Me too!!I find the thread title misleading.That being said..
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Who Was Your First...
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The one was Geddy Lee. He was the guy that turned my head, send me to my room grounded until I could get some of moving pictures learned, and drove me to buy a Ricky. I live him pretty much for a few years.
On another note, my brother, a budding guitarist, would listen to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, I I learned from Geezer and JPJ through osmosis. To this day, i still feel the presence of JPJ in many of my riffs and grooves, but never actually sat down to learn him.
On another note, my brother, a budding guitarist, would listen to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, I I learned from Geezer and JPJ through osmosis. To this day, i still feel the presence of JPJ in many of my riffs and grooves, but never actually sat down to learn him.
Probably Entwistle. That sound, unlike any bass I had ever heard. The second has to be McCartney. The guy who played for Tommy James and the Shondells got my attention too.
Paul McCartney, for sure. I had no idea who Jamerson was until much later, but I also loved those Motown grooves in the '60s. Honorable mention goes to Chip Douglas of the Turtles, who also did some excellent pop bass playing for the Monkees on a favorite album of my childhood, "Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn and Jones Ltd."
For me , it was Jack Casady with the Jefferson Airplane. That pounding bass line from "Somebody to Love" just blew me away. 
Glenn Cornick from Jethro Tull. In my day I listened to AM radio for the current hits...when Bouree and the rest from Stand Up came on, I knew I loved that sound.
Flea. My senior year of high school I got turned on to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and it blew me away. I don't consciously try to emulate him anymore, but some of his style is hardwired into what I do.
Stanley Clarke.
Although I didn't pursue his style of music, he was the one who really caused me to hear the bass as an instrument rather than a "function".
Although I didn't pursue his style of music, he was the one who really caused me to hear the bass as an instrument rather than a "function".
Roger Waters turned me on to the idea of bass (music in general really) as a legitimate career choice. John Paul Jones made me fall in love with the instrument.
For me it started with Jack Bruce and his playing on White Room. Over the years my "desert island" bassist has changed in the following order.
Jack Bruce -> Chris Squire -> Jaco Pastorius -> Chuck Rainey
Special mention goes out to . . . Rocco Prestia, Rick Danko, Anthony Jackson, Paul Jackson, Bernard Edwards, Richard Bona, James Jamerson
Jack Bruce -> Chris Squire -> Jaco Pastorius -> Chuck Rainey
Special mention goes out to . . . Rocco Prestia, Rick Danko, Anthony Jackson, Paul Jackson, Bernard Edwards, Richard Bona, James Jamerson
Paul Samwell-Smith of the Yardbirds was the first. It's 1965, little 13 year-old me gets their "For Your Love" album, and when the second track "I'm Not Talking" came up, my head spun around about 5 times. An extremely vivid memory of the exact moment that I became a bass player.
Second was Ronnie Wood. Beck-Ola was the first album that I learned every song verbatim.
Im too young to say any of the legends and be telling the truth . The first bass player i heard that really made me notice the bass itself was Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne.
. The first bass player i heard that really made me notice the bass itself was Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne.
Steve Harris! I wore out and learned every note of Maiden's first 3 LPs. I'm not really a huge fan of the heavier music anymore but still have a soft spot for 'Arry.
Back pre 1960 the bass player for Hank Snow. Later on in life Tim Ayers, then Mr. Dunn
1991, I was a jazz trombonist just getting into guitar/bass. Les Claypool was a maniac that caught my attention. Flea and Geddy were a close second.
Probably either Geezer Butler or Steve Harris. I was into heavy metal big time when I was younger (I still am but that was like the only music I would listen to) and those guys really stood out to me in a genre in which most bassists just pedaled the root (if you could even hear them in the mix at all).
The song was "Cool Jerk". The bassist was either James Jamerson or Bob Babbitt.
"Help Me Rhonda" also grabbed my attention. Ray Pohlman on bass?
"Help Me Rhonda" also grabbed my attention. Ray Pohlman on bass?
