gotta go with Les Claypool, Fieldy and Flea. Talented guys.

Its top 5 not 3 orangy

Les Claypool
John Entwistle
Allen Woody
Billt Cox
Bootsy Collins
David Schools
Jason Newsted
Victor Wooten

did ja say 5 or 8

Cliff Burton
Flea
Rex(Pantera)
Robert Trujillo
Duff McKegan

This is blatantly biased.

Because Paul McCartney is one of the greatest of all time.

Just because you play fast metal doesn't mean your any good.

I can't remember his name but the dude from Primus is one of the best

I understand and agree, i listed my favorite 5, not the 5 best.

im not gonna list myself, but im good, ive only had 3 years of practice, but my favourite bassits are

steve harris
paul grey
fieldy
rex
twiggy
robert trujillo

Have to agree here, Paul is a fucking top notch bassist and wrote some of the most catchy and rememberable bass lines ever.



Yeah I agree on this partially, while there are some plain old run of the mill bassist in metal that do nothing but chug along with the root of the song and add no emphasis on bass fills or just have absolutely no style to them at all...

But on the other hand there are a lot of incredible bassist in metal that have created their own unique style and are just plain out fucking awesome, for instance, Cliff Burton, Steve Harris, John Myung, and Robert Trujillo...


That would be mister Les Claypool, who I consider one of the best bass players in the world ever bar none...

His degree of technical playing is fucking unreal...

Matt Freeman is another good one..

Bass is Highly under-rated. And all people want to be is a guitar player because they're soooo fuckin' cool.

Dee Dee Ramone is one of my favourite. Not saying he's one of the best.

OH, one of the best bass players EASILY is Brian Ritchies from The Violent Femmes. He can bass solo on your FACE. Just listen to "add it up"