Guitarists - In Here!

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Guitarists - In Here!

Reply #15 – June 26, 2007, 12:25:14 AM

Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)
Dave Matthews

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Reply #16 – June 26, 2007, 07:42:19 AM

My influences (as far as Bass goes) are:

Flea, Bootsie..............

The rest comes from blues/bluegrass bassists who never seem to have a face or name. To be honest, I don't really try to play like anyone; I just play. Style depends on the song.

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Reply #17 – June 26, 2007, 02:23:01 PM

Oh...bass guitar...that's a whole different ballgame.

Les Claypool is absolutely amazing. He makes it look effortless. Hard to believe he once tried out for Metallica. Hands-down, the most dynamic bass player out there. I hear he also likes to fish.

Gotta agree with Flea (FLEA! FLEA!). He IS the funk.

Billy Sheehan also rips on the bass, big time. He's one of the first people I ever saw that played bass with chords, hammer-ons, etc. just like a guitar. And that was in 1983 with Talas.

Back in the late 1980's there was this outfit called Blue Murder, incredible band with John Sykes (ex-Whitesnake), Carmine Appice (King Kobra, Vanilla Fudge) and this dude named Tony Franklin on the FRETLESS bass. Their first album is in my all-time Top 10...the bass lines are just mind-blowing, not to mention the ultra-cool fretless bass sound. He was also in The Firm with Jimmy Page and Paul Rodgers. But Blue Murder was just waaayyyy ahead of its time. I hear they might be regrouping in the original line-up too. Anyway, samples are on his webpage if you've never heard him play.

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Reply #18 – June 26, 2007, 03:21:04 PM

No mention of the late great Randy Rhoads yet? tsk tsk. Gotta have him in there. Another cat thats been gettin my attention lately is John Mayer. Some REALLY tastey stuff on his live Trio album.

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Reply #19 – June 26, 2007, 04:36:49 PM

Les is an amazing talent, but I just can't bear to hear him open his mouth.

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Reply #20 – July 07, 2007, 02:53:16 AM

I respectfully submit Michael Schenker (UFO, MSG, Scorps).

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Reply #21 – July 07, 2007, 04:37:00 AM

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David Gilmour

Oh yea, my favorite hands down. PINK FLOYD is so cool, and don't forget Roger Waters on bass to finish the Floyd sound, even tho he learned as he began. A great combination.

Great bass player that goes unrecognized because of Townsend allot, is the Who's bass player John Entwistle. Love allot of the Moody Blues bass lines too. Too many great players when you think about it, list could go on ...............

Hey Eric, read the link a bit on Tony Franklin. He has an excellent philosophy on music. Most people I played with and around could out play me any day (Bass), but when it came to making things sound right.......well, I got complimented, and really didn't have a clue as to what I was doing most of the time. I learned as I went. I still feel like I can barely play.

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Reply #22 – July 07, 2007, 09:56:28 AM

Schenker, Via, Petrucci, Satriani, SRV, Gilbert, Jabs and Malmsteen are my current Favs... and I almost forgot to mention Slash believe it or not. I dig his style and sound.

Anyone else have any of the G3 DVD's. I've got Tokyo and Denver and they're both awesome. Highly recomended! Also check out SRV Live at the El Macambo. That blew me away.

I'm actually a bass player though. Here's a link to my music myspace: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=120280804

If you listen to the songs, they sound better with headphones because thats how I mixed them.