re: Most underrated bassist of all time

Let's get the obvious ones out of the way first:

McCartney and Sting - each catches too much crap. For guys who were either frontmen/solo artists (and, frankly, McCartney could play anything) - criminally underrated for their bass contributions to their respective bands' catalogues. "Relatively" underrated.


Next - the King Crimson bass players, mainly I'm talking about Tony Levin and Boz Burrell - each a great bass player in their own right, and relatively unknown outside of their bands' fan bases.

Here is Levin showing off his invention - the "funk fingers" -

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Boz Burrell would go on to team up with Simon Kirke to form one of the most underrated rhythm sections of all time for Bad Company.

Finally - Tom Commerford (RATM/Audioslave) - just brilliant. He and Wilk are the reasons to listen to RATM, period.