Who's your musical hero?

[DJS]

Same question in a different forum... Who's your musical hero?

My bass hero is Mike Watt, but my musical hero is J Mascis. His guitar playing and his drumming with early Dinosaur and Witch are sick and even though he claims no input to the guitar parts for Witch, any self loathing Mascis fan can hear it, easily.

Second would be Dave Grohl because that dude has pop rock wrapped up in his little pinky, made the greatest pop rock song of my generation (Everlong), and apart from bass has destroyed every type of rock instrument there is. Cummon Dave... Play a little bass... Show us what you got!!

Oh but you can hear his bass skills. I believe he played all instruments on the first 3 or 4 FF albums, and all the instruments on Probot.

+1000 on Grohl. My other musical hero has to be Jimmy Page. I started bass to play along with guys like them.

 

[Chef FourString]

Jack White.

 

[averagebluesman]

Its kind of funny. If I wasn't 6'6 I would play guitar. I feel way too tall to play guitar. So I play bass like a guitar. My heroes are Lemmy, Kim Thayill, Tony Iommi and Satan.

 

[Buslady7803]

No doubt people are sick of my answers...

oh well, I'm posting anyways.

My heroes:

It's nice when your guitar hero is also a friend.
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Then this crazy lunatic:

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[king_biscuit]

Frank Zappa!

 

[Chef FourString]

Frank Zappa!

+1

 

[Spaldo]

I don' care about crap I'll get from this . . . John Mayer is my hero! I always used to joke I wanted to come back as Hugh Heffner (not only for the obvious reason , but he's done some amazing things, and seems like an amazing guy in general) but JM gets my vote. .

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I toured with him back in '02, and I was instantly struck by the depth of his musicianship. Got some funny stories from that tour....I also got the chance to watch him work his charm on the ladies at the after parties! Smooth. He and his band also jumped on stage with us in Memphis with KFC buckets on their heads.

 

[Lazylion]

Since Frank Zappa has already been mentioned...

I've always admired the career of Chris Hillman. He plays bass, guitar and mandolin, excellent lead & harmony singer, has written/co-written a bunch of cool tunes, was a member of the original lineup of the Byrds, founded the Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons, was on the Manassas project with Stephen Stills, was the leader of the Desert Rose band, has put out solo albums, has spent many years singing with Herb Pedersen (another hero of mine)... not too shabby!

 

[JTE]

Since Frank Zappa has already been mentioned...

I've always admired the career of Chris Hillman. He plays bass, guitar and mandolin, excellent lead & harmony singer, has written/co-written a bunch of cool tunes, was a member of the original lineup of the Byrds, founded the Flying Burrito Brothers with Gram Parsons, was on the Manassas project with Stephen Stills, was the leader of the Desert Rose band, has put out solo albums, has spent many years singing with Herb Pedersen (another hero of mine)... not too shabby!

Amen!!

 

[steve f]

I can narrow it down to three:
Bob Marley for his courage, conviction, and his lyrical and melodic brilliance
Frank Zappa for his limitless creativity, individuality, and balls (sorry, that sounded a little weird)
Robert Fripp for his innovation, intensity, and technical wizardry

 

[Lowbrow]

Harpo Marx. True.

 

[tangentmusic]

Mine would be a little feller by the name of Gary Weinrib.

But you must say his name with a yiddish accent