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Bought from grunge icons and stolen before Soundgarden reunited – the story of Ben Shepherd’s 1972 Fender Jazz Bass
By Brian Fox published
Shepherd was robbed of all his music gear in 2008 just as he was about to mix his first solo album

The late Michael Rhodes provided an unshakable foundation for Buddy Guy’s 2013 salute to his home town
By Chris Jisi published
Rhodes played his ’57 Fender P-Bass for the Meet Me in Chicago session at Nashville’s famed Blackbird studios

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are working on their next project, Flea says
By Janelle Borg published
Flea is due to release his very first solo album, the jazz-inflected Honora, this March

Thundercat on getting his start with hardcore punk legends Suicidal Tendencies
By Janelle Borg published
Thundercat may best be known as a funk and R&B-oriented bassist – yet, he got his start in thrash metal and hardcore punk

Bass phenom Kinga Głyk recalls the moment her rendition of an Eric Clapton classic went viral – and made her career
By Janelle Borg published
Głyk also touches on how social media can be used as a democratizing tool for musicians to access the industry

From sleeping in tents to Woodstock, rock ’n’ roll's ‘Forrest Gump’ Leo Lyons shares the story of Ten Years After
By Henry Yates published
The Ten Years After bassist survived Hamburg’s Star-Club, sparked the blues boom, achieved immortality at Woodstock – and is still going strong at 82. “Music,” he says, “it’s a drug…”

“I was auditioning during the making of the album”: Bassist George Murray’s six-year stint with David Bowie
By Chris Jisi published
As a member of Bowie’s band, George Murray cut the studio albums Station to Station, Low, Heroes, Lodger, and Scary Monsters

How Tal Wilkenfeld taught Sting the correct way to play an Aerosmith classic
By Nick Wells published
Sting was performing alongside Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck at the MGM Grand when Wilkenfeld intervened
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