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Who started it all for you?

#303
I actually started playing guitar first but switched because we couldn't find a bass player and I realized that when I did fills on the guitar, they sounded like bass parts. I seemed to have a naturally tendency to play bass parts even before I understood the differences in the role of guitar and bass. So, there isn't any bass player who started it for me or influenced me to play bass. Once I started playing I began listening more intently to bass parts especially on songs by The Beatles, The Who, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Queen, Foghat, Grand Funk Railroad and a lot of Motown songs. I have been told that my style is like a cross between James Jamerson, Boz Burrell and John Deacon. (Jamerson, because I often play with my index finger without even thinking about it. All of three of these bassists in terms of my note selection, really depends on the song).
 
#305
retardedpossum said:
Wyzard from Mother's Finest
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I took this one a few years ago

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and a better one of Baby Jean
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#308
I thought Les Claypool was cool back in the day and I was also into Tina Weymouth, so I manipulated my parents into buying me a white Hondo P clone and I ended up getting into dubby electronica bass stuff but I never mastered it due to poor equipment and a lack of focus (I was a teenager in the 90's). Then, like twelve years later (a year ago) I watched Nick Beggs play "Too Shy", got back into it, and fell deeply in love again. This time I'm doing it right! Thanks Nick!!!
 
#312
It's weird but Me'Shell N'degeocello started it for me. I saw the video for her and John Mellencamp's cover of "Wild Nights," on VH1 when I was getting ready for school one day.
 
#316
A friend of mine (from a no-name local bar band) got me into playing bass. Was the tone of the all-Ampeg rig that caught my attention. The first big player that blew my mind was Keith Horne. Used to watch him with the Wooten Brothers in Nashville. Unbelievable monster bass player, that guy. The nights I'd show up and Victor was there, I'd actually be bummed (and this is no slam on Victor!)
 
#318
I think I was 11 or so....but I loved the way the bass sounded on the Police's 'Zenyatta Mondatta'. Queen's 'Another One Bites The Dust' and Fleetwood Mac's 'Chain'. Pretty much all of 'Sgt Pepper' because of the 'stereo' thing, Paul's bass was always more on one speaker than the other.

I didn't actually pick up a bass until I was 16. I convinced my mom to go to a guitar store in Philly with me. I was on a huge Mark King and John Taylor kick. they had style, plus they talked about their influences - and that's what started it for me. The seeds were planted by the other artists I mentioned earlier.

I ended up getting a Yamaha BB300, or maybe it was a BB200. :/
 
#320
Boz Burrell of Bad Company when I was 14.

I found a Columbus Jazz bass in a junk store and learned all his lines.....total bliss, and then I discovered the Philadelphia sound and spent the next 30 years pretending to be as good as the session players that played on all those smooth soul classics.
 

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