Who started playing bass with no inspiration at all?

[barkin]

I was one of 2 guitars in an aspiring band of teenaged mates. One time, at what passed for a rehearsal, the bassist got the hump and stormed off. I picked up his bass, and we carried on.

The next weekend I bought a Westone Thunder, which I played through my WEM combo until I nabbed myself an Acoustic head/cab from the local classifieds. 

Happy days...

[MacDaddy]

Seeing Nikki Sixx throwing shapes and posing.

Nothing to do with bass lines.

[grumpyguts]

Mate at school sold me his Kay SG Bass for £5, I just worked it out with help from a guitarist friend and this book..https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bass-Guitar-Gregory-Harvey-Vinson/dp/B0023846E8

I really had no idea before this what a bass player did, still working on it!