grandad Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Here is a video of 2 of the first Brits to play electric bass. Jet Harris was the only bass player I could name until Paul McCartney and Bill Wyman came along. By chance I once met Jet and we chatted for several minutes. He was pleasantly affable. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandad Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 If you enjoyed the above you may also find this interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandad Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 And this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YfBs6rigys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davie Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 I wanted to be a guitar player until I heard Duck playing on the Blues Brothers soundtrack. I bought a bass the next day and haven't looked back. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalpy Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 On 12/11/2019 at 20:27, davie said: I wanted to be a guitar player until I heard Duck playing on the Blues Brothers soundtrack. I bought a bass the next day and haven't looked back. Great call. I can remember being stuck in a traffic jam with my dad aged about 11, and hearing Everybody Needs Somebody on the car radio. The bassline at the end had to be good because I could hear it and we were in a Lada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbayne Posted November 13, 2019 Share Posted November 13, 2019 On 11/11/2019 at 20:39, grandad said: Here is a video of 2 of the first Brits to play electric bass. Jet Harris was the only bass player I could name until Paul McCartney and Bill Wyman came along. By chance I once met Jet and we chatted for several minutes. He was pleasantly affable. Here is Jet playing Nivram on a Musicman Stingray. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 As a 12 year old, I was given a guitar by an older cousin who I looked up to but who, with hindsight, I now realise had no idea what he was talking about (he cannot play anything). It was a piece of crap (strung with nylon AND steel strings). He lived a long way away and I rarely saw him or his brothers so I was on my own and had to figure the thing out myself. As a had no-one to help me, I found could not figure out guitar chords but could figure out bass parts. The earliest bassline I can recall playing (on the low strings on the nasty guitar I had) is a children's tv theme that I cannot name (although I can still play it). By the time I had control of my own destiny, I wanted a bass guitar and, when I started work in September 1980, bought a Hondo II Precision copy from my Mum's catalogue (I remember it being £125) and the rest is history. I was playing in a NWOBHM band and recording a Friday Rock Show session for Radio One in March 1981 so I must have taken to it reasonably quickly! After that, my first bass heroes were Squire and Steve Harris and then, in quick succession and as I became more 'woke', Jaco, Jeff Berlin, Jimmy Johnson and Percy Jones. The double bass players came later and their influence was less all-consuming. I do remember early efforts at transcribing lines by Roger Glover, Geezer Butler, Phil Lynott, Geddy Lee and others I cannot recall. I miss that period of discovery, when our lack of experience means that everything is new and exciting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonestar Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 This: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earbrass Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Lemmy on "Space Ritual", and John Wetton in King Crimson. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PunkPonyPrincess Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Jean Jaques Brunel. Dunno why. He stood out at the time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted November 14, 2019 Author Share Posted November 14, 2019 1 hour ago, PunkPonyPrincess said: Jean Jaques Brunel. Dunno why. He stood out at the time. That Bass tone on The Stranglers.....Peaches still stands up today.....not a big fan of the Punk/New Wave scene more of a 60s Rhythm n Blues and 70s Rock geezer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 Weird as it will sound. Nicky Wire of the manics. Loved them around the time of everything must go. And his playing was so simple I could play along easily. Then I saw Stefan Olsdal from Placebo. And the. I realised bass players were so cool. After that. I got into RHCP and Flea made me want to take the lead 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Blank Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 3 hours ago, PunkPonyPrincess said: Jean Jaques Brunel. Dunno why. He stood out at the time. Same reason he still does, no one ever sounded like him, no one ever will again. What a player, what a band! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky 4000 Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Frank Blank said: Same reason he still does, no one ever sounded like him, no one ever will again. What a player, what a band! Damn straight! 👍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 There was a time when I wasn't sure which band I had seen most often - Hawkwind or the Stranglers 🙂 Still with Berxit I suppose it will be Euroman Go-eth... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4000 Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 20 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said: There was a time when I wasn't sure which band I had seen most often - Hawkwind or the Stranglers 🙂 Still with Berxit I suppose it will be Euroman Go-eth... Strangely I’ve never seen The Stranglers. I missed the classic line up and kind of feel about them like I feel about the classic Motörhead lineup; anything else just isn’t the same. Maybe one day. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen Hawkwind far more times than anyone else, although I haven’t seen them since Brixton Hawkfest several years ago when Lemmy played. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 On 14/11/2019 at 22:00, Stub Mandrel said: Berxit Curiously apt... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kawarthabass Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 On 11/11/2019 at 15:39, grandad said: Here is a video of 2 of the first Brits to play electric bass. Jet Harris was the only bass player I could name until Paul McCartney and Bill Wyman came along. By chance I once met Jet and we chatted for several minutes. He was pleasantly affable. Jet was quite creative back in he day. But my favourite Shadows bass player was Alan Jones. He was solid with great timing and taste. Always had perfect note selection. He played the original Shadows stuff very well and excelled on the more complicated stuff that Hank did back in the 80's. The ShadowsXXV from 1983 is a great showcase for Alan's bass work. I did not discover Alan's bass playing until about 10 years ago. I live in Canada and the Shadows have not exactly been household words here. My main influence on bass (upright at first) was the great Bob Moore from Nashville who logged 18 thousand recording sessions from the 50's to the 80's. I'm a part time player but if it wasn't for him I would have given up on the bass years ago. Having a mentor is a great help when starting off on any instrument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigyin Posted November 20, 2019 Author Share Posted November 20, 2019 On 29/10/2019 at 10:48, dudewheresmybass said: Originally a classically trained cellist until I watched live after death too many times and heard saints and sinners by whitesnake. Steve Harris initially, then Neil Murray, Geezer and McCartney Neil Murray.....Class. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mybass Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Les Paul and Mary Ford was in my parents vinyl collection and his playing grabbed my ear with his bass lines underpinning his guitar top lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewblack Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Forme it was Dave Goode . A frightingly able musician who somehow ended up slumming it with me and some mates when I was a kid failing at guitar. I would stand open mouthed at what he did on the bass. I loved the instrument but actually fell into playing it accidentally when auditioning as a rhythm guitarist. The bass player had stormed out before I arrived, would I stand in on bass? The rest is history. As far as pro bass players go JJB made me listen to the bass shoved it right in my face. Phil Lynott was the coolest guy alive, Bruce Foxton I adored but Bruce Thomas showed me what could be done. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearhart74 Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Verdine White, Bernard Edwards, Rick James, Bootsy. Any of the 70's funk bass players really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles'tone Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Mani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franzbassist Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 For me it was @neilmurraybass and Martin Turner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petebassist Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Roy Budd for me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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