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06-28-2007, 11:04 AM
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Hitting the low notes for the king of kings | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: UK - Cumbria | | | Who influenced you to play or continue to keep playing bass?
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Who influenced you to play or continue to keep playing bass?
I started in this world playing double bass, but after watching One minute silence play when i was 14 - i was bowled over to buy a bass guitar!
The bassist for OMS seemed not just play the bass but also show his passion for the music in the way he moved around the stage.
I loved it!
Then recently i saw Josh ritter and band play at a local venue - the bassist was PHENOMENAL and he just blowed my mind -
ZACHARIAH HICKMAN
He is just the best bassist i have ever seen play in my life - he owned the fretboard that night and showed me that Folk/indie music can also be laced with sweet riffs and structures.
He inspired me to take a long hard way at how i play Bass and im really excited on my future in playing bass now.
So who/what did it for you?
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Reason: spelling was lame! sorry
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06-28-2007, 11:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by oxygenbass  Who influenced you to play or continue to keep playing bass? | Jack Casady and Phil Lesh |
06-28-2007, 11:14 AM
| | Retired Cello player.... | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lee's Summit, Missouri | | | Stanley Clarke - the School Days album specifically inspired/frustrated me....
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06-28-2007, 11:15 AM
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Hitting the low notes for the king of kings | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: UK - Cumbria | | | Jack cassady was pretty good like!
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06-28-2007, 11:21 AM
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Hitting the low notes for the king of kings | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: UK - Cumbria | | | who?
who is stanley clarke?
was he any good - what band was he in?
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06-28-2007, 11:24 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | Quote:
Originally Posted by oxygenbass who is stanley clarke?
was he any good - what band was he in? | Stanley Clarke.
A major name both in electric bass and double bass worlds, definitely. |
06-28-2007, 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by oxygenbass Jack cassady was pretty good like! | He still is. |
06-28-2007, 11:25 AM
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06-28-2007, 11:25 AM
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06-28-2007, 11:27 AM
| | | I've been listening to and playing a lot of Grateful Dead. Phil's an amazing player. As with all the members in the band, Phil uses voicings and phrases that are all about feeling as well as supporting the song. It has nothing to do with "Look how fast and complicated I can play." Quote:
Originally Posted by ggunn Jack Casady and Phil Lesh | |
06-28-2007, 11:32 AM
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Hitting the low notes for the king of kings | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: UK - Cumbria | | Quote:
Originally Posted by PaulMacCnj I've been listening to and playing a lot of Grateful Dead. Phil's an amazing player. As with all the members in the band, Phil uses voicings and phrases that are all about feeling as well as supporting the song. It has nothing to do with "Look how fast and complicated I can play." |
i totally agree with its not about how complicated and fast - i think its all about the groove and the feel to the song the bassist adds!
well said young man - i will check out the grateful dead asap!
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06-28-2007, 11:36 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Atlanta, Ga | | james jamerson...was listening to him berfore i knew what a bass was and i didnt realize it until i grabbed a stevie wonder greatest hits that i knew that sound. researched and found out his name and have been obessed since...is there a jamersonbass line anonimous meeting i can attend... 
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06-28-2007, 11:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Alberta, Canada | | | To continue playing it is the members of my band. There is no group of people i'd rather share the stage with. We are all best friends.
Especially the guitarist and I. We both decided to start playing at the same time and have been together for over 10 years now. His passion for creating and playing music fuels mine. |
06-28-2007, 11:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Boston | | | Just the guys that I play music with really.
They've always been the biggest influence on me.
Started playing bass out of necessity when I was in my early teens. I switched off from guitar with our bass player on a few songs he couldn't play. A short while later, I was offered a different gig on bass, as bass players were in very short supply in my age bracket back then. So definitly my bandmates were my primary influence. They still are.
I guess I'm supposed to say Jaco, Wooten, Entwistle, blah blah blah, but that's really not the case for me. Never was. |
06-28-2007, 11:41 AM
|  | The deepest grooves take time | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Houston, TX | | | I love the friends I have played with. They inspire me to keep playing.
So far, the bassists that have had the greatest impact on me are:
NHOP
JPJ
the bassist for Dave Barnes (still don't know his name)
Rocco
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06-28-2007, 11:46 AM
| | | | Charlie Mingus. Lately I've been listening to Epitaph, and theres this song called Peggy's Blue Skylight that is absolutely mind blowing, the best jazz song I've ever heard to say the least. Mingus showed me yet again that there are things in music that can be pushed to such a level they become mindblowing. |
06-28-2007, 11:47 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Phantom Guitars, Eastwood Guitars | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Austin,Texas | | | The late, great Dee Murray with the Elton John Band during the 70s/80s. I am the proud owner of one of his basses, purchased from his widow.
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06-28-2007, 11:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tallinn, Estonia | | | Carlos Dengler |
06-28-2007, 11:52 AM
| | Groovin' the gospel | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Winter Garden FL | | | Tommy Shannon inspired me to pick up the bass, Jamerson, and George Porter Jr. are the reasons that I play to this day.
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06-28-2007, 11:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Summit, NJ | | | Victor Wooten keeps on inspiring me. I used to be inspired by other bassists but soon found their techniques very boring and easily surpass-able, but Victor always comes up with new stuff to impress me!
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