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” I liked the bass player from AC / DC.

I really loved the stuff he did.

Peter Baltes from Accept was another.

I liked the really good guys too, but that seemed out of reach at the beginning.

Geddy Lee from Rush and Steve Harris were like gods to me.

Billy Sheehan was from Buffalo, and we all knew about Billy before the rest of the country did.

Billy has been a legend in Buffalo for a long, long time.

He's still one of my favorites.

By the time I was listening to Cliff Burton I was getting a little better.

I had been playing a year or so before I started listening to Metallica.

I thought he was great.

I always thought he could have been a little louder on those albums though.

That's the thing.

In thrash metal or any other kind of metal where the bass is playing exactly what the guitar is playing, automatically the bass went down in the mix.

If you notice those older bands like Accept, the bass is doing something that's a little bit different from the guitar.

It's more with the kick drum instead of playing the riff the guitar is doing.

In thrash metal and then death metal, the bass player always wound up playing what the guitar player was doing most of the time.

It's been a decade long fight for us to be heard in the mix .”