I’m appalled at myself - I’ve been rage fan #1 for so long and I didn’t know that TimmyC was the main driver behind those grooves. TC’s my frikken hero! You’re right - criminally underrated!!
@@jamesrudland183 I think watching The Matrix and hearing Wake Up at the end is what got me into bass. Then Calm Like a Bomb in Matrix Reloaded cemented that love.
I went to see them live at age 14 in 1993 (Los Angeles). At the big outdoor festival show. In the heat of the noon. So I think that I may understand where you're coming from. Rage was a revelation to so many in that audience.
Yeah, the moment when your dad's buddy randomly takes him to a Rage concert and Dad comes back with the Battle of LA CD...then months later you get on limewire or whatever to figure out who the hell this 'maynard' guy on Know Your Enemy and the old rip of 'You Can't Kill the Revolution' or whatever is...
Comerford is a fucking master of minimalism in his basslines. He can make the most basic pentatonic lick into something legendary, with nothing but rhythm and tone. Dudes a legend.
@@rKAL-EL so true. I think Brad is super underrated too. He, like Tim, is sort of minimalist with his playing, at least at first listen. But if you pay closer attention, he is constantly playing ghost notes to make the beats much more funky and technical than they initially appear. Such a phenomenal rhythm section in those two guys in both RATM and Audioslave.
That album is my all time favorite snowboarding jam. Put it on (leave everything else) at the top of the mounting just shredding it to the very end. Makes you feel so alive and completely fearless 😆
YES I had a bad day a few days ago and i plugged in my bass and started slapping the shit out of it during take the power back and a slap version of bombtrack
Never found the bass lines particularly difficult but I found them to be innovative, steady, and so damn catchy and that's all that matters. Who doesn't want to play these pentatonic riffs all day long. Just an underrated bass player on so many levels.
Cummerford's lines was my gateway drug into bass. Sick mixture of funk and rock styles. Bombtrack was the first bass line I learnt to play. If anyone ever says they're thinking about learning bass guitar, teach them with this song and they'll be hooked. Takes me back.
Tim Commerford is dope at creating a kind of suspense in his playing. The minimalism is perfect because it sounds so big and powerful. Aside from that, the way he arranges notes, chords, percussive rhythm, chimes, etc. is brilliant. This dude is a mastermind. Huge, HUGE influence on my sound, for sure. As a matter of fact, I had to break myself of being a "copy-cat" because licks like his are so good and so much fun to play!
His groove, his riffs, his tone. God, Tim Commerford is such an underrated player. He and Brad are both very underrated. He's one of my favorites bass players ever.
@@johnmartinez7440 Hmm well you will notice they use live performances. That means they need to fight against the lyrics and music (I think in your country it will be Songwriters Guild of America), and then they will need to fight against whomever recorded this particular show (??). If you use straight radio recordings you can have a serious problem because record companies, to put it mildly, are fuckwits. Enormous power. Actually they are additionally stupid, because no one is listening to a 10 second fragment in an analytical internet video like this and thinking I WILL NOT buy that, I liked that, but I'm done! Absurd. But I'm no dinosaur. If anything, people see content like this which stimulates them to enjoy music they've never heard of, and buy it legitimately. But again, I'm no record exec.
Timmy C had me trying to figure out guitar riffs that were not guitar riffs for longer than I'm proud of. Very underrated bassist. His work with Audioslave showcases his range. You are the man Tim
YASSS PLEASE!!! More Tim Commerford in general - RATM for sure more dope bass lines, but AudioSlave tracks like Cochise... that riff is so heavy, so massive and I have no idea how he's achieving that tone. RATM was a huge influence on me as a kid and there are several tracks in their discography that should be covered in Vol. 2 ✌️
@@gingerbearddrift781 I do, mostly. He took the original Marshal GuVnor Mark 1 and used that circuit! So you could get one off ebay/Reverb, then put it in an effects loop to effect only everything above 80hz, run that through an SVT-2, or SVT-VR with the preamp on 10 and the master volume turned down, and the Ampeg 8x10(the older the better as it's all about the speaker's too! The older one's used different speakers so that's a huge factor into his studio tone!) and you'll get close! Or if you can find a Vintage SVT use that! Anything from the 70's will work, even early 80's!
