For those of you that play bass, who do you think your influences in playing are? Name off bands, players, or preferably both...

I'd say my biggest influence is Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath. As soon as I heard Sabbath I knew I wanted to play, and have been ever since. Cliff Burton from Metallica also influenced me greatly, because he put some really beautiful interludes and such into songs such as Orion, and Anasthesia is still one of my favorite solos.

Favoryt's (best friend+we play in many common bands) biggest influence is none else than...

Adi Vines

I understand him, he is truly the king of bass, he could play alien fast, and it sounded still mellow. (see: Swervedriver)

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I listened to Flea a lot which got me interested. But I was more influenced (in my playing style) by Rob DeLeo from STP and Chris Squire from Yes. I also enjoy playing bass from Ben Shepard (Soundgarden).

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I started playing bass after I heard Come as you are from Nirvana. I know it's strange but hey. I'm not a big fan of Nirvana but that song made me decide to play bass. Later I was influenced by Cliff Burton, Flea and Ben shepard from Soundgarden. I played in a Punk band a long time and then I was influenced by the guy of Rancid. Now I play in a nu-metal band. I play like Fieldy and sometimes a bit like the guy from Rancid but more hardcore then off course.

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Yeah, I've heard the guy from Rancid quite a bit...I downloaded a few of their songs just to see how he could play, and the guy's pretty damn good, to say the least.

my influences are
first Chris Novoselic, now - Tom Araya(his riffs are sooo good and he sings at the same time, it's fucking impossible). The CoF bass player is also pretty cool - he's one of the rare finger-metal-players.

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my plaing style is mostly hardcore/metalcore.
biggest influences on me where cliff and chi cheng (deftones) don't know why but somehow I make up riffs that keep sounding like one of them guys.
For my musiclessons I have to play a lot of RHCP, like around the world etc. not my kinda music, but fun to play.
maybe you've never heard of this guy, but do you guys know Pastorus? this guy is amazing!

Don't believe DEF-FX!!!! He talks shit!!


I'm letting this one stay on because of the message I'm leaving with it...don't post like this in these sections, save the BS for ChitChat, if you would.
Walpurgis

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the only reason i got a bass was because when i was forming my band, i thought i may have had to take up the bass, cuz we had a few guitarists lined up. i suppose my only influence would be pete steele or steve harris.........

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Cliff Burton, Jason Newstead, and Tom Araya.

what's kind of weird about me is I don't have a ton of bass influences. Essentially I just took the guitar players stuff I really dug and used that i.e. Silenoz of Dimmu Borgir, Kurt Ballou of Converge (excellent guitar work), and the stuff bands like Burnt By the Sun, the Dillenger Escape Plan, and Deadguy all use. On of the only bands I can really say the bass playing made me stop and listen hard was Rancid. That first song off of "and out come the wolves" is excellent. Basically lots of tremelo picking and odd time structures are what have really influenced me.

Cheers,
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Noel Redding

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That's about the same for me.
I played guitar for a couple of years, then i bought a bass, played for a year and a half, Then went back to guitar.
I recently started playing bass about a year ago. But i play bass similiar to the way i play guitar. With a pick.
So i'd venture to say i'm not really a good bassist.

Being new to playing, Rob Trujillo started me off but always admired Cliff Burton, Flea and Geezer Butler

Same also, i played the guitar for 8 years and then decided to buy a bass and start playing it. I think that because i can solo, it makes it easy to do some sweet fills so it came pretty naturally. I ended up teaching a couple guys how to play and continued with guitar.

........so my influences would be me and whatever im playing at the moment, i guess.

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steve digiorgio
sean malone
eric langois
alex webster

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Peter Steele was the reason for me to start playing bass. Nowadays, I don't really play like him, although I use distortion a lot. I'm trying to find my own style by playing my own music.

Other players include Tony Levin. He's great on fretless bass. Hmmm....not many more actually. Sting maybe, for his simplicity and utter effectiveness?

I don't really like the virtuoso bass players. Okay, Pastorius, Wooten and Patittucci are fenomenal players, but do I like their music? Well...a bit. They don't influence me enough, though. I listen to the music I like, not just to the bass.

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flea -rhcp
les claypool -primus
cliff burton- metallica
eric wilson - sublime
roger waters - pink floyd
rex brown - pantera
geezer butler - black sabbath

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My top five are...
Jaco Pastorius-solo/Weather Report
Alex Webster-Cannibal Corpse
Jason Newsted/Cliff Burton-ex Metallica
Victor Wooten-Solo/Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
Gordon Sumner-Sting/Ex Police

and I gotta give Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne a shit load of credit for the homework he has done...that guy rips on the bass and you can't deny that.

steve digiorgio
sean malone
jason newsted
alex webster
eric langlois

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I more into Distortion Bass Players;

I think there's more virtuous and Hard Boiled guys that the usual Bass Players!!!

My masters:

D D Verny- Overkill
Baron Blood/ Daoloth-Necromantia
Joey Demaio-Manowar
Cliff Burton-RIP

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John Myung of Dream Theater.

Ok, not good with remembering names so fuck off...

Geezer Butler
Steve Harris
Jaco
Victor Wooten
Bassist From Vehemence
All of Death's Bassists
Atheist's Bassists
Eric Lagois from Cryptopsy
Bassist from Spastic Ink(Pete Perez?) and Spiral Architect

Well, bassically(haha) any bassists that are technical, sometimes creative that play with their fingers.

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Pete Perez, all the way.

Chubby checker's bass player first influenced me to play bass, when I sw him at epcot one time.
Then I got into more metal, and other stuff and discovered alex webster, john myung, and claypool. Also, stephan fimmers, I FUCKING GOT TO MEET HIM THE OTHER WEEK!

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Some bassists that have influenced my playing:

Timi "Grabber" Hansen
DD Verni
Nefarious
Stephane Picard
Steve Digiorgio
Frank Watkins
Christian "Speesy" Geisler
David Ellefson
Geddy Lee
Sharlee D'angelo
Doug Keyser
Geezer Butler

Mostly metal players...

I forgot Geddy Lee and Doug Keyser.

Steve Harris
Geddy Lee
Chris Squire
Geezer Butler

Stephan Fimmers
Erlend Caspersen

two more to my list

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Jaco Pastorius, Tom Kennedy, Richard Bona, Mike Porcaro, Hubert Eaves IV, Richie Blake, Mark King, Victor Wooten, Stuart Hamm, Marcus Miller, Rocco Prestia, John Pattituci, Jean Baudin, John Myung, Tony Levin, Anthony Jackson, Phil Mulford, Chuck Rainey, Billy Sheehan ... Thats just a few of my main bass influences..

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