Not a bassist, but one of the times I actually had the star struck feeling. Back when I worked on shows where my job responsibility mostly consisted of pushing the play button on a cassette deck, I met a similarly tasked individual who went on to go on tour with Ringo and his All Starr Band. Sometimes when the show passed through my city, we would meet up at the venue to shoot the breeze. I did one time have the good fortune of being at dinner services when Ringo came to eat his baked potato with broccoli. He didn’t have a separate “star” meal location. He would eat with the crew. He’s the sort of person that just makes an impression by his mere presence. Such a soft, gentle, loving and powerful soul.
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Ringo might not be a bassist, but he sure was half of a badass rhythm section. He has always been a genuinely humble, unassuming guy. And God knows he’s played along to a ton of groundbreakingly great bass lines in his time.
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I met this guy a few times! He plays in a little known band called “British Lion”, I think he has at least one other project going on!
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Poor guy can only afford one pair of shorts 
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Still rocking the West Ham sticker though 
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Yesterday I met a bass player so well liked that he had a solo in the opening number! The solo and the entire show was a lot of fun. It’s hard to get the camera going fast enough to catch exactly the best bass face. It was definitely during the saxophone solo. @JoshFossgreen
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@DaveT It’s too bad you didn’t get to meet him. I’ve heard he’s pretty good to the fans, but you never know with musicians.
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LOL, we actually did get to meet him. We were there after sound check before the show started and had a chance to chat offstage for bit.
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When is his Australian tour?
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Not a bassist, but I did meet Kei Kobayashi, aka Kobametal. The guy who dreamed up and produces Babymetal. Before it all started, he was producing teenage idols for Amuse Inc, and ran across Suzuka Nakamoto in another group. He thought she had a lot of power and attitude on stage and was wasted on pop, and dreamed of her singing metal flanked by a pair of twins, shobijin, like the faeries out of myth (and Mothra movies).
Couple years later he made it happen.
Anyway, as it turns out he is the road manager for the band too. In 2019 in Portland I was in the disabled section as usual, which was just to the right of the stage with a curtain next to me separating me from backstage. No guard, which I thought was odd. Anyway, Koba popped out a few times to size up the crowd. He was a nice guy, down to earth.
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