Seán Harris - Bass Guitar & Double Bass

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Member Since: 8/25/2005
Band Members: This doesn't really count... as I'm my own member, and I'm playing with lots of other peoples' bands... So yeah, it's just me and me.
Influences: Victor Wooten, Sly Stone, Oscar Pettiford, James Jamerson, Jaco Pastorius, Doug Wimbish, Pual Chambers, Muzz Skillings, John Paul Jones, Will Lee, Flea, Les Claypool, Stanley Clarke, Brian Bromberg, Pino Palladino, Tony Franklin, Mason Scott, Don Mayberry, Ricard Pena, Ron Carter, Paul Keller, Jack Dryden, Miroslav Virtous, Kim Stone, Rob Wasserman, Christian McBride, Stefan Lessard, Cecil McB, Maxim Janowski, Robert Trujillo, Ray Brown, Edgar Meyer, Bakithi Kumalo, Bootsy Collins, John Patitucci, Steve Bailey, Francis Rocco Prestia and many more bassist I'm sure I could think of if I weren't passing out.... No posers who can't actually PLAY!

MY NEW HERO: FRED FREDBURGER
Fred Fredburger and the "Hammer Thingie"

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Beyond those bassist, the following, in no particular order:
Angelique Kidjo, Living Colour, Bird, Diz, James Carter, Regina Carter (no relation), John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Rick Charming, Jerry Mulligan, Frank Gambale, John Williams, Danny Elfman &/or Oingo Boingo, Tower of Power, Metallica, Bright Eyes, Bio Ritmo, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Phat Phunktion, Perez Prado, Paulo Conti, the Klezmatics, Rush, Sting, The Ramones, Suicidal Tendencies, The Infectious Grooves, Weather Report, Chick Korea, Jack Dejohnette, Giovanni Hidaglo, Carlos Santana, The Brothers Groove, Black Bottom Collective, D'angelo, Paper Street Saints, Brain Schram Band, Robin Harlock, Dave Mathews Band, Pop Evil, Natives of the New Dawn, My Machine, Funkilinium, 19 Wheels, The Brakemen, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Vidal Tech Tones, Philllip Glass, Ohio Players, The Jackson 5, Buddy Rich, Louis Bellison, King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simon (without Garfunkle), The Police, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Teddy Harris Jr, Dwight Adams, Flotsam & Jetsam, Aretha Franklin, Igor Stavinski, Royal Crown Review, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, James Brown, Maceo Parker, Claude Debussy, Yo-yo Ma, Mark O'Conner, Joshua Bell, The Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Big Blue Hearts, Elton John, Lionel Richie (seriously), George Michael, Justin Timberlake, Buckshot LeFonque, Los Super Seven, Clannad, Eileen Ivers, Taj Mahal, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Chris Collins, Al DiMeola, Astor Piazzola, Harry Connick Jr., Any of the Marsalis boys, Blackman & Arnold, Sheena Easton, Gwar, Awadigin Pratt, El Gato, Cachao, Iva Bittova, Otis Redding, Wilson Picket, Aretha Franklin, Lisa Ekdahl, Bob Marley, Prince, Ricky Martin (I swear), Herb Alpert Tijuana Brass, Des'ree, En Vogue, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Ani DiFranco, Stevie Wonder, Spin Doctors, Lincoln Center Big Band, Mike Jellick, The Commitments, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Brian Setzer, INXS, Gaelic Storm, Los Lobos, Primus, Yo La Tango, Cast iron Filter, Sonny Stitt, Kronos Quartet, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Genesis, Red Hot Skillet Lickers, The Corrs, The Cars, Parliament Funkadelic and all variations thereof, George Clinton, Deep Purple, Disturbed, J. Geils Band, Peter Wolf, Tool, Tupac Shakur, Eminem, Ice T, Body Count, Danzig, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Edvard Grieg, The Kirov Orchestra, The Eroica Trio, Shakira, Kool & The Gang, Olga Tañon, Rimsky-Korsokov, Anoosh Shankar, Ravi Shankar, Ravi Coltrane, Johnny O'Neal, Oscar Peterson, Camille Saint-Saëns, Sinéad O'Conner, George Gershwin, The Mighty Might Bosstones, Duke Ellington, Paul Dukas, Badi Assad, Gloria Estefan, Ottorino Respighi, John Cage, Gary Carr, Dmitri Shostokovich, Bélà Bartok, Diana Krall, Fishbone, Antonin Dvo..ák, Madonna, Carl Orff, Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Irakere, Queensrÿche, The Twisting Tarantulas, Super Bass, Chucho Valdez, Los Amigos Invisibles, Michael Hedges, Shemekia Copeland, Aaron Copeland, Leanard Bernstein, Mose Allison, Isaac Hayes, Paganini, Hector Berlioz, Eric Clapton, Brett Lucas, Ziggy Marley, The Getaway People, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Maña, Terry Riley, James Lentini, and so many many many more...
Sounds Like: Man... a bit of everything! My biggest influences are listed above, but my thing is like this: I'm a bassist first and foremost in everything I do. EVERY music has a bass, or needs a bass there, and my job is to make that music hit people by fusing the energy and harmony together in a cohesive, groovin', soulful interpretation, no matter WHAT the genré. So when I'm playing funk, it's FUNKY, when I'm playing rock, it's the fattist hippest rock you ever heard, when I'm playing swing, it SWINGS baby... I'm like a musical chameleon, and I've even played in a lot of situations where someone said, "I don't think there's room for bass here." Then I played with them, and they said, "Funk me! I love bass in there!"Now that I've got that cleared up, let me say that in whatever I do, there are certain things I always embody... I love to hear some chromaticism in my music inspirec by jazz players and 20th century music, like it was used by James Jamerson to help make that very hip sound even hipper, or the way Charles Mingus made a bass the instrument of the gods with it, or even the way Jaco would slither around in the most flawless sense of pitch in so many ways that sometimes we don't even get! Kinda' like when Miles Davis played with the cats with the marshall stacks and huge ass guitars, and his buddy said to him after the show, "Miles... what are you doing?" Miles Davis said to him, "You know what? People don't know shit." Or when Ludwig von Beethoven was writing string quartets that were insignuating the pointalist music that wouldn't appear for more than a hundred years and his contemporaries said, "Surely this isn't music. Surely you're joking," and LVB said, "It is music, but not for this generation." Do you think that when Igor Stravinski and Claude Debussy sat down together and performed the original version of the Coronation of Spring as a piano duet that those people in the sudience could get it? Hell no! Les Claypool spents his youth being called "Disco Les" 'cuz he didn't want to play Cat Scratch Fever! (and we all thank you, Les!) Now I'm no sooth sayer, I'm not a prophet and I don't hold myself in as high regard as every name I just mentioned here. What I am is a quintessential bassist and I come at my instrument in new and creative ways, sometimes very aggressive and busy, but ALWAYS ALWAYS in the groove and always in a supportive role to move them music forward so it will never be stagnant.In whatsoever you do, you must be looking forward and constantly challenging peoples' notions and moving music as a body of work forward (although it gets harder every day!), and in whatsoever you do, remeber this: You can't HOLD no groove if you ain't got no pocket.
Type of Label: Indie