Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
“Flea is the best... because no other bassist can improvise like him on stage. he is way better than any other bassist in the world”
“Flea is amazing. He can play everything in every place, in every situation and it will be perfect. He is the greatest bassist ever for sure”
“RHCP God of bass!!”
“Flea is definitely the god of bass!! if you listen to some of his solos he has a totally different sound to and other bassists he dosen't just play the rhythm but he makes the RHCP songs unique”
“YES THIS IS DEFENETLLY RIDE.I LOVE ALL RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS SONGS,AND FLEA IS DEFENATLLY THE BEST BASSIST EVER!!!RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS ROLL.”
“i just saw these guys in concert (absolutely amazing might i add) and flea is da man! it was awesome, and he deserves to be at the top of this list!!!”
“he is simplyyyyyy the best...
iamm inn love with themmmmmmm..”
“Flea - He's the BEST. He's just great, got a totally different style and he has got the energy.
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“FLEA IS FROM THE CHILI PEPPERS SO THIS IS WHAT YOU should expect”
“Flea is extraordinary!! his slaps and pops are the best i have eva heard. and him playing with john makes it even better with wot they cum up with. flea makes the usually boring bass into something i cant help but listen 2.”
“FLEA kicks ass listen to coffe shop on one hot minute it is crazy!!!”
“Flea and the chilis rock out!!!around the world is great too.”
“Undoubtebly the best bassist ever, turns the steriotypical bassist player into an onstage legend.”
“Damn!Flea is just better than Les Claypool!Les Claypool doesnt really have those nice sounds!Flea does it better!He is the best!”
“Yall dont understand some stuff that it sounds like Fruscantie plays is actually Flea on bass. Burton was great but he never made enough to be considerd #1 although metallica is my fav band no way does fle not get #1”
“great bassist”
“You all must listen to the amazing bass solo from "Fight Like A Brave".
Flea is the reason for the RHCP's quality.”
“Hell Yes... He's speed, funk and soul all combined in one...”
“Can't hear nobody better, he does only make it sound it classical he makes it his instrument.”
“flea my biggest inspiration for the slap and pop bass technique not even larry could do it that fast he is one of the greatest bassists ever and deserves a great place near the top of this list”
“dont care if you think calypool is better he isnt”
“Flea, and the rest of the chili peppers, most John and Anthony, are the reason that I am where I am at today.
If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be the musician I am, and I wouldn't be living the clean life that I am living.”
“Listen to "Pretty Little Ditty" Mother's Milk, the bass solo from "Fight Like A Brave" from The Uplift Mofo Party Plan, "Snow (Hey Ho)" from Stadium Arcadium, "Californiacation" S/F and many more!
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“Flea is definatly #1”
“FLEA ROCKS!!! he is AMAZING!!!!”
“I'd rather he be #1, but this is still good. Flea is just INCREDIBLE.”
“Flea is the best bassist living. He has great technical abilities, especially the pop-and-slap thing he does, but I'd put him over anyone else just based on how well he can hear/anticipate/write a great bass-line, great chords, great music in general”
“fleas the best nobodys better than him”
“HE IS THE GOd of BASSISTs!!!!!!!”
“Flea cannot be topped. he is sooo good! he plays the most soothing and relaxing and AMAZING bass line ever in Red Hot Chili Peppers song Soul to Squeeze. download it, its awesome.”
“Flea is def the best noone is more smooth and more consistant then him,not to mention his slap is amazing and like noone elses noone plays like him and noone ever will!”
“Flea... i just love his flair and playing style.. he leaps around like a looney and still plays a tight slap tune with the funkiest rhythms and he's proficient at every other style there is.”
“people might say les claypools tabs are more complex,or someone else might play heavyier,but the chlis are where they are for a reason,and it has to do alot with flea.his imrovistaion is second to none,his antics will never be matched by any one.none of the bassits on this list are as entertaining”
“the bass god”
“the god of bass”
“just look up "flea" "lessons" on youtube. you will be blown away”
“flea is the best bass player in the world!! he doesnt strive on big solos or fast slap/popn but to work with the band with a sense of equality among the four thats what makes a great player even greater”
“flea, what can i say, biggest ledgend ever”
“Flea is a god.”
