![]() ![]() However, the number one slot could arguably have gone to any of the top 10 bass players on this list, and no-one would have batted an eyelid – so why has it gone to Mr Weinrib? Well, note that our recent GOAT Drummers poll was won by his late bandmate Neil Peart. Technically and creatively, Lee has earned this slot – there’s no disagreement from us there. Even his bass gear is relatively reductive these days, with a signature Fender Jazz and a Tech21 SansAmp with this name on it going into an Orange amp. That doesn’t mean that he shows off, though: his playing is often a masterclass in economy and restraint. For starters, there is nothing he can’t do, with his bass playing veering from the subtle, via the atmospheric, to an all-out riff storm. Jaco Pastorius (Weather Report, solo)īlessed with an incredibly versatile vocal style in addition to his superlative bass skills, Gary Lee Weinrib – nicknamed Geddy Lee after the way his grandmother used to pronounce his name – tops this list for a variety of reasons. He lived a quiet but creative life until 2004, when he succumbed to a heart attack. ![]() By the Eighties he had designed and commissioned his instantly recognisable ‘Buzzard’ basses, firstly from Status and then from Warwick, playing them with a fully bizarre ‘typewriter’ tapping/plucking style that was entirely his own.īy the '90s Entwistle was taking a step off the gas a little, semi-retiring to his country manor and coming out to record solo albums and tour with The Who. Entwistle was just getting started, though, and spent the next few years honing an unbelievably fast, accurate playing style that was way ahead of its time. Still a tricky exercise four decades later, the solo opened the eyes of bassists and producers to the possibility of the ol’ four-string actually being playable above the seventh fret. He was that rare musician – a bassist whose status as a pioneer matched his technical ability – and first made bass history at 21 when he added a solo to his band’s 1965 single ‘My Generation’. You’ve got to laugh it off.”īall-tampering became a hot topic in Australia 12 months ago when Faf du Plessis, the South Africa captain, was fined 100% of his match fee and found himself the subject of hostile local coverage when footage emerged of him applying minty saliva from a sweet to the ball during the second Test of his side’s 2-1 series win.The Ox, as the stoic John Entwistle was labelled by his more extrovert bandmates in The Who, was a man whose influence on the bass world is difficult to exaggerate. We knew when we came here it would be 24 million versus 11. On the local coverage of the story, England’s Australian coach added: “We’ve had a good couple of days and there hasn’t been much positive press from their point of view. Watching the footage, if was scratching it, it was the shiny side to get it to reverse – so he was doing it wrong.” “There is a bit of mud and dirt out there. Kumar had said to our guys – well, both sides – that there is no problem but he would like them to do it in front of the umpires so they can see and there is nothing untoward going on. ![]() ![]() His words were it was a ‘beat-up’ – made-up. On seeing the Channel 9 news headline on the TV in the England dressing room during the afternoon’s rain break Bayliss immediately went to see the umpires, Kumar Dharmasena and S Ravi, to establish whether they had any concerns about Anderson’s actions.īayliss, speaking after play was called off for the day to leave England frustrated in their hunt for a win, said: “They must have already seen it because Kumar just said: ‘Don’t worry, there is absolutely nothing in it’. Mitchell Johnson, the scourge of England’s batsmen during the 2013-14 whitewash series, had also tweeted his surprise that Joe Root’s bowlers had got the ball to reverse through the air only 10 overs into Australia’s second innings, and these high-profile reactions then flew around online news outlets. There might be a little bit of a ‘please explain’ there for Jimmy Anderson.” “I’m not sure you are allowed to use your fingernail there,” said Shane Warne, on the Channel 9 coverage, with his co-commentator Michael Slater adding: “That’s a no-no.” On the official Cricket Australia website no less, the former batsman Mike Hussey commented: “It didn’t look great, to be honest. Both sides have been warned by the match officials about deliberately throwing the ball into the rock hard MCG pitch when fielding here – in an attempt to scuff it up and induce reverse swing on an otherwise lifeless surface – but it was the images of Anderson that prompted a host of former Australia players to hint at possible foul play. ![]()
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