hey guys guess what (led zep will like this)

[muthafunkabass]

my bass teacher knows billy sheehan! i feel cool.:) anyways, post about famous bass players you know, or know secondhand.

[trumpeter]

uhh


my dad met stevie ray vaughn before he was famous (srv)...not bass but still cool.

[azn_bassist]

my bass teacher met buckethead (claypool's friend and former GNR guitairst)
befor a concert that they were both playing at
and bucket didnt have his mask on!

[Zion Gates]

i know someone...whos brother...knows someone...whos knows this band...who knows my favourite bassist of all time


..thats right

[sixner]

i met the guys in 10 years and bobaflex last night, they were friendly...

um.. i know the guys in Staple, if anyone knows them..

the singer from my band knows Howard of Killswitch engage

and my good friend brad knows the Mangager for Relient K... he actually used to live in my neighborhood... he bought brad his first guitar (mini strat), and invited brad to his wedding, but he didint go! i could have gone w/ ane what not..... :upset:
-sixner

[muthafunkabass]

my bass teacher met buckethead (claypool's friend and former GNR guitairst)
befor a concert that they were both playing at
and bucket didnt have his mask on!
so who was he?

[azn_bassist]

so who was he?

hahaha...if i told you i'd have to kill you

edit: haha...my teacher didnt tell me much
he jus told me he's preaty shy or soemthin like that
so thats y he wears a mask.....i think

[muthafunkabass]

so ur lying? come on people. ur not funny.

[Manticore Guy]

I haven't really met that many people, only really the guys from high on fire and lamb of god, but my dad has met quite a few.
He was friends with Stu Hamm, knew all the Wootens in the 80s, was asked by jaco if he had any pot, met and sold something to Miles Davis at a Sam Ash, knows and has worked with about every famous world music musicians and many more. Soundguys kick ***:cool:

[will66]

My bass teacher is good friends with jaco pastorious's family who live in Fort lauderdale Florida. I live on the other coast. He goes up to their house and jams with Jaco's kids. It sounds awesome. He says he got really drunk and when they were jamming he was playing a five string tuned to a tenor bass and he didn't realize it (yeah he must have been smashed:p ) it sounded awful he said, pretty funny:p :p :p

[led_zeppelin5022]

I got Michael Manring's autograph and shoook his hand if that counts

[naut]

big deal. when Ozzy had that huge contest looking for a new gutiarist, my old theory teacher was among the top 3 finalists to be considered. that's something to be proud of.

[Jaded]

Well, my mom took care of Chris Squire in the hospital. She said he was really cool, and stoked to hear that she had a son who played bass. Unfortunately, I wasn't really into Yes at that time, so I didn't really care that much.

[Jody LeCompte]

My teacher opened for Incubus. All he could do was mumble about dirks walls and walls of edens and thousands of warwicks

[will66]

sweeeeeet

[Ting]

My bass teacher got a lesson on DTing from Victor Wooten

[Jody LeCompte]

^ My teacher met wooten and got to play some of his music for bela fleck on the tour bus. He said his biggest regret is not being more respectful.

"I was in the presecnce of the greatest living bassist and all I could do was curse evey other word"

[BassVirtuoso]

My bass teacher knows Jesus.

[Ting]

My bass teacher knows Jesus.
my bass teacher IS jesus

[BassVirtuoso]

Jesus isn't black though

[pukeboy66]

i know the bassist from from first to last ...

well ... former bassist

[azn_bassist]

so ur lying? come on people. ur not funny.

huh????
bucket head....dunno him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead

[bryce_the_cat]

i know the bassist from from first to last ...

well ... former bassist
/lame

[MasterofBass]

But I've met these bassists before and talked with them:
Ryan Martinie - Mudvayne
Geezer Butler - Black Sabbath
Troy Sanders - Mastodon
James MacDonough - Megadeth


and if you've ever heard of the band called the Pennyroyals, I know all of them, they're neighboors at the studio I used to practice at with my old band, so I guess that's worthy of putting down.

[BassVirtuoso]

Troy Sanders is so underrated, just listen to the fretless work in Linus and Lucy.

[MasterofBass]

Troy Sanders is so underrated, just listen to the fretless work in Linus and Lucy.

I AGREE! He is underrated. I haven't heard of the fretless work in Linus and Lucy... have a recording by any chance??

[pukeboy66]

/lame

....hes a good bassist

[Az_Holl]

I know the drummer from Dungeon :cool:

[SixnStones]

^ My teacher met wooten and got to play some of his music for bela fleck on the tour bus. He said his biggest regret is not being more respectful.

