top 5 bassists of Glam Metal

Mine would be

1. bassist from Dokken
2. bassist from Bang Tango
3. Bassist from tesla
4. Kip Winger
5. bassist from Dangerous Toys

Billy Sheehan! (if Mr. Big counts)

The dude with the 2-string basses from D.A.D.

Billy Sheehan,
Michael Anthony
Perry Richardson - Firehouse
Eric Brittingham - Cinderella
Rachel Bolan - Skid Row

Don't forget Pat Badger!

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Don't forget Pat Badger!

That guy has serious chops!

fingers wrote:

Mine would be

1. bassist from Dokken
2. bassist from Bang Tango
3. Bassist from tesla
4. Kip Winger
5. bassist from Dangerous Toys

These are your "top 5" yet you can't remember the names of four of them?

Tesla ain't glam. Just sayin'.

Fat Freddy wrote:

fingers wrote:

Mine would be

1. bassist from Dokken
2. bassist from Bang Tango
3. Bassist from tesla
4. Kip Winger
5. bassist from Dangerous Toys

These are your "top 5" yet you can't remember the names of four of them?

fingers wrote:

Mine would be

1. bassist from Dokken
2. bassist from Bang Tango
3. Bassist from tesla
4. Kip Winger
5. bassist from Dangerous Toys

Bassist that are so good, that one does not need to even have their names mentioned

Fat Freddy wrote:

fingers wrote:

Mine would be

1. bassist from Dokken
2. bassist from Bang Tango
3. Bassist from tesla
4. Kip Winger
5. bassist from Dangerous Toys

These are your "top 5" yet you can't remember the names of four of them?

Come on dude we know for example that Juan Crouchier of Dokken fame is a great bass,.... wait a minute maybe he meant Jeff Pilson.


Thank goodness Dangerous Toys and Bang Tango have had only three different bassist, making it easy to identity which one is the best bassist in glam metal

manny wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

fingers wrote:

Mine would be

1. bassist from Dokken
2. bassist from Bang Tango
3. Bassist from tesla
4. Kip Winger
5. bassist from Dangerous Toys

These are your "top 5" yet you can't remember the names of four of them?

Come on dude we know for example that Juan Crouchier of Dokken fame is a great bass,.... wait a minute maybe he meant Jeff Pilson.

Or maybe it was Sean McNabb, the current bass player........

EDIT: Or any of these other people that played bass with Dokken (courtesy of Wikipedia):


Current members
Sean McNabb – bass (Live 2006, 2009–present)

Past members
Peter Baltes - bass (1978)
Jeff Tappen - bass (1978–1979)
Gary Link - bass (1979–1980)
Juan Croucier – bass (1980–1983)
Jeff Pilson - bass, backing vocals (1983–1989, 1993–2001)
Barry Sparks – bass, backing vocals (2001–2009)
Mikkey D - bass (2001 Sweden Rock Festival)
Jeff Tappen - bass
Adam Hamilton - bass (9-21-2002)
Greg Smith - bass (5-22 ~25-2005)
Chris McCarvill - bass (2008 Tour)
Billy Dee - bass (2008 tour)

Tim Gaines..Stryper
Rudy Sarzo
Gene Simmons...Kiss
Phil Kennemore...Y&t
Peter London....Crashdiet

Also have to mention matt Thorr from Rough Cutt..Fantastic bass Player

Tim Gaines did not even play on a Stryper album til 'Against The Law'...

Pepsi Tate [R.I.P.]

Tesla, Dangerous Toys and Skid Row were not glam.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Tim Gaines did not even play on a Stryper album til 'Against The Law'...

Did Michael Sweet play all the bass himself on those early albums?

Troublezone wrote:

Tesla, Dangerous Toys and Skid Row were not glam.

Glam metal doesn't exist.

TheGreatDuck wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

Tesla, Dangerous Toys and Skid Row were not glam.

Glam metal doesn't exist.

Every rock band from the late 80's was like Poison and Winger.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Tim Gaines did not even play on a Stryper album til 'Against The Law'...

Did Michael Sweet play all the bass himself on those early albums?

My understanding is that they used session players...Tim is not even on all of 'ATL'...Randy Jackson plays on "Shining Star"...

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Tesla, Dangerous Toys and Skid Row were not glam.

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Glam metal doesn't exist.

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Every rock band from the late 80's was like Poison and Winger.

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Tim Gaines did not even play on a Stryper album til 'Against The Law'...

Wrong...check this out..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Gaines

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Tesla, Dangerous Toys and Skid Row were not glam.


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Glam metal doesn't exist.


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Every rock band from the late 80's was like Poison and Winger.

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Tesla, Dangerous Toys and Skid Row were not glam.

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Glam metal doesn't exist.

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Every rock band from the late 80's was like Poison and Winger.

I've been ignoring this thread because as bassman can attest, who pays attention to bass players in the first place? Now that I see it's degenerated into genre-wars, I will continue to ignore it.

Except to say:

A) Glam metal DOES exist (Hardcore Superstar, Gemini Five, Babylon Bombs) and

B) Not all late 80s bands sound like Poison or Winger (the ignorance in that statement is astounding).

Back to ignore mode...