Are you serious? Burton sucked. He made bass sound horrible, like..a guitar clogged with cum. Metallica blows anyway. And he's dead. So no one gives a ****.
yeah, he played distorted bass, and he was incredible at it. that was really only during solos anyway, he didn't distort it much during studio recordings or whenever he played in the background. and he had way more classical ideology and training than your average bassist which kept his solos and riffs from becoming the stale pedal shit 90% of metal bassists play today
Les Claypool has such an original style of playing. It's just fun.
err, there's really nothing original about how he plays the bass. he's an incredible player, don't get me wrong, but his songwriting is way more original than his actual technique. he just combines a bunch of styles that musicians like larry graham or bootsy collins established way before him.
