Megadeth's David Ellefson - Top 5 Megadeth Bass Riffs 

that*

So I'm not the only one who agrees

Haha YES!

+Karloz H could totally hear him say "But wait, there's more!" lol

Totally

True that

That... I haven't seen a comment that accurate in a long time, even though I do have some cool uncles.

My last name is Ellefson maybe I'm related

He was so cute when he was young!

"Mom, I'm heading out to uncle Dave's house for the afternoon. He's gonna help me with algebra, teach me to drive stick shift, and teach me to master magics five!"

Samesies.

And Gar Samuelson's drumming

Magda Chlebicka Gar Samuelsons drumming*

@@braedengibson6638 oh, right

Same

So did he!

LMAO

This aged well…

yeet

Nut sells, but whos watching.

TheBlackKnight1o1 But dude, you’re only allowed to like one or the other.

Trevor Ganoe lol

TheBlackKnight1o1 play clean without distortion with bass it's bad on amps if you don't. I know Cliff liked using distortion but unless you can afford a 2000 dollar amp it's hard on em. Dave Ellifson likes the clean sound but really what ever a person's own personal taste is. I don't think peace sells would sound right with a distorted bass.

Too bad cliff died. All of Metallicas bassists have been good but Ellefson is extremely underatted imo

your drummer should be the one that keeps you paying.

Erik Giovani yea, those ducks really turned down, literally, a great metal bassist. newsted was a solid player.

theshapeexists I think he was referring to all their bass players because Cliff's bass was never fat and heavy like this.

Max Durk True. Metallica has always drowned their bassists in the mix. Which is especially horrible since all of metallicas bassists (at least on actual albums) have been amazing (probably as good as dave)

wait ...metallica have a bass ?

Black Album, Load, Reload, and Hardwired were the few albums in which the mix was fine. The other albums - AJFA in particular - had the bass low-set in the mix.

damn

Was looking for a comment like this lol

Top comment right here

@Deadlock T he was face timing with a 19 yo girl and showed himself getting off on her.

haha..:D

Bruhhh lmao

I knew if I sorted by recent I'd find comments like this hahaha

Bust in Peace is their best album. ‘Holy Shit... I’m cumming soon’ is their best song, So awesome.

He's said it before 2016 many times

Danny Le : If you say so.

+Danny Le Guess he should've scoured the internet and the Ellefson archives before making that RU-vid comment..

Hahaaaa. Sarcasm kills. Nice one dude :))

666th like oof

+metfan4l True, and most people would _probably_ not say the same about Mustaine!

Thank God you didn't meet Tony Iommi or James Hetfield, you can't even spell their names right.

Aiden Macleod NICE GOING AIDEN! Geeze now you got the Grammar Polize effter you!

i mean, hes from minnesota...

Someone gotta balance out the assholeness of Dave

😂😂

Hehe

The mark of a real bass player! Nuance!

Well this didn’t age well

@@dawson1787 wdym

yeah!

@@munkykong9693 It's my life - Vennu Mallesh

@@rutvikrs nope

Good man

I liked five magics

Kill Everyone I agree, but unfortunately, it was Mustaine who wrote the riff - Jr. still kicks ass though!

@@fw5550 Unfortunely? Mustaine it's a genius

@@cicerobarbieroYes, I said unfortunately (not "unfortunely" - that's not a word) because it seemed as though he thought that Ellefson wrote it and it was always one of his favorite bass lines from Ellefson. You don't need to tell me that Mustaine is a genius.

+Felipe Revuelta Ikr, a lot of their songs are underrated

+Felipe Revuelta Now I can only laugh, as I read our epitaph: We lead our lives as moles, in the dark of the Dawn Patrol..." I could see a lot of people skipping that song but not me, I loved it!

+Deehvad right! The song is just heavy, the lyrics alone are gold!

So is Take No Prisoners

Felipe Revuelta reminds me of "the god that failed"

Georgi Dobrev no chill

Georgi Dobrev hahahahahaha genius

Georgi Dobrev dude lmao

underrated comment

Best comment ever

Hey doomguy hows it going

😂

he practises his strength a lot with masturbation

0:54

Guitar terms only. Learn your guitar or bass.!!! Hammer on. Pull off. Nut holds the strings on upper neck behind the 1st fret. I guess you could make any instrument dirty

@@pauly51 😐No.

