Fun "Their Bass Players" Facts

[steve21]

Originally Posted by j-raj

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

I think I saw Jeff Bridges playing an Ibanez hollowbody bass thru an ampeg stack at guitar center in sherman oaks a few weeks ago.

[toad]

Originally Posted by Growler

Probably the first bassist many of us were exposed to (but didn't know it). Was a old school bassist named Sgt. Floyd Pepper. He paired with guitarist Janice and their hard hitting drummer Animal in the band Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.



In fact there are clips out there...

On the DVD The Best of the Muppet Show with Elton John, Julie Andrews, and Gene Kelly DVD, one of the extras is "Muppet Moments," a one minute skit called "Floyd: The Groove Master." It feature bass player Floyd jamming along to a dancing Kermit.

http://www.toymania.com/columns/spot...ets2floyd9.jpg


Dude played a Jazz... who knew?

And apparently he could play left handed and right handed. That's amazing.

[j-raj]

Originally Posted by steve21

I think I saw Jeff Bridges playing an Ibanez hollowbody bass thru an ampeg stack at guitar center in sherman oaks a few weeks ago.

really? Very cool!

There is a pic of him with a Klein/Taylor ABG floating around here somewhere...

[Thor]

Originally Posted by j-raj

really? Very cool!

There is a pic of him with a Klein/Taylor ABG floating around here somewhere...

Behold the Power of the Search Function!

[j-raj]

Originally Posted by Thor

Behold the Power of the Search Function!

yup, fancy that ....

Pix of Actors that are bassists

[jonsmith]

I hate for my first post here to be a small correction, but here goes anyway...

Originally Posted by iriegnome

Jimmy Page was the first Bass Player for the YardBirds

When Jimmy Page joined the Yardbirds he did originally play bass. However, this was quite late in their career and he replaced original Yardbirds bassist Paul Samwell-Smith. Shortly afterwards, guitarist Chris Dreja switched to bass leaving Jimmy & Jeff Beck as twin guitarists (for a little while). Page can be seen miming with a bass in the film Blow Up

Since this is bass player trivia of a sort, Chris Dreja also took the photograph used on the back cover of the first Led Zeppelin album.

[iriegnome]

Originally Posted by jonsmith

I hate for my first post here to be a small correction, but here goes anyway...



When Jimmy Page joined the Yardbirds he did originally play bass. However, this was quite late in their career and he replaced original Yardbirds bassist Paul Samwell-Smith. Shortly afterwards, guitarist Chris Dreja switched to bass leaving Jimmy & Jeff Beck as twin guitarists (for a little while). Page can be seen miming with a bass in the film Blow Up

Since this is bass player trivia of a sort, Chris Dreja also took the photograph used on the back cover of the first Led Zeppelin album.

It is just what I read in a search for facts! This is why I posted this thread in the first place. I wanted to learn more about different bass players. Who would have thought - JIMMY FRICKEN PAGE

[skewh]

In some obscure movie (the name escapes me at the moment) you can see Stanley Clarke playing a guitar in a recording studio . . . funny thing is he plays it exactly like he plays bass.

[iriegnome]

Originally Posted by skewh

In some obscure movie (the name escapes me at the moment) you can see Stanley Clarke playing a guitar in a recording studio . . . funny thing is he plays it exactly like he plays bass.

Wasn't the movie "Animal House" I do beleive he was the bassist for Otis Day and the Nights!

[iriegnome]

Tom Petty plays bass, a danelectro, for the Traveling Wilbury's

[Alan Vorse]

Jack Johnson (the heavyweight boxer that Miles Davis named an album after, not the bland singer/songwriter) played DB.

Arsenio Hall was a bass player and sometimes jammed with his band.

Benicio Del Toro worships Jaco. Anyone know if he plays?

In Easy Come, Easy Go, Elvis picks up a late 60s P-bass with flats. No strap. He holds the bottom cutaway with his fingers and thumbs the strings. Bad left hand technique too.

Jackie Gleason helped Milt Hinton crack the New York studio scene in the early 50s.

Didn't Eddie Van Halen play bass on a Sammy Hagar solo album?

[j-raj]

Originally Posted by skewh

In some obscure movie (the name escapes me at the moment) you can see Stanley Clarke playing a guitar in a recording studio . . . funny thing is he plays it exactly like he plays bass.

You Sure it wasn't Stanley Jordan in Blind Date the movie?

[Alan Vorse]

Originally Posted by j-raj

You Sure it wasn't Stanley Jordan in Blind Date the movie.

Damn J-raj, I wrote the same thing at athe same time!

[Mr. Gone]

Originally Posted by iriegnome

Wasn't the movie "Animal House" I do beleive he was the bassist for Otis Day and the Nights!

That was actually Robert Cray...

[j-raj]

Originally Posted by harmolodic

Damn J-raj, I wrote the same thing at athe same time!

Hey what can I say... geniuses think alike!

[Alan Vorse]

Originally Posted by j-raj

Hey what can I say... geniuses think alike!

You're too kind.

[iriegnome]

Originally Posted by Mr. Gone

That was actually Robert Cray...

[middlebit]

Originally Posted by harmolodic

Jack Johnson (the heavyweight boxer that Miles Davis named an album after, not the bland singer/songwriter) played DB.

Arsenio Hall was a bass player and sometimes jammed with his band.

Jammed with who's band - his own, Miles' or...Jack Johnson's?

[iriegnome]

John Cleese from Monty Python plays DB in the movie "Romance with a Double Bass" from 1974

[iriegnome]

Mike Rutherford played bass for Genesis