Comparism Roger Waters and John Entwistle

Who is the better bass player and why: John Entwistle from The Who

or 'our' Roger ?

I like 'em both, though.

better is definitely Mr. Entwistle

Rog has a very atmospheric playing that works incredibly well though...

You mean John Entwistle couldn't have done the job as well as Roger on Echoes or One Of These Days?

My opinion is: he coudn't have.

It would be interesting to hang out in a rehearsal room with Waters and see just how well he can play a bass.

Have you ever seen the bootleg Waters video of his rehearsal for (I forget which) one of his solo tours? During a warm-up, the band improvises this lame-o, generic blues number and it is absolutely painful to watch Roger 'improvise' through the jam. He's at a complete loss to stray away the standard blues line. Although the early Floyd was known for their intergalactic jamming, I would have to say that the majority of their psychedelic freak-out versions of the studio tracks generally follow almost the same structure for each performance. The live versions obviously evolved over time, but I don't think that any of them were particularly talented as live players (Gilmour possibly excluded). Just listen to the studio tracks on Ummagumma to see how pressed they were for experimental ideas when it came down to it. Mason and Wright especially couldn't pull it off and one of the two Waters tracks was just a rip-off of basically everything that Ron Geesin was doing at the time.

Geddy Lee and Phil Lynott. The guy who plays bass for John Lawton is great, too. And after tonight I simply have to mention John Myung as

No, I'd love to find a copy of that. Sounds about like I'd expect though.

One of the more painful improvs to listen to is from the early Dark Side shows when Rick did a solo where the sax solo ended up on 'Money'. He's surely gotten better since then.

...anymore. He's been dead for more than 16 years by now. Phil Lynott used to be the bassist, singer and songwriter of the Irish (hard)rock group Thin Lizzy. Remember 'Whiskey In The Jar' - recently covered my Metallica or 'The Boys Are Back In Town' - apparently frequently covered by Bon Jovi? The PFR regarding Thin Lizzy is of course one Snowy White, a guy who used to be touring with Pink Floyd as some kind of backup or surrogate guitarist (Animals & earlier Walls shows, IIRC) until he had to return to Thin Lizzy to co-write their best song ever (IMO, of course) - Renegade. Nowadays Snowy White is (or is not) known as one of Roger Waters' 'permanent' guitarists. He was in the line-up of the Wall show in Berlin 1990, and AFAIK he used to be a member of Roger's band during the recent US tours.

I love both groups, but as a bass player, I would choose John over Roger. I like Floyd's music more, but as a previous poster pointed out, listen to the bass breaks in 'My Generation' (actually the whole 'Who's Next' album, sorry, CD!)

Roger did some great bass lines , but I have to side with John in a comparison.

As a band leader, Roger had the edge since John had to compete with Pete

Thorn is pretty close to my own opinion... But I think that Geddy Lee rules... not only is he a good bassist but also a mighty good musician and composer... I would put him in the same league as Chris Squire... Leyland (sp?) Sklar, Tony Levin and Adam Clayton are also excellent.

Thank God you didn't say 'singer'.