Post a pic of your Bass god from your teen years

[meterman]

I didn’t buy a bass until I was 20, I started out as a drummer. But even before I started playing bass I always liked the playing of Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers

 

and Paul Gray from The Damned, and with Eddie & The Hot Rods

 

and always Colin Moulding (XTC / The Dukes Of Stratosphear)

 

Once I started playing I dug more into the great Jamaican players like Aston Barrett or Flabba Holt, and all the Stax and Motown players. 
 

Never had any ‘gods’ though. Don’t believe in them!

[Angel]

  On 21/05/2024 at 07:39, Leonard Smalls said:

Not a clue who most of these folks are!

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Indeed. Not sure why some people think everyone is known from one picture with no other reference eg other band members!

[JazzyJ]

  On 21/05/2024 at 08:13, lowregisterhead said:

It's all her fault. Watching her perform 'Can The Can' on TOTP in 1973 did something to me.

 

 

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There you go 🤩

 

[Dad3353]

OK, then, and as pedagogy, for those that don't recognise him : Jack Casady, playing, in the photo, with Jefferson Airplane, late '60's-early '70's; and Hot Tuna, since (and still, I believe...). Worth a listen, quite certainly. 

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[neil___lien]

  On 21/05/2024 at 08:11, neil___lien said:

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Mine were Pino Palladino & Meshell Ndegeocello. 

[woodyratm]

  On 21/05/2024 at 00:09, bakerster135 said:

Defo loads of these, and this guy. Probably quite difficult to get but if you know you know

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YO TIMMY C, BRING THAT BASS IN!

 

i’m also the same. I still adore his playing and sound.

[Leonard Smalls]

  On 21/05/2024 at 13:00, neil___lien said:

Mine

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I got them!

 

[Leonard Smalls]

  On 21/05/2024 at 13:04, woodyratm said:

YO TIMMY C

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Now I can at least guess!

[ezbass]

I didn’t start playing bass until my 20s, but those who made my ears prick up in my teens were:

 

 

 

But it was this guy who made want to jump ship to the low end

 

[Leonard Smalls]

And in slightly later teen years (i.e 18-19), discovered Trouble Funk and Big Tony Fisher

 

 

And started my slide into slightly crazed jazz by buying this album by ex-Ornette Coleman bassman, Jamaaladeen Tacuma (I thought it was just ordinary funk, it kind of blew me away and I haven't been the same since!)

 

 

However, after Norman and Barry Adamson, and before these funky dudes was another surprisingly funky goth bloke, David J of Bauhaus... 

 

[MacDaddy]

@BigRedX I've done yours for you 😉

 

 

 

[MacDaddy]

  On 20/05/2024 at 21:12, LowB_FTW said:

 

And that bass!

 

Mark

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[michael2003x]

Edited May 21, 2024 by michael2003x
added pics

[Reggaebass]

Another massive influence from my youth is Robbie 

[NHM]

JSB - the father of the bass line

[miles'tone]

  On 21/05/2024 at 14:37, Reggaebass said:

Another massive influence from my youth is Robbie 

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Same. It was the young Robbie's basslines that inspired my recent Hofner Violin acquisition, rather than that other bloke 😎 

[Frank Blank]

There are a few teenage bass influences but the song Public Image and this man specifically made me actually pick a bass up and play...

 

[badger]

the Meg White of bass

[lowregisterhead]

  On 21/05/2024 at 12:59, JazzyJ said:

There you go 🤩

 

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Very nice, but I preferred the Telecaster! 😂

[Man.about.Tyne]

Several influences already mentioned but couldn't leave Norman out.

[Balcro]

I didn't "get" them all at once. Lots of long delayed appreciation for Jack Bruce, Lonnie Turner and Garry Thain.

 

Teenage years :-  Harvey Brooks (Supersession) & Peter Overend Watts.

 

 

[Beedster]

Fantastic thread, I'm almost 60 and having played bass since 1982 thought I knew a bit about the instrument and those who play it. I've been proven wrong on the first many times, now finding I'm not doing so well on the second  

[Buddster]

Early 80s was my big influence. 

Nick Beggs. I even got someone to put beads in my hair, and very quickly took them out feeling a right plonker

 

John Taylor, wore the red neckerchief 

 

Mic Karn. Couldn't afford a fretless so copied him on a fretted. I didn't do the look this time though

[dmccombe7]

  On 21/05/2024 at 16:22, Balcro said:

I didn't "get" them all at once. Lots of long delayed appreciation for Jack Bruce, Lonnie Turner and Garry Thain.

 

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Had totally forgot about Gary Thain. Demons & Wizards was a huge influence on my musical journey so here's a wee pic of Gary.

I think Gary was the bassist that transitioned me from pure rock bass with a pic to fingerstyle playing and that eventually took me into more Jazz rock bands. Such an innovative player.

Dave

[ezbass]

  On 21/05/2024 at 17:46, Buddster said:

Mic Karn. Couldn't afford a fretless so copied him on a fretted. I didn't do the look this time though

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Did you copy the moves though?