He is lol

No. The reason he stayed in Megadeth for so long was because he was a stupid kid that had never been in a serious band before and he didn't have the experience and confidence to stand up for himself. If he had he would have been kicked out with the rest of the band in the first purge for demanding his fair share of royalties. Mustaine has been cheating him out of song writing credits and a large sum of money for decades.

Are you literate?

sources?

@@flacidhouse350 Dave never married his band. Yes it is his band

+TightyWhities94 Of course man, David isn't just the bass player of megadeth, he's the guy who made it with mustaine, we know mustaine is the face of megadeth but David is more than just a bass player

+TightyWhities94 chris poland and gar samuelson deserve it too, they were freaking awesome and debatable the best on their positions

+TightyWhities94 This guy is anything but underrated. Why you hear good bass players, the general answer is this guy and steve harris. Maybe old metallica is mentioned, too. In terms of metal these are the people who are talked about, frankly, too much.

***** really doubt what youre saying

TL:DR citation needed

AH.... AHHN....

Oooffff

Hahaha

Shit

Weird.

that's honestly so strange because 1999 was the *Riskiest* time to be a Megadeth fan... see what I did there?

Yeah, it looks amazing.

i bought the "budget model" of this bass (about 600$) recently... i honestly feel like i should have payed more. jacksons are extremely well made, even the cheaper models.

@@mattrowley1675 Hell yeah, Jackson guitars are awesome

Tornado of wife!

Unholy wars, symphony of marital destruction

Poor Dave got caught with hook in mouth!

He was betrayed by lust, his body must be aching

Reckoning day?

That steel panther joke really got me

repost, you alredy put this in a loudwire video

Dick In Hand (Hook In Mouth)

+The Puertorican Beast Jonthan Ayala its so gooood

+The Puertorican Beast Jonthan Ayala No kidding! That shit is insane.

it's harder to play Holy Wars on bass than Guitar.

+Deth From Within yeah totally! and guitarists still think that bass is the easiest shit on the planet!

It really isn't! Have you tried Peace sells? It's a pain!

rcoveyduc MEGADETH IS METAL YOU PIECE OF SHIT

Subhamoy Das Where does the line go between rock and metal? Some people might call AC/DC metal, and someone else might call Slayer rock.

I see no problem with calling Slayer ”rock”, however I myself would call it metal. Where does the line go between the two, according to you?

Subhamoy Das Id consider metal musicians to be rockstars and part of the rock community too though

Metal is rock. Metal is a sub genre. There is no line between them any more than there is a line between food and pizza.

Lmao!

Long and meaty riff.

AYOOOO

+Acid Fuzz The intro is also great. He follows Poland all throughout.

Yes! I never realized how badass the basslines were in that song until I heard the isolated tracks a couple of years back. So good!

I don't know if it's true but I heard that Mustaine wrote the bass riff in MLW.

+The Rookie +The Rookie If you asked Mustaine, he would say that he wrote every note for every instrument.

Acid Fuzz for me it's five magics

That song is badass.😀👍

And he should name it Megadeth

@@TheGreenDoggoOfWisdom yeah and he should make a couple of bass riffs that might inspire people to play a instrument

He should be :D

Andriy Vasylenko late reply but in my opinion both Trust and Hangar 18 is just amazing

Andriy Vasylenko hhhhhhiiiiijjjiiii friends

Hello Andriy. Love your videos

The chosen ones, Go to Hell and Angry again. It's nice that you can hear his bass work alongside heavy guitars.

hi iii frandddd

who's gonna tell him

@@SOSOGUDRANA 😔

@@SOSOGUDRANA not me... i'm not strong enough 😭

Oh no......

welo this didn't age well..

Marry that chick

@@bryangoldsmith5902 marry her for science

@@pimpacciaturpe i wondered If dave son married ellefson daughter And they had a baby, would he be the ultimate god of bass and guitar?

+Darrien Day His rhythm is so smooth it's insane. tabbed out the lines sometimes look pretty easy, but actually playing them and making them sound right like he does it hard as hell.