"I was in the presecnce of the greatest living bassist and all I could do was curse evey other word"

my bass teacher met wooten and recorded with Béla Fleck. He says he only met him once because they went into the studio mostly on alternate days.

[Naveed Afzal]

well, i dont know him, but ive had conversations with Ben Kenney, via his website :) thats prob the coolest **** ever.

atleast to me.

[KaOtIc_HeLl]

I know this one isnt important..but i live in the town where ACDC used to play all the time, and im in the middle of nowhere

[IPolkaLikeThis!]

me and my dad met alice cooper

and my dads best friend was room mates with johnathan davis from korn. from what i have heard, fieldy is an asshole.

[2rri]

Mt bass teacher met Marcus Miller when he was about 18.

[JESUS'S BASSMAN]

I've met quite a few famous musicians over the years. I'll try to remember them but......welll.....here goes...
John Entwhistle
Mark, Don,& Mel-Grand Funk Railroad
Pete Agnew- Nazareth
Pat Travers
Roger Earl & Tony Stevens- Foghat
Peter Frampton
Robin Zander, Bunn Carlos,& Rick Nielson- Cheap Trick
Howard Leese-Heart
John Schlitt- Head East-Petra
Buck Darma- Blue Oyster Cult
The Little River Band
Eddie Money
Paul Rogers- Bad Company
I lnow there are more I just can't remember their names. ( old age ):)

[good rats]

I once punched Les Claypool in the jaw.

[Jamie]

My teacher knows Sting, and has played gigs with him! My bass teacher used to write for Total Guitar :D

[muthafunkabass]

huh????
bucket head....dunno him?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead
i know who he is! of course. im jsut pissed that you cant tell me who he really is.

[muthafunkabass]

i just remembered, one of my parent's friends dad is best friends w/ geezer butler. and the guy also got to hang with the rest of black sabbath too (ozzy and dio era). then he started hanging out with ozzy and his solo band, and dio's solo band. man he is so lucky.

[azn_bassist]

i know who he is! of course. im jsut pissed that you cant tell me who he really is.

ooo....hahaha
srysry, he never told me whu bucket head REALLY is
mabie ill ask tomn at lessons...

[muthafunkabass]

u better.:thumb:

[Led_Zeppelin678]

Dude, half the people I know know/used to know Sheehan. I'm from Buffalo. I've met him and talked to him myself. :lol: Cool anyway, though.

My other bassist's Dad had a few drinks with Rick Wakeman.

My Dad, who used to play bass, had a chance to tour with Joe Cocker (by the time he got the offer he had quit playing and joined a biker gang...this included selling his Guild Starfire hollowbody, Gibson Thunderbird, Gibson SG (61, first year made), Gibson Hummingbird (acoustic, it'd be worth like 20 grand nowadays, or so says GC), Fender Bass VI (with purple paisley finish, I might add), and all kinds of other gear that could have been mine... *cries*

I hung out with and played Halo 2 with Poor Man's Riches, Staple, Sides of the North, and The Hungr (I think that's how they spell it...).

This guy who works with my cousin ended up in a boxing ring with Cliff Burton (kind of long story), and Hetfield ended up stepping in and stomping the both of them.

[muthafunkabass]

holy moly. sheehan is just plain awesome.

[muthafunkabass]

wait, you HAVE to tell the ENTIRE boxing ring story NOW. how he'd get in there with cliff and hetfield????

[Led_Zeppelin678]

:lol: Okay then.

Metallica used to come through here fairly often in the mid-80s, sometime before MOP (not completely sure of the date). As most people know, Buffalo has horrible winters, with feet of snow coming down on a steady basis. Here's a picture of fellow Buffalo native Billy Sheehan that I think gives you a good idea:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v305/ledzep678/other_snowshoveling.jpg

Anyway though, Metallica got trapped at a bar by a blizzard. This particular bar was a fairly rowdy place, and they had fairly often visits from the authorities, and a lot of broken property fairly often. The solution? Make the combatants enter a ring to settle their differences instead of smashing the bar to crap and getting the cops involved. I don't know if they were screwing around, or he insulted Cliff, or Cliff insulted him, or what happened, but they ended up in the boxing ring. After a few minutes James just stepped in and destroyed them both. He said this about Hetfield: "That guy has some serious problems. There's a lot of anger in those eyes."

[muthafunkabass]

thats just awesome. would have been as funny as **** if lars went in. would have been even funnier if they were all beaten by the little danish dude too. cool story tho. btw, do you have a soundclick?