@@gingerbearddrift781 yeah, but thats not the "right" TC way. he used 2 (sometimes 3) separate amps and ampeg fridges - one was always on and always "clean", and then one that would kick in for one distortion level, and then possibly the last one. crazy power, crazy volume.
As a guitar player ive always thought Tim was the perfect bass player from a groove stand point. The guy can create so many grooves with just a single note. His feel for space is just as important as the notes he's playing. Hes like the Tony Iommi on bass. Just very tasteful simple playing that adds so much to the song.
Gavin you should totally think about picking up a bass ! BEST DECISION, well, other than marrying my wife :D - SECOND BEST decision I've ever made in my life! And that was 30 years ago- I was a super excited 11 year old :D
One of the bass players that inspired me to play bass is Timmy C. Whenever i tell this people stare at me puzzled and i know why. Simple, loud and groovy, thats what i love of Tim's basslines.
im not a bass player, but i enjoyed the video as well. everybody´s talking about tom morello, but u have to be deaf not to appreciate the bass on rage.
Great list, but definitely would want a volume 2 of his basslines with RATM! Great job with the video as well, really enjoyed your enthusiasm for these lines.
You get Timmy C. So many don't truly realize how strong, and deep his pocket with their drummer Brad was at the time. Definitely one of, if not THE best organic funk metal crossover finger players of our lifetime. He always has the right tone for moment, along w the right amount of space between his notes. Heavy yet emotionally dynamic, Timmy remembers to breathe deep, never over playing, almost like he made under playing an art form in an original rap metal group?!?! Wow, loved this video man!!!
Ian is killing it in the name of bass! I saw audioslave live once and they played the big rage hits, I will never forget it. The ground shook with a perfect mix of bass rumble and about 30,000 people jumping up and down in time haha!
Really glad to see Tim C's bass lines getting some love, he is such an underrated bassist. A good few of these were some of the first bass lines that I started learning when I first started out a few years ago.
Daaaaaaang, brings me back. 16 year old me, snatching that first RATM record from my dad’s cd rack, locking myself up in my room for hours and hours trying to get the whole thing down, front to back. I sometimes forget just how influential (and fun!) Tim’s lines really were for me :)
“Mr. Anderson’s history class...” what a great story! I had a similar “after class” experience in 1970 with Zep’s Immigrant Song-it changed everything!
Tim's baselines are a huge influence on my playing without ever trying to emulate his style. I soaked up his approach by listening to and loving the band rather than learning his chops. Looking back, his sense of rhythm and use of effects are hugely underrated. Much love for Tim C. Thanks for the riff rubdown!
Tom doing all the crazy stuff on guitar leaves alot of room for bass to carry things, almost like rhcp dynamic (though obviously harder). Rage one of the epic innovators of music never to be duplicated.
Something alot of guitar players don't recognize in the rage sound is that the grit and fatness in the riffage is the bass doing BIG work, which allows morello's guitar to not require much distortion at all... Also wilk's drumming is outstanding.
Great job on this Ian. The quality of the content was worthy of Tim’s remarkable abilities, his impressive resume, and also of the quality we have come to expect from SBL videos. I strongly recommend everyone watch Tim’s rig rundown video as a complement to this video.
There is no band like RATM. people who measure music through technical writing just don't understand what is music. Music is an art form after all. RATM is just out of this world. so good. every detail in their music is divine.
When did Scott get that awesome American accent? Seriously, the sheer elegance of a few notes played well is on clear demonstration in Tim’s work. Thanks Ian!
