Well, i was playing the other day and somebody I never met (a bassist) was at the friends house, I had my bass there so I picked it up and started wankin' away, he came in and said I sound a lot like Louis Johnson, now... I've heard of him, but didn't know his name till he told me thats how I sounded.

It was more style sound, rather then tone... Apparently I sound like im beating the crap out of my basses when I slap.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=DBFKkiju5N0


Honestly, that is how I sound when I get into slapping, hah... I do a lot of ghost notes and muted "Thumps"

I can honestly say that I have never been told I sound like anybody playing bass, but I've been told I sound like a cross between Ozzy and Huey Lewis when I sing.

Don't know if you guys have come across a band called "An Emotional Fish".... I apparently sound like their bassist, Enda Wyatt

I was playing a blues jam and got told I sounded like a young otiel(sp) burbridge. I am a death metal bassist, it was the biggest compliment i ever got

One night some folks I was jamming with said Victor Wooten... but I'm not sure what they were smoking! :cool:

some people have said my fills kinda sound like geddy lee


and the left hand on that video is making my cringe. does he fret the A string with his thumb?@??@ oh my....

My old guitar player once told me I sounded like Chris Squire of Yes.

nobody has ever really told me i sound like another bass player, ive had several drummers and other bass players say they have never heard anyone play bass like i do.... i hope it was a compliment though lol.

Nobody specifically, but I've been told I play like a Ramone with the way I pick some of our simpler songs. The whole nothing but downward strokes thing, and the way I stand.

Of course that's not how I play all the time. There's only so far you can go playing like that. I save it for the 3 chord stuff.

The drummer I played a couple of gigs with recently, said my playing reminded a bit of Rocco, one of my main influences together with Jamerson. I never try to sound like anyone else, it just turns that way when you're heavily influenced by someone.

I didn't take this comment as either a compliment or the opposite (what's the word for that in English?). But he also said I was easy and fun to play with and that I took as a compliment. :) Because that's what counts, not who you sound like. You should sound like you, not like someone else. However, that's easier said than done...

You should sound like you, not like someone else.

+1 The best complement you can get IMO is that you sound like no one, i.e. you sound like yourself .

It's been a long time, but I was once told by my jazz improv teacher that I sounded like Stanley Clarke when I solo'd, except that Stanley Clarke had tone, and his fingers didn't hit the strings like hammers.

Ouch. I got a C on that exam, despite the compliment.

Since then, I don't think I've been compared to anyone as a bassist.

apparently i sound like Frank Bello
which is good, because he's currently my biggest influence

Mark White from the Spin Doctors told me I sound like Bobby Sheehan a few years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4cd6elxzs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT4D_43-ztg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPIFW0Ifkoo

I was never a fan, but he was a couple months younger than me and grew up within a town & area I frequented. I bet we tried out the same basses in the same shops.

My music teacher told me that I reminded him of Steve Harris, although that must have been about my tone because I'll never be as fast as Steve.

crap

well, that and i was playing one of those velvet revolver songs and i was told that they thought the cd player's stop button wasnt working when i kept playing

but for the most part, crap. more of the exiting sound than pre crap rumbling