User:Rodrigoenriquebustos

Rod Bustos
Rod Bustos (Born Rodrigo Enrique Bustos, January 31st, 1977) is a session Bass player, mainly known for his live work with Australian singer/ songwriter Vanessa Amorosi. He has played with her since the release of her first single Have a Look in 1999. He is also Known to occasionally play for Daryl Braithwaite and Andrew De Silva.

Life
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Rod started playing guitar at age 8 and switched to Bass guitar at age 10. At age 5 he was introduced to The Beatles and Santana alongside a mix of Latin Music as his father played Keyboards/ Guitar in one of the first Latin bands in Melbourne from 1974 - 1988 called "Sonido Latino" meaning "Latin Sounds" in Spanish. It was during the 1980s where he was introduced to great Australian music from bands such as Sherbet, Split enz, Mondo Rock, Skyhooks, Men at Work etc by his father and at the same time his older brother was introducing him to Van Halen, David Bowie, Whitesnake, Prince, Toto etc... which when he switched to bass was listening to musically diverse bands such as Living Colour, Suicidal Tendencies, Fishbone etc... which formed a solid music collection for him to develop his bass skills from then onwards.

Influences
Rod's influences come from various styles of bands throughout the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s which include Paul McCartney, Michael Anthony, Billy Sheehan, Mike Porcaro, Norwood Fisher, Doug Wimbish, Robert Trujillo, Pino Palladino, Nathan East, Leland Sklar, John Deacon, Rudy Sarzo, Carmine Rojas and Rocco Prestia to name a few.

Gear
Rod has been using Warwick basses and Eden Amplification since the mid 90s. He is currently endorsed by Warwick Australia/ Dominant Music. His main bass is a Custom Warwick Streamer Stage 1 5 string bass neck through. He also owns a Streamer Bolt-on 5 string and Alien Acoustic 4 string bass. Other brands he owns are a NSDesign 5 string electric upright bass and a Hofner Beatles bass. He has been known to use a Boss ME-8B bass effects,Aguilar Tonehammer and Digitech RED Whammy pedal when needed.