Lfalex v1.1 Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Tony Levin Colin Moulding - XTC Tony Butler - Big Country John "Rhino" Edwards - More for his work with Judy Tzuke than Quo Graham Maby - Joe Jackson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ead Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 For me, as is traditional, in no particular order... Chris Squire Roger Glover Mike Rutherford Geddy Lee Sting This needs compiling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamPodmore Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Brian J. Robinson (A Wilhelm Scream): Showed me that you can play more than just root/5th in pop/punk/alternative (Take a look at The Horse) Johnny Christ (Avenged Sevenfold): Spawned my love of Stingrays, and he has amazing tone Chris Wolstenholme (Muse): An ABSOLUTE MONSTER. Need i say more.... Phenomenal player and tone, made me push myself with my playing. Kasim Sulton (Ex. Neverland Express/Meatloaf): I don't know, every time i saw him play i wanted to pick up my bass and play. Matt Green (A Little Bit Outlaw Lead Guitarist): When he asked me to replace him as bassist so he could take on lead, my playing progressed so much when i joined this band, as it took me totally out of my comfort zone in terms of genre, tunings, and just general band related things. Liam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Insprirational and Influential... Mick Karn Stanley Clarke Jack Bruce Bruce Foxten Victor Wooten Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeBrownBass Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I've looked at list from before & only 2 of those players are on my current list. It's too hard to choose an I think inspiration keeps evolving as you do a player! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnFitzgerald Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Jaco Stanley Clark Mark King Johnny Brady - Local Guy, phenomenal player Derek Forbes - Simple Minds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiehoffmann Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Paul McCartney James Jamerson Bruce Thomas Bernard Edwards Robert DeLeo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thumperbob 2002 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Too many to even contemplate but suppose initially people like Jaco, Bruce Foxton, Jamerson, Duck Dunn, Jemmott, Bernard Edwards, Pino, Larry Graham. Now I suppose Jamerson, David Dyson ( catch him on youtube with Meshell N ), Wooten, Larry Graham, Bernard Edwards. It changes quite a lot but the best ones do stay around about in my head Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bencooper Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Five is hard. No order for these: Duff McKagan - inspired me to take up the bass in the first place as a teenager, and sling my bass impossibly low, for which my fretting hand still suffers to this day! Billy Sheehan - I saw him do a clinic after I'd been playing about a year. Never knew you could do that on the bass. Strap length adjusted to necklace like length and I spent many hours learning as much of his stuff as I could. Sting - a great player who really showed me how a great bassline doesn't need to be complicated. Strap moved to a mid length where it has remained ever since. James Jamerson - don't think this one needs explaining Geddy Lee - see above There are loads of others: Steve Harris, Duck Dunn, Macca, Randy Coven - the list goes on and on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPS Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Today in no particular order. John Entwistle Bruce Foxton Duck Dunn James Jamerson Bruce Thomas All united by the fact that they managed to play interesting bass lines that made a huge contribution to a host of great songs. On another day might be Danny Thompson, Andy Rourke or Paul McCartney. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booooooom Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 [quote name='JPS' timestamp='1323187537' post='1460294'] Today in no particular order. John Entwistle Bruce Foxton Duck Dunn James Jamerson Bruce Thomas [/quote] Today I totally agree and in that order too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bremen Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 [quote name='JPS' timestamp='1323187537' post='1460294'] Today in no particular order. John Entwistle Bruce Foxton Duck Dunn James Jamerson Bruce Thomas All united by the fact that they managed to play interesting bass lines that made a huge contribution to a host of great songs. On another day might be Danny Thompson, Andy Rourke or Paul McCartney. [/quote] What he said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottomE Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Marcus Miller Nate Watts My dad Willy Weeks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ern500evo Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 John Entwistle: I love everything about him, his basslines, his tone, his spectacular collection of basses, and the fact that he signed out during a drug fuelled orgy in a Vegas hotel room full of hookers is just pure rock n' roll! John Paul Jones: I think i wore out my vinyl copy of Led Zeppelin 2 jamming along, particularly to Ramble On, still one of my favourite bass lines to this day. Bruce Foxton: The fact you could take virtually any song by The Jam, play the bass part on it's own and people would still know what song it was from just proves what a massive part of The Jam's songs Bruce's lines were. Billy Sheehan: When i first started playing a friend of mine gave me a copy of Eat 'em and smile, i thought "wow" then i bought a vinyl copy of Talas- sink yor teeth into that, got home put it on and spent the next hour or so listening to it open mouthed whilst thinking "Jesus f**king christ" Bernard Edwards: It was hearing Bernard's lines in Le Freak and Good Times that alerted me to fingerstyle funk and a whole new world of some of the coolest bass parts ever recorded! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oneandfive Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Jack Bruce Chris Squire Mike Howlett JJ Burnel and, at the risk of ridicule, Roger Waters. (Well, when you're starting out playing, you don't want to set the bar too high...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rumblejunkie Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 steve harris jack bruce john entwhistle glenn hughes flea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witterth Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 [quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1323189957' post='1460363'] Marcus Miller Nate Watts My dad Willy Weeks [/quote] OK, But, My Dad, rubbish at the Bass, superb on most other things though, he could fix/do anything! sh*t Bass player though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chlo_treacher Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 [quote name='TransistorBassMan' timestamp='1294145604' post='1077225'] In no particular order.... Jim Glennie (James) [/quote] Nice to see a James fan in here. My old band, Unkle bob, were managed by Saul Davies and we toured with James a few times. Jim is a stand up bloke and truly wonderful bassist. Mine are; John Entwhistle (the who were my favourite band thanks to my dad at age 3) Bill Wyman (Decided I wanted to be in the rolling stones age 7 after seeing them live at wembley stadium) John Mcvie (fleetwood mac probably my favorite band at the moment) Tina Weymouth (just pure awesome) Duck Dunn (anyone with a ginger afro, a pipe and checked trousers is cool in my books) Chlo x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottomE Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 [quote name='witterth' timestamp='1323215013' post='1460789'] OK, But, My Dad, rubbish at the Bass, superb on most other things though, he could fix/do anything! sh*t Bass player though. [/quote] Not your dad. My dad really is a first rate player who is still pro (though on keys these days). He has traded cabs with Lemmy, jammed with Marc Bolan and played for Duck Dunn and co in Amsterdam! He had one of the first Yamaha basses in the early 70s and was the person to get me started Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lojo Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 This could change each time I answer but Entwhistle, Burnell and Edwards for making the bass stand out when I was younger Fuzzy Samuels, for making the bass work in cool laid back songs and Macca, for the silly love songs line, which I got beat up for saying I liked at school Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soliloquy Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Mark King - even though I don't really slap, he was a big influence on me when I was a young kid. His finger style playing is really, really good but often gets overlooked. He also sings really well too. Jaco Pastorius - simply amazing ! Stanley Clarke - Phenomenal on both electric and upright. Anthony Jackson - His funk/groove playing on the early Chaka Khan albums is awesome, as is his jazz playing on the 6 string contrabass. He also invented the 6 string bass. John Patitucci - Again, a great player on both upright and electric (6 string). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 in no particular order jaco chris squire victor bailey patrick ohearn stanley clarke Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibody Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 When I sat and thought about this, its harder than it initialy appears. The five who inspired me to pick up a bass: John Entwistle John Paul Jones Duck Dunn Phil Lynott Bruce Foxton The Five who most influenced my "Style" Peter Hook Geezer Butler J. J. Burnel Steve Harris Pete Way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noah Deere Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 John Paul Jones, first tune I ever learned was the Immigrant Song Gene Simmons, second tune I learned was Strutter Paul Simonon - still play a lot of Clash tunes Billy Sheehan - had a lot of time with a bass teacher years ago trying to learn his stuff Les Claypool - no words needed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMX Posted December 8, 2011 Share Posted December 8, 2011 Mic Todd (Coheed & Cambria) John Taylor (Duran Duran) Nate Mendel (Foo Fighters) Juan Alderete (Mars Volta among others) Dave Ellefson (Megadeth) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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