[Led_Zeppelin678]

http://www.soundclick.com/timothycmeyer

Nothing special, really. A couple of audio demos of my preamp (Rush, Yes, Jaco, 'tallica, all sorts of stuff) and this really old tune I recorded over a year ago on my Bass PODxt. I'm going to have something up for the next league that'll show some of the stuff I've been working on in the next few months.

[muthafunkabass]

cool cant wait.:thumb: cant wait for you to finish ur rig either.

[Rasta Rocker]

My bass teacher has met Victor Wooten, I don't remember about this, but I think he said he either met, or played with Buckethead, and he's best friends with Bootsy Collins

[Led_Zeppelin678]

cool cant wait.:thumb: cant wait for you to finish ur rig either.

I've changed it a lot, but for the first time ever it's actually at a point where I'm completely content with it.

My Warwick
Yamaha Attitude (black) w/Kahler
Fender Geddy sig
Ric 4003, Midnight Blue
MM Sterling, red, w/Kahler

to

Ampeg SVP-BSP, which will have different effect in the different loops (clean and OD)

to

Ampeg SVT-4 Pro, with an Ashly Audio CLX-51 in the effects loop

to

Avatar B410 Delta

I'm probably getting the Ashly (a very good compressor) for Christmas.

[TheBassman238]

I dont know any famous bassists but My Bass Teacher(who also play guitar) Had a band with Joe Satrioni and gave lessons to Steve Via... but idk any bassists like that.:upset:

-TBM

[New Born]

My bass teacher has played shows with members of the Beatles...seriously.

[Misanthropic]

I shook hands with Greg Hetson of Bad Religion.
And Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth.

And my two guys I know met Rancid in Stockholm, Sweden:
http://www.abo.fi/~anhenrik/unix/dbgrancid.jpg

[sixner]

Dude, half the people I know know/used to know Sheehan. I'm from Buffalo. I've met him and talked to him myself. :lol: Cool anyway, though.

My other bassist's Dad had a few drinks with Rick Wakeman.

My Dad, who used to play bass, had a chance to tour with Joe Cocker (by the time he got the offer he had quit playing and joined a biker gang...this included selling his Guild Starfire hollowbody, Gibson Thunderbird, Gibson SG (61, first year made), Gibson Hummingbird (acoustic, it'd be worth like 20 grand nowadays, or so says GC), Fender Bass VI (with purple paisley finish, I might add), and all kinds of other gear that could have been mine... *cries*

I hung out with and played Halo 2 with Poor Man's Riches, Staple, Sides of the North, and The Hungr (I think that's how they spell it...).

This guy who works with my cousin ended up in a boxing ring with Cliff Burton (kind of long story), and Hetfield ended up stepping in and stomping the both of them.

wow you know them! Staple and Sides of the north are pretty much from my area... They both owe me show's, haha.. ive followed their carrer's since they first started... i hung out with them at the staple CD release a few months ago.. Such awesome guy's, really... Darin (staple singer) is great at Hacky Sack.. showed me a few moves.

[d-basser]

the dude who owns my loocal music shop knows Jack Bruce. he looked after one of his basses whilst he was away, JB also supports our local music event the scribblers picnic (which i have missed every year).

[katana_manatee]

I met Billy Sheehan last Sunday at a clinic held at the Bass Institute and he signed the back of my elite 4's headstock :D I shall hopefully have the one pic of me and him with my signed bass soon, need to get it off the guy who took the photo.

[Left Shoe]

met the bass player for the fall of troy, good player.

http://www.myspace.com/thefalloftroy

[muthafunkabass]

I've changed it a lot, but for the first time ever it's actually at a point where I'm completely content with it.

My Warwick
Yamaha Attitude (black) w/Kahler
Fender Geddy sig
Ric 4003, Midnight Blue
MM Sterling, red, w/Kahler

to

Ampeg SVP-BSP, which will have different effect in the different loops (clean and OD)

to

Ampeg SVT-4 Pro, with an Ashly Audio CLX-51 in the effects loop

to

Avatar B410 Delta

I'm probably getting the Ashly (a very good compressor) for Christmas.
totally kick ***. i think my bass teacher used ot have that compressor in his rig. i was taking lessons with him at a music store, but he quit. we sarted taking them at his house, and its amazing. he has 2 ampeg 8x10's, 2 peavey 8x10's, a crate 2x15, ampeg head, dbx poweramp, and some high-end compressor. he also has a double-bass ludwig drum kit with over 20 cymbals. but the coolest thing is his guitar rig. he has so much effect pedals and rack units. and he has 15 marshall JCM 800 cabs. how sick is that?

