Latest about Bassists
What Brandi Disterheft learned from her studies with bass legend Ron Carter
The New York jazzer lifts the lid on her early lessons with the world’s most recorded bassist
Bootsy Collins was tripping on LSD when he took the James Brown bass chair to its most in-your-face level
Unable to deal with Brown’s disciplinary code, Bootsy was gone within a year
How the bass guitar became a crucial part of Sheryl Crow’s songwriting process
Already a Grammy-winning, global pop star, Sheryl Crow geeks out on bass for all the right reasons
The Cult’s Charlie Jones on how he almost never got his Grammy for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Please Read the Letter
Irony is alive and well
Stuart Zender on sessioning for Stevie Wonder and supplying the funk to Jamiroquai’s first three albums
After he quit Jamiroquai, Stuart Zender became an in-demand session bassist, jamming with Gorillaz, Stevie Wonder, and Amy Winehouse co-writer Mark Ronson
When Jimmy Haslip met Jaco Pastorius at Frank Zappa’s studio
The Yellowjackets co-founder and then-bassist tells the story of his first encounter with bass royalty
The life and wild times of Danny Thompson, the legend of upright bass who “brought greatness to everything he played”
The fabled upright acoustic bassist leaves us with a thousand tales of misadventure and an extraordinary body of music that weaves through the rock ’n’ roll era
Justin Chancellor explains how bass fits into Tool’s challenging brand of prog
With their uncompromising blend of formidable time signatures and distorted guitar riffs, Tool are a band quite unlike any other
Fontaines D.C.’s Deego dissects the Joy Division bassline that inspired his bass journey
Peter Hook also recounts how he was “over the moon” when Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis used the bassline as a vocal part for one of the band’s biggest tracks
“My friend told me I couldn’t even play a 6-string bass – so I had to learn it to prove him wrong!” Meet 7-string bass wizard Dylan Desmond, whose accidental two-handed tapping powers doom’s most adventurous low-end
Inspired by Michael Hedges, the Bell Witch doom merchant splits his signal between guitar and bass amps, and fills up the entire frequency spectrum. He reveals the surprise influences that inspired his latest effort with Stygian Bough
