Famous Bassists. Need info!

[Petros-J]

Hi everyone.

I give you a list of famous bass players from all over the world. I want you to tell me if you know them personaly or if you even jammed with any of them, what kind of genre do they prefer and what bass / amp / effects and equipment do they use?

-Leonardo Da Vinci
-Albert Einstein
-Christopher Columbus
-William Shakespeare
-Walt Disney
-Princess Diana
-Isaac Newton
-Gandhi
-Cleopatra
-Bill Gates
-Mother Teresa
-Aristotle
-Spider Man
-Houdini
-Elizabeth Taylor
-Sean Connery
-Edgar Allen Poe
-Alfred Hitchcock
-Darth Vader
-Sigmund Freud
-Helen Keller
-Magic Johnson
-Chuck Norris

[TOMINATOR]

chuck norris doesnt use amps, he just stares at the bass and it makes the noise

[Drucocu]

I once shared the stage with Chuck Norris, he had a nice P-Bass, and when I asked him, if I can touch it, he roundhousekicked me to Mars...I'm still there....

[genstormbringer]

I love the "Chuck Norris" stuff very funny.

[Drucocu]

oh, yeah...and btw: Cleopatra was my Ex-Girfriend, she was the Backingsinger of "Pharao & the funky Pyramids".
unfortunately, she had a mental disorder, she always yelled at me:" Don't call me Cleopatra, my name is Liz Taylor!!!"

[5StringBlues]

They ain't for everybody.

[TombassCaton]

Freud is very conscious about the size and shape of his bass

[EdHunter]

Not quite bassists, but I jammed with Ted Heath on sax, Supermac on keys and Eric Pickles on drums. It was a lot of fun, but I still like my first band, a stoner metal trio with Paul Newman and Gilles Villeneuve.

What's the point of this thread?

[dave64o]

The only ones I know of are:

Cleopatra plays an Egyptian Smoke Bongo.

Sigmund Freud doesn't care what kind of bass he plays. But the only song he plays is "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama".

Isaac Newton plays a Fernandes - the "Gravity"

[jay stevens]

I jammed Pinball Wizard with Helen Keller

[Petros-J]

Originally Posted by dave64o

The only ones I know of are:

Cleopatra plays an Egyptian Smoke Bongo.

Sigmund Freud doesn't care what kind of bass he plays. But the only song he plays is "My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama".

Isaac Newton plays a Fernandes - the "Gravity"

+10000 for Isaac hahaha

[Petros-J]

I once jammed with E.A. Poe. He was looking for a second bassist for his death metal band. He was using a BC Rich Mockinbird with double-P pickups and a custom made distortion with lots of output.
Filthy, filthy sound!

[THand]

Originally Posted by Petros-J

I once jammed with E.A. Poe. He was looking for a second bassist for his death metal band. He was using a BC Rich Mockinbird with double-P pickups and a custom made distortion with lots of output.
Filthy, filthy sound!

Was the band called "Evermore"?

[THand]

Bill Gates said 640 Watts ought to be enough for anybody....he played for the Blue Screens of Death in the 90's

[MikeBass]

Darth Vader was the singer in my last band.
He didn't last long though, had real bad asthma...

[OldDog52]

You forgot William Shatner. He has what I would call a bloated, puffy sound.

[stratovani]

Sean Connery was in a band I was in back in the day. Good player, but his eye was always on the ladies, and these foreign dudes were always trying to kill him. We had to let him go for our own safety.

[peledog]

I used to play in a band with Houdini, but he always disappeared when it was load out time. He had a Stealth MM Stringray and usually cranked a Trace-Elliot 400 through a 4x10.

[kesslari]

She's not on your list, but Marie Antoinette played a headless bass.
And Albert Einstein wasn't too fussy about what equipment he played, but he always played in Relative minor keys.

[PazzoBasso]

I saw Walt Disney play live once - he was quite animated, but the rest of the ensemble was a bit too Mickey Mouse...