I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar.
I love Jeff Bridges. You can never go wrong with that guy. I hope to work with him one day.
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.
Who isn't a fan of Jeff Bridges? And he is such a unique character. I can't think of anybody who's quite like him. He was a lot of fun to be around, just personally.
I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.