How did you get into bass playing?

Back in ‘97 I made a friend at a new job. We talked music, he said his band needed a bass player. I’d been tinkering around with guitar for a bit at that point, nothing serious, but I pulled a Nikki Sixx, lied my ass off and told my buddy “Hey, I play bass, no problem” – even though I'd never laid hands on one in my life – just so I could join his band. Bought a Fender bass that weekend, spent a few days learning some basic stuff, then faked my way through our get-togethers for a few months until I actually new what I was doing. After about a year, the other guys in the band said “Man, we need a rhythm guitarist.” So again I lied, said “no problem,” bought a six-string, became the rhythm player. Now here I am fifteen years later, and I've made the move back to bass. Didn't realize how much I'd missed it, and am surprised at how quickly I've re-adapted to it.

When I was around maybe early 14, I had first laid ears on Primus. Absolutely blew me away! One day, my older brother gave me an acoustic bass. Boy, I was happy! I'm 16 now, and have been playing for 2 years. I'd say my biggest influences were/are Les Claypool of Primus and Flea of RHCP.

I started listening to GunsnRoses and got obsessed with Duff Mckagan's bass riffs,and after listening to Nirvana,RHCP and Metallica.I convinced my Dad to buy me a bass.I love playing bass,although alot of people in my country dont understand the importance of bass.I still love it and am looking forward to join a band.

sure steve, if you have youtube videos of your covers you can post them in this forum

I got into playing Bass when i realized that i know a lot of guitarist and only 2 Bassists and i wanted to learn some instrument but Banjos are more expensive so i decided to learn bass