Brave Men Run (In My Family)” to tracks from their Nineties commercial highlight Dirty (“Youth Against Fascism,” “Sugar Kane”) and later, to more languid statements like “Jams Run Free.”, When John Entwistle died suddenly in 2002, the Who could have called up just about any bassist on Earth to replace him. Cachao moved to the U.S. in the Sixties, but didn’t find his widest recognition here until the 1990s and the release of the essential two-volume series Master Sessions. He played bass on early rock recordings by Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, and tunes he wrote like “I Can’t Quit You Baby” and “I Ain’t Superstitious” have been covered by everyone from Led Zeppelin to Megadeth. With more than 2,200 credits to his name as of fall 2015, he earned a Guinness World Record a year later for the most recorded bassist in jazz history. “When it got more aggressive and syncopated … my style was more appropriate,” Dunn would later say. EMG Geezer Butler Signature P Bass Pickup (Editor’s Choice) This EMG/Geezer Butler collaboration should make you sit the hell up and take notice. Clarke started on double bass and wanted to pursue a life in classical music; meeting Chick Corea on a gig set him on a different path. Throughout his life, Mingus constantly spoke out against those would tried to limit or underestimate his artistry. “I think Mr. Carter is one of the consummate listening musicians ever,” said collaborator and lifelong fan Pat Metheny in 2016. He also keeps exploring the Stick with his project Stick Men, in tracks like “Not Just Another Pretty Bass.” “I’d venture to say that the way I heard Oscar Pettiford playing jazz bass … is similar to the way I would, much later, try to formulate rock and pop bass parts,” Levin said in 2013, reflecting on the origins of his unusual style. “After two or three weeks, why, heck, I could play just about as good as I can now,” he said in 1980. “One of the big things I decided to do when I was starting out was to play with three fingers,” he once said. “The Africans had as much influence as the conquistadors on what is Cuban. Whether in his own playfully eccentric songs or in one of his countless guest appearances, his signature six-string sound — fat and buttery, but with plenty of bite — always shines through. Deal chalks up her effectiveness as a bassist to her distinct lack of needless flash. I didn’t know a bass player could do those things, filling in where the rhythm guitar would normally be.” Bruce played jittery, tumbling lines under the trio’s group vocals on “I Feel Free,” smart harmonies on “Sunshine of Your Love,” and basically his own riff under Clapton’s on “Strange Brew.” “He was a small guy, but his playing was monstrous,” Mountain guitarist Leslie West, who played with Bruce later, once said. “Mick [Fleetwood] knows where I’m going, and I know where he’s going, so the song locks — hopefully, anyway.”, You could throw a rock in the Bay Area in the late Eighties and hit a thrash-funk bass player, but Les Claypool immediately stood out among the legion of aggressive slap-poppers. From there he’s evolved into a larger-than-life musical superhero: a staggeringly proficient player who combines a deep love of classic funk and fusion with influences ranging from yacht rock to nu-metal and neosoul. “I create a melodic line each time.”, Some of the funkiest records of the Sixties and Seventies — the Staple Singers’ “I’ll Take You There,” Etta James’ “Tell Mama,” Aretha Franklin’s “Oh No Not My Baby,” R.B. “A lot of guys play with two fingers, so I figured if I played with three, I could be faster.” And even though the man has a truly thunderous thumb, his playing draws as much inspiration from Captain Beefheart as it does Bootsy Collins, with an eclectic sound that complements his self-proclaimed “pirate ditties” about alpha-male felines, mythic fisherman, and murderous hillbillies. “The manager said, ‘John [Entwistle] is dead. (“It’s like waking up one day and realizing you’re in love with a co-worker,” she, of picking up the instrument.) Following the end of the war, it was the start of the Baby Boomer years and technology advancements such as the jet engine, nuclear fusion, radar, rocket technology and others later became the starting points for Space Exploration and Improved Air Travel. “No disrespect to anybody else, but he was at a different level,” Ulrich once said of Burton. Moore’s approach would help forever transform the role of the instrument in country session work. “I feel about bass playing as I do about background singing,” he, . “My goal was to become a jazz trumpet player, but then I got into my early teens and I had to rebel against my parents,” he said in 2006. “Bootsy came along and all he added … was the emphasis on the one,” George Clinton once said. “There were some songs where Thurston [Moore] would have a melody for the song so he’d want me to play root notes. 