Garey said:
don't forget Roy vogt and John billings those cats were AWESOME
didn't really hang with them though...so I guess it doesn't count.
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Famous bassist encounters...
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don't forget Roy vogt and John billings those cats were AWESOME
didn't really hang with them though...so I guess it doesn't count.
- Apr 23, 2003
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I loved that performance, especially billings, he seriously tore it up, like, wow wow wow. Funkiest bass playing I've seen in a long time.
At a Blink 182 show in my town a few years ago, Mark Hoppus came out during NFG's set, and was dressed as a guard, helping pull down surfers to send back around again. I got pulled out by Mark. It was a cool experiance. *Waits for flames to begin*
met 311 before a show of theirs 2 years back in worcester, cool dudes. SA didnt come out thoo, but i got to chat it up with pnut bout basses and all that 
Mike Watt, before and after a Firehose gig. He had twisted his knee the night before in Chicago (god knows how), so he sat down a lot. Talked about this and that. He told me to keep playing. Even sitting down with that old P Bass, he blew me away.
Bob Hurst, at a Branford Marsalis clinic.
Paul Grey, hanging out; not really realizing he was The Pig from Slipknot.
Bob Hurst, at a Branford Marsalis clinic.
Paul Grey, hanging out; not really realizing he was The Pig from Slipknot.
I've met Chuck Rainey a couple times.
When I went to school at South Plains College, they'd have a guest come in and do a clinic or something every now and then. Chuck came for one of those. He gave private lessons for about a day and a half at $15 for a half hour. I put up $30 and got an hour with him. And he did a free clinic. (It was free for the students. I'm sure the school paid him.) When my bass teacher first told me he was coming, I didn't know much about him. I knew he was a session musician. I'd seen his little articles in Bass Player at the time. But I went and listened to some of his work. Ever since, he's been one of my favorite bassists. That really opened my eyes. I love the way that cat plays.
I also met Dean Peer at a similar deal at the same school.
Second time with Chuck was in Dallas. I mixed monitors for Herbie Mann(?). Chuck was the bassist in the band. I talked with him for a few minutes after the show.
Met Kenny Aaronson(sp?) at another gig where I was running sound.
When I went to school at South Plains College, they'd have a guest come in and do a clinic or something every now and then. Chuck came for one of those. He gave private lessons for about a day and a half at $15 for a half hour. I put up $30 and got an hour with him. And he did a free clinic. (It was free for the students. I'm sure the school paid him.) When my bass teacher first told me he was coming, I didn't know much about him. I knew he was a session musician. I'd seen his little articles in Bass Player at the time. But I went and listened to some of his work. Ever since, he's been one of my favorite bassists. That really opened my eyes. I love the way that cat plays.
I also met Dean Peer at a similar deal at the same school.
Second time with Chuck was in Dallas. I mixed monitors for Herbie Mann(?). Chuck was the bassist in the band. I talked with him for a few minutes after the show.
Met Kenny Aaronson(sp?) at another gig where I was running sound.
Bassist ..Hmmmm Well I have met 2 Bassists..The 1st one was Tom Hamilton back in 88 backstage on the "Permanent Vacation" Tour..Tom was Cool as hell..We hung and talked Gear basses Women you name it for almost and hour just like we knew each other for years...And I met and talked with Tony Lewis From " The OutField" he was really cool as well ..I also have hung out with Stevie Ray Vaughn and his bother when they were recording Family Style in Memphis at Ardent Studios..I just so happpened to be there mixing a DEMO with my old band.. We were told not to bother them but I was hangin in the lounge of the Studio and they came up to me so I thought hey I aint turning this down..LMAO
SUPER NICE GUYS COOL AS HELL.. I couldnt get a pic with them but when they left for the nite I coaxed the Engineer to let me in their studio and got pics of thier gear and guitars..hehe had to have sumthin ya know!!!!! The Sad part is Stevie Died 6 months later so I will cherish that memory forever... I also met (in passing) Randy Rhoads back in Feb of 82 he was coming out backstage and I just basically got to tell him Hi and Great show and he said "thank you very much I am glad you enjoyed it" Very Polite and quiet..He also passed away a month later
SUPER NICE GUYS COOL AS HELL.. I couldnt get a pic with them but when they left for the nite I coaxed the Engineer to let me in their studio and got pics of thier gear and guitars..hehe had to have sumthin ya know!!!!! The Sad part is Stevie Died 6 months later so I will cherish that memory forever... I also met (in passing) Randy Rhoads back in Feb of 82 he was coming out backstage and I just basically got to tell him Hi and Great show and he said "thank you very much I am glad you enjoyed it" Very Polite and quiet..He also passed away a month later
Met Bootsy at last year's summer NAMM. All I can say was that it truely was "an experience"!
