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08-06-2010, 04:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Phoenix Az. | | | What was the song that got you to want to play bass?
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My Sharona by the Knack was the one that did it for me.
I always use to do fantasy concerts by myself in my bedroom when I was a kid. I had my sister's old, cheap JC pennys acoustic guitar with no strings on it and I would just pretend I was in a rock band. So I knew that I always wanted to play music and be in a rock band. Just never knew what I wanted to play.
Then in 79. I heard that song and knew I wanted to play bass. I was 13 and going into the 8th grade. I was in the school band. One day I came in to the band room just as the jazz band was finishing up. This kid had a beautiful brand new Fender P. It was the schools. I begged the band teacher if I could get into something that I could get lessons on the bass and later get into the jazz band. He went for it and afterschool. I would get lessons from that kid in the jazz band and I got to learn on that P bass.
He said that he knew how to play "My Sharona" and taught it to me. First rock song I ever learned how to play.  |
08-06-2010, 04:52 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Berkeley CA | | | For me it was a combination of three albums not any particular song.
Those albums in no particular order.
Rush-Moving Pictures
Mahavishnu Orchestra-The Inner Mounting Flame
Return to Forever-Romantic Warrior
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08-06-2010, 04:52 PM
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08-06-2010, 04:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: South Jersey/Philadelphia | | | Pennywise "Bro Hymn Tribtue"
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08-06-2010, 04:56 PM
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08-06-2010, 04:57 PM
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08-06-2010, 04:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Germantown, Louisville KY USA | | | I think it was "Up for the Downstroke".
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08-06-2010, 04:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: right behind you... | | | The intro to Black Sunshine first sparked my interest in bass.
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08-06-2010, 05:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Los Angeles, the ashtray of CA | | | For me, it was a toss-up between Genesis' "Get 'em out by Friday," Yes' "Close to the Edge" and Renaissance's "Can You Understand?" No wonder my first bass was a Ric... |
08-06-2010, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Hamburg, Germany | | | Iron Man by Black Sabbath.
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08-06-2010, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Redmond, Washington | | | Hrm, it was two songs really;
Vital Signs and Number of the Beast.
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08-06-2010, 05:09 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Lakland Basses | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Charleston, South Carolina | | | The Meters - Cissy Strut
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08-06-2010, 05:10 PM
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08-06-2010, 05:11 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Willow Street, PA | | | Black Sabbath's Paranoid album. The whole thing. Learned the whole thing note for note years later. But that was the moment I became "bass-aware", so to speak. |
08-06-2010, 05:12 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Mukilteo, Washington. USA | | | I Saw Her Standing There. My oldest sister put Meet The Beatles on her stereo and when I heard that tune start I asked her what that sound was, she said "the bass" and that was it for me. I pointed at the speaker and said that's what I'm gonna play...
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08-06-2010, 05:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Vancouver, BC Canada | | | When I was younger, the first bass song Itha got me interested in bass was Cliff Burton's solo Anaesthesia (Pulling Teeth) from the Kill 'Em All album. Another cool song was Rob Trujillo's bass line for Suicidal Tendencies' Send Me Your Money.
Edit: OMG! How could I forget to mention Iron Maiden? Steve Harris made the bass look so cool. Of course, Gene Simmons was pretty cool, but I was more interested in his stage theatrics than technique.
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08-06-2010, 05:22 PM
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08-06-2010, 05:24 PM
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08-06-2010, 05:28 PM
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