2006'dan grubun dağıldığı 2010 yılına kadar Heaven & Hell grubunda yer aldı. All that I did was just take the step and create my own band.”, Although Willie Dixon is best remembered as one of history’s most influential bluesmen, whose songs were sung by Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters, that’s just a portion of his legacy. “I had been a guitar player working in clubs, and then someone lent me a homemade bass, and I fell in love with it — the dimensions, the aesthetic — and I realized I could play bass and sing,” he told Bass Player. Geezer Butler was born in 1940s. His unconventional sound can be heard in studio recordings like “Truckin’,” “Shakedown Street,” and “Cumberland Blues,” the live version of “Scarlet Begonias” from the legendary Cornell 1977 show, and many live versions of “Eyes of the World” (start with 1975’s One From the Vault). “[I]t was as if I dreamed him, because I didn’t have to give him any instruction,” Mitchell once said of Jaco. When Robert Fripp was reviving King Crimson after a seven-year hiatus, he recruited Levin for the classic Eighties lineup that made Discipline. “This reason alone makes him a musical guru.”, A whole generation of bassists — from Dave Holland with Miles Davis to Miroslav Vitous and Jaco Pastorius with Weather Report and Rick Laird with the Mahavishnu Orchestra — helped to wed the sophistication of Sixties postbop with the power of arena-scale rock. Geezer Butler is much more than just Black Sabbath’s bassist. It's not music to me. And that’s not even including her myriad movie and TV show themes — she gave the title songs for everything from Batman to Mission Impossible their uniquely groovy backbone. Jimi Bell is a master musician. He’s incorporated everything from metal riffs — dig those muted triplets in “The Toys Go Winding Down” — to Middle Eastern ragas in his playing; his side projects in jam-band supergroups like Oysterhead and Colonel Claypool’s Bucket of Bernie Brains has honed some serious improvisational chops; and his current partnership with Sean Lennon allows him to take some prog-psychedelic detours into the Phil Zone. “When it came time to put [‘Anesthesia’] on a record, instead of it just being a bass solo, we turned it into more of a composition. “Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night,” Chic’s Bernard Edwards said in 1979. Though Butler wrote some songs intended for the project, the group did not record or release any material. “It’s like I am singing baritone,” he once said of his bass work. Rick Danko’s bass work — spare, stylish, and always situated deep in the pocket — was crucial to the inimitable lope of tracks like “Up on Cripple Creek” and “King Harvest (Has Surely Come).” Danko grew up in rural Ontario listening to the Grand Ole Opry on a battery-powered radio and watching his dad play at barn dances. Before Black Sabbath, he was in Rare Breed with Ozzy Osbourne. They brokeup for a time, then reunited with Tony Iommi and Bill Ward. With his apocalyptic lyrics and sludge-heavy bass tones, Geezer Butler has inspired a legion of devotees worldwide. “Bringing a more feminine aesthetic into the music is mandatory at this point. Terence Michael Joseph „Geezer” Butler (n.17 iulie 1949 în Aston, Birmingham, Anglia) a fost basistul și membru fondator al trupei heavy metal Black Sabbath. Él también comparte su casa en los Angeles con varios gatos, de los cuales ha publicado fotos en su sitio web. But at the heart of his lush, kaleidoscopic pieces was a relentless rhythmic drive that flowed from his fingers through the strings and directly into his bands, making it sound as though the soloists were jumping on a giant trampoline. Rick Danko’s bass work — spare, stylish, and always situated deep in the pocket — was crucial to the inimitable lope of tracks like “Up on Cripple Creek” and “King Harvest (Has Surely Come).” Danko grew up in rural Ontario listening to the Grand Ole Opry on a battery-powered radio and watching his dad play at barn dances. “My bass is my crutch, but the best crutch I could have.”, Prior to joining Guns N’ Roses, Duff McKagan had barely touched a bass. Dixon’s first bass was a “tin-can bass,” and eventually he was able to save up $200 or so to buy an upright. “He has played in literally thousands of unique settings and is always able to find something that brings out the best in his