Famous Bassist

[iamthebassplayr]

We ran into Steve Harris at a football match in England. The family friend who got me into bass and I both ran over and got pictures =O

 

[IPS]

Probably the most famous bassist ive met would be Geezer Butler from sabbath. Easily one of the coolest famous musicians ive met, funny guy, I told him me meeting him was like him meeting Jack Bruce right when he started bass, and he really appreciated that and talked to me for a good 15 minutes. I met the rest of heaven and hell that day too ( Tony Iommi, Ronny James Dio, and Vinny Appice.

As far as other famous musicians ive met recently, I met judas priest and testament a few moths ago and my girfriend recently met ozzy...and was told that she had the biggest perkiest natural breasts ever by zakk wylde.

 

[Willy2911]

Not all bassists
Darrell Abbott (DIAMOND/DIMEBAG) RIP DIME - I got to meet VINNY AND PHIL _ BUT NO REX ***???
OZZY
Dave Mustaine
James Lomenzo
James "LYNN" Strait (SNOT)RIP LYNN
Tommy Shaw
Richie Sambora
collective soul
The Drifters
TOMMY CHONG
ALICE IN CHAINS-RIP LAYNE

 

[undeadbass]

I've met/hung out with/become friends with countless bassists in the metal/black metal/death metal scenes that not a lot of people know about... but fans of the genre flip for - one of my closest friends is the bassist for Pyrexia, another good friend played for Internal Bleeding, Catastrophic, and Vital Remains, I've chilled with the guys from Suffocation many times, and I won't even go into bassists I've met randomly. And I'm sure I'm forgetting others as well.

Outside of that, my old mentor was Bakithi Kumalo.
I've taken lessons with Trevor Dunn.
I've subbed for Randy Coven (cover band stuff, but still, a sub's a sub).
My step-dad is somewhat well known in the studio circles (Stephen Palmer).

So yeah. A bunch.

 

[xxDavidxx]

talked to michael manring

 

[Jumping_Bomb_Angel]

I had a brief conversation with Abraham Laboriel. Abe is gracious and humble and was ashamed to tell me he had around 90 bass guitars.

I also met Sheila E, who was Abes drummer for the clinic I went to. She was sweet and still smokin hot at nearly 50. Awesome drummer too - very under rated.

 

[JQ1986]

I met the new bassist for Psychostick last year when his old band (Indorphine) were on tour with Psychostick. Really nice and funny guy. The other guys in Psychostick were pretty cool and funny too.

 

[NickBass81]

When I went to their clinics I had really brief talks with Rocco Prestia and Billy Sheenan..both very nice guys...Billy is a bit shy...Rocco is one who likes to have a good laugh, he even didn't know he had made the interview I gave him to sign!!!!
I had a couple of conversation with a bassist who's very famous here in Italy, Faso (Nicola Fasani) with the band Elio E Le Storie Tese...awesome player and super nice guy!
This is not a bassist, but I had a brief and very pleasant talk with master drummer Dom Famularo, a very nice and polite man!

 

[Bassmingo]

Justin Chancellor (Tool)
Pete Steele (Type O Negative)
bass player from Bush (along with Nigel Pulsford)
Nick Oliveri (for like a minute)
Stu Hamm (twice)
Christian Olde Wolbers (Fear Factory)

other musicians i've met/hung out with

All of Sikth
All of Cave In
Drank and shot pool with Chad Smith
Taylor Hawkins passed me a joint.
Joey Castillo
Devin Townsend and Gene Hoglan (both gents!)
The rest of fear factory (dino gave me a tour of his gear)
Jared Leto
Rick Allen (def leppard)
Mark Richardson (Feeder/Skunk Anansie)
Adam Jones (Tool)
Joe Satriani (twice)
Steve Vai

thats all i can remember for now.