[quote name='Beedster' timestamp='1383734758' post='2268215']
You. Do your own thing, that way it's be different to the guys above. I like all of the above players but tend not to like it when I hear obvious references to them at gigs or recordings (especially in Jaco's case as it's just been done to death). Fretless bass is an instrument on which it's very easy to sound cliched because even the most left-field musician soon becomes widely copied. Just play what sounds right to you. I was once told that my fretless bass sounde like a trombone. The guy said it was a compliment, I'm not sure I took it that way, but to my mind it did at least indicate that I wasn't copying Jaco or Pino.
Given the names of the two most famous proponents and innovators of fretless, perhaps you should also consider a name change to 'Jono'
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Unfortunately, I'm very likely to reference Jaco in my playing.
Hence my looking for a new thought on my approach.
I'm sure there must be something I'm doing that's uniquely 'me' but from inside my own head, I probably struggle to see it.
Bobby Vega blew my mind in pick approach, only recently discovered him and he's been doing it for years.
I'd love a similar find on fretless.
I'm not looking to ape anyone, but there'll be something in there that helps me move on.