As much as I love, and obsess over, techniques and complicated melodies... Tim was the bassist that made me dial back and focus on my sound, and what I want to add to the mix. Noting that Mic Check, and other simple basslines, had such an impact, I started building my pedalboard. Now, its like doing interpretive dance to control all my gear while shooting notes at the rig like raw material to filter. LOL! Rearranged my entire approach to music! At least from a performance perspective. I still have my wacky slap licks to showboat, my pretty chording on my sixer to sound pretty, and my double tap compositions with harmonics to show off... BUT TO DESIGN EXACTLY THE SOUND THAT SITS IN THE MIX AND ABSOLUTELY NAILS IT: I play simple, yet expressive, and add the expression my pedals can do. WITH OUR POWERS COMBINED, WE ARE CAPTAIN BASSLINE!
Man, when I first picked up the bass, a friend gave me the first album of ratm to check a few songs out, and I was so blown away, I spent hours learning to play along to the whole album, and I still, 15 years later, just jam along to bombtrack, know your enemy or bullet in the head. Tim is such a underrated bass player, because he is all about the groove and sound, and not about playing 100 notes a second. Thank you for giving him the spotlight he deserves!
There's a cool recording of both of these bands together jamming before they broke. It sounds like a hybrid between RATM and Tool. Worth a listen of you're a fan of both bands
Well what's interesting about that is, Maynard tried out for both Rage Against the Machine and Tool, at the same time Zack De LA Rocca tried out for them. Each band ended up with the right singer, I can't imagine them being swapped, but it could have happened.
This was a great list, and I'm super happy to see Down Rodeo on here. You're right about being hard to choose just 10, but it would have been cool to have Without A Face on this list. I always loved the simple groove of that bassline during the verse.
Man, you made me log into youtube just to write this comment. You just made me go back like 20 years, when I was having all those feeling, that I still do to this day, when I head RATM for the first time. You sound so great and you really make it enjoyable towatch. Cheers from Brazil.
If you visit this topic again, then may I suggest the song "Freedom" off their first album. The basslines are so dope and the breakdown at the end is epic. Personally, I think it's the best song they've ever produced, and that the whole self-titled album was way ahead of it's time. After all these years, it's definitely a album I frequently still listen to.
There is no band to pump you up like Rage. Tim's monster sound to back up the mad scientist Tom is incredible! I'm not a fighter, but if I was I would definitely have a Rage song playing when I approach the ring.
Thanks Ian 👍. Timmy C. is very underrated in my opinion, Super FUNKY and is one of those players that when you listen you're like why didn't I think of that? Also, an EXCELLENT COUNTERPART TO TOM MORELLO.
I’m so glad you did this video and love that you joined the SBL academy. I’ve been a member for many years and look forward to your content. For the love of Pete, do some Rush. Or, Asha Puthli - Space Walking.
Loved this video! And I’d love to see you talk about other players like maybe a video on Dave Ellefson, Justin chancellor, Geddy lee, or maybe Steve harris? But as always loved the video and I love Ian’s energy and bright personality, I’d love to see him in even more video’s!
I must be honest. I didn't quite get RATM until years after it got huge. Back then it was like, "meh, kids trying to be tough, gime me more Pearl Jam!". It wasn't until I played with this cover band, just for kicks, that I got the taste for Rage and discovered how great Tim C was, how simple yet genius his lines were. Now, someone suggested Bob DeLeo down there, and I say YES, PLEASE! More of this!
Wow, amazing breakdown of those classic riffs and licks. Just flawless. Thanks for that extra tip with the drive in front of the wah. Sounds pretty awesome, man! Btw: I really dig the teemah overdrive for bass, too, especially when used in a parallel signal path in the HX-Stomp. That bass cutoff/highpass filter is such a great feature for keeping the overdriven sound tight and adding that extra bite and grind.
Tim Commerforf inspired me to learn, play and enjoy the bass. I probably was 10 or 11 when I heard it for the first time, and the sound his powerful basslines and effects really changed the way I percived the music reality. He really was, is, will be one of the Best!!!
