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  • cliff burton is just like random solo ith distorstion victor wooten is like pure

  • Cliff burton only played metal. Victor plays Blues, Jazz, blue grass and funk. If cliff had more time, i don't think he would have ventured very far. Whereas, victor can play a water fall. He can play the drums on bass. He can play the guitar on bass. He can do SO much more, regardless of the time cliff had.

  • no point to compare wooten its the best

  • Wooten is probably better, but cut some slack for Burton. Cliff's song was made in the 1980's, then he died. Wooten's song was made a few decades later. I bet if Cliff was alive longer, he'd have been a lot better.

  • de boa sao dois generos diferentes mais o que o victor wooten faz com uma só mao o cliff naum faz com 10

  • victor wooten

  • this is a no-brainer.

  • i think that's a joke!

    you can't compare Cliff Burton with Victor Wooten!

    Victor is much better than Cliff!

    Another reason why you shouldn't compare Cliff with Victor is that they play a very different style!

  • Burton sucks in a garage band sort of way.

  • Who dares to compare??? That must be a joke!!!

    HAHAHAHA, Did Burton already played the electric bass?, it's sounds like a bad tuned distorted guitar

  • Victorr is better than cliff

  • cliff is the raison why i learn to play bass guitar and victor is the raison why i continue to play today!!

  • Victor is a far superior bass player. He doesnt need effects to make himself sound any good and masters every technique on the instrument. Cliff sounds like he is trying 2 do a guitar solo on his bass and the distortion sounds awful to me i couldnt listen to that for very long

  • victor wooten of course

  • you can't compare they because they are different bass player

  • duh!

  • Cliff Burton was an amazing bassist, but no one at current year was comparible to the king of bass, Stanley Clarke, Victor Wooten, Edgar Meyer, however; Clifford Lee Burton has to be the best bassist in Thrash, in my opinion in any genre. He developed his own style, he makes a base sound like a guitar; he even impressed Lars and James. Hes the cause for the sound of Metallica; RIP;

    Tetsuya Ogawa (Larc en ciel) is also someone everyone should check out, any comments? Send me a message or reply.

  • Cliff Burton is a shitty bassist. There I said it.

  • aquabats are the poop

  • Both their music was different. So It's like saying whats better apple or orange, its preference.

    Technique wise, There isn't any real competition. I'm sure Cliff Burton would admit that Victor Wooten had more Technique..

    These Person VS Person or best bassist are ridiculous.

  • yeah, it's definitely victor, not only is he frikin amazing beyond compare, but burton's kinda boring.

  • Agreed

  • agreed - cliff is overrated

  • This two types of music can't be compare... but cliff, for me, is simply a god and nobody can't beat him and i think, personnaly, if he wasn't died he was the best bass player of all time.

  • the best bass player, easy, Les Claypool

  • you cannot compare two totally different genres of music.

  • ok, considering i can play solos by both artists, victor definlty has better overall preformence and his songs are very technecal. how ever i think cliff does have speed on him.

  • i doubt you can even get close to ''being able to play a bass''

  • why is it fight to the death!? cliff is dead already

  • The thing here is that they play totally different styles. Cliff really is more part of the band when he plays while Wooten is really known for being able to not only solo but be the lead in many of his compositions. Both of them are talented and with lots of practice so can many other people out there.

  • pshh wtf? cliff burton can play bass.. thats about it. Victor wooten will go down in history for what he has done to slapping and popping. anyone can play anything cliff burton plays, not because i don't like him but because he doesn't play anything technical or "is a good composer". The guy just plays bass thats all there is too it

  • You cant compare them, different types of music

  • Victor. No question. If you have an ear you know that thats the right answer.

  • what the hell? why did u pick anethsesia for cliff? cliff has WAY better solos than that! and he totally knocks the crap out of every other bass guitarist.

  • Vic totally won this. I dont understand why everyone gets so worked up over cliff. Ive heard his stuff. All i can say is that distortion on a bass sounds horrible in almost every situation. At least thats what i think.