[Guinpen]

ooo....hahaha
srysry, he never told me whu bucket head REALLY is
mabie ill ask tomn at lessons...

"Buckethead (born Brian Carrol) is a virtuoso guitarist and composer who has recorded several solo albums...." (on the linked wikipedia article)

[muthafunkabass]

wikipedia is a completely unreliable source. i can easily go on to wikipedia and change "brian carrol" to "double bass jim" if i felt like it.

[EADG]

wikipedia is a completely unreliable source. i can easily go on to wikipedia and change "brian carrol" to "double bass jim" if i felt like it.


But someone will obviously change it back.

[muthafunkabass]

But someone will obviously change it back.
then someone else will come and change it to richrd simmons. you cant deny that wikipedia is absolutely and completely unreliable and trustworthy.

[Worrpigs]

my dad is victor wooten.
<_<
>_>
<_<
not really, but my sisters boyfriends friend once met Ryan Martinie. He even got to play one of his thumbs.

[FunkMetalBass]

I've met Maynard James Keenan, Jeff Ament, and Justin Chancellor. Maynard and Justin I passed by on the street and said "hi" to. Jeff came through my line at the super market.

My Grandfather met Jaco and my cousin has been backstage with Primus numerous times.

[BrodieBear]

one of my lecturers in college is BiffyClyro's manager. dunno if anyone knows or likes biffy, or what they think of the bass player, but thats my two cents anyhoo.

[FREAKofNATURE]

I met and got a lession from Wooten for about three hours. I also know the origonal bassist for Molly Hatchet.

[squid]

He's not a bassist, but my girlfriend's cousin is Tom Morello.

[muthafunkabass]

btw the singer in my band's cousin is David Lee Roth. good genes eh?

[naut]

squeeeeeeeeezzzzzat asss

[Guinpen]

wikipedia is a completely unreliable source. i can easily go on to wikipedia and change "brian carrol" to "double bass jim" if i felt like it.

you have this really odd tendency to respond in completely irrational ways in every other thread, don't you? just because wikipedia is community-moderated material doesn't mean it's some horrible mechanism of lies

google buckethead's real name, you'll get dozens of results that say the same thing.

[muthafunkabass]

you have this really odd tendency to respond in completely irrational ways in every other thread, don't you? just because wikipedia is community-moderated material doesn't mean it's some horrible mechanism of lies

google buckethead's real name, you'll get dozens of results that say the same thing.
see? u need to go somewhere else in the end to make sure the info is credible. so why go there at all?

[thelowsoundofbass]

acording to jean when he met buckethead he intorduced himself as brian.

i have met, the bassist from DFA1979, i had the band thousand foot krutch over to my house for supper once and i also met the former guitarist for michael jackson (did a clinic at my local shop a few years back)

lowsound

[Alex]

my friends dads friend is real good friends with geddy lee and one of my other friend's dad used to know alex lifeson

[sixner]

acording to jean when he met buckethead he intorduced himself as brian.

i have met, the bassist from DFA1979, i had the band thousand foot krutch over to my house for supper once and i also met the former guitarist for michael jackson (did a clinic at my local shop a few years back)

lowsound

I've met them too, they did a concert at a local church, and the drummer for my band was working it and got me back stage to meet them...
-sixner

[Guinpen]

see? u need to go somewhere else in the end to make sure the info is credible. so why go there at all?

i didn't HAVE to go to other sources. you questioned the credibility of ONE source, so i showed you it was correct by showing OTHER sources. if i told you "well it's on wikipedia so therefore you are wrong" it obviously would have had no impact since you did not believe it was a credible source. it has nothing to do with wikipedia at all. this grand conspiracy to spread misinformation about buckethead's real name doesn't seem to be as widespread as you think

[will66]

I've met Maynard James Keenan, Jeff Ament, and Justin Chancellor. Maynard and Justin I passed by on the street and said "hi" to. Jeff came through my line at the super market.

My Grandfather met Jaco and my cousin has been backstage with Primus numerous times.

For real?? That would be so crazy if I just saw them walking down the street and just say a pleasent "hi" to them. heh:p

[Jimbobntnr]

this grand conspiracy to spread misinformation about buckethead's real name doesn't seem to be as widespread as you think
That's funny right there.


I met the bassist from the Cult. He was an ***.
I have met Glenn Danzig, Simple Plan, and bumped into Pnut at the warped tour.

[sixner]

oh, i forgot.. i also met the drummer of Atreyu, and zachy, rev, johnny and syn of A7X at warped tour... and the guitarist of Sugarcult too..

-sixner

[Mr. JazzMaster]

My dad's friend's dad played bass for Johnny Cash on one of his tours.

