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12-21-2005, 09:56 AM
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I searched a little and did not find anything specific on this topic. I like knowing a bunch of worthless junk like this - - -
Waylon Jennings was Buddy Hollys Bassist.
Keaneu Reeves plays bass for Dogstar
That kind of stuff...
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12-21-2005, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: ottawa, ontario, canada | | | isaac newton was a bass player |
12-21-2005, 05:01 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Jersey | | | Geddy lee/Rush
Part of the "rush" counterparts album was recorded using an amp fished out of the garbage. |
12-21-2005, 05:09 PM
|  | Veteran Dispenser | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Newton, Mass | | | The bassist in Animal House
From IMDB.com:
The bass player in the band Otis Day and the Knights is then-unknown bluesman Robert Cray. Cray was instrumental in getting the musicians together that appeared as the band. |
12-21-2005, 06:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: San Francisco, CA (finally!) | | | Ronnie James Dio played bass in a band called Elf. |
12-21-2005, 06:09 PM
|  | Funkify your Life | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: The Bucket, RI. | | | Lt. Dan (Gary Sinise) from Forrest Gump is a bass player.
His band is The Lt. Dan Band, they do USO shows |
12-22-2005, 02:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bay Area, California, USA | | | Isn't Bruce Willis a bassist? |
12-22-2005, 07:12 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Kenosha, WI 53140 | | | The Fretless bass part in Pink Flyod's "Hey You" Was not played by Roger Waters. He could not stand the idea of playing a Fretless. It was played by David Gilmore
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12-22-2005, 07:21 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Melnibone | | | Glen Campbell played bass for the Beach Boys. |
12-22-2005, 09:15 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Kenosha, WI 53140 | | | Kenny Rogers played bass for his band First Edition
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12-22-2005, 09:25 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Kenosha, WI 53140 | | | John Lennon Played bass on "Hey Jude" while Paul played Piano
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12-22-2005, 09:27 AM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Kenosha, WI 53140 | | Jimmy Page was the first Bass Player for the YardBirds 
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12-22-2005, 09:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | the famous bass solo/break in the Paul Simon tune "You Can Call Me Al" (played by Bakithi Kumalo) is a recording trick. The second half is actually the first half played backwards. ...this confounded me for months trying to learn it, until I read it somewhere. |
12-22-2005, 09:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Windsor, Ont. | | Hulk Hogan plays bass  Anyone got the pic? Come on I know somebody does!
Les Claypool tried out for Metallica...he was not what they were looking for. Has anyone heard his Master Of Puppets bass solo?
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12-22-2005, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by spectorbass83 Hulk Hogan plays bass Anyone got the pic? Come on I know somebody does!
Les Claypool tried out for Metallica...he was not what they were looking for. Has anyone heard his Master Of Puppets bass solo? | "Before he became the famous wrestler Hulk Hogan, Terry Bollea worked as a bass player for a Tampa Bay rock band called Ruckus."
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12-22-2005, 02:28 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Kenosha, WI 53140 | | The Doors did not have a bassist! 
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12-22-2005, 02:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Denver, Colorado | | | Jazz Artist (and bassist), Waymon Tisdale was a Power Forward on the Phoenix Suns...
Also, I heard that Steve Lukather played bass on Michael Jackson's "Beat It"...
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12-22-2005, 03:26 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Ibanez basses and Promethean amp | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | | Shaq & Malcolm Jamal Warner (Theo from the Cosby Show) are bass players as well.
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12-22-2005, 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by iriegnome The Doors did not have a bassist! | I believe that while Ray Manzarek always played the bass lines on keyboard live, they had quite a few session musicians playing a real electric bass on many of the studio tracks on their albums. |
12-22-2005, 05:07 PM
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Nordy User... Endorser of SIT strings, Epifani Cabs & Benavente Basses Moderator | | Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Atlanta/Nashville/Lexington | | ummm... let's see. - Jeff Bridges is a Bassist
- Johnny Depp is a bassist
- Harry Shearer is a bassist in real life as well in film...
- Mike Judge is a bassist
- Penn Gillette is a bassist
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