“I think given the fact he is an entertainer and a complete bassist in almost every major style of music proves that he may not be the greatest in terms of ability, but his complete treatment and mastery of the bass places him the greatest as such, much like Hendrix on guitar. Burton is a wonderful bassist yes, but he never showed elements of funk or jazz, genres that are important to be a complete bassist. Same goes for Wooten.. he is probably the greatest in terms of ability, but that does not warrant any kind of greatness in terms of band musicmanship and showmanship, as essentially music is a form of entertainment, and flea probably embodies more of a complete entertainer than anyone else on the list. Tetsuya Ogawa is brilliant yes but lacks the influence that western world bassists have over the next generation, how many bassists can say they were influenced by flea and/or the chili peppers.
Therefore Flea deserves the top spot for those reasons..”
“flea is the best bassist ever he does things i never knew you could do on the bass”
“He's simply the best. He brought bass playing to another level and he made people recognize the bass more and made it a principal instrument in music. And c'mon there's no denying he onws the bass slap. He is a funk master!!!!”
“Flea is the best because he like no one bassist he can make magic with the bass”
“No doubt that flea is one of the greatest bass player in the world.Even though without distortion you can still hear the mouth watering solos and diminishing scales that he ever created.Yeah! Flea forever...”
“His technical ability in addition to his improvisational skills as well as the grooviness and his imperial slapping technique make him the best bassist ever.”
“He is simply amazing time and time again, I never tire of the awesome sound this great bassist produces. He is the soul reason I am learning bass myself. His great technical ability and creativity astound me to no end, truly he is the most skilled and talented bassist alive today.”
“no one even comes close to flea”
“FLEA STRUMS THE BASS!
and he's just awesome.”
“I completely agree. Flea definitely deserves this title. I play bass guitar and if I can get even HALF as good as flea one day, then I could die happy.”
“At the top, where he deserves to be. No one alive today can come close to the amazing skill of this man, any decent musician can clearly see that he is truly the best bassist ever!”
“best ever, nuff said”
“flea kicks everyones ass”
“It's the fact that slap bass is much much harder to do than normal bass and he can do both! Absolutely astounding. Deserves top place!”
“Flea is an extraordinary bassist who inspired me to play the bass. Me and my friend Alex both look up to him as our bass inspirado. With most bands, the guitar drowns out the bass, but Flea in the RHCP blasts the bass so hard it keeps up to par with the guitar.”
“Flea is hands down the greatest bassist ever. His bass lines stand out on RHCP's tracks and his style and technique is the greatest!”
“He's the best bassist ever, nothing else.”
“Flea is the best bassit ever and left that mark all over music history!”
“flea rules he is the red hot chillis main man”
“flea does rule and I reckon RHCP are one ofthe most influential bands ever”
“well, it really should be a tie between cliff burton and flea, but there's so many websites that say flea is the best
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“cliff burton may be good, but he isnt as genius as flea is. i find fleas riffs very unique, but without loosing the catchy-ness.”
“flea is the god of bass guitar, his best lines or parts in songs are higher ground, under the bridge, and more recently torture me”
“cliff is god but flea is just amazing”
“flea is amazing what else can I say.”
“Wow. Cliff Burton above Flea. Cliff burton wasn't a good bassist, he just played the bass like a guitar to make it sound good. What flea does with the bass is unbelievable.”
“he is so modest and makes the most complicated riff loo like a newborn could play it.”
“super flea slap dat bass”
“RHCP album Stadium Arcadium... listen 2 tracks lyk readymade the bass just makes your brains leak out of ya head. /..
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“Higher ground!”
“AWESOME CRAZY MOFO”
“absolutely amazing, no offense to cliff, but flea's 10X better”
“For some reason, Sting isn't here, but I voted for this one because he along with Sting are my favorite bassists. Seriously, listen to the bass in 21st Century or Death of a Martian or even Hump De Bump. Seriously, he even helped make the theme song for Bruno. There is no way Cliff Burton beats him.”
“No one plays bass like him. He's the master of this instrument.”
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