I also had the great priveledge to meet John Paul Jones after a gig in Cincinatti several years ago when he was touring in support of Zooma. When I was a kid (pre Unledded, etc.) I never thought in a million years that I would ever see any member of Led Zeppelin perform, not to mention the projects and solo tours that have taken place in the last 10 years or so. Jonsey not only put on a KILLER show, but was amazingly open and friendly after the show...hanging out talking, taking photos, and signing autographs for about an hour after the show. Most hack bassists in hack bands don't ever come close to this, not to mention one of the greatest musicians in the greatest and most influencial rock band of all time!!! 
It was a great experience, and I received similar reports from other fans from each and every other city he visited on that tour.
I also had the great priveledge to meet John Paul Jones after a gig in Cincinatti several years ago when he was touring in support of Zooma. When I was a kid (pre Unledded, etc.) I never thought in a million years that I would ever see any member of Led Zeppelin perform, not to mention the projects and solo tours that have taken place in the last 10 years or so. Jonsey not only put on a KILLER show, but was amazingly open and friendly after the show...hanging out talking, taking photos, and signing autographs for about an hour after the show. Most hack bassists in hack bands don't ever come close to this, not to mention one of the greatest musicians in the greatest and most influencial rock band of all time!!!
It was a great experience, and I received similar reports from other fans from each and every other city he visited on that tour.
The Golden Boy said:
ooooh! oh! oh! oh!!!!! I've met Andy Griffith.
I was at the annual jam session that goes on after the Eau Claire jazzfest a few weeks ago. It's in a hotel bar, and lots of cats show up. I'd been there for about 30 minutes watching as the band's steady rotation consisted of mostly college students and a few professor's here and there. I rotate my way on stage for my turn(not playing bass).. just as we're about to start I look over and see Christian McBride picking up the DB... We played Chick's "La Fiesta" and it was fantastic. I don't even remember the other musicians I jammed with that night. Afterwards Christian said to me "Man, that was some tuba playing!"(emphasis on "some") and put his hand on my shoulder. Basically, I consider that the high point of my career.
I've met John Entwistle twice. The first time my old drummer (used to work for Shure Bros.) got us backstage passes to the Daltrey sings Townshend tour (Roger Daltrey's 50th b-day tour). Entwistle avoided the crowds in the cafe backstage, but I happened to walk out from the cafe to see him walking down the catwalk towards his limo. I caught him in time to talk to him for about 10 minutes. When I asked him how he played so fast, he did his Wayne and Garth imitation, then said he let his amp do the work, that his fingers barely needed to touch the strings.
The second time I went to see his other band (The John Entwistle Band), and they sold tickets to their soundcheck (for $15). I figured, what the heck...it turned out to be his birthday that day and they only did 2 songs in the soundcheck. He spent the rest of the time talking with fans, autographing stuff, and cutting his cake. I got a great shot of that, too!
Oh...and I've met our very own JT...Don't believe all the hype... He actually IS a nice guy!
The second time I went to see his other band (The John Entwistle Band), and they sold tickets to their soundcheck (for $15). I figured, what the heck...it turned out to be his birthday that day and they only did 2 songs in the soundcheck. He spent the rest of the time talking with fans, autographing stuff, and cutting his cake. I got a great shot of that, too!
Oh...and I've met our very own JT...Don't believe all the hype...
He actually IS a nice guy!
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I'm only going to list the cool ones. I've met one or two who were jerks, but they'll be omitted from the list.
These are in no particular order:
Mike Chapman (everybody in Nashville)
Dave Pomeroy (everybody else in Nashville)
Ed Friedland
Bob Babbit
Joe Osborne
Victor Wooten (and Bela Fleck)
Steve Bailey
George Furlanetto (yep, he's a builder and a player)
Trip Wamsley (The wife and I would go hear him in a Barnes and Noble! I miss having Trip around)
All of the above were very cool to talk with and very 'real'. I particularly enjoyed my visit time with Mike Chapman. Meeting Dave Pomeroy was a real hoot! Talking with Joe Osborne was like meeting anyone else on the street. Babbit was the same way. Neither of them seem to take their legend status too seriously.
brianb
These are in no particular order:
Mike Chapman (everybody in Nashville)
Dave Pomeroy (everybody else in Nashville)
Ed Friedland
Bob Babbit
Joe Osborne
Victor Wooten (and Bela Fleck)
Steve Bailey
George Furlanetto (yep, he's a builder and a player)
Trip Wamsley (The wife and I would go hear him in a Barnes and Noble! I miss having Trip around)
All of the above were very cool to talk with and very 'real'. I particularly enjoyed my visit time with Mike Chapman. Meeting Dave Pomeroy was a real hoot! Talking with Joe Osborne was like meeting anyone else on the street. Babbit was the same way. Neither of them seem to take their legend status too seriously.
brianb
AJ Love said:
Hey! I got to play this guy's early 60's White jazz bass the other day!
wow....what a small world...It's up for sale at a local guitar shop, only $4k. And its a concentric pot version too...oh well.Anyways, I *nearly* met Avishai Cohen...well I went to a clinic and show of his here at school this year. I also went to a clinic that Gary Willis taught...I got to speak with him for about 10 minutes. We talked about fretless and his tone was to DIE FOR!!! He inspired me to build ramps for my J-bass and my P-bass (still on the 'To Do' List).
