Latest articles by Bass Player Staff
Glass-like fretless tone. Thumb-thumping passages. Tributes to Jaco: 1993's The Sun Don't Lie served notice that Marcus MIller was more than a sideman
1986's hit album that opened people's ears to African music and the free-flowing fretless lines of Bakithi Kumalo
For the second Primus album, Les Claypool decided that he was bored with the 4-string and his playing needed something to "blow it wide open". Cue 6 string fretless mania…
On the eve of Shinedown’s Planet Zero Tour, Eric Bass revisits five of the band’s classic LPs
In her own words, session bass ace Joela Bassista reveals the tools of her trade, and the inspirations who guided her on her bass journey
Thesseling’s story is one of experimental fretless meets metal, breaking new ground with progressive Dutch death-thrashers Pestilence and advancing technical death metal with Obscura
A self-confessed bass addict, Prescott offers us the low-end perspective on the basslines behind of the catchiest hits in rock and new wave – and the catchiest bar none
The acclaimed experimentalist will be raising funds for his fellow bass wizard Steve Lawson
Never give up the hunt for the perfect tones says the bassist with the Brooklyn art-punks
Bass Player print mag is dead. Long live Bass Player online!
Few bass players have covered as much territory as the great Norm Stockton. Here, he looks back on five key releases that chart his progression as a musician
A legend of upright bass who died far too young, Pettiford’s influence can still be heard across jazz and popular music. Here we revisit his finest moments on record
The art of writing bass parts that are neither too experimental nor too boring, explained by Kaspar Larsen of Denmark’s premier rock exports, Volbeat
Nashville Pussy’s bass powerhouse checks in for a roll call of bass amps she’s destroyed and how she swapped bedroom thrash for a life of punk rock
Death metal’s low-end master takes us on a bloody tour of the totally NSFW Cannibal catalog
The unique solo and session star looks back on a fistful of career-defining recordings, from the fast to the frenzied
The broad-horizoned bassist on making his new solo bass album, ForEver, and how advice from Marcus Miller began a lifelong obsession with the instrument
The tribute to the late Metallica bassist is located near the site of his fatal coach crash
From his improvisational collaboration with Mick Cox to Thunder’s latest, All the Right Noises, Childs talks through some of the most memorable moments in his discography
The funk bass master and Bootsy Collins protégé talks us through five career high points
The Joy Division and New Order co-founder looks back through his back catalog and reflects on the tragedy and triumph of New Order, and the recording of a true survival record
The YouTube star and winner of Bass Player's inaugural Rising Star award explains how a little humor and imagination can make people fall in love with the bass guitar
David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz, Gang of Four: the great Gail Ann Dorsey has earned Bass Player's Lifetime Achievement award many times over
The Duran Duran bassist and recipient of Bass Player’s Lifetime Achievement Award on gear, technique and songwriting for a multiplatinum pop institution
