Who was the earliest influence that you tried to sound like

[musicbassman]

Rand Forbes, who played a fretless bass in the late 60's in a band called The United States of America. And this was before I even had a bass - I was still a spotty schoolboy fumbling about on a skinny stringed thing then.

And this track in particular - the way the bass dances around the main vocal line yet always supports it. Still sounds good today.

 

 

Edited November 9, 2022 by musicbassman

[4000]

Lemmy, Hawkwind era. 

[2pods]

Ritchie McCracken ....Taste

[EssentialTension]

7 hours ago, musicbassman said:

Rand Forbes, who played a fretless bass in the late 60's in a band called The United States of America. And this was before I even had a bass - I was still a spotty schoolboy fumbling about on a skinny stringed thing then.

And this track in particular - the way the bass dances around the main vocal line yet always supports it. Still sounds good today.

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the reminder, because I haven't heard that album in fifty years.

 

[UK Ken]

For me JPJ and Geddy !

[diskwave]

Bernard Edwards on Everybody Dance.....then decades later found it he was stroking with a finger knuckle...doh...Fab tone.