  • cliff sucked

  • What's with all the fuzz? I'm tired of fuzzed out sounding distortion...That would have sounded like a great beginning but for some reason making it sound like crap makes it better? Please explain this to me...

  • victor and cliff are both amazing, but like any who knows and respects music, you could say that there is no way you can compare two different styles of playing. I spoke to victor once and told him he was the best bass player and he said " we are all the best in our own ways because if you put a baby on a bass, he/she can make sounds that we cant make, and we all have our own attributes that make us unique, so in a way, we are all the best"

  • victor wooten rapes cliff burton

    plus hes black hes got the funk

  • as a bassist myself, i don't think u can compare them, but not because they play different styles. because they are different bass players all together, two very different and distinctive styles. in all...i would say Cliff is the better composer, and that Wooten has better technical ability.

  • Agreed, its insane to take these 2 together, there both just good. (good? no briljant)

  • dude you cant compare them

    they play different types of music

  • Yeah Victor

  • you are such an idiot...

  • this is so stupid...

    both are great bass players

    in different styles

  • how and why would you compare two different style bass players???

    Cliff is metal and vic is like jazz funk

  • ...bass player, not necessarily in the same league as Victor as an amazing solo player and band player, sometimes so solo he would literally be on his own on stage making the sounds of the rest of the bands instruments with his bass. Cliff is seen with James, Kirk and Lars as a great altogether unit but on their own they're not terribly interesting.

  • I'm sorry to say this but this is a pointless comparison video, full respect to whoever put the effort into making it but there's no point in trying to compare these two people. They are massively different bass players with two totally separate bass styles. And people across the world have a love / hate relationship both ways for both metal and jazz so the comparison fails in a big way. Without even looking at the video I would straight away say Victor. Cliff was great, but great as a band...

  • Che senso avrebbe paragonare due bassisti così diversi?

  • CLIFF SOUNDS WHITE DUDE,

    victor is FUNKY!!

  • well if your not half dumb u can tell that cliff uses a lot of the same classical scales in his solos as does vic

  • victor has been playing his whole life, at the time when cliff played this solo he had only been playing like 6 or 7 years, besides their two completely different styles and cant be compared without bias towards the other genre

  • Wooten has never taken a lesson and neither has Burton. But if you want to compare their technique Wooten has it hands down. Oh and BTW Wooten developed a lot of the slap pop techniques. So really in the long run Wooten wins.

  • Well, there really is no comparison, what's there to compare? Both have there different bass guitar styles and techniques, and most would think wooten is better, which I wouldn't doubt he is, because he plays great, but wooten has probably been playing and taking lessons all his life.

  • victoor wooten has gotta win this hands down although it is unfair to compare these guys, there just too different its like comparing freddie mercurys singing to pavarotti's, there both outstanding but is it really fair

  • simple:

    cliff burton its a bass player playind the bass like a guitar

    now, victor its a real bass player, with real bass solos,, and the best bass player in my opinion that ever exist!!

    i say this and im a real metal fan, i love metallica and cliff, but the true its the true

  • I bet they wouldn't have had any beef with each other

  • I knew this would come up on youtsube someday but, you really can't compare. Twoe TOTALLY different styles. Each are awesome at what they do. Now, how about Victor vs. Jaco Pastorus.

  • you can't compare Wooten and Pastorius either. they're too different too, but closer.

  • I agre they are closer but, both two different ways.

  • Your easily impressed huh

    Distortion doesnt make you a better musician and neither does speed(unless you got technique and a sense of direction)Its true people respect him mainly cause he died early but you can't call him the best cause that! lose your untrained ear before you speak on music.

  • ye distortion dusnt make cliff a gud musician,his skill does

  • i dont think that is what he was getting at..

  • ha oh ye,ur rite

  • you gotta be kiddng me.... there nowhere near the same genre of music. besides wooten is so much better.

  • Are these two seriously being compared...

  • Is this some kind of a joke? Victor Wooten is in all ways better than cliff burton ever was.