[AlmightyPancake]

This one girl i know is Ryan's (mudvayne bassist) cousin. She has tons of pictures and stuff with him.

[muthafunkabass]

i didn't HAVE to go to other sources. you questioned the credibility of ONE source, so i showed you it was correct by showing OTHER sources. if i told you "well it's on wikipedia so therefore you are wrong" it obviously would have had no impact since you did not believe it was a credible source. it has nothing to do with wikipedia at all. this grand conspiracy to spread misinformation about buckethead's real name doesn't seem to be as widespread as you think
you havent been paying attention have you? nice try. im saying i would never want to go to wikipedia in general because i konw that info might nt be credible, so i have to go somewhere else that is credible, to make sure the info on wikipedia is credible. so in general, why go to wikipedia at all? and what are you smoking? when did i asay there was some grnad conspiracy bout the dude's name? i simply stated wikipedia is very unreliable and useless source.

[flea_slap_god]

I played with greenday:naughty:

[Guinpen]

you havent been paying attention have you? nice try. im saying i would never want to go to wikipedia in general because i konw that info might nt be credible, so i have to go somewhere else that is credible, to make sure the info on wikipedia is credible. so in general, why go to wikipedia at all? and what are you smoking? when did i asay there was some grnad conspiracy bout the dude's name? i simply stated wikipedia is very unreliable and useless source.

you just repeated exactly what you just said after i responded to it. information from anywhere could very well not be credible. 99% of wikipedia's information is from multiple other sources (you can see citings on the end of each page, that is if the source isn't already quoted in the text) making it generally more credible (and convenient!) than many other sources.

chances are, since you claim that you'd magically "have" to double-check the sources (which you should be doing for any source in the first place, if you need information on something that is absolutely critical to be accurate on, otherwise you just generally have to TRUST them. oh, wait! you don't even need to look for more sources. you could just check the end of the wiki article) just because in your mind, you think there's a grand conspiracy to change minute details in wikis, doesn't mean it actually HAPPENS. you cannot prove a point based on something that could happen. just look what happened with weapons of mass destruction in iraq

[Left Shoe]

muthafunk, you cant beat guinpen, hes team lightning

[muthafunkabass]

ur right left.:thumb:

[popinfresh]

Umm, my teacher is friends with Wooten and other famous bass players and plays with them when they come to Aus, i've seen them play before as well.

I met all of the Foo Fighters the other day too.

[MasterofBass]

actually, an add to people i met, I actually know somebody semi famous. This one guitarist dude I know, Michael Habestadt, was the lead guitarist for a heavy metal band from Germany called Darxon. I have no clue if anybody's heard of them, but he's a kick *** guitarist and tells me i'm an amazing bassist. :thumb:

[sixner]

I almost got to talk to Timmy C and Tom Morello on RockLine via telephone on the radio... but my question was too technical, and they wouldn't allow it :rolleyes:

i was just asking about his double neck jazz :upset:
-sixner

[burntgorilla]

I've met the bass player of some band that supported the Foo Fighters. He has pictures of him with Dave Grohl and all, but I can't remember the name of his band.

[muthafunkabass]

i guess that kinda counts. almost....

[MasterofBass]

my dad is victor wooten.
<_<
>_>
<_<
not really, but my sisters boyfriends friend once met Ryan Martinie. He even got to play one of his thumbs.


haha, i got to do that too. At that shoot for determined, I met Ryan and he let me play his 4 string black thumb. MAN, that was nice.

[TakeThePowerBack]

I've met Joe Satriani and both singers from The Toasters

and that's about it

[lucky luciano]

My stepdad and a couple of his friends got to hang out on stage with sammy hagar and the waboritas during one of their concerts.

[FunkMetalBass]

My dad gave his space-heater to Ted Nugent. He then got to hang out backstage for the whole show, chat it up with Ted, and then Ted let my dad fire his crossbow at a target! It was wicked cool.

[cliff_bass player]

ok a friend of our family lives next to fleas mum, and also knows flea and has seen him grow up and all that..

cliff

[Jaded]

My dad gave his space-heater to Ted Nugent. He then got to hang out backstage for the whole show, chat it up with Ted, and then Ted let my dad fire his crossbow at a target! It was wicked cool.
That is the coolest thing I've ever heard.

[The Brad]

As lame and as fanboy as it sounds...
I've waited outside after concerts to meet Type O Negative (all but Kenny), DamagePlan, Opeth, and Moonspell (all except for their second guitarist/keyboardist). I've also met Cam DeLeon and Sid Haig at Comic-Con. Haa.
Flame on?