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Anyone playing a great bass line or riff in the last 60 years has probably nicked it themselves.
If you have any personality as a player you'll make what you play sound like you, so it won't matter where it came from. Me? If I can fit it in I'll use it.
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This is my approach too, but sometimes the thought enters my head "What if someone here is intimately acquainted with every lick Andy Fraser ever played" etc...