What bassist's style do you relate yours to??

[funkyfretless]

hey,
i believe that im maturing as a player, and know what needs to be played to get the gig done. these players have really contributed to my recent playing style.

james jamerson: studied and transcribed a $*it load of his stuff. like everyone else on this board has already mentioned....look him up. im workin on "you met your match" by steive wonder...ah my work with jamerson will never be done


pino palladino: look him up please not just his amazing stuff with the try cd....but his work on voodoo...ill take his pocket over double thumbing....and also check out his stuff with paul young for melodic fretless work


me'shell n'degeocello: one of my favorite bass players. her tone and overall pocket is siiiiiiiiiiccccccccccckkkkkkkk!!!


rocco prestia: sick 16th note finger funk. complete awareness of the pocket


these are the people i am studing fulltime now...but in the past like everyone else it was jaco, vic, claypool...but i showed up to gigs with that mentality and never got hired back... so i revamped my outlook and prefer it better
oh....good lord...i forgot upright avishia cohen, ray brown, oscar pertaford, paul chambers, mingus...the list goes on.

peace

[Basroil]

Steve Harris, Cliff Burton, Jason Newstead, Tim Commerford.

[BullHorn]

Tony Choy of Atheist and Cynic.

[tripb19]

None. WoOt.

[Skel]

I believe you just can't help coming out sounding like your influences, and mine are like probably so many others....McCartney and JPJ. I try to sound like JPJ even though he's about 14 leagues above me. Being a guitarist first, I still struggle with fingers verses a pick, especially since McCartney used a pick. When playing fingerstyle, I'm always asking myself "why am I trying to do this when I can do it so much better with a pick"? Then I listen to JPJ and I'm reminded why.

[rmrf]

Our band had no bass and I thought - 90% of listeners ever don't notice the bass, but without a bass song become powerless... Most of my guitar riffs during noodling sounds like bass lines.
Looks like bass is my instrument, and I start to play bass in our band and fell in love in it.
I have plenty of influences and all of them was mentioned before. But there was two mans which you probably never heard before, because they are from Russia and Ukraine. I've wrote small articles and made small playlists from YouTube about them to let everyone know about this brilliant bassists.

Rostislav Chaban ( http://bass.x123.net/2006/11/24/i-dr...an-bassndrums/ ) for his nonstandard thinking and excellent sound of pure bass'n'drum band.

and

Anatoliy Krupnov ( http://bass.x123.net/2006/11/27/blac...k-russian-way/ ) for his powerful bass lines and academic approach.

[Espidog]

Jack Bruce....
Ronnie Lane....
James Jamerson....
Duck Dunn....
and JAM-era Bruce Foxton.

[GhostLobby]

It's evolved for me over the years but right now the bassist I most admire is Tony Levin. He's one of the rare top-flight bassists who probably can play just about any hyper chop you'd care to subject yourself too, but doesn't. He just plays what's right, every time. His tone is amazing and his pocket is just ridiculous. I'll never sound like him because I'm not him, but his approach, for lack of a better way of putting it, is one that I try to emulate.

[basswave]

I'm of course I'm my own person and have my own distinction in what I'm playing with phrasing, approach and tone.

However it appearant I have been influnced by couple of my favorite players Jimmy Earl and Jonas Hellborg.

I can relate to them the most.

[The Artist]

Bootsy, Claypool, Stievie Wonders left hand^^

[tplyons]

Wow... reviving ten year old threads?

[daflores]

Neil Stubenhaus

[T-MOST]

Nathan East and Marcus Miller.

[colcifer]

jaco, anthony jackson, jame jamerson, chuck rainey, and whoever else i'd been listening to that day.

[theHeirRyder]

-sharay reed
-maurice fitzgerald
-andrew gouche
these guyz are a mix of my style