So good. Thanks. Great launch of the 58 video serious of bass players and their gear and best riffs. I’ll be watching all of them. Thanks again. Don’t be afraid to make em longer
I learned playing bass with their first record, it changed my mind about all i knew about bass. 1996, no tutorials or tabs, just listening. Tim taught me so much
Learned the entire debut album about 2 months into playing. Took me a good more 6 months to nail and get tight but it's got to be one of THE albums for bass players to learn their chops. Stands the test of time.
Yeah. Rock and goddamn roll, no need (or room) to overplay. Tim’s wall o’ funk is one of the reasons I chose to learn bass (along with Flea and Geddy), thanks! Awesome vid. I never would’ve thought to stack dirt on either side of a wah, I learned something cool today.
Ive been a member since October but these one shot videos I always watched on RU-vid. A went to check the work book, for detailed tabs and OMG how good it was. The pictures inside, the line6 settings, tabs, everything was awesome
My first bass, a cheapo but much beloved Yamaha 4-string, became a beast when I filed out the nut and strung it BEAD. All thanks to a comment someone dropped saying that's what Tim Commerford did. I have no idea if he actually did that, but my old Yamaha became my main bass again, even at my church gig. It was like doing a Stage 2 kit on a Harley. It came alive!
Very nice content ! Just missing two things to have it really amazing : 1- Having on the screen the effects that are on (easier than following the camera to go to Ian's feet) 2- with Rage, the interaction with the kick is a key to understanding how awesome Tim is playing (especially when playing really simple lines with very few notes)
I love Ian's videos, he brings such an energy and enthusiasm to the channel! Personally, I don't follow bassist so much as play bass, but the one bassist that inspired me in my youth was Cliff Burton...I still play Anaesthesia & Orion with some degree of regularity
I loved cliff Burton, he is the reason I started playing bass. But when I heard Jaco, it put Cliff into perspective. Jaco was doing Cliff before Cliff was doing Cliff. Not that they are exactly the same, but just that Jaco was an obvious influence on Cliff, and was even better at it. Still love cliff though, I finally bought a Jetglo a rickenbacker about a month ago, which I've wanted ever since I heard Cliff playing one. What sucks is that Cliff was in a band where the Bass was not doing much beside following the guitar, and he was turned down so low in the mix you can hardly hear him in most songs. That always pissed me off about Metallica.
Great bass lines choices. I love each one of these songs. But as you said, only ten songs wasn't enough. You should do next time: Freedom, Revolver, Wake Up, Tire Me, Ashes in The FAll... There are a lot of good ones to play along.
A video on Les Claypool’s Bass Techniques, that’s a definite winner, amongst other, Rex Brown from Pantera, Richard Lewis - Skunk Anansie, Cliff Burton/Jason Newsted - Metallica, Chris Wolstenholme - Muse, John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin, Nick Oliveri/Michael Shuman - Queens Of The Stone Age, Peter (Hooky) Hook - New Order, James Jamerson - Motown Records, Larry Graham - Sly and the Family Stone, Bootie Collins, Carol Kaye, Geddy Lee - Rush, Flea - Red Hot Chill Peppers, Billy Gould - Faith No More, Dusty Hill - ZZ Top, Mike Kerr - Royal Blood, Mark King - Level 42, Justin Chancellor - Tool, Paul McCartney - The Beatles, Bruce Foxton - The Jam, John Entwistle - The Who, Roger Glover - Deep Purple, Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath, John Deacon - Queen, Jaco Pastorius and I’m sure there’s more. Soz, this might be over kill or just a good starting point 😎
Everything off of King Animal and half of DOTU. Seriously Ben dominates that album, he really came into his own with his doomy sound. Check out the mid section and ending to Bones of Birds and his groove on Applebite. And who can forget the righteous groove of Rowing.
