Post a pic of your Bass god from your teen years

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Early teens through to later teens...

 

[Rumple]

[OliverBlackman]

Two:

 

[nekomatic]

[snorkie635]

This guy - Jim Lea from Slade

 

 

Edited May 21, 2024 by snorkie635

[fretmeister]

1 hour ago, MacDaddy said:

And of course...

 

 

 

 

 

These two and...

 

 

 

[godathunder]

 

 

[godathunder]

whoops, missed one

[upside downer]

Not a great pic but it's from last Friday's gig in Northampton. 

 

[dudewheresmybass]

[dudewheresmybass]

[dudewheresmybass]

[NoRhino]

[Reggaebass]

I’m enjoying looking at these, there’s some I’m gonna have to look up as I don’t know them , and quite surprised no one has shown Jamerson 

[bassbiscuits]

For me it was Steve Harris at first, but soon also Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith and Duff from G’n’R.

 

It was the 80s after all. 

[Jackroadkill]

Extra points if you can name them all (no reverse-Googling allowed!).

 

Cliff Burton, obviously, too.

[ahpook]

 

[pst62]

[Rick's Fine '52]

JPJ

Edited May 21, 2024 by Rick's Fine '52

[chris_b]

No gods here. . . . but the guys that shaped my playing from day one were Bill Wyman, Duck Dunn and John McVie.  Everything I do stems from those guys.

[NHM]

Jim Lea of Slade

Edited May 21, 2024 by NHM
adding a name

[Cosmo Valdemar]

2 hours ago, Jackroadkill said:

Extra points if you can name them all (no reverse-Googling allowed!).

 

Cliff Burton, obviously, too.

Wonderful Melissa 😍

[LowB_FTW]

 

And that bass!

 

Mark

[NAS Bass]

[Mediocre Polymath]

3 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I’m enjoying looking at these, there’s some I’m gonna have to look up as I don’t know them , and quite surprised no one has shown Jamerson 

I think an appreciation of Jamerson is something that comes later in life. My icons as a weird obsessive teenager were the aforementioned Stuart Zender and Flea; it was a long time before I came to appreciate playing as relatively low-key and subtle as most of Jamerson's stuff, even though I'd been listening to old Motown and Atlantic compilation records since I was wee small.