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08-06-2011, 03:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado | | Quote:
Originally Posted by spendidfender  I was 16 when I started in 1966. |  YOU'RE SO LUCKY!!!
It sucks being born 60 years later than I should've... 
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08-06-2011, 03:45 PM
| | | Allen Wentz, actually had the pleasure to meet him because he shops at the store I work. I never mentioned that it was his song that got me turned on to bass  |
08-06-2011, 03:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Lone Tree, CO | | | John Paul Jones - The first albumn I owned was Led Zeppelin II (vinyl). Lemon Song just blew me away. I was hooked. I didn't start playing bass for quite a few years but when I did, I definitely remembered JPJ.
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Justus Band Colorado
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08-06-2011, 04:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Baltimore | | | Andy Nicholson |
08-06-2011, 04:13 PM
| | | | Berry Oakley, Roger Glover, John Enwistle. |
08-06-2011, 04:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Winter Park Florida | | | Jack Bruce and Chris Squire initially. They were "the men" in my day. Then several others along the way Jamerson for sure. I started playing in 1967 what a GREAT ERA for music. Also loved Barry Oakley.
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08-06-2011, 04:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: North Carolina | | | Les Claypool
John Paul Jones
Flea
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I'm cheating on my bass with my wife.
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08-06-2011, 04:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Des Plaines Illinois | | | I still remember the moment:
I had just purchased Queen's A Day at the Races LP (dating myself). Opened it up and saw the picture - loved John's P Bass. Then after hearing Long Away (not Queens best song, but very big bass line) I was sold.
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08-06-2011, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Maryland | | | Brian Ritchie of the Violent Femmes singlehandedly got me into playing bass.
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MusicMan SUB4 -> GK 1001RB MK II / GK RBH410 x Eden 410T
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08-06-2011, 06:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | Lewis Elliott from J. Frank Wilson and the Cavilers (Last Kiss) That driving bassline hooked me forever. |
08-06-2011, 06:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Houston, TX | | | I'd be a liar if I said it was anybody but Flea lol
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Originally Posted by staindbass playing a gig in front of a massive amp is awesome, i call it a bass bath. | |
08-06-2011, 06:54 PM
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08-06-2011, 07:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Perth Western Australia | | | The mighty Dusty Hill |
08-06-2011, 07:07 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | | Andy Rourke.
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08-06-2011, 07:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: SW Florida. | | | Geddy Lee was my first inspiration, followed soon after by Chris squire and then later, Steve Harris & Cliff Burton.. The list goes on and on. Somewhere not far into the Steve Harris Cliff Burton part of things, I had solidified my own style enough that I started spending my time on my own riffs and playing. Those guys Especially Geddy will always be a part of what ended up being my style.
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Club Clement #097, The Fretless Club #672, The Pedulla Club! #128, Florida Bassist #209.
C'mon Dude!!! it Ain't Frickin Rocket Surgery!!!!!
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08-06-2011, 07:23 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Cohasset, Massachusetts | | Quote:
Originally Posted by spendidfender +1  I agree with all the bass players cited by Rockmusician and his story. I was 16 when I started in 1966. | I was 16 ten years later (1976). Don't know where the time went. |
08-06-2011, 07:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Waterford, Ireland | | | Mani
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08-06-2011, 07:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Halifax | | | My brother. I thought "Man, I can do better than that!"
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WORF: It is screeching... pounding...dissonant. It is not music.
RIKER: Worf, it's better than music -- it's jazz!
--Star Trek, The Next Generation
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08-06-2011, 07:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Princeton New Jersey | | | John Entwistle
James Jamerson
Dennis Dunaway
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08-06-2011, 07:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Arizona | | | Famous: Tie between Cliff Burton and Joe Satriani
Not famous (and more influential than either of the other two): Aaron Gough
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