Who Inspires You?

[nubs]

bruce thomas
nathan watts
paul McCartney
Flea
Jaco
Bootsy
Louis Johnson
John Paul Jones
James Jamerson
Marcus Miller
Larry Graham
Geddy
Mike Mills


there are so many for so many different reasons....

 

[VanzKantDanz]

Musicians who definatly inspire me:

James Jamerson
Robert DeLeo
Roger Waters
Jack Bruce
Victor Wooten (inspired me to learn to slap and pop)
Billy Corgan

 

[roosterbass]

stevie wonder
james jamerson
pino palladino
erykah badu
radiohead
james brown
bob dylan

in no order

 

[Mike Shevlin]

Kathy Ireland

 

[jomahu]

right now:

meshell
brazilian girls (the band! )
stereolab

 

[Ganja]

Justin Chancellor
Adam Jones

 

[C-60 Bass]

Tommy Shannon
Duck Dunn
Keith Ferguson

 

[Phe]

At the moment:
Joe Lally & Fugazi
Mike Watts & Minutemen
Jarno Mällinen (OMG, guitard!) & Radiopuhelimet
Chi Cheng & Deftones
Miles Davis (especially Bitches Brew-era)
Tom Waits
Ian MacKaye
Adam Jones

If I only could brew those influences into music...

 

[johnnylager]

Fingers? - Larry Boothroyd (Victims Family)
Pick? - Rob Wright (nomeansno)
Both? - Matt Freeman (Operation Ivy)

 

[Alan Vorse]

I get inspiration from not only bass players and other musicians, but writers, filmmakers, visual artists, dancers and even athletes (seriously, watch Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns practice free-throws until he can hit 10 in a row without missing. That same approach can be used in learning music!) But since this is a bass forum...

Muzz Skillings (Living Colour)
Mick Karn
Melvin Gibbs
Tony Levin
Mike Merritt
Ray Brown
Dave Holland
Jimmy Garrison

 

[grieverOSOK]

jordan rudess and iron and wine

 

[FunkyMonk72]

Flea, Jean Baudin, and Bootsy Collins

 

[the_fonz]

Jean Baudin, Mike Patton, and Dick Valentine

 

[Patorrata]

Seth Horan and Nathan Hughes, I like that way of playing bass and singing, and that kind of style, cool music.


PD: im new, hi all

 

[Andy Brown]

Vic Wooten
James Jamerson
Jaco
Chuck Rainey
Michael Manring
Geddy Lee
Alain Caron
Marcus Miller
Richard Bona
Jeff Schmidt
Paul Turner
... many, many others ...

 

[Ka_Ve_86]

Sting - Amazing live
Ben Kenney
Joseph "Lucky" Scott - Curtis Mayfields bass player this man can groove
Nathan Murray - Australian soul band kid confucius check them out!!
Hub - the roots bass player so much style
Marcus Miller

 

[simonlittle]

Eberhard Weber,
Jaco Pastorius,
Pino Palladino,
Marcus Miller,
Boosty
Probably in that order...... The first time I heard Eberhard I finally figured out what I wanted to sound like....

 

[beforeitsallove]

At the moment:
Joe Lally & Fugazi
Mike Watts & Minutemen
Jarno Mällinen (OMG, guitard!) & Radiopuhelimet
Chi Cheng & Deftones
Miles Davis (especially Bitches Brew-era)
Tom Waits
Ian MacKaye
Adam Jones

If I only could brew those influences into music...

ah. someone after my own heart.

Damon Che. (don caballero)
Joe Lally. (fugazi)
Daryl Palumbo. (Glassjaw, et al.)
Darryl Jenifer. (Bad Brains)
Monica DiGialleonardo (moss icon)
Kim Coletta. (and Bill Barbot, J Robbins, all of Jawbox)
Bob Mould. (husker du)
Bear Vs. Shark (or, Hailstorm meet Axethrower)
Jason Black (Hot Water Music)
Bob Nanna and Damon Atkinson (Braid).
Fred Erskine (Hoover)

If these people didn't exist. I wouldn't know music and create as I do today.

 

[nbw]

There are so many musicians that inspire me with their song that I couldn't even begin to list them. But one stands out, as cliche as it is it is Victor Wooten but it isn't so much his playing it is listening to him talk about music, what inspires him, how he approaches playing the bass and creating music. Unscientific and straight from the heart. Very inspiring!

Oh and I have to give a shout to Jeff Schmitt who's playing to me is so left feild and amazing to listen to that I cant help but feel inspired.

 

[Maglic]

Marco Hietala & Roger Waters