10 Greatest Bass Players In Rock Music History

Many of the greatest bassists of all time tend to go that one extra mile to get to their level. Even though they could have easily sat in the background, the real beauty behind these musicians is just how much they put into honing their craft and finding their voice on the instrument. And if there's one voice that the prog rock world knows better than anything else, it's the sound of Geddy Lee's fingers.

From the minute Rush began, it felt as if you were listening to two dueling guitar players, only to find out that this band was a three piece with Geddy performing most of these amazing basslines. Inspired by acts that came before like Yes and Genesis, most of the appeal of Geddy's lines are just how fierce they are, almost acting as a second melody along with his actual vocal performance.

That's before you even get to everything he's done for the band when he performed live, often adopting the role of keyboardist, pedal worker, and singer at the exact same time that he tried to play the bass.

If you were a true Rush fan, you know that it always comes back to his bass playing, with lines that would take most guitar players years to play with picks. It takes a professional to make something like this work, but it takes a virtuoso to make it look easy, and Geddy has been taking bassists to school ever since the '70s.