Favorite bands :
Led Zeppelin
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Cream
The Meters
Blind Faith
Parliament Funkadelic
Rage Against The Machine
Aerosmith
Infectious Grooves
Charles Mingus
Black Sabbath
Jefferson Airplane
The Beatles
Jimi Hendrix
Tower Of Power
Jeff Healey
The Band
Janis Joplin
Metallica
J ohn Coltrane
Little Feat
Marcus Miller
Ozzy Osbourne
The Grateful Dead
Rob Zombie
Lynard Skynard
Sex Pistols
Stevie Ray Vaughn
White Zombie
Miles Davis
The Tragically Hip
The Velvet Underground
The Allman Brothers Band
U2
The Doors
ZZ Top
Gov't Mule
Primus
Traffi c
Favorite guitarists :
Eric Clapton
Jimi Hendrix
Duanne Allman
Jimmy Page
Billy Gibbons
Santana
St evie Ray Vaughn
Warren Haynes
Buddy Guy
Keith Richards
Derek Trucks
Jeff Beck
Jack White
Favorite bassists :
Jack Bruce
John Paul Jones
Paul McCartney
Jaco Pastorious
Marcus Miller
John Entwhistle
Flea
Ti m Commerford
Robert Trujillo?
Phil Lesh
Duff McKeagan (LOVE his tone on Paradise City)
Charles Mingus
Rick Danko
Janis Joplin's bass player
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I'm sort of a back-and-forth musician, i guess i prefer to play electric guitar in my spare time, which is all i have, but once in a while i'll switch over to, say, acoustic guitar for a month or two, then i might move on to bass, or go back to guitar. So it's a bit of a revolving door, but i think it's good for me, gives me more of a band dynamic, i can think like a bass player AND a guitar player. Also, maybe not the best way to go about it, but i tend to group the music i listen to into two catagories, guitar music, and listening music. I'll listen to ANYTHING, which i think is good, because music, as an Art, is like painting, you know? The more colors you have at your disposal, the more expressive your masterpieces will be.
I guess that being said, your picture depends on your technique, which in turn relies on the tools that you've got. Personally, i think a Fender mexican Stratocaster is the basic paintbrush that EVERYONE should have in their toolkit. Even if you don't think you'll need it, if you try you can find a use for it. Secondly, and my favorite, for specific sounds or textures is my Tokai les paul copy. It's a fairly recent model, but it's a decent guitar for playing blues rock stuff.
I'm also a cheapy, so i only bothered with a Martin DX dreadnought thingie. It's not for everyone, but i prefer the bass response in this guitar over the other's i've tried in its price range.
Being a bass player, you don't exactly need the most tone producing bodies and woods and whathaveyou, but that's just me, playing groove/feel sort of stuff on bass, where i just need enough midrange to cut through and enough bass to make all the chicks in the house dance. So i divide it between an Epiphone Thunderbird an the new Squier Classic Vibe 60's jazz bass. I've been trained on a squier, so i know it's limits, but i really recomend a pick-up upgrade on it and you've got solid gold.
I've got more, just not worth mentioning.
I Love Playing Guitar. I don't have much of a life, but it's all i do, i personally don't think i'm totally amazing or anything, but i can hold my own in some spots. I don't want to be catagorized as a "classic rock snob" but it's really all i play on the electric guitar. I'll play anything on bass, and i just make up my own stuff as i go on the acoustic.
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE CREAM! For me, the way they can just go out on a whim like that and solo for however long they want to is just mind blowing. I like the way the Allman Brothers can do it, but that's a bit harder to do (Try getting 2 guitarists, 1 bassist & 1 keyboardist to all land on the same note in a random jam). So it requires lots and lots of practice. The Grateful Dead is another great band, but they just aren't heavy enough for me.
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