  • WORST.....COMPARISON.....EVER

  • Wooten vs. Burton ???

    LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL double lol and nuclear rofl

    it´s like Chris Barnes vs. Mariah Carey ^^

    but ... i like both

    Cliff and Vic

  • for victors you shoulda gone with the speed battle with his bro :D

  • Cliff definetely was a good bassist, but these are completely different styles. I know cliff died but still i dont think he wouldve amounted to the bassist Vic is. Vic wins.

  • Real musicians can apretiate both.

  • Real musicians also "appreciate" raw, undistorted musicianship.

    cliff does alright, but vic all the way

  • no real musician appreciate watever way sum1 wants to fukn play ya dum cunt

  • haha cliff is notinhg compare to victor wooten

  • why does cliff have to hide behind distortion, i wonder...

  • Cliff to me seems more of a guitar player with the wrong instrument in his hands. As a bassist Wooten will have him for breakfast, but that does not necessarily mean that one is a better musician than the other.

  • Agreed 110%

  • cliff burton was an average bassist AT BEST

  • both are amazing and both have two different types of music its not comparable, plus the bass solo for burton isnt his fullest ability, some of his solos during the ride the lightning tour live is just amazing, i prefer burton personally

  • You cant compare those two, Burton is way off Wooten's league. Its like putting mike tyson and Bill Gates in to a boxing match to death.

  • good job picking vics best song but the live arts disc is a million times better listen to that it will change your life

  • "fight to the death" now thats fucked up lol

  • Is this some kind of joke .... ?

  • The styles are way to different to compare them both skill wise.

    RIP CLIFF

  • You can't be serious...Victor Wooten blows Clif Burton out of the water! Theres no question...

  • you cant really compare them, they just have very different styles of playing, although i feel wooten is just slightly more technically talented

  • in one of the pics,cliff is playin a left handed bass

  • haha, wooten. he got popular BECUAUSE of his bass playing. burton got there cuz of metallica, than people notced hes pretty sick. but wooten is clean and fresh. burton is wlays distored, like a baratone guitar. wooten all the way

  • Yeah, just cause Burton died doesnt make him a better bassist. Neither the fact that he was in Metallica. He was average and had way too much distortion. It's a sensitive situation when it comes to Cliff but Victor Wooten all the way!

  • The problem I have with Victor is that it all seems too much a lot of the time, there are places where it would be nicer just to relax and do less. Having said that he is still an excellent player technically and I do love most of his stuff. Comparing him to cliff burton is as many people have said, silly (paraphrasing) because the genres are so different, but i would give it to victor, i have never liked the amount of effects used by cliff. But then my views are jaded by my love of funk...

  • My friend got a lesson from Victor who taught him how to play For Whom The Bell Tolls, no joke.

  • en verdad estos corren por distintos carriles ,aún así victor desarrollo nuevas tecnicas en la ejecucion del bajo que cliff nunca habría considerado.

  • i think there both extremely talent players cliff is my favorite but wooten is better now what if cliff was still alive? then that would be a good battle i mean common he was 24 when he died victor had way more time to practice and play if cliff was still alive he might be better

  • a lot better

  • Have some common sense, please... I doubt Burton would've evolved into playing anything close to the style Wooten plays. Come on, he liked Misfits and Rush. If he hadn't died I guess today he would be, at least, like a modern day Billy Sheehan or something like that, maybe even Geddy Lee himself (his greatest idol). But Victor Wooten? Nah. They would still be miles apart.

  • that thing in 4:01 is so awsome

  • Wooten. But DAMN theyre both good.

  • victor wooten. easy!

  • are you serious?

    it's like comparing hamett with andy timmons

  • Why so serious?

