Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers is regularly cited as one of the best bass players ever, but there’s somebody he thinks is even better — Paul McCartney.
In an appearance on Ted Danson and Woody Harrleson‘s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast, Flea said, “I think Paul’s the greatest rock bass player. He’s just great. I mean, there are so many guys that are great in different ways, but Paul’s bass playing is so lyrical and melodic, and it’s just so beautiful.”
Flea added that one of the things that make The Beatles so great is how they’d approach putting the bass on a song. “One of the things I’ve heard is that he put the bass on after. [In] a band like mine, sometimes the song starts with bass lines. Whereas Paul and John and George, when they wrote songs, they just went and played live and would do it after.”
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