Alas, famous and excellent bass player that he was, he was scarcely influential. Which is a pity. Same applies to Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, Chris Squire,
Andy Fraser, Jim Lea, Steve Harris, Geddy Lee etc ... I hear almost no influence of theirs in modern top 40 rock music and what is even worse only a very limited influence of theirs even in less commercial market segments. Ok, you'll find a few young prog bands where the bass player has obviously heard Squire and Lee, but name me one bass player in a well-known band that has a noticeable Jack Bruce or JAE influence and is not close to sixty years old?
I think that is hugely deplorable. Guitar heroes like Jimmy Page, Hendrix, EvH, The Edge, Tony Iommi have all left their very audible mark, but bass playing which was liberated in the late sixties and early seventies has been hugely dumbed down and re-caged in modern music. When did you hear the last song on the radio that had a spectacular or at least a memorable bass line? Larry Graham has probably had a more lasting influence on funk and modern RnB than the above bass players combined have had on modern rock and pop.
A crime really.
Rant over!