  • victor would probably pown cliff at metal to

    victor is better

  • let me rephrase that..hes better in very way..victor Wooten hands down

  • your kidding me...theres no comparison..victor Wooten is better in almost everyway

  • Realmente es el video mas irrespetuoso que he visto en mi vida

    Como podes compara al boludito ese que pone distorcion y se hace el bueno con un genio como victor Wooten

    Sos un pelotudo

  • comparing these two is like comparing night and day lyteraly and figuritvely

  • they both fuckin rock.FACT!!! I like them both.two different styles of music.they both inspire millions of ppl around the world to play bass.does anyone know the name of the tune on this vid that wooten is playing .R.I.P CLIFF

  • I guess I dont know anything about bass tho cause I'm sideing with burton according to some people

  • Well dude, I mean read your comment before this one, you said Burton used a wah and distortion pedal to get that sound. Yeah he was fast and skilled, but Wooten uses nothing but his fingers to get every sound he makes.

  • We're not comparing us and him. We're comparing Him and VICTOR WOOTEN. If you think Cliff is "Better" You obviously know nothing about Victor. But whatever. To each his own.

  • wooten kicks burtons ass

    if he wanted it to sound like a guitar he should have learnt to play guitar, if you think burtons better you dont know anything, wootens style, technique and sound is just genius, he is amazing,

    but stil Rest in peace Cliff burton

  • someone said cliff burton use pick? wtf is wrong with you, see when cliff plays, no pick, he us 3 fingers all the way, maybe the thumb to, havent checked, but be fair, the ages is diffrent, and cliff is dead, and if i still been alive, im sure he been the best ever! and he was the only man how got the bass to sound as a guitar, and still plays as a god

  • no way in hell VICTOR POWNS

    cliff might as well play guitar

  • victor wooten win and you cant compare him to anyone because he is better than everyone.

  • Personally, in my opinion, and thats all that it is, like everyone elses little comments here, I think that theyre both insanely good bassists and you cant really compare them- the shoe or doorstep comment really hit that nail on the head :D At the end of the day, Cliff is only better than Wooten at metal in some peoples opinion- music is all opinions. I cant stand elvis-but i can appreciate that without him, we wouldnt have music as it is today. We are all entitled to our opinion. Enjoy the vid

  • ya, i agree with past comments, its not really fair to compair funk to metal... theres 2 different standards and styles... but i would say Burton is a better Metal style then Wooten is for... funk? i forget his style, but because Burton is like the best metal bassist... wooten is bood but there've been better in funk... i personly like burton better because its more my style, i like metal more then funk, i only know one funks song... we want the funk

  • You can not compare the two because of the massive genre gap.

    Both good in their own regards, but both totally different styles.

  • comparing anyone to mr. wooten is pretty ballsy, so different genres has nothing to do with why this comparison is stupid. victor is god. i wouldn't even compare les claypool (my favorite bassist) to him.

  • i dont know who won (cough) any ways i thing the cliff burton is really bad cus he uses a pick (cough) um wooten uses hes fingures and i think cliff burton died

  • Wooten is better, but not because he's alive and plays with his fingers. Burton used his fingers too, but lots of great bassists use picks, like Chris Squire and Carles Benavent, among others.

  • wooten fucken wins any one knows that

    why would you even attempt to compare them but cliff burten is good tho just victor is 1000x better

    check out filipe andreoli in the video angra bass solo if you want to see some one with speed

  • No disrespect to Burton because he was great, but Wooten kills him

  • victor wooten wins, but my respect to cliff burton and long live metallica.

  • estilos muy distintos, los dos son los mejores por diferentes laos, pero en lo personal prefiero a burton por q va mas con mi musica, sin desmeritar a wooten q es un dios..

  • They're too different to compare... it's like asking which is better? A shoe or a doorstep?

  • OMG they both fucking rock. Wooten is a slap god, and Burton as the most amazing riffs and grunged tone. They are both awesome just in different genres.

  • si algun dia tokas komo wooten me llamas tio

    ese hombre tiene la tecnika mas inkreible k e visto jamas

  • ?? lol

    moc nemachruj šulíne taky mi nerozumíš :)

  • How the almighty Wooten can be compared to Cliff Burton I'll never know...

  • dude u could look for classical thump or a show of hands and you'll realize u can't compare this guys... they have too different styles

  • that comment was meant for randyHO7 cock in ur mouth. yee fuckin ha.

