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[quote name='Maude' timestamp='1506285934' post='3377664'] I play in a Mod/Northern Soul/Ska band who play covers and originals. Obviously a few of those names you mentioned are big influences, other influences come from the original Jamaican ska bands and the likes of The Who, The Jam, etc. I never realised I was so influenced by John Entwistle until a fair few people have commented after various gigs. I also play doublebass and am very influenced by early rock'n'roll and rockabilly bands. I grew up on post punk, goth, industrial and metal so have influences from there as well. As you can see I have a wide and varied taste but still can't see any influence by Jaco. You mentioned Stanley Clarke, I bought an album of his years ago thinking it would further my bass knowledge but I just cannot listen to it, I revisited it a while ago thinking I might have changed my view, nope cannot stomach it. The same us true of Jaco, I have tried listening to every track posted in this thread but can't get past thirty seconds or so, it really makes me cringe. Yes he can play but it makes me recoil. Edit to add, I didn't mean "why did it stop at Jaco" moving forwards in time but rather going back in time. I am much more influenced by people before him that influenced him, therefore I am influenced by them not Jaco. I also read up on him today to try and understand more but all that achieved was making me realise that as well as not liking his music I don't think I'd have liked him as a person either. Not that that takes away from his talent or his untimely death, although it seems he partially brought that on himself. [/quote] As always on a forum, opinions tell us a lot more about the person giving them than the topic being discussed. From your background and interests it sounds unlikely that you would like or identify with the sort of music he produced. No-one has to like a given genre or artist/musician. Does it lessen or increase any musician's legacy whether they're popular or well-liked? Not sure.

Setting aside for the moment what contribution he has or hasn't made, it is amusing that there are still people who want to get a fretless sunburst Jazz out and sound like him. The problem is, no-one does (and plenty of very good bass players have tried). He got his sound through a combination of natural talent, some fortuitous circumstances and a hell of a lot of hard playing, gigging and woodshedding. People can get the bass, the sound fairly easily but never get the touch or rhythmic awareness. He had a big impact on the bass players of the time and one only needs to step back in time a bit and listen to film and TV and jingles to hear bits of that sound appearing. However this was 40 or so years ago, and I wonder what if any music really influences what everyone plays or does today? Music has had a long time to evolve and splinter into lots of different and smaller circles, and plenty of clones have come and gone. In many ways almost the last thing I'd want to do now is sound like him - I'm aware of the style and the music in the context of funk, fusion, jazz etc but I don't want to go near it stylistically. However when you think of major contributors to the way we play bass today, I believe he should stand as one of the greats.

I think the thread title is over-rated. "Bands/singers you don't like" is more appropriate!

Hate to admit to knowing the personnel on a Lionel Richie track but yes, Running With The Night was Steve Lukather. Also a wicked bass part and especially tone from "Ready" Freddie Washington

Funnily due to being at home more recently I've listened to much of The Rush back catalogue. They were certainly one of my favourite bands growing up, but I would struggle to listen to any of their output now. Rush in Rio was good but the 30th anniversary live DVD was appallingly bad (let alone the 40th anniversary one) and I agree with WoT that Geddy's voice is shot. No reason for them not to continue playing but all good things come to an end and there's no shame in calling it a day. I can't see what reason anyone would want to redo Rush songs as they are rather idiosyncratic, but plenty of other artists do it when they get older.