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Original message:185 days 19 hours 47 minutes ago

Member: Savva_Rhythm

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I don't play bass, but I'm interested in hearing from other bass players. Which bass players do you admire or inspire you to play or to take up bass in the 1st place? Personally i admire the talents of Cliff Burton. Let me hear some of yours

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Reply:185 days 19 hours 29 minutes ago
Member: Xarkzila

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Victor Wooten. Plays bass for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. The guy kicks ass!

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Reply:185 days 15 hours 15 minutes ago
Member: bradZILLA

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I don't know his name but the guy from Primus is insane. He makes me want to learn to play bass, but unless i find a place that will hire a 15 year old, i don't see myself buying a decent bass guitar and amplifier for a while.

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Reply:185 days 11 hours 32 minutes ago
Member: Jippy

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Les Claypool

Reply:185 days 13 hours 47 minutes ago
Member: Chester Field

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Reasons I started playing bass:
Jack Casady
Phil Lesh

A modern inspiration:
Les Claypool

Reply:171 days 15 hours 8 minutes ago
Member: DanPeck

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Defiantly Les Claypool. That short bass solo in Lacquer Head completely blew my mind the first time i watched it. Its strange that he inspired me to start playing though because the more I have played the more i find that I don't like playing slap.

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Reply:170 days 17 hours 23 minutes ago
Member: ibzRG

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Any bassist that is beter than me (read: any who is not lost in the band's noise). They don't have to be spectacular (as long as they're not genericaly ultra-simple).

A couple that I admire are John Entwistle and Geezer Buttler.

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Reply:160 days 16 hours 51 minutes ago
Member: Bassmanthebassplayingsuperhero

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The bassist from Mudvayne, he's a great bassist. Cliff Burton, Robert Trujillo, Fieldy.

Victor Wooten is crazy good. He really inspires me. I mean, the guy started at the age of 3! Started playing in the Wooten Brothers at 5! Watched him in a Bass Day(New York, I think, don't call me on that one) DVD.

My biggest inspiration is to do this for a living, to try to pull myself from out of a backwater town and make a living out of it. Making it big is optional, I don't care, as long as I can travel and play bass, I would be content with that.

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Reply:160 days 14 hours 26 minutes ago
Member: dianna

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Ok, I've been putting off answering this one because my list is long & varied & will probably be incomplete:

First off, John Taylor from Duran Duran is the one who got me wanting to play bass to begin with. I was a total Duranie when I was 12 & JT was the dreamiest! But then I really started listening to the basslines & I was hooked.

And now, in no particular order, with no particular reason:
Peter Hook
Kim Gordon
Larry Mullen Jr.
Flea
Les Claypool
Stanley Clark
Bootsie Collins
Gene Simmons
Lemmy
Jaco Pastorius
Mike Watt
Cliff Burton
Charles Mingus
Sting
Micheal Anthony
etc, etc, etc

And of course the several dozen bass players I've known personally (I won't name them)...I think they're all better than me! Especially that really hot metalhead I knew in high school who introduced me to jazz. He was awesome.

Do I sound like any of those mentioned players? Probably not. But I really do love the bass sounds from Joy Division and maybe I sorta sound like that when I'm playing.

I'm also totally in love with Rickenbacker basses. I will have one some day.

EDIT: I realize Larry Mullen Jr. is a drummer. I'm an idiot. I meant to say Adam Clayton. Ok, I just really love U2 (maybe not Bono so much, but the rest of the band is tight!)...I think that was just my inner drummer subconsciously screaming to come out.

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