Walty Ramone totally agree! every time i watch the old footage from like 88-92 of them playing Hook In Mouth i drool at the sight of Jr flawlessly nailing those 16ths throughout the entire song. especially that run he does after the chorus. such a solid player

Darrien Day his right hand is awesome... but that left hand tho

Fuck the dexterity. The Strength is amazing.

Teaching my daughter bass and showing her Dave's style is going to help her in other techniques of playing bass. You're right dexterity and his groove is awesome.

I sir am by no means a bass man, but I call bullshit on this

I really wish Jackson would have more basses with precision jazz pickup configuration that isnt at $1000 or more

Angry Again is exquisite.

Are you from Slovenia??

@@noname-pk6ez yes, why haha

@@anzepancur5178 haha povsod smo

@@noname-pk6ez In it sucks

fact: u are a dog

I’m surprised I found my alt account

That would make two of us

Same here pal

Same here 🔥🔥🔥

I don’t know if this comment is ironic or not

@@Alfawaz506 LMFAOOOOOOOO

I hear he'll facetime with ya if you're well groomed.

@@Alfawaz506 lmao

Talk about what else that isn't music? ✊🍖✊🍖👊🐓🐓

? he didn't anything illegal

@@DJAshba99 Yeah

@@DJAshba99 oh now I can only lose respect for someone when they do something illegal? so let's all gather and praise Ellefson then for beating it to a girl younger than his daughter while cheating on his wife... all while being a self proclaimed pastor. Sorry, not the same Ellefson who inspired me

@@PedroSilva-xl7iw they have been doing illegal stuff since 1983.

@@DJAshba99 you missed my point, I never said i cared about how much drugs they did, that's what you would expect from a regular rockstar back then anyway. But i very much believe in something called moral. Seeing David going against everything he stands for publicly to satisfy his perv needs just shows he doesn't care about right or wrong if it pleases him, he's just a hyprocrite with fame and money.

man but dave's footage was stolen illegaly and what are people even accusing him of, the girl was CLEARLY a consenting adult, she initiated all the calls and everything, still he's getting targetted, his personal life shouldn't matter with the band man

@@thequebee_0101 wasn't she 17?

@@cheettz 19

@@thequebee_0101 what are u doing here james,go back to writing some more riffs for the new album 😏

@@glennanthony2733 kirk's still searching for his phone smh, haven't seen him since january

The only one that surprised me was Fatal Illusion, actually

Should have been #1 ... People who don't even know metal love it ... It was so great Mtv adopted it as their main theme throughout the 80s

My body is on my knees betrayed my luuust We FAP to each other so much (SO MUCH)

@@Parka_Niel “That in nothing we bust”

Not at all defending what he did (no nearly 60 year old married man should be sexually engaging someone who's barely legal and the age of their own children) but to be fair...he did not know it was being filmed.

It´s a shame that he is a sexual offender, we lose a great bassist in deed

@@alejandrotorres9707 sex offender for sharing nudes with a hot legal girl? Pfffttt. You're such a libtard candy ass

true

Sure

L

+bennydman666 Yeah, he seems like a very down to earth, enthusiastic person.

😂

@@hadesthewolf521 relax, just a meme

@@MorsBieg that doesn’t justify how absurdly unfunny it was

@@Tdrummer888 that’s why humor is subjective (except fart humor, that’s funny only to a brain dead 5 year old.)

​@@hadesthewolf521 c'mon, the comment is hilarious. I bet you're fun at parties 😂

The worst part is, you'll never be aware of how annoying these stupid comments really are. Ya, meme, doesn't make them bearable.

Mark Reyes dont quote me on this but i think he only uses nee strings to get the david ellefson bass crispiness

I think he said the bass in new. I'm guessing the strings are too

I thought he said both the bass and the strings were new. Did I misunderstand his words?

He's not going to do a video for Guitar World showcasing his most memorable bass lines with used strings LOL... just like doing a gig. Some of you guys are green AF jeez

take no shit!

Ooh, Fierro.

+pollo lml got one chance infiltrate them,get it right terminate them

take no shhhhhaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttt SHIT

shut up james

I feel the same way. He’s still one of my favorite bassist and he writes killer bass lines, but what he did was wrong. I would’ve loved to see him live too.

what is the situation

@@sausthabbirsinghtuladhar1729 he was texting an underaged girl

@@isopropyltoxicity like sexual stuff?

