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Who else is a Pop bassist?!

Din Of Win

Din Of Win

Feb 24, 2009
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#1
Hey guys and gals,

I was curious if anyone else plays bass for a pop act. With a growing number of today's pop acts moving to key-based bass lines, i love it when i see an actual bassist rocking it on stage!

So, who else plays pop??! Are there any pop bassists you site as inspirations?
 
#2
Well i guess i'm a pop bassist, as it seem a genre that keeps being labeled upon my main ensemble but i don't really take any interest or inspiration from pop music as i listen to mostly: metal, prog, blues, jazz, rock, most things really but not pop.
 
#4
James Hart said:
Pop is a broad term...
Click to expand...

This is true. But the same can be said about pretty much any genre with today's love of genre-labeling.

Haha, people can answer in regards to their own definitions. I don't care.

Personally, i think of pop as hella-catchy, vocally-fronted music aimed at a broad audience.


And FWIW, i don't really listen to all that much pop myself either. I mostly listen to other stuff. Shoot, at a recent show i rocked a His Hero is Gone shirt with pants that had both a McCarthyism (record label) and Orchid patch on them. The audience was mainly, like, 15-19 y/o girls.
 
#6
I could consider pop as one of the many genres I play, especially in cover bands.

As far as inspiration, Tony Kinal of No Doubt is my favorite pop bassist that isn't a session player. Of course, guys like Pino, Sklar, and Nathan East are awesome pop bassists as well, but they can play anything.
 
#11
I play in a cover band, and we mainly cover pop songs (but we turn them into acoustic versions), guess that makes me a "pop bassist" by extension.

I have an oldschool sound though, since my personal taste is mainly music from the late 60s/early 70s (Psych Rock, Prog, Electric Blues). Good thing it suits this band rather well.
 
#12
Well. pop music is such a large amount of artists and such a subjective definition that I bet everyone of us has played with pop acts!!!
I played with a lot of local pop singers (if by "pop music" you mean very easy listening music, but not necessarily silly or too simple), and when I go to the studio 70% of the times I'm asked to play on pop tunes...here in Italy playing properly pop music is considered an art (the old motto "less is better"!) just as playing properly funk or rock..
I don't consider myself a pop musician, but I often play it and I usually enjoy it!
 
#15
Yo, Pop here! Get yer Pop!

Raised on Beatles and the golden age of Top 40 radio. Schooled in the midwest Power Pop scene ala Shoes, Cheap Trick, Pezband, etc. Two major label bands in the 80's who were pop in the techno vein (and proud of it pal:cool:). In the 90's I recorded w/ Tommy Keane. Lately playing with Kyle Henderson (the Producers) but we're doing Soul covers! Ha!

I do a Chick Singer Night house band thing where I back up all kinds of styles and I'm back in school again with the current crop o' Pop.

Whew, I'm pooped.
 

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