associates, while always remaining true to his own very strong sense of identity.”, “My name is John Francis Pastorius III, and I’m the greatest bass player in the world.” That was Jaco Pastorius’ opening line to Joe Zawinul when he met the Weather Report keyboardist backstage at a 1974 Miami show. That gives the music a sort of Ferris-wheel effect and carries it along.”, Maurice White, an accomplished singer-songwriter-drummer-producer, brought his brother Verdine out to L.A. to join a young Earth, Wind, and Fire in 1970. Leave lots of room and let the track breathe from underneath.”, The Red Hot Chili Peppers have gone through many drummers and guitarists since their formation in 1983. Jaco’s 1976 self-titled debut, where he played high-speed bebop with ease and dazzled with chiming harmonics, set a new standard for electric-bass virtuosity; joining Weather Report the same year, he thrilled audiences with his signature fretless sound and cocky flair, and forever banished the notion that bass was a background instrument. It’s hard to think of Paul McCartney as being underrated in any category. “I used to sit right beside Pig and I watched his left hand,” said Moore, “and I could tell every time he was going to move, and I’d move exactly right with him.” The opening bass strut in Roger Miller’s “King of the Road”? I really like the bass sound on those two albums. But as co-songwriter, producer, and bassist on Chic tracks like “Le Freak,” “I Want Your Love,” and “Everybody Dance,” alongside hits by Sister Sledge (“We Are Family”), Diana Ross (“I’m Coming Out”), and Madonna (“Like a Virgin,” “Material Girl”), Edwards turned instantly head-nodding riffs into dance and pop classics. Since he’d never played the sort of four-on-the-floor bass that defined Sixties rock, he came to the instrument with a guitarist’s sensibility, adding harmonies and ornate filigrees to guitarist Tony Iommi’s parts. But beware, these monster licks are not for the faint hearted. Here he goes back to his roots to talk religion, pacifism and Black Sabbath’s early days… Guitarists, singers, and horn players tend to claim the flashiest moments in any given song, while drummers channel most of the kinetic energy, but what the bassist brings is something elemental — the part that loops endlessly in your head long after the music ends. But he’s best known for his work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel, who calls him the “Emperor of the Bottom End.” Levin’s done more than anyone to make the Chapman Stick famous, playing the sleek, tapping-oriented guitar in Gabriel hits like “Shock the Monkey.” The Emperor got his start as a 1970s session guy — that’s him on Paul Simon’s Number One smash “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.” He hooked up with Gabriel as soon as the artist quit Genesis, and has remained a crucial part of his music ever since — you can’t imagine “Big Time” or “Sledgehammer” without him. “You see, because I had studied classical guitar I knew the bass formula, although the songs I was playing in lessons were country & western songs,” he said recently. Throughout his tenure, he complemented his signature warbling vocals with crafty four-string lines that always fit hand-in-glove with Helm’s swampy grooves. But despite his obvious skill, Butler has always downplayed his ability. Makwela had the first electric bass in South Africa — he bought it from a white guy who imported it after seeing the Shadows live. “But I was learning how to play bass lines and chords at the same time. Elvis loved it.”, During their heyday as indie- and alt-rock pioneers, nothing about Sonic Youth was standard issue, from their arty videos to their preferred layers of weirdly tuned guitar scuzz — and even Kim Gordon’s bass parts. Supergroup featuring Geezer Butler, Steve Stevens and Matt Sorum performed at the Troubadour in Hollywood. To get you in the mood, we put together a list of some of our favorite riffs to play when the kids come by to trick or treat. “You could add that to ‘The ABC’s,’ and it would be funk in two seconds. Butler is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Take in any one performance by Esperanza Spalding and chances are you’re only hearing a fraction of what she can do, from crooning old-school standards to performing boldly futuristic originals that draw equally on smooth R&B and gnarly prog rock. I hear it in a lot of jazz players but never as pronounced as those early Sabbath albums. Pluck hard and rest your thumb on the neck of a p-bass with the tone off. Terence \"Geezer\" Butler (né Terence Michael Joseph \"Geezer\" Butler le 17 juillet 1949 à Birmingham en Angleterre) est le bassiste du groupe Black Sabbath. Community resources, and extensive FAQ for players new and old. “I’m not a Stanley Clarke or anyone like that. Robbie Shakespeare and his rhythm and production partner drummer Sly Dunbar have implanted their immediately recognizable imprint on decades of reggae. Bassist for the influencial metal group Black Sabbath. “At first he took chances and let himself go, and then it just became natural for him, and in the process he changed the course of bass playing.”