Late Bloomers?

dancing_chris · #1 01-11-2009, 07:44 AM

I am curious to know: which of our bass heroes had a somewhat late start or took a somewhat unconventional path? so the opposite of the child prodigy.

Dr. Cheese · #2 01-12-2009, 08:32 AM

I think TB'er Woodchuck was around thirty before he started playing any instrument at all, and now he is a successful studio and touring bassist.

Swerve · #3 01-12-2009, 09:20 AM

I don't think Les Claypool was a child prodigy. I think he even said the only music he grew up around was his moms am radio.

Terry Funk · #4 01-12-2009, 09:40 AM

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Chuck Rainey was around 20 or so when he started bass. He played other instruments and stuff before then.

kesslari · #5 01-12-2009, 10:09 AM

Phil Lesh started playing bass when he started playing with the Grateful Dead.
Prior to that he was a jazz trumpet player.

Swerve · #6 01-12-2009, 10:20 AM

Even though he is a guitar payer, Tom Morello didn't take guitar seriously until his mid 20's at Harvard. I think he was 29 we he joined RATM.

dancing_chris · #7 01-12-2009, 01:49 PM

lol wow Tom Morello went to Harvard??

b_ryceeeee · #8 01-12-2009, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by dancing_chris

lol wow Tom Morello went to Harvard??

yeah i was watching an interview with him and he was talking about harvard.

Swerve · #9 01-12-2009, 02:30 PM

Yeah he graduated with honors in, you guessed it.....

Political Science.

sgraham · #10 01-12-2009, 02:37 PM

Dug Pinnick from King's X didn't start playing bass until he was 22 (he had sung in bands before that).

dancing_chris · #11 01-13-2009, 04:19 PM

i know this guy he went to med school and only became a serious player in his mid twenties.. but landed some serious gigs.. this guy is damn good.. lol.. still glad though i started a lil earier