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Jim Creeggan

Barenaked Ladies' Jim Creeggan: “Geddy Lee was the first guy I was air-bassing to… and his gear is on our new record”

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The bass player for the Canadian rock stalwarts on transