JURJEN - Bass

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Hi there!!

I started playing bass in 1990 and didn’t know shit. Somehow I liked playing bass that much that I carried on and learned myself to play. So I stopped climbing trees and started to kill my time with my new friend: the bassguitar!

The addiction to heavy music started somewhere in the eighties. I ran into Steve Harris and he told me something about his band. Something with “Maiden”. Anyway, he played a few songs of his band, put on tight pants and danced around the livingroom, while his bass was making the sound of a running horse. I watched this a few minutes, left, and went to the record store to buy Slayer “Haunting The Chapel” and Sadus “Illusions”. I wanted to listen to fast music. Music with balls. Music with fast balls and energy. Because Zeke weren’t around back then, I tried it the other way. I shook hands with METAL!!

Some cool tunes I like to listen to:

TOM WAITS – Bone Machine / SADUS– Swallowed In Black / THE OBLIVIANS – Soul Food / CORONER – No More Color / CHARLES BRONSON – Youth Attack / ATHEIST – Piece of Time / CONVERGE – Jane Doe / PRIMUS – Sailing The Seas Of Cheese / DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN – Under The Running Board / RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – BloodSugarSexMagik / FUGAZI – The Argument / TERRORIZER – World Downfall / ROLLINS BAND – The End Of Silence / THE ACCÜSED – Grinning Like An Undertaker / QUICKSAND – Slip / FRANK ZAPPA – The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life / IMMOLATION – Close To A World Below / RUSH – Moving Pictures / Bad Religion – Against The Grain / ANTHRAX – Among The Living / NEW BOMB TURKS – Destroy Oh Boy / DEATH – Individual Thought Patterns / BARKMARKET – L. Ron / FISHBONE – Reality Of My Surroundings / FORBIDDEN – Forbidden Evil / VICTIMS FAMILY – White Bread Blues / VOÏVOD – Dimension Hatröss / HERESY – Face Up To It / NOFX – The Decline / CRYPTOPSY – And Then You’ll Beg / PESTILENCE – Consuming Impulse...

Stuff I use:

Fingers, ears, eyes, green herbes for green inspiration, Cort bass, Laney Amp and strings I can afford.

Other bands I’m active in:

OBTUSE: www.obtuse.nl
THEM APPLES: www.them-apples.nl