OT- Best Bass players of all time

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Having a debate with my girlfriend about music and bass players. She's a huge Beatles fan and I saw a Rolling Stones poll that had Paul McCartney as the 3rd greatest bass player ever. I told her I've always thought of him as an amazing song writer, but never as a great instrumentalist necessarily. She thought his ranking was spot on. 

Anyways I've started learning to play bass which sparked our conversation. Just curious to hear others take on the best bass players of all time. These would be mine and I base it on me just being blown away by watching them play:

1. Les Claypool (Seeing Primus again in April)
2. Geddy Lee
3. Flea
4. John Paul Jones
5. Geezer Butler 

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Don't forget John Entwistle from The Who. The Ox.

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@StickyBun said:
Don't forget John Entwistle from The Who. The Ox.

There are a lot that think he is the greatest. Was #1 on the Rolling Stone poll

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Was always a big fan of Cliff Burton. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRArbRr-61E

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@El_Padre said:

Was always a big fan of Cliff Burton. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRArbRr-61E

Same here. I had him at #6

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Chris Squire 
Derek Forbes
Steve Harris

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Stanley Clarke

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This reminds me of something I have been thinking about.  I have an acquaintance (our daughters are in dance class together) who is a rock band photographer (and drummer) and Vikings fan.   (https://www.robshanahan.art/).  He has some Viking photos but they are not on his site for some reason.  But I was wondering whether people would be interested with him coming here for an Ask Me Anything thread.  Would be a music/Viking cross over.  I thought it might be interesting given the music enthusiast here.  He owes me a favor and I bet he would love to promote his photographs also.  Thoughts for an off-season AMA session?

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cliff burton

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Carol Kaye-the wrecking crew. Not really a group, a loose group of session musicians in LA.