  • who posted this is stupid...

  • but vic is the best of all......probably.

  • ummmm........gay?

  • cliff is distorted bull shit, i only like him cuz we share the same middle name., other then that, he sucks. all you...... OH YEAH, CLIFF IS GOD, ppl are stupid. cliff is shit, i mean, rest easy cliff. but you suck

  • finally i havent heard somone say this on youtube yet.Bass is not a guitar and thats how he played it if cliff wanted distortion and fast high pitched metal solos stick to a guitar haha.And what a crap comparison.

  • both of you are stupid fucks people like him because the fast high piched distortion bass with wah was a fucking great sound and some don't care he about the point he played like a guitar he played the way that sounded awesome

  • pointless vid

  • Two completely different styles of music, no comparison here, moron.

  • This is like comparing Eric Clapton to Dimebag or something lol

  • How the fuck can you even try and compare the two? One of the worst vs. on Youtube right here...

  • stupidest video ever

  • vic powns him but cliff is good

  • madre mia no hay punto de comparacion

    Cliff Burton si es mui bueno la verdad...joder pero Wooten, es impresionante escuchar tocar el bajo a ese hombre

    yo me hice bajista porque vi lo que hacia ese tio con el bajo

    ademas el bajo de Cliff suena como una guitarra...i es x la distorsion y no hay nada peor k un bajo con distorsion

  • This video is fucking lame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • cliff is nothing (N)

  • que comparación tan marica. Los dos tienen estilos muy distintos. Es como comparar quien es el mejor con el balón<<< michael jordan o ronaldiño.

  • fuck this idiot who makes that video..he dont love music beacause if he liked it he would not make this hillarious video

  • ok that is like comparing oranges to beef you cant try to say who is better... cliff is better at what he plays than victor but skill wise victor is better... cliffs is less complex but fits the songs perfectly.

  • This has got to be one of the dumbest videos ever, you can't compare the two, its different styles of playing, but if I had to pick, has to be Victor.

  • wooten es el mejor....

  • cliff es leyenda victor es bueno

  • well cliff plays good and he is good playing metal but remember anyone who plays jazz or funk in a bass is much better i think victor wins

  • Victor rulez !!!

  • yo im a big fan of cliff but im sorry on his own cliff wasnt a good bassist but yea maybe he would have gotten better later on but he would have had to leave metallica anyway. The main reason is the genre wooten plays is just more complex and cliff plays metal but I would have liked to hear cliff play clean.

  • victor owns face

  • How can somebody compare a mortal with GOD????????

  • Notice how all the Cliff fans shout abuse, while the Wooten fans peacefully share their opinion.

  • Most probably teenagers who think they invented sex, although i'm a Cliff fan.

  • Cliff can write and play metal better than victor, but Victor can Write and play better in every other form

  • cliff OWNZ wooten`s ASS !!!!!!!!!!!1

  • LOL

  • victor wooten Sucks Cock!! Cliff Is A Master And Legend And Ture hero. victor wooten Is a wannabe and nothing more than a piece of shit. R.I.P Cliff!!

  • ya man cliff was prolly the most amazing bassist to ever walk these fair grounds i mean if you can make a bass sound like a fucking electric guitar thats pretty amazing to me R.I.P cliff

  • go cliff, victoris awesome to but he is not cliff and was never part of metallica. rip cliff

  • Yeah he's not Cliff because he is better, Cliff is good don't get me wrong but compared to Wooten? No way.

  • these are different styles.. then i still think Cliff Burton is the best bass player i've heard

  • Metal*

  • cliff rules the world, and the othere guy.. i dont know, its not made for me xD

  • well, victor and cliff are two of the biggest bass players in the history. Cliff had a very different style (Victor use some slap), Cliff inovated the use of effects in the bass, but Victor have a better technique. i love both!! jajaja

  • yeah bro im with u i reakon effects are made for guitar. distortion sucks on the bass.if u want to play with a distortion. play the fuckin guitar instaed.