If you could be in any band fantasy.

[GreeneKing]

I was listening to some Tool today and I thought to myself, if I could swap places with any bassist it would be Justin Chancellor. The tone, the riffs and the music! Okay it's a fantasy and this 62 year old average bass player knows that.

So, no 'clever' answers please. If you think it's pointless keep away, one word, a band present or past.

[b][size=5]TOOL[/size][/b]

[Thunderbird]

Megadeth

[bartelby]

A few years ago I'd have said TOOL too.

These days I'd go for a post-rock style band; Red Sparowes, Marriages, Grails
or something a little more weird such as Acid Mothers Temple

[LayDownThaFunk]

Soundgarden?

[RhysP]

Magazine

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

zz top

[Lozz196]

Of current bands it would be The Darkness, just for the fun aspect, of days gone by probably The Jam for those basslines.

[mikel]

Yes, or as a second choice, Jethro Tull.

[TheGreek]

Ozric Tentacles - surrounded by great musicians yet right there in the mix.

[BigRedX]

I've only ever once wanted to be a member of a band that I wasn't already in, and that was early on in my bass playing days when there was an awesome Nottingham band called "None So Blind". From early 1981 when I first discovered them to the end of 1983 when their original drummer left (unfortunately IMO it all went downhill after that), I would have given anything to have had the opportunity to be their bass player. I had to settle for being a slightly obsessive fan, roadie and occasional sound engineer.

[GreeneKing]

Some good suggestions. A little fantasy does no harm

BigRed, I'm a Gavin Clark fan, do you know the fella?

Peter

[EBS_freak]

Abba

[BrunoBass]

I'd be Paul McCartney, 1962 to 1970.

I wouldn't have minded being in Motley Crue too, although I think a couple of weeks would probably have been enough...

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1487095041' post='3237036']
I'd be Paul McCartney, 1962 to 1970.

I wouldn't have minded being in Motley Crue too, although I think a couple of weeks would probably have been enough...
[/quote]

You can't be Paul McCartney for all of that era... one of them died - so which one would you be?

[BrunoBass]

[quote name='EBS_freak' timestamp='1487095303' post='3237039']


You can't be Paul McCartney for all of that era... one of them died - so which one would you be?
[/quote]

I'd be the first one. Then I could think up 'Paul Is Dead' theories whilst giving my Rickenbacker a psychedelic paint job 😉

[Harryburke14]

The 1975 of current bands. Easy Bass lines, millions of teenage girls head over heels, sell out gigs up and down the country. Good times.

[Paul S]

Deep Purple Mk II

[TrevorR]

I would impersonate Lee Pomeroy and spend all my days playing those classic ELO tunes. Either that or I'd throw a banana peel in front of Tom Hamilton and jump in to the breech as a last minute dep for that Thin Lizzy gig.

[bonzodog]

The Jam for the bits that happen on stage
Motley Crue for the things that happen off stage 😀

[rubis]

ABBA, no brainer, you get to be Rutger Gunnarson and stand behind Agneta

[acidbass]

Was Michael Jackson

Now Stevie Wonder!

[Johnny Wishbone]

Tool or Soundgarden

[BassBunny]

Was - Weather Report
Now - Tower of Power

[Graham]

Metallica between '88 and '92

[steantval]

Free or Bad Company
Played in Free and a Bad Company tribute bands, know the stuff inside out in the original keys, so I could just drop in a do it.