@@isopropyltoxicity she was 17 when they 1st met. But the day the videos were leaked she was 19 and confirmed it before all the posts got taken down.

you dont need to hate him

jajajajah

Carlos Shadows Gates Absolutamente

jajajajj

Hage Matt Thats right, and now back to college to learn spanish

jajaja genial man, tenes toda la razon!

Oh yes, good call! I love that one too!

Oh heck yah!

*Came* :D

RIP Nick

Menza isn't under rated. He's over rated. Metal drumming is much harder than Jazz drumming. Samuelson couldn't keep up.

misfit Menza isn't underrated, he always gets praise as a great drummer. Honestly I didn't find his style too interesting but he was very tight and his playing fit the songs perfectly.

@@flacidhouse350 Yes, stamina-wise, but ask a drummer without a jazz background to play polyrhythms or odd time signatures and the best they can do is memorize it through, not really feeling the pulse.

@@djjorix50 Polyrhythm and odd time signatures are not the Provence of Jazz drummers. I don't know what your threshold for "jazz background is," But I will assume it means everyone that went to a music conservatory or ever played professionally in a Jazz Band. That's almost every famous living drummer, but examples of some of the few that aren't played polyrythms and odd time signatures very well are Ringo Starr, and John Bonham. Nick Mason was all over the odd time signatures too. Honestly I think rock drummers play odd time signature pieces much better. When Nick Mason or Lars Ulrich plays 7/4 you know damn well where the downbeat is. When jazz and prog drummers do that shit it's like they are reveling in the opportunity to obscure the downbeat. Then they condescending look at the poor sax player like it makes them a good musician that the soloist got confused by their math drumming.

you sure?

@@sofberet8888 he may have cranked his driveshift to a 19yr but he still seems like a great guy. I'd probably wait for the drama to cool down and THEN have a beer

@@lemon_curry_ don’t remind me of those terrible lyrics in mechanix lol

@@Zeqweery bro, you should have seen the demo of Jump in the Fire Good lord, it's almost as bad as a lyric suggestion made by Kirk for St. Anger

@@lemon_curry_ yeah dave couldnt really write lyrics in the early days

Ajja aguante something jajaj LoL

For those who don't , cerebrito. Ya hay un video de los propios miembros de megadeth explicando que quiere decir aguante megadeth..

+Not a Droogie so it is

+Not a Droogie Im a droogie

William Reichelt that will always be my favorite baseline

William Reichelt my favourite!

Does anyone actually believe that Mustaine wrote that?

Flacid House how you know

What?

you cant replace jr. he ws perfect for megadeth. he and mustaine were the spirit of the band.

@@the4given196 James LoMenzo is back in Megadeth, but we're not sure if he's staying for the foreseeable future.

@@Morphoidism Thats both good and bad news. Good: he prooved with the 2004 remake that he can perform ellefsons lines really well. Bad: everything after that was pretty meh.

Aguante Argentinaaaa

aguante carajooo...megadeth lo mejor del thrash

megade megade awante megade

And My Last Words.

+Denver Dubtle I never hear anyone mention that song and It's my all time favourite Megadeth song. I'm glad I get to see someone mention it here.

+ArdipithecusR. Oh...all Megadeth fans love it. It's the greatest under 3 minute song ever.

+Denver Dubtle But you have to remember it's not Denver Dubtle's top 5 Megadeth bass riffs.

The video's intro reminds of Poison was the cure

It's a shame Mustaine was such a coward about something quite harmless.

@@idrathergetaidsthangetwoke9145 “what? No second chance?’

@@harryforster602 as I understand it he's back in?

@@idrathergetaidsthangetwoke9145 funny how Mustaine talks proudly about fighting, fucking and drug taking but couldn't give his bassist who made a mistake

What happened?

He's inredible! Superb guy and so thankful he came on our show

HA HA HA HA HA HA!

This is one of my favorites so far lmao ( I've got stitches scrolling through this comment section)

Oh well, hell at his age he should be proud he’s still able to get off…

@@metaldave08096 yeah but he probably busts rust at his age. …I think I got the words mixed up

This made my morning.