“James Jamerson was the cat that really changed my mind about bass playing,” Collins tells Justin Richmond on the Broken Record Podcast. “Because he played with one finger – all of that stuff he was playing, he used one finger. “He played upright bass. But he said, ‘If you want me, I'm playing the P-bass.’“All the stuff after that, he made much more money for them. At first he took chances and let himself go, and then it just became natural for him, and in the process he changed the course of bass playing.