How is that bass? It looks way cool and has a history!BASSnSAX said:Hey! I got to play this guy's early 60's White jazz bass the other day!
funkcicle said:ooooh! oh! oh! oh!!!!! I've met Andy Griffith.
I was at the annual jam session that goes on after the Eau Claire jazzfest a few weeks ago.
If you shook hands with Andy Griffith, then I must have met someone who knows you! I'm in WI!
I have met several.
I met Jeff Berlin at a clinic.
Steve Bailey twice at NAMM.
Tony Levin at one of his shows.
Doug Pinnick of King's X twice at two of their shows.
Nathan East at an instore appearance.
And Dave Holland at a clinic.
All of them were very nice.
I met Jeff Berlin at a clinic.
Steve Bailey twice at NAMM.
Tony Levin at one of his shows.
Doug Pinnick of King's X twice at two of their shows.
Nathan East at an instore appearance.
And Dave Holland at a clinic.
All of them were very nice.
I've had a few chance encounters. I actually interveiwed Stanley Clarke in 1978 in NYC. I was working at a Publication house that was printing a weekly called Black NY Illustrated and they had an interveiw set up with Stanley at Nemperor Records on west 57th St.. The reporter calls in sick and the editor is having a melt down and he remembers I play. I did the interveiw and talked with Stanley for about 90 minutes. Was very cool. Also met Will Lee in Milwaukee and hung with him backstage at Summerfest. He also was very cool and easy to talk with. Victor Wooten and Steve Bailey did a clinic in Milwaukee a couple of years back and hung out afterwards for a while. Both cats were very cool.
The Golden Boy said:
It was pretty sweet, strung with flats. But the tone knobs seemed to be a little loose...
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Matt Garrison, Patitucci, Willis, Bona (3 times), Wimbish, Cottle (Laurence), and of course Wooten - plus McLaughlin, Metheny, Holdsworth, Scofield etc
My two fave moments thus far have been when I went to a Wimbish clinic in 91 at the Bass centre in London, I got in early with another bassist who was a session guy - he and I chatted to Doug, the other bassist actually stringing up Doug's bass for him. I happen to be humming a tune off of Doug's last album - hee says "You like that tune?" - and I said yeah, later in the show he programmed the drums live for this mystery tune, then sudddenly asks "Where the guy who wanted to hear 'Nobody to Somebody?" - I raised my hand and he goes - you! Yeah this is for you...then he played the tune for me - in front of 250 people - I was pretty much speechless afterwards.
I interviewed Wooten in 2001 in Camden before a string of Flecktones dates in London and at a show a couple of days later I was hanging around with the guy from Sony UK before a show when Vic recognised me and we got talking - I had a couple fo questions for him so when I started saying I could play Classical Thump and other stuff he said 'Show me' - reached for his classic beat up Fodera and made me play a few things for him. I was a bit nervous to say the least but I pulled off what I knew at the time (I'm alot better now) but my only regret is that he had a whole week in London and I know I could have arranged a lesson with him but I didn't - I will get to the bass nautre thing one day - but that was cool.
Cheers
M
My two fave moments thus far have been when I went to a Wimbish clinic in 91 at the Bass centre in London, I got in early with another bassist who was a session guy - he and I chatted to Doug, the other bassist actually stringing up Doug's bass for him. I happen to be humming a tune off of Doug's last album - hee says "You like that tune?" - and I said yeah, later in the show he programmed the drums live for this mystery tune, then sudddenly asks "Where the guy who wanted to hear 'Nobody to Somebody?" - I raised my hand and he goes - you! Yeah this is for you...then he played the tune for me - in front of 250 people - I was pretty much speechless afterwards.
I interviewed Wooten in 2001 in Camden before a string of Flecktones dates in London and at a show a couple of days later I was hanging around with the guy from Sony UK before a show when Vic recognised me and we got talking - I had a couple fo questions for him so when I started saying I could play Classical Thump and other stuff he said 'Show me' - reached for his classic beat up Fodera and made me play a few things for him. I was a bit nervous to say the least but I pulled off what I knew at the time (I'm alot better now) but my only regret is that he had a whole week in London and I know I could have arranged a lesson with him but I didn't - I will get to the bass nautre thing one day - but that was cool.
Cheers
M
