what bassist have you talked to

#1 05-05-2009, 12:05 AM

I have talked with Rufus Philpot and steve digiorgio well i sent an e mail to him yesterday no reply yet I sent an e mail to marcus and victor months ago still no reply

que-ever · #2 05-05-2009, 12:37 AM

...about what?

bThumper38 · #3 05-05-2009, 12:40 AM

I talked to Gary Willis in a 7-Eleven years ago.....................He's asked me if I played tennis.

Dogbertday · #4 05-05-2009, 12:40 AM

sometimes I talk to myself... but it only seems like that.. I'm actaully talking to the voices in my head

138BASS · #5 05-05-2009, 12:44 AM

If you're using myspace to try and get a hold of these guys good luck. I doubt that Marcus, Vic, or Steve have time to run their own myspace page and respond to every letter that is sent to them. Most "big" names have management for that type of stuff. There is always the exception though, so who knows.

But on your topic, I've had the pleasure of meeting Vic, Marcus and Stanley Clarke when I went to the Thunder Tour last year in Vegas. Got to talk to each one individually for a while and I gotta say that Vic is one of the most humble people I have ever met. Marcus and Stanley were class acts as well, great guys!!

bass12 · #6 05-05-2009, 12:58 AM

I remember seeing Victor Wooten after a show once and he was basically apologizing for having a bad night! Meanwhile, around five guys (including me) are standing around him wondering whether we should go home and practice or quit playing altogether.

EviscerateNick · #7 05-05-2009, 01:08 AM

iv talked to quite a few. the best was alex webster because he is the reason i started playing bass seriously. i have also sent him a few messages on myspace and he responded to them within 24 hours. very very cool guy.

BananaKing · #8 05-05-2009, 01:10 AM

I've met Francis Rocco Prestia and Chris Wood in person, and I even took pictures with Rocco and had him sign my bass clef on my hoodie. My Lakland was signed by Chris Wood after and awesome MMW show.

I've had an e-mail exchange with Patitucci as well.

whitedk57 · #9 05-05-2009, 06:07 AM

Trip Wamsley
Roscoe Beck

Bobaree · #10 05-05-2009, 06:12 AM

I sent Peter Erskine a message. Got a reply the very next day thanking me for my kind words. Class act.

tigerbass · #11 05-05-2009, 06:19 AM

Bill Dickens. My old band did a NARAS Christmas party in Chicago in the 90's and he was playing it too. He was sitting down on stage warming up beforehand and I went up to him because he was playing the Peanuts theme 2-handed style and it was just completely awesome!
He actually sat there and explained and demonstrated to me in detail how to play it. At the time I didn't even know who he was! Coolest guy ever!

3toes · #12 05-05-2009, 07:27 AM

Got to shake hands w/ Mr. George Porter Jr. a few weeks ago. My fingers have felt even funkier ever since

COOL AND DEADLY · #13 05-05-2009, 07:37 AM

I went to Gerald Veasley's Bootcamp. Met Gerald, took some lessons from him too. One lesson I had to take public tranportation to. After the lesson (GV's last of the day) he saw me at the bus stop. He pulled over and gave me a ride to the station. This took about two hours off my hellish journey. Gerald and I talked for a good forty minutes on many subjects. At camp he also sat down and had dinner with me. What a humble and sincere person. I'll never forget how cool he is.

COOL AND DEADLY · #14 05-05-2009, 07:40 AM

also Bryan Beller, Anthony Wellington, Andrew Gouche. I said hi to Victor, that was about it. I should get the chance to meet him in the Fall as I won a raffle for a spot in his Bass/Nature Camp. As a Bass/Nature enthusiast you couldn't pick a better thing for me to win.

MaskedJackal · #15 05-05-2009, 07:40 AM

Jason Walton of Agalloch
Tony Choy of Atheist
Steve George of Swervedriver
Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse
Steve Digiorgio
Shane Embury of Napalm Death
Martin Ain of Celtic Frost
..I think that's all.

low-endz · #16 05-05-2009, 07:42 AM

I spoke with Steve Bailey during a Bass Day show break years back.

He is super cool, He infoed me about some the music being worked on for the Just Add Water ablum.

I know good couple of the local bassists here, always like to chat with fellow groovers.

