Who inspired you to play bass? - Page 3

BassGod · #41 03-13-2004, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike Money

In all honesty, everyone was playing guitar. And I was like... "I wanna be different." And one day we were at the muzak store getting my sister her 2nd guitar, and I was like "Hey dad, show me the basses." Christmas of 2000, I got a Squier Bass Pak with a Baltic Blue P-Bass... good piece of wood.

I got the same pack, for the same reason. I decided I wasn't gonna follow everyone else, and that I would be different, and so far it has worked out for me(love that low end sound!)... but I would say my biggest influences are Mike Dirnt, Cliff Burton, Flea, Jason Newstead and Matt Freeman.

Heavy_E · #42 03-14-2004, 06:52 AM

John Patitucci
Michael Hedges
Michael Manring
David LaBruyere (Current Inspiration)
Stefan Lessard (Current Inspiration)

gbf · #43 03-14-2004, 11:10 AM

My first contact with a bass was when my friend joined a high school band and bought a cheap jazz copy. I was so thrilled! I told my mother that I would like to start playing something too and she said she wouldn't give me the money to buy an instrument. So i saved every peny I got for about 2 years and a half and got my friends bass... My main inspiration was Dee Dee Ramone back then... but when i listened to Jaco everything opened up for me

TurboRawker · #44 03-15-2004, 08:41 PM

My first intro to bass was at church-bass solo-love at first note.
Tai Anderson-Third Day-live version of Consuming Fire-the bass slams out at this one part and it is awesome!
Mike Herrera-MxPx-Chick Magnet- Love the intro
Tim Foreman-Switchfoot- My favorite bassist, he is great.

Goldsac · #45 03-16-2004, 10:09 PM

I started off playing punky sorta stuff, so Matt Freeman was one of my first inspirations. Fat Mike and Matt Wong were also big on my list.
Then, as I evolved, I started listening to some Claypool. No one had ever electrified me so much. I thought some of his techniques were fascinating (after figuring them out I now realize that many of his licks aren't incredibly hard). But, the main reason I was so absorbed by him was for his taste in rhythm. Herb and him were an incredible duo if you ask me. 'Tradition is still my #1 song to date.
Now my influences come from an incredible range of people, and only a fraction of them are bass players.
I should prolly mention that no person inspired me to go buy a bass. I was one of those 'Hey, we hear your dad has an old bass, and we need a bass player, so ask him for it and we can start a band' guys.

joeyang761020 · #46 03-16-2004, 11:41 PM

Flea---- Chilli Pepper

heath_the_great · #47 03-17-2004, 06:38 AM

i left this out before....my current inpirations for playing/composing are:

George Bensen
Joe Satriani
Eric Johnson
SRV (Always)
Bootsy
Louis Armstrong
Celebrity Deathmatch

Chic
Charles Mingus
Cosmo Kramer

Frank Sinatra
Bourbon

Cheers Heath

Halftooth · #48 03-17-2004, 09:14 AM

Damn, I can't believe someone beat me to saying John Taylor! Can't believe I was only like 5 when they made it, but I still liked them when I was a kid. Probobly has something to do having older girl relatives that would only listen to Duran Duran back then, so it left an impression on me. After JT, I would have to say Stu Zender pushed me to become better and funkier.

Norwegianwood · #49 03-17-2004, 09:33 AM

I had basically been playing every instrument I could,when I realised that I had to focus on one. It ended up with two: Flute and Bass guitar. So I cover the whole range

Why? Flute was an obvious choice, because that's what I'm best at. Bass wasn't that obvious, because I was way better on guitar. But there were so many good guitarists around, and only a few bassist, so I thought the odds of getting jobs were better on bass. Same goes with piano and drums.

Who inspired me? I haven't played for so long, so I guess the same still counts today.
-Jaco, I am fascinated of both his playing, his extreme talent and offcourse the person Jaco.
-Flea
-Marcus Miller
-My teachers

JSCHRO7376 · #50 03-17-2004, 11:17 PM

My father, I also studied under him.

FR5 · #51 03-19-2004, 01:26 AM

I started playing the trombone at age 11, my teacher was a musician from the police academy orchestra. But after a couple of years I gave up, I felt too restricted and bored. Then I heard the Toulouse Street album of the Doobie Brothers and Tiran Porter's basslines got my attention. But the bass player who really inspired me was Guus Willemse of the Dutch fusion band Solution, I saw one of their gigs when I was 17. Guus had a broken leg at the time and was seated during the entire concert with his right leg in plaster, but boy did he play. After the concert I said to myself: "wow, I wanna play like this dude", and really started practising. I now play fretless which almost brings me back to the trombone I started out with.

Steven

JerseyFunk · #52 03-23-2004, 04:48 PM

Geddy Lee....I was 13 (1983)and learned every RUSH song. He was my idol.

Redhotbassist · #53 03-24-2004, 01:12 PM

Flea i wus 14, watched one of there live sets, and wus absolutely stunned. thats when i pushed my bass level higher, and then got into Victor wooten, les claypool, mark king, jaco pastoriues, etc

Moe84 · #54 03-27-2004, 04:14 PM

Well actually I first bought a 6 string but Frustration of 100's of axe slingers around I changed quickly to Bass but after I picked up the bass I found inspiration from several but Being a Bigtime Who fan even before I played I have to Give the Ox My main inspiration followed by Geddy...Chris Squire.... Their sound is un beatable in my opinion...Gene Simmons Even Cliff Williams of AC DC Now thats one solid in the pocket Bassist nuthin fancy just solid!!!!Sometimes thats the best bassist!!