Anyone Inspired by Guitarists/Other Instruments?

[Stickk]

I'm just wondering if anyone else besides me is inspired by guitarists (alongside many bassists). Mine are...

Guitarists: Joe Satriani, Buckethead, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Tom Morello, Matthew Bellamy, and Mikael Åkerfeldt, Frank Zappa, Omar Rodríguez-López.

Drummers: Danny Carey.

Saxaphonists: Adrián Terrazas-González.

[aurian4parker]

GUTHRIE GOVAN




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[Roadman]

I've always been inspired by Clapton.

When I grow up, I want to be able to be able to play that good, that effortlessly. He can say more with one bend of a string than I can in 32 bars.

[BigOldHarry]

Sonny Landreth
Jeff Beck
Dave Gilmore

my newest: Greg Koch

[NS2A]

Ace Frehley and Steve Vai.

True story: When I first got into music in the 80's, I picked up the guitar because of Ace Frehley and I quit becuase of Steve Vai. I just couldn't get all that tapping and shredding.

So yeah, I switched to bass - and it came to me much easier for some reason.

[superfunk47]

Hendrix, Clapton, Beck...any good musician inspires me in one way or another.

[Hoover]

I get inspired by a lot of musicians:

Guitarists (Bill Frisell, David Torn, Adrian Belew, Pat Martino, Allan Holdsworth, John McLaughlin, Marc Ducret, that other French guy whose name I suddenly forget**, Steve Howe, Wes Montgomery...)

Saxophonists (Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly, Mel Collins, Bobby Keyes, Tim Berne, Ken Vandermark, Dave Liebman...)

Drummers (Terry Bozzio, Bill Bruford, Narada Michael Walden, Joey Baron, John Bonham, Billy Cobham, Stewart Copeland...)

Keyboard players (Don Preston, Dave Stewart, Chick Corea, Stevie Wonder, Barry Miles, Herbie Hancock, Patrick Moraz...)

and especially Composers (Igor Stravinsky, Bela Bartok, Edgard Varese, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Ornette Coleman, Thelonius Monk, Tim Berne, Frank Zappa, Lee Hyla, Milton Babbitt, John Luther Adams, Nick Didikovsky, Elliott Carter...)

Yeah, I get inspired a lot!



** edit: a-ha, I remembered! Sylvain Luc

[Ron Now]

this guy Phil Taylor played guitar in the band Volta Do Mar...currently is in OSO

he was just so fluid in his playing...always impressed me and influenced me.

Funny thing is Volta Do Mar had two bassists...and I was still drawn to the guitar playing.

[Mark Wilson]

Pat Metheny is currently my biggest influence!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRHD2eMobSc

[Mr_Sore_Fingerz]

The midget....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg

[Thunderthumbs73]

Originally Posted by Stickk

I'm just wondering if anyone else besides me is inspired by guitarists (alongside many bassists). Mine are...

Guitarists: Joe Satriani, Buckethead, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Tom Morello, Matthew Bellamy, and Mikael Åkerfeldt.

Drummers: Danny Carey

Yep, and as a guitarist, I'm inspired by guitarists:
Dominic Miller (Sting)
Pat Metheney
Bill Frisell
Mike Landau (James Taylor)
James Taylor
Joni Mitchell
David Rhodes (Peter Gabriel)
Jerry Reed
Chet Atkins
Brent Mason
Duncan Sheik
Nick Drake
Sam Prekop
Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds)
Roland Orzabal (Tears for Fears)
Nick McCabe (The Verve)
...to name a few...

[Baryonyx]

It's not just bassists that inspire me...

Guitarists: Steve Vai, John Mclaughlin, Shawn Lane, Alex Lifeson (I want to make music as effortlessly beautiful as he does), Joe Satriani,

drummers: Neil Peart, Jeff Sipe, Gary Husband, Christopher Schneider

other: Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Paul Simon, Aphex Twin, Erasure etc etc...

[BassActionBtard]

I used to be into morello a lot, until I heard his solo album. Bleeeechhh!

[JmJ]

Jeff Beck's last two albums are like encyclopedias of texture and tone. He's the only one from that era, IMO, that is still progressing beyond his original concepts.

[StanFan]

I've got plenty. Miles Davis, Joe Zawinul, Steve Morse, Allan Holdsworth, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Billy Cobham, Alex Skolnick, Tim Alexander, Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Ornette Coleman, Mike Patton, I could go on.

[jaywa]

Honestly, most guitarists don't do that much for me. Leo Kottke is a rare exception, also Nile Rogers because he is a rhythm GOD.

Drummers, now you're talking. Bonham, Carter Beauford, Chad Smith, Omar Hakim, Tony Thompson, Jeff Porcaro all get me going, also old-school swing band giants like Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa. Steve Smith is a monster and his instruction is top-notch. I also try to read two or three of the most popular drummer magazines every month just to stay up on that side of things.

[soong]

BB King has been a big part of my phrasing. Also Joe Satriani with his melodies.

[78bass]

Wes M.

[Thunderthumbs73]

I find the music from the ECM label inspiring. I find that there is a different esthetic which is to cherish silence, space and pacing in music, and even a timeless quality about the music. The music of ECM seems to run counter to many consistencies in other musics, such as volume or virtuosity. I feel that my listening to ECM label music has helped me better appreciate the nuances of all kinds of music, and has better helped me play sympathically and appropriately, even to the point of enjoying the "zen" of well placed whole notes with good, consistent tone, "boring" as that may seem at first glance.

I believe the music of the ECM label fits well with the oft-quoted "less is more" phrase that so many give lip service to, or actually apply to their own playing.

[Kevin Woods]

I saw the title of the post and the first guitarist that came to mind was Wes Montgomery. Wes, Wes, Wes. That is, if you want to learn great jazz improvising language. And definitely more important than the harmony, his feel and use of rhythm is just out of this world.

There is a Wes solo on the Portrait Of Wes organ trio recording. It is the Freddie Freeloader solo. I did it back in the 90s. It is 7 choruses of B-flat blues, and the way I remember the solo, it spans the two-octave 4-string electric bass perfectly, going from the open E all the way up the a 24th fret G. An extremely tasty solo with lots of special tidbits.

And while you're at it, you can hear Wes' brother Monk Montgomery on other Wes recordings (especially Fingerpickin'). Monk took the Fender bass out on a tour with Lionel Hampton in 1951 if I remember it right. Monk has been called the first recorded jazz electric bassist. This really should become common knowledge here at Talkbass for bluesers and jazzers.