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06-24-2006, 04:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Charleston, SC | | | Who, or What inspired you to start playing bass?
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Just curious to know what got my fellow bassist hooked on playing. For me, I'd have to say it was a a picture of Gene Simmons in metal Edge magazine I saw as a kid. I had always loved the sound of bass, and when I got a copy of that magazine one day. He was playing along side Paul Stanley and just the look of how big and powerfull the bass looked as compared to the guitar just got me drooling. I hounded my dad, who is a great guitarist, for a bass for Christmas. The expression on his face when I told him I wanted to play bass instead of guitar was about the same as if I had walked in and told him I was gay lol. He got me the Bass that Christmas, a 1973 fender p-bass, and the rest was history. I was 10 years old then, I'm 33 now and I still love the awesome sight of a bass, and its thunderous sounds. Ok yalls turn.
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06-24-2006, 04:54 PM
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06-24-2006, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: annville,pa. | | My dad was a prominent figure in the N.Y. Latino community throughout the 70's. It seemed like every weekend we were at a show. There were two "Fender Bassists" who seemed to be at 90% of the shows. Even though all of the music was exciting, it was the low, round, warm rumble of the bass that had me hooked all night long. At age 11, after about 6 years of being totally captivated by the warmth and roundness of the bass at both the above mentioned shows, and coming out of my dad's TUBE stereo/radio :Jamerson,Dee Murray,John Paul Jones,Joe Osbourne,Roger Glover,Leon Wilkerson,Bernard Edwards,all the session cats on the Disco stuff, I knew it was time to start the greatest journey of my life.WOW!!!!!!!!!!!What a time to be growing up a bassist!!!  I was hooked...still am!!!! |
06-24-2006, 05:21 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: La Mesa (San Diego area), Cali | | | Who, or Whay inspired you to start playing bass?
I wanted to play bass for years but was a pretty good drummer and the bass was my brother's instrument. After he quit I was still wanting to take up bass but it was hard to give up all of the gigging I was doing.
The guy that REALLY made me want to switch was Jerry Watts. I attended a jazz festival with my wife and he was supposed to play as a hired gun for one of the acts. Anyway, he got hung up in traffic from LA and got there as they were just about to count off the first song. He threw on his bass , plugged in, and just killed ! He was playing a MTD 535 through a SWR 900 into a Henry the 8x8 - great playing, great tone - I was hooked.
I traded for my first bass, a POS Fender Power Jazz Bass Special and started learning. Within 6 months I was going to rehearsals for the worship team with my sticks and bass and would play along when the "B" band was rehearsing. After about a month of that I got a call about 2 hours before a service to play bass and then did almost a year of alternating bass and drums. After that it has been 8 years of bass and no drums.
Jerry was one of the clincians at the SD Bass Alliance bass day a while back and I got to tell him how he got me started. Cool guy, great player.
Dan K.
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06-24-2006, 06:15 PM
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06-24-2006, 06:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY/Boston, MA | | | Flea of RHCP. I always listened to them growing up, and it was the bass part that I enjoyed. |
06-24-2006, 06:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Over Here | | | AARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!! Not this topic again
Moderators, please put this topic into a sticky. I am so sick of it seeing it crop up and I an sick of answering it all the time too.
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06-24-2006, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowner AARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!! Not this topic again
Moderators, please put this topic into a sticky. I am so sick of it seeing it crop up and I an sick of answering it all the time too. |
Then why chime in?? Funny, but when I see a thread I am not interested in I JUST DON'T PARTICIPATE.
I didn't know this was Lowner's TalkBass... |
06-24-2006, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Okinawa, Japan | | | James Jamerson, My mother used to listen to all the Motown stuff when I was maybe 10 or so. My father is a guitarist that plays country type stuff. When my dad wasn't in control of the radio, it was always on Motown. There is just something intangeable about the guys playing. I am still trying to shine his shoes 30 years later. |
06-24-2006, 06:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Fort Wayne, Indiana | | | I was a taubist (tuba player) in college as a music major and needed a second instrument. My low brass teacher suggested the bass guitar, and said he thought I could get a lot of work because I can read music. I started playing bass guitar, ended up dropping tuba all-together, and haven't looked back or regretted it ever since. As far as players, my first big influences were Geddy Lee and James Jamerson (although I didn't know who Jamerson was at the time), then came a few others like Stu Hamm, Jeff Ament, Flea, Les Claypool, Rocco, etc... Most recently, Oteil Burbridge has inspired me to practice a lot more. |
06-24-2006, 06:25 PM
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06-24-2006, 06:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Alan |
Now that is funny... |
06-24-2006, 06:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Minnesota | | | Donald Dunn, Adam Clayton, and (don't kill me) Sting.
Just my $.02 |
06-24-2006, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Marcus Alan | That cannot possibly be in production is it? I'd have to question the reliability of the system. |
06-24-2006, 06:36 PM
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I didn't know this was Lowner's TalkBass...
| LOL...You just got slapped, just like a bass. Sorry if I started an old thread topic, you could have skipped it. |
06-24-2006, 10:16 PM
| | | Originally I was a guitar player, and I've known how to play bass for a while, but I hated it - until I heard John Myung.... 
Then in fairly short order after discovering Dream Theater I heard Steve Bailey and Victor Wooten, and the deal was done. |
06-24-2006, 10:17 PM
| | Goin out West | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Arlington, Texas | | | I'd say it was more Whay than Who.
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06-24-2006, 10:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: New Jersey | | My inability to purchase a bass clarinet, so I bought a bass guitar. I'm a weirdo. I guess I had a calling for the low end  |
06-24-2006, 10:26 PM
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06-24-2006, 10:36 PM
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OMG, Have you guys seen this yet?
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Originally Posted by west*coast*bass Now that is funny... |
Just when you thought it was safe to enter the forum....
That is funny!
My first record I ever bought was Kiss Alive II in the 3rd grade, but I really didn't know the meaning of bass. It wasn't until my 12th birthday when my sister bought me Motley Crue's Shout at the Devil that I understood bass. Nikki's tone, although somewhat buried in the mix, really caught my ear. Nothing like an SVT to rattle your nads! Nikki got me started and the rest is history.
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