Who Inspired Chris Squire?

I guess some of the biggies at the time, such as John Entwistle of The Who and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane, might have been an inspiration.

The Ox, Macca and Jack the Bruce.

I guess Macca was an inspiration to everybody by his popularity but honestly I don't see much of his style in Squire's early playing. The Ox and Bruce very probably were more of it. I guess that the first time he got his hands on a Ric 4001 some muse revealed some uberhuman secret to him. 

Gerinski wrote: I guess Macca was an inspiration to everybody by his popularity but honestly I don't see much of his style in Squire's early playing. The Ox and Bruce very probably were more of it. I guess that the first time he got his hands on a Ric 4001 some muse revealed some uberhuman secret to him.

I thought the 4 and 5 stringers would have jumped on this one G, but times must have sure changed. Squire did indeed cite the Ox, Bruce and even Bill Wyman as inspirations. His Ric 4001, as the legend goes, was an early mono version that he modified himself to have stereo outputs from the two main pickups. The lower (treble) pickup signal was sent to a conventional bass amp and the the higher (bass) pickup signal was sent to a guitar amplifier with a fuzz tone pedal. The rest is history, as they say. The only other bassist even similar to his style at the time was Mel Schacher from Grand Funk Railroad. However, Schacher played with a more lead guitar style with heavy use of slides and even string bends at times and he also employed way more distortion from a mono pickup Fender Jazz Bass, so Squire probably got little inspiration from him, but Schacher rocked the house first, probably by a year..


Edited by SteveG - July 22 2014 at 19:49

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