Who would you love to play bass for?

iwishiwaspino

Hi my name is Andy. bass player of ill repute. great to be on the new exciting forum. Looking forward to making new bass buddies on here. Bit of an icebreaker really...

List 5 people you would like to play bass for and why for each

Ill start...

Aretha Franklin - it's Aretha!!
Tower of Power. - amazing grooves and a huge band
Heritage Orchestra - massive band and truly original
Stevie Wonder - just so I can say I have!!
Beyonce - for obvious reasons?

Your turn!

monquixote

Alright Andy 

Chic - Provided I could have the powers of Bernard

Led Zeppelin - The ultimate rock band

Muse - Huge sound and brilliant bass lines

The Jam - My approach to rock bass is all about Bruce Foxton

Sly & The Family Stone - Provided Larry would lend me his thumbs

bigjon

Allan Holdsworth - for the education

U2 - for the stadium experience

Hiromi - for the joy

Nik Baertsch's Ronin - for the transcendence

Corduroy - for the funkiness

stickyfiddle

E Street Band.

I'd do any role offered to me to be a part of that. 

guitargeek62

Them Crooked Vultures would be my top spot, some of JPJ's lines are awesome.

Otherwise, my de facto choice of the Foo's would take top spot.

monquixote

guitargeek62 said:

Them Crooked Vultures would be my top spot, some of JPJ's lines are awesome.

Otherwise, my de facto choice of the Foo's would take top spot.

The Foos is a good choice as in all the bands I listed they would get worse as a result of my playing bass for them wheres I'm confident I'm a better bass player than Nate Mendel.

ICBM

U2, definitely. I look a bit like Adam Clayton on a bad day and I can probably play bass almost as well as him so I reckon I'd fit in quite well .

You get to use any gear you want, not have to carry any of it, and get paid the GDP of a small country, what's not to like? Apart from standing behind Bono, possibly.

Bucket

Some kind of energetic pop-punk band in the Blink-182 vein - fun, not difficult, and plenty of scope for adding little licks and fills in to keep things interesting. I hope to one day approach being as good at doing this as Matt Freeman from Rancid, who is ridiculous.

Playing with some kind of 70s rock band would be cool too - think John Entwistle, John Deacon, etc. I'm not called John though, which may be a setback. Playing with Rage Against the Machine must be awesome, that'd be cool to have a go at.

While I am a big fan of metal, I don't think I'd like playing bass in the majority of metal bands - I listen to lots of the music but rarely, if ever, learn the bass parts, because they're mostly either really boring, or far too difficult, or both. My favourite metal bassists I can think of are Cliff Burton, Peter Steele and Steve Harris, no-one else really captures my imagination most of the time.

surfguy13

Have to be The Who or Jeff Beck.  And yes, I know I'd have to give them time to come up to speed but........

mike_l

Any heavy rock or metal (not numetal) band

Phil_aka_Pip

Focus or James Taylor

not that I could hold a candle to the likes of Bert Ruiter, Lee Sklar, or Jimmy Johnson

DrBob

Janes Addiction or Living Colour for choice.

That said my current favourite bassline is 'Leaders Of The Free World' by Elbow, so slinky, so greasy, so dirty

EricTheWeary

Anybody remember a NWOBHM band called More? Several people told me I looked like their bass player so I think that's a gig that has been waiting for me for 30 years. I like John McCoy's bass playing but he isn't very technical and he gets to play with Bernie Torme so that would be a good gig. Playing bass behind Dick Dale would be pretty awesome. For Hollie Cook as I slightly love her and it would be good to work up some reggae bass chops. And obviously U2 for the reasons stated above, all of which would overcome me not actually liking their music.

daveyh

Lenny Kravitz
Motley Crue
Jane's Addiction
Parliament
New York Dolls

EricTheWeary

daveyh said:

Lenny Kravitz
Motley Crue
Jane's Addiction
Parliament
New York Dolls

that's like a list of people I would look most out of place stood next to.

axisus

Hillsong

Any rock band with funky playing. Recently rediscovered the Spin Doctors and really enjoyed their funked up bass!

daveyh

EricTheWeary said:

daveyh said:

Lenny Kravitz
Motley Crue
Jane's Addiction
Parliament
New York Dolls

that's like a list of people I would look most out of place stood next to.

At various times that's a list of bands I have looked like I wanted to be in (with the exception of Parliament and pre ToP Crue, natch)

daveyh

axisus said:

Hillsong

Any rock band with funky playing. Recently rediscovered the Spin Doctors and really enjoyed their funked up bass!

Funk Rock was my thing in the early '90s, try DRN, Bang Tango, Circle of Soul for a start.

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John Martyn
Eric Clapton
Pink Floyd
The Blue Nile
Joni Mitchell

RocknRollDave

Emma Willis

EricTheWeary

RocknRollDave said:

Emma Willis

the Channel 5 presenter? She needs a bag of chips.