The three players who made you start playing in the first place:
1. Michael Nesmith
2. John Lennon
3. Jerry Garcia
Kind of a weird threesome there ... I never listened to contemporary rock/pop until I was a teen, and then for some bizarre reason I started by getting into mid-60s stuff. Totally dug the Beatles and Papa Nez's country-rock stylings in the Monkees! Then I started getting into psychedelia and stuff and the Grateful Dead totally captivated me.
The three players who to date have had the greatest effect on you:
1. Jerry Garcia
2. Dave Brock
3. Tony Iommi
Also a bit strange there .... Jerry's improvisional influence has always stuck with me since the beginning. Dave Brock taught me how to do a lot with a little (handy, given my non-existent practice regimen! ;)). And, of course, Iommi imparted a love of the giant power-chord RIFF. 8)
I think those 3 are not necessarily the same as the 3 players whom I most admire, but for better worse I think they've had the biggest effect!
That said ... though I started with stringed instruments by playing guitar, I think I've become more of a bass player. (Or at least my suckiness is less obvious when I'm a bass player! ;)) So ....
The bass player who made you start playing in the first place:
1. Lemmy :twisted:
His playing in Hawkwind, actually, rather than Motorhead. I heard the solo in "Time We Left (This World Today" on Doremi Fasol Latido and I thought: I must learn to do that!
The three bass players who to date have had the greatest effect on you:
1. Lemmy
2. Allen Woody
3. Geezer Butler
I'm a transplanted guitarist, of sorts, so I believe in fat, overdriven bass played with a pick that either supports the riff or churns along under (and sometimes over) it. 8)
