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12-01-2008, 04:36 PM
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Phil Lynott was my first inspiration but a friend talked me into playing bass in his band and that was my first actual bass player experience. Neither of them are still with us and that saddens me every time I think about it.
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12-01-2008, 04:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Italy | | his fault  |
12-01-2008, 04:42 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Omaha Nebraska | | | who is that? |
12-01-2008, 04:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Agoura Hills, CA | | | 1978 - John Entwistle. The original badass. |
12-01-2008, 04:45 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Omaha Nebraska | | | oh.... no idea who that is. |
12-01-2008, 04:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Sacramento/Pacifica, CA | | | It was my brother, he kept flaking with the band he was in, so they needed a bass player and since I played guitar I also fiddled around with the bass. Eventually, I would start playing bass in another band because there were not bass players. I forgot to mention that I was a guitar player for 10 yrs before switching to bass.
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12-01-2008, 04:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Tasmania, Australia | | | Bill Wyman- Stones-initially- just his minimulist style & power to change the feel of the song with harmony basslines/notes. Then John Paul Jones taught me the power of GROOVE..... BUT probly Jamerson & Babbit & C.Kaye -even I didn't know WHO they were, but I was listening to Mowtown's Where did our love go, Aint too proud to beg etc... & Monkees, Beach Boys etc...
So Jamerson, Babbit, Kaye & Wyman!!!
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12-01-2008, 04:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | | I played guitar, but not very good - always wanted to try a friend of mines bass out (cause I thought the long neck was cool & liked the low notes), and that was all it took.
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12-01-2008, 04:58 PM
| | | Steve Vai.
After hearing Vai, I decided I could never be that good so I picked up bass. 
I remember taking piano lessons because my younger sister was taking them. Then I talked my parents into guitar, but had to start on an acoustic (which was a good move). Then they said it was ok for me to play electric "because I was sticking to it", but I wanted to play bass. But mom said no because "guitar is more practical."  |
12-01-2008, 04:59 PM
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his sound, his songwriting and his stagepresence and unsurpassed dedication still fascinates me to this day 
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12-01-2008, 05:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Boston | | As I remember, it was that people who knew me, who were aware that I could play both guitar and bass. Bass players were a little harder to come by back when I was young, and I really didn't care which instrument I played. I never really thought anyone was a big influence on me at that point.
Out of necessity, Ritchie Richards, and Scotty Davies of The Bruisers were a big influence later on.
The gigs I was offered needed bass players, so that's kind of where I landed. It just made more sense for me to be on bass, and people seemed to like what I was doing with it, so there I stayed for the most part.
Can't say it's been a bad deal. Bass has been pretty good to me! 
Still play guitar on acoustic , stripped down shows once in a while, or very rarely , play electric on a song or two. VERY rarely. |
12-01-2008, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by bassman10096 You guys are so young... | i'm somewhat with you. i'm surprised so many guys are mentioning things that i grew up listening to. just assumed it'd be an older crowd. |
12-01-2008, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | Paul McCartney......then Glenn Hughes of Trapeze, Deep Purple & Black Sabbath. |
12-01-2008, 05:33 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: CT | | OK, I KNOW this ones gonna sound funny, but the very 1st bassist for me?? Gene Simmons. Mid 70's, junior high, me and a couple of buddies were major Kiss fans. We would mimic playing the songs on tennis racquets or whatever was laying around and I found myself really focusing on the lower notes and pretending to be Gene, while my buddy George was Ace and Dennis was Paul.
It also helped that I was in a drum corps and after 2 years on trumpet, I was "volunteered" for a switch to baritone trumpet which gave me a little insight into the rhythmic role of the lower-register instruments. I played baritone for another 4 years or so.
I didnt get my first bass until senior year in HS and by then I was listening to Tom Hamilton, Cliff Williams and John Deacon.
Of course Entwistle was an early influence in the sense that I realized I didnt have his chops and his basslines were meant to be enjoyed but never emulated (for me anyway, YMMV).
Then I caught on to Geddy and finally Steve Harris.
But it all goes back to Gene! 
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12-01-2008, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Micolao his fault | One of my main influences Simon gallup(The Cure), his Melodic lines are Classics!! |
12-01-2008, 07:00 PM
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after I learned Gloria and Louie Louie..........
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12-01-2008, 07:07 PM
| | | This is the dude who really got me groovin'. 
Eric Wilson from Sublime.
Now this next guy is my all time inspiration. 
His melodies are amazing! Aston Barrett is by far one of the grooviest bass players who's ever existed IMO. His lines have always hit my soul. |
12-01-2008, 07:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Connecticut, USA | | | Started playing in 10th grade, circa 1971...
Major influence...Mel Schacher - Grand Funk Railroad
later on Motown, E, W&F and Tower of Power |
12-01-2008, 07:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Northwest Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by kjpollo OK, I KNOW this ones gonna sound funny, but the very 1st bassist for me?? Gene Simmons. Mid 70's, junior high, me and a couple of buddies were major Kiss fans. We would mimic playing the songs on tennis racquets or whatever was laying around and I found myself really focusing on the lower notes and pretending to be Gene, while my buddy George was Ace and Dennis was Paul.
It also helped that I was in a drum corps and after 2 years on trumpet, I was "volunteered" for a switch to baritone trumpet which gave me a little insight into the rhythmic role of the lower-register instruments. I played baritone for another 4 years or so.
I didnt get my first bass until senior year in HS and by then I was listening to Tom Hamilton, Cliff Williams and John Deacon.
Of course Entwistle was an early influence in the sense that I realized I didnt have his chops and his basslines were meant to be enjoyed but never emulated (for me anyway, YMMV).
Then I caught on to Geddy and finally Steve Harris.
But it all goes back to Gene! |
Baritone Horn or Euphonium? That's what I started on too!
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12-01-2008, 07:38 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Near Galveston, Texas | | | James Jamerson though I had no idea who he was. Then greatly by Nat Watts (both Stevie wonder) . Then it was Larry (the mole) Tayler (Canned heat, fried hockey boogie).
I started with Jazz blues (Muddy Waters, etc.), took lessons and learned to read Bass Clef and moved to funk when the above guys arrived. Hardly remember how to read now because no one read in the studio. They worked the # system (no not tabs). Someone here may remember them?
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