Krause · #17 05-05-2009, 07:44 AM

Derek Boyer- Suffocation. The first time they played here I introduced myself and we began talking about Bc Rich basses, I was missing a piece from my bridge off my Beast, and he gave me one off his Virgo bass he wasn't using. A year and a half latter when they played here again, I said hi to him not expecting him to remember me and the first thing he said was " Did that piece fit on your Beast." Ended up spending most of the night backstage with him and Guy (guitar player) drinking. Sercuity tried to through me out cause I went back stage, and the guys from Suffoction yelled he's with us leave him alone. Really nice guys. Went out with them after and drank some more.

ChaotH (Frederick Filiatrault) -Unexpect.
Dominic Lapoint- Augury
Yan Thiel- Neuraxis

Been friends with these guys for years. Hang out with them every time they come through Winnipeg.

Met Alex Webster once talked to him about fishing and how much he likes Canada. That was back in the late 90's. Angelcorpse opened for them.

I know these guys are not Victor Wooten or anything like that, but they are still some great bass players.

He is not a bass player but I had coffee with Bruce Campbell once. That was awsome.

Lobster11 · #18 05-05-2009, 09:56 AM

I got to talk a lot with Chris Wood at Camp MMW last summer. Really nice guy, and super-smart and hilariously funny. (Actually, that's all true for the other two guys too.)

Here's a pair of photos of us from the last day of camp. In the first pic (which I didn't realize was being taken) I'm explaining to him how I wanted a picture of him looking at me as if amazed and awed; I thought that would be a fun pic to show off to my friends back home. The second pic is the one I was prepping him for, and as you can see he jumped into his role with enthusiasm.

JmJ · #19 05-05-2009, 10:05 AM

Jaco. Chatted with him at an Alex Blake show at the old 55 Grand. He was standing at the bar drinking Champagne. In between sets he was trying to talk Alex into letting him play but he would not hear of it. He was a real mensch, shifted to a slower gear when some of his jokes went over my head.

JTE · #20 05-05-2009, 10:40 AM

I used to manage a guitar store so I went to NAMM a lot. I have talked to:

Michael Rhodes- nice guy who was genuinely interested in my thoughts on his work with Rodney Crowell and Roseanne Cash. We were at the Guild booth discussing the brand new Guild/Hartke aluminum coned speakers.

Billy Shehan- even had his autograph. We laughed about the dork who was talking to him earlier- the dork said "I'm your biggest fan, I have every record you made, you're the greatest", but Billy and I had just heard Mr. Dork say the exact same thing to John Entwistle. At a Yamaha booth, the autorgraph went on a huge poster of him with the BB bass (about a year before the Attitude came out). My students were suitably impressed.

John Entwistle- kinda reserved, but I had his autograph on my business card for years. It was on my bulletin board with an old Who "Maximum RB" button. I wish I knew where those are now...

Freebo- He was very nice, even though he was in a hurry, and seemed to be touched that someone would notice him, and thank him for teaching me to play bass.

Ray Brown- At a Polytone display, Ray Brown, Joe Pass, and George Van Eps were jamming. Mel Bay (yep, Mr. Mel Bay) introduced me to those three gentlemen. I was more in awe of those guys than anyone I've "met" at NAMM.

Carol Kaye- when she was endorsing Leo Fender's Music Man. She was playing "Feelin' Alright" on a natural finished StingRay through an HD-130 and a 212RH. We chatted for a few minutes then she saw Leo and went into the sales pitch.

Jeff Berlin- much funnier and less abrasive in person than his written words communicate. Frist time I was walking past the Leo Quann booth and heard this guy playing some wicked bebop, sounding all fretless when I realized the bass had frets. I stopped, turned around and he kept playing this Charlie Parker-ish stuff while chatting with a stunningly beautiful woman. This was when most people hadn't a clue who he was- maybe even before "Gradually Going Tornado". Years later at a Dean sponsored seminar he gave locally, I asked about his stand on fretless players, specifically naming Freebo, Jack Bruce, and Rick Danko. Interesting, but I still think he's wrong on the metronome thing.

And a bunch of local players no one's ever heard of.... but I learned a lot from Mike White, Curt Bley, Mike Hill, Jack Sampson, Randy Ammerman, Tom Patterson, Bubba, and Roger Vail Stevenson.

jte