. The thing about Geezer was always that looseness he had with the drums. I know what kind of bass player I am.”, Wait, Bob Dylan Owned ‘The Weight’? “He made his bass bark, and everything he did was so melodic.”, Jasper Dailey/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Cutting her teeth in Fifties jazz clubs and breaking out as a studio guitarist for hitmakers like Sam Cooke, Kaye went on to become the most recorded bassist of all time — with more than 10,000 tracks under her belt. His nickname was from when he was a kid, he referred to everybody as "Geezer". The P set is all solderless and uses Alnico 5 pole pieces with custom wound coils. “I don’t pay attention to that. Toward that goal, the likes of James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Carole King, David Crosby, and Graham Nash regularly rang up Leland Sklar. Working with his fellow Muscle Shoals players, like keyboardist Barry Beckett and drummer Roger Hawkins, Hood’s bass was equally at home in pop (Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome,” Rod Stewart’s “The First Cut Is the Deepest”), blues (Boz Scaggs’ “Loan Me a Dime”), and rock-R&B mergers (Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll”). You’ll find obvious virtuosos here, but also musicians whose more minimal concept of their instrument’s role elevated everything that was going on around them. JONATHAN BERNSTEIN & DAVID BROWNE & JON DOLAN & BRENNA EHRLICH & DAVID FEAR & JON FREEMAN & ANDY GREENE & KORY GROW & ELIAS LEIGHT & ANGIE MARTOCCIO & JASON NEWMAN & ROB SHEFFIELD & HANK SHTEAMER & SIMON VOZICK-LEVINSON, Survey the sounds that have defined the vanguard of hip-hop, jazz, R&B, electronica, and beyond during the past decade-plus — including records made by Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monáe, Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington, Erykah Badu, Childish Gambino, and more — and you’ll land on one name again and again: Thundercat. He inspired players like Bakithi Kumalo, who anchored Paul Simon’s Graceland. “I sat with him and taught him how to deal with it from the best of my knowledge of what I had heard at the time,” Johnson’s brother and bandmate George, nicknamed “Lightnin’ Licks” to Louis’ “Thunder Thumbs,” once said of introducing his sibling to bass. His idea — “play bass and lead at the same time,” his notes darting in and around the melody — became as recognizable a part of the Dead’s sound as Garcia’s guitar. He also fit in seamlessly working alongside Ringo Starr, K.D. Butler is best known as the bassist and primary lyricist of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.He has also recorded and performed with Heaven & Hell, GZR, and Ozzy Osbourne.He currently serves as bassist of Deadland Ritual He does a lot of cool little arpeggio variations, and really nice work with upbeat/offbeat syncopation. Getting the GZR P/J set is a good start, but as the old saying goes, “it’s all in the fingers” after that. Louis was so into it. Press J to jump to the feed. “What I have to do on record is make sure that I’m complementing the singer,” he once explained. Born Stephen Bruner, the bassist grew up in a musical family and landed a gig early on with thrash-punk veterans Suicidal Tendencies. Wah pedals and just yankin on the strings at the bridge pickup, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Bassists are often overlooked and undervalued, even within their own bands. “Because I was a rhythm guitarist, I’d fill in gaps left by the lead guitarist,” he once said. He only took up his signature instrument when he was asked to join the Warlocks, the first version of the Dead. “I mean I could never play like Jack Bruce. It’s nice to leave the top of the beat for the vocal and spread the other parts around the beat. As a teen he formed his first band, Rare Breed, with schoolmate John “Ozzy” Osbourne; in the fall of 1968, the two reunited in the blues quartet Polka Tulk, which also featured guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward. He was a master of James Jamerson’s melodic innovation — listen to the hook of Jackson’s “Off the Wall,” when Johnson plays a gliding line that’s as dashing and precise as Jackson’s zippy vocal. “I don’t know where I’m rated,” he once said. “Richard was the soul of the album.”, Motörhead’s most iconic song, “Ace of Spades,” opens with Lemmy Kilmister playing a tap-dancing lead bass line before falling into a melody that sounds like his Rickenbacker is headed straight to hell as he sings about feeling “born to lose.” Both in his poetry and his bass playing, Kilmister’s aesthetic was all about reckless abandon. First working at Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, before becoming part of the town’s legendary rhythm section at their own Muscle Shoals Sound in 1969, Hood was nicknamed “Little David” for his size; you can hear Mavis Staples call him that on “I’ll Take You There” during his supple solo. Currently lead guitarist for Autograph and House of Lords, Jimi is a staple in the Connecticut and New England music scene. Though he was known mainly for his contribution to jazz, he was never bound by it, as shown by his collaboration with Joni Mitchell and his influence on Sixties rock greats like Jack Bruce and Charlie Watts. and Andrew Hill’s Point of Departure to Van Morrison’s free-folk masterpiece Astral Weeks. Jan 4, 2019 - Explore LESLIE ;)'s board "GEEZER BUTLER" on Pinterest. He formed a band with schoolmate, John Osbourne(Ozzy Osbourne), called Rare Breed. Terence Michael Joseph Butler olarak daha iyi bilinen Geezer Butler, (d. 17 Temmuz 1949, Birmingham, İngiltere), İngiliz gitarist ve basçı müzisyen ve Black Sabbath'ın kurucularındandır.. 1984'e kadar Black Sabbath'da kalmış ve hemen hemen tüm şarkı sözlerini yazmıştır. To me, they should be playing guitar, not bass.… You need some balls in the bottom.… You leave the space for other people, you don’t fill it in with the bass. His intro makes the tune feel ancient and sturdily grounded, like it’s growing up out of the earth. Thanks to his long tenure in one of popular music’s funkiest groups, Porter held down the low end on classic cuts like “Cissy Strut,” “Funky Miracle,” “Just Kissed My Baby,” and “Hand Clapping Song,” providing round, fluid riffs that strutted like a Second Line parade and rattled speakers with their heaviness — listen to the way he weaves his own syncopated path through the tiniest of spaces in “Pungee,” from the band’s near-perfect second album Look-A Py Py. “I always try to get in with the kick drum,” McVie once said. “From the time of Sly and the Family Stone’s Fresh album, there’s a flip over, where the rhythm instruments, particularly the bass drum and bass, suddenly become the important instruments in the mix.” Graham had a simple explanation for it all: Playing with that much force ensures that “the dancers just won’t hide.”, Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker got much of the attention in Cream, but Jack Bruce gave the group the thrust to make them a true power trio. Survey the sounds that have defined the vanguard of hip-hop, jazz, R&B, electronica, and beyond during the past decade-plus — including records made by Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monáe, Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington, Erykah Badu, Childish Gambino, and more — and you’ll land on one name again and again: Thundercat. But many of those bass players were serious musicians. Throughout his career Jimi has played with the some of the best. Geezer is the king of pentatonic noodling. But it was Stanley Clarke who truly defined the role of the fusion bass god. Tony Levin has contributed his unmistakable style to everyone from John Lennon to David Bowie to Cher. McCartney’s bass could be a cool, steady support, as on “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” and “Dear Prudence,” or a colorful lead character in its own right — see “Paperback Writer,” “Rain,” and “A Day in the Life,” all songs where his playing conveys the yearning for a freer or more exciting life behind everyday lyrics. 1’s concept of “The One,” hitting the first beat of a musical measure as hard as possible and filling the rest of it with funkiness. The two formed Return to Forever, one of the Seventies’ premier plugged-in jazz groups, and a band in which Clarke could both hold down the low end and have his say as a star soloist. “It wasn’t the number-one job,” McCartney once said, reflecting on the fateful moment when he took over the four-string after Stu Sutcliffe exited the Beatles. Band Black Sabbath as a violin prodigy geezer butler picking technique Spalding found her way to the bass way up in musical! 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