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Gary L Grape

Alter Ego

About Me

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I'm a Finnish bassist (basically freelance) and I also like to arrange music. Electric Bass still rules, but I've started to enjoy playing the Double Bass more lately. I also sing, play some guitar and keyboards. I might even pull off some drumming if necessary. I like most kinds of music as long as it's good, but I prefer metal, rock and prog.

People I've played with: Johanna Grüssner, Roland Utbult, Calvin Bridges, Tomas Boström, Per Harling, Oikoumene Gospel Choir.

Some Bands I've played in: Prayer (80's Metal), Urbra (Alternative), Creed (Not the famous band with the same name), Lajbans Guldgossar, Springbrunnsquartetten, Naked & Famous (Punk & Rock)

My Interests

Music, movies, travelling, learning new languages and/or dialects...and my new hobby is archery

I'd like to meet:


Rush, Spock's Beard, a whole bunch of TNMS members and at the very least all the bass players mentioned further down the page as 'heroes'

Music:

Alter Bridge, Amaran's Plight, Apulanta, Arena, Audioslave, Ayreon, Backyard Babies, The Beatles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Blackfield, Black Sabbath, Bo Kaspers Orkester, Bon Jovi, Caedmon's Call, Clannad, Chris Cornell, Creed, Andrae Crouch, Deep Purple, Dokken, Dream Theater, Europe, Foo Fighters, Frost, Genesis, Gesualdo, Gov't Mule, Green Day, Hellacopters, Himlaväsen, Huey Lewis and the News, Iron Maiden, Jamiroquai, Jan Johansson, Jethro Tull, Kansas, King Crimson, King's X, Koinonia, Lenny Kravitz, Led Zeppelin, Tomas Ledin, Level 42, Living Colour, Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Manic Street Preachers, Marillion, Metallica, Neal Morse, Nazareth, Opeth, Ozzy Osbourne, Pain Of Salvation, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, P.O.D., The Police, Porcupine Tree, Presidents of the USA, Queen, Queensryche, Rage Against The Machine, Rainbow, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Georg Riedel, Rush, Saga, Joe Satriani, Saxon, Jean Sibelius, Smashing Pumpkins, Soundgarden, Spin Doctors, Spock's Beard, Sting, Stonecake, System Of A Down, Thin Lizzy, Tool, Toto, Tower Of Power, Devin Townsend, Uriah Heep, Steve Vai, Van Halen, Vanden Plas, Whitesnake, Stevie Wonder, Yes, ZZ Top

Currently exploring Dada and Helmet

Movies:

Catch Me If You Can, Demolition Man, Die Hard (all 4 films), James Bond-movies, Fantastic Four, The Fifth Element, Love Actually, Miss Congeniality (both films), Murder By Numbers, The Others, Panic Room, Pleasantville, Reservoir Dogs, Se7en, Shawshank Redemption, The Sixth Sense, Spiderman, Star Wars (all 6 episodes), Twelve Monkeys, Two Weeks Notice, Unbreakable, The Whole Nine Yards, X-Men

And I love those really bad horror movies like The Blob, Komodo or Eight Legged Freaks

Television:

A Thing Called Love, Medium, House MD, Simpsons, X-Files, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Without A Trace, NYPD Blue, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Spooks and Jane Austen films

Books:

Sally Salminen (Katrina), Lars Sund (Colorado Avenue, Lanthandlerskans son, Eriks Bok), Ulla-Lena Lundberg (Leo), Jan Guillou (Hamilton-böckerna, Arn-böckerna), Olov Svedelid (Striden vid ringmuren, Kejsarbrevet)

Other, long-term relationships: Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Agatha Christie, Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Heroes:

First: My parents, Second: a whole bunch of bass players that I admire or that have influenced my playing. Geddy Lee, Jeff Berlin, Jack Bruce, Cliff Burton, Paul mcCartney, Justin Chancellor, Stanley Clarke, Tim Commerford, Mike Dirnt, Colin Edwin, James Jamerson Jr, John Paul Jones, Mark King, Abraham Laboriel, Tony Levin, Dave Meros, Marcus Miller, Jason Newsted, Jaco Pastorius, John Patitucci, Doug Pinnick, Mike Porcaro, Francis 'Rocco' Prestia, Timothy B. Schmit, Billy Sheehan, Nikki Sixx, Chris Squire, Sting, Alec John Such, Robert Trujillo, Gary Willis, Victor Wooten

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