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10-29-2012, 03:15 PM
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10-29-2012, 06:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: southern california | | i saw a ton of great bass players over the years, but "Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot" was the first bassline i felt compelled to pick up an instrument & learn how to play. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E |
10-29-2012, 06:30 PM
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10-29-2012, 06:36 PM
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10-29-2012, 07:02 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: St. Charles MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by swspiers  Geezer Butler on War Pigs.
The whole thing scared the crap out of me. 37 years later and I'm still hooked! | Agreed! Still love that bass line. Been rediscovering Sabbath again recently, actually. Another band that I was like "Now why did I stop listening to these guys again?"
Also, Cliff Burton. Clearly, I'm a metal guy, but metal has/had some amazing bass players.
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10-29-2012, 11:19 PM
|  | Conform or Be Cast Out.... | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Central Ohio | | | it wasn't really the sound, but it was the bass lines and the groove:
Another One Bites the Dust by Queen...was the first time I noticed something other than drums in a song
then it was Chuck Pannozzo of Styx, Eugene Wright of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Geddy and Steve Harris
and now the list is too long to mention
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10-30-2012, 07:58 AM
| | | | I had always loved the intensity of people like Lemmy and Time Commerford, but it was Justin Chancellor who sold me. The lines in songs like Forty Six & Two and Schism are mind-blowing.
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10-30-2012, 08:12 AM
|  | Registered Abuser | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | | Chris Squire on Fragile, Geddy Lee on Hemispheres, and Phil Lynott on Black Rose |
10-30-2012, 08:17 AM
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10-30-2012, 08:19 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: The REAL LA -- Lower Alabama! | | | Mel Schacher. When I was 13 Grand Funk Railroad was da bomb for me. Later Berry Oakley reinforced my love of bass and the low end.
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10-30-2012, 08:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Brooklyn and Hudson Valley | | | Ray Brown in the Oscan Peterson Trio and Paul McCartney in the Beatles, around the same time.
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10-30-2012, 06:52 PM
|  | Progressive Rock Bassist | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Chicago, IL | | | Chris Squire then Geddy Lee.
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10-31-2012, 06:54 PM
| | | | Bernard Edwards, then Geddy Lee, who recommended Percy Jones.. |
10-31-2012, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Toronto, ON | | | The Police, Japan, King Crimson (Levin era). |
10-31-2012, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Wisconsin | | | It was either "Dragon Attack" by John Deacon or "War Pigs" by Geezer Butler. Can't remember which one came first. |
10-31-2012, 07:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Seaford , DE | | | bass tone....
Dennis Dunaway frfom Alice Cooper |
11-02-2012, 04:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Germany | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CharlieD "Dragon Attack" by John Deacon | This. |
11-02-2012, 07:29 PM
|  | Registered Musical Abuser | | | | | I wish to thank the thousands that have influenced me.
To stay on topic, the first bass sounds that caught my ears have to be narrowed down to 6 (alphabetically because I can't pick a favorite). The yet unmentioned Joe Bouchard from Blue Oyster Cult. I still use Godzilla as a ringtone on my phone. Geezer Butler, John Entwistle, Dusty Hill, John Paul Jones, Chris Squire, each with their own style and for there own reasons.
As a kid, I listened to AM constantly and loved the music, but could not pick out individual instruments too well because AM is inherently lower fidelity. When FM got popular you could hear it all, and bass made the biggest improvement along with better turntables and HIGH fidelity is wonderful. There were some great rock stations in and around Dayton, Ohio in the 70s so that influenced my tastes and brought all these bands in our area so I frequently saw all these guys in the flesh, even if from far away sometimes.
The first song I learned on bass was Zepp's Dazed and Confused...!?! An early theme in my life, but that hypnotic opening into that rolling middle and the groove between JPJ and Bonham in the live versions is quite funky ...like wow man...it was the 70s. All the other guys made me stay up late figuring there stuff out too.  In the late 70s RUSH almost lived in Ohio and the midwest and what Geddy was doing occupied alot of my time and still does because HE is a machine with STYLE. Stanley Clarke pushed into my spectrum and dozens more great bassists over the years pushed my tastes further and wider. There is alot of simularities between the early metal bass styles and some of the jazz and blues styles of the day.
Wow, I guess that's a long way to say...JPJ was the first.
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11-02-2012, 07:36 PM
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11-03-2012, 03:29 PM
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