tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211583.post481945632895613749..comments2024-02-10T08:13:07.736+00:00Comments on Round-The-World Barstool Blues: Another Top Five Basslines - getting 'hoopy'Frooghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211583.post-85353447911101960292012-06-16T12:32:48.064+00:002012-06-16T12:32:48.064+00:00Oh, you and your Macca!
I suppose McCartney woul...Oh, you and your Macca!<br /><br /><br />I suppose McCartney would be in consideration for a Top 10 or Top 20, based on inventiveness and musical sensitivity rather than virtuouso technique. But would anyone really argue for him as the No. 1? Even you??<br /><br />And that's assuming you allow him in the category. The Beatles were really pop rather than rock (although the boundaries were a lot less distinct back then, as the genres as we know them were only just beginning to emerge). If you throw it open more widely to all areas of 'popular' music, there's a raft of soul, funk, and reggae (and jazz?) players who are going to beat him out too.<br /><br />I think most people would agree that Entwistle and Jones are the pinnacle in the 'rock' field. But I didn't say <i>who else</i> might be duking it out with them at the top...<br /><br />I'm just glad you didn't say, "Wot - no Geddy Lee?"<br /><br /><br />And have patience. I nearly included Macca here; and he is pencilled in for the next instalment - along with Geezer Butler, John McVie, Colin Moulding, and Lucky Scott.Frooghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06738623732860210935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33211583.post-30935672279754279552012-06-16T09:20:34.159+00:002012-06-16T09:20:34.159+00:00"JPJ is probably duking it out with John &quo..."JPJ is probably duking it out with John "The Ox" Entwistle for the accolade of 'Greatest Rock Bassist of All Time'"<br /><br />Um... PAUL McCARTNEY...?!?<br /><br />;-)<br /><br />Nice to se the PIL. Bess bass SOUND in rock, Jah Wobble. So ocean-deep.Mikehttp://booksandmusicandstuff.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com