The Stones
Dave Clark Five
Jimi Hendrix Experience
The Who
Led Zepplin
Grand Funk Railroad
and of course...THE BEATLES
Bassists who I've admired over the years include (in no particular order):
Paul McCartney (Beatles, Wings)
Jack Bruce (Cream)
John Entwistle (The Who)
Noel Redding (Jimi Hendrix Experience)
Chris Squire (Yes)
John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin)
Tim Bogert (Vanilla Fudge)
Mel Schacher (Grand Funk Railroad)
Jim McCallister (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels)
Rick Huxley (Dave Clark Five)
Randy Fuller (Bobby Fuller Four)
Les Chadwick (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
Billy Peterson (Steve Miller)
Geddy Lee (Rush)
Tony Levin (King Crimson)
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
Bernie Calvert (The Hollies)
Jaco Pastorius (Weather Report)
Dave Hope (Kansas)
Stanley Clarke (Return to Forever)
Daniel Pecchio (Glass Harp)
Stu Hamm (Joe Satriani)
Victor Wooten (Bela Fleck & the Flecktones)
Sting (Police)
Tim Chandler (Daniel Amos)
Chas Chandler (The Animals)
Jeff Berlin (Bill Bruford)
Bootsy Collins (James Brown)
Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Heinz Burt (The Tornados)
Louis Johnson (Brothers Johnson)
Larry Graham (Sly & The Family Stone)
Roger Glover (Deep Purple)
Doug Pinnick (King's X)
Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones)
Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)
Ken Wild (Seawind)
Jack Casady (Jefferson Airplane)
Chris Hillman (The Byrds)
Billy Sheehan (Niacin, Mr Big)
Pete Birrell (Freddie and the Dreamers)
Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads)
Greg Arama (Amboy Dukes)
Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs)
Pino Palladino (David Gilmour)
John DeGroff (Petra)
Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead)
Les Claypool (Primus)
Bill Black (Elvis Presley)
Michael Anthony (Van Halen)
Jay Truax (Love Song)
John Deacon (Queen)
Stu Cook (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Studio cats I was most influenced by include:
Larry Knechtel
Joe Osborn
James Jamerson
Duck Dunn
Chuck Rainey
Lee Sklar
Carol Kaye
Jerry Scheff
Jerry Jemmott
Abe Laboriel
Sounds Like
Some of the greatest compliments a bassist can get are when another musician tells them they sound like one of the all time greats he reveres. I'm told that my playing reminds different musicians of Joe Osborn, Larry Knechtel, Lee Sklar, and Paul McCartney. Thank you to those musicians who all need to schedule appointments to have their hearing examined!
I've played some kind of musical instrument since I was four years old. The first band I was in was in kindergarten. It actually was the whole class and the teacher was pretty sharp, giving some kind of musical instrument to each child to blow through or bang on so everyone felt part of something creative.
I would go on to take up the saxophone and join the junior high school band while taking piano lessons on the side. But then a world shaking event happened February 9th, 1964. World shaking for me at least. I saw the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show and I knew that I had to do that. I had no choice after that. God had put this in my soul and now I saw how it would manifest itself. From there, I continued playing saxophone in high school, formed my first rock band and the rest is history.
For the past nearly 30 years, I've been a bassist for Jesus Music era artists, doing tours and one off concerts for CCM artists including Janny Grein, Mike Deasy, Phil Driscoll, Reba Rambo and Donnie McGuire, Scott Roley, Bruce Hibbard, Ray Peterson and a bunch others. That includes studio work, tours around the U.S., and 13 overseas tours into 23 countries.
In another life (or so it seems), I helped create Christian Rock Radio back in the 70s, first as the host of the radio shows Changes and Love Tree, and then as one of the music directors at WINQ AM in Tampa, Florida, the first full time, commercially licensed Christian Rock Radio station in the world. Currently, I'm station manager for Jesus Music Oldies web radio!
To read about the history preceding Jesus Music Oldies, click here.
As a career, I record sound for film and television. Please visit my MySpace page concerning that if you have the chance: Sounddude.
Here's a few great bass performances for your enjoyment:
I hope this is ok but I would ask any one that want too come and join us at http://www.bassunion.org/home/... The home of the (The Imaginary Bass Players Union)
We just posted an "Album Teaser" track on our page featuring songs that'll be found on our Tooth & Nail Records debut album, "There Came A Lion" which hits stores 2.5.2008.
Please swing by our page, listen and leave us a comment about what you think of the track!
Second, like many people of faith I am grieved by the absence of American feature films that properly and passionately portray the many joys found in a sound spiritual life. Further, many devotees must endure Hollywood's ongoing vendetta against tradition, moral balance, realism and reason.
As a challenge to this common hatred, we have recently finished our first film Shroud. The story follows a young Dutch bride on her journey to America to locate her missing husband. Using less familiar fixtures of horror, it is constructed as an allegory to the Fall of Man, and explores the obligation of moral men and women in the world to overthrow institutions of malice and tyranny, regardless of size and distance.
Shroud celebrates faith, family, duty and dedication with a heroine well possessed of purpose and passion. As in life, the lines between good and evil are obvious as the story recognizes neutrality is a human invention, and cousin to apathy.
Though a single film, Shroud is the first of many small steps I hope to take (with other filmmakers) to repair the grave damage done to the Christian reputation by those secular forces, frauds, and charlatans that used its name to horde wealth, build empires, enslave the poor, abandon the weak, wage wars and promote campaigns of terror.
Please visit our site over the next few weeks as new pictures, screensavers, and movie clips will be forthcoming. We hope you enjoy our work and our message and we hope to hear from each of you.
