Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE), Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX), Corey Taylor (STONE SOUR, SLIPKNOT), Sebastian Bach (SKID ROW), David Ellefson (MEGADETH), Frank Bello (ANTHRAX), Jason Newsted (NEWSTED, METALLICA), Chris Broderick (MEGADETH), Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX) and Rudy Sarzo (QUIET RIOT, OZZY OSBOURNE, DIO) are among the musicians who took part in the Bass Player LIVE! Concert & Awards Show last night (Saturday, November 9) at the historic Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The concert honored heavy metal legend, BLACK SABBATH's Geezer Butler, and featured an all-star band of rock luminaries performing BLACK SABBATH songs as a tribute to Butler. The performance culminated with Geezer joining the band for the finale.Fan-filmed video footage of the event can be seen below.In a recent interview with Loudwire, Newsted stated about Butler: "Geezer, for me not really sure how to describe it. Somehow he just got his hooks into me. Maybe he did that with many other bass players too, but he was a lead bassist from the get go. BLACK SABBATH, there's a lot of space in those songs. There's a lot of room for everyone to go off and he was always doing that so supportive and so musical with the drums, very jazz-oriented rhythm section in BLACK SABBATH that just got super loud and heavy. Very progressive. So that was always a big influence on me, having the bass that loud up front like that. That attracted all of us."He added: "Ever since I discovered Geezer and that he wrote most of the lyrics, and he was the guy that was really the driving force for the band, that was the greatest impression for me. Probably the first guy to inspire me to be that in all the bands I was in. From way back, any of those people that were the leaders as bassists. Lemmy. Steve Harris. Peter Baltes from ACCEPT. A lot of these cats. Any of these people that were leaders as bassists were a great influence on me. Geezer is the first on that list."Asked what Butler's impact on him was, Taylor told ARTISTdirect: "I think one of the great things about Geezer Butler was his ear for how music could fit together. Between him and Tony Iommi, they wrote the bulk of that music. Unconsciously, growing up as a SABBATH fan, it made me realize that things didn't just have to follow musically. Things could fit on top of each other that maybe didn't sound like they could coexist. Then, you put them together, and you're like, 'Oh, wow!' There was such a dynamic virtue to the music. It's one of those things you almost take for granted. It's the difference between hearing SABBATH play live and seeing a band try to cover it because they never get it right. There's such a nuance there that is so different that you really don't understand it until you see the real thing. The impact for me was really about the complexity of the simplicity and making it feel unlimited with something as simple as the way the bass, the drums, and the guitar fit together, whether the singing was in it or not. I think that was a hell of a lesson for me, because it was the way I approached music as well. To hear another band do it and almost unconsciously give me that lesson, that was the one major thing about SABBATH I truly love and I think most people miss."
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