Though I slightly doubt the legitimacy of this poll (no Victor Wooten to be found, what the hell!? More like: 'top 10 most popular bassist'), but the website still seems legit, which makes me feel proud for him. Of course, he got many votes from fangirls who only like his appearance, but he scored many points for his headbanging and screaming awesomeness, as well as his beautiful bass solos.
In addition, he's my motivation for playing bass. It's because of Reita if I bursted into the Metronomie music shop at my town and bought my first bass, without any musical knowledge or skill whatsoever. I remember my first few months of learning to play the bass, when I tried lowering my strap so I could play it just like him. I could play pretty accurately with a pick, if slowly, but the angle was too pronounced and I couldn't even pluck a single string since my wrist couldn't bend enough, so I had to adapt to a new pick-handling technique similar to Reita's which I still use now. Also, lowering the strap meant sharper angle for my fretting hand too, so it wasn't comfortable at first. It took me about a week to get used to this new playing method.
So anyway, I'm happy he is known by many around the world as a great bassist. I'm also impressed that even though the GazettE never toured outside of Japan, they are pretty well known.
I mentioned I had antother bassist I admire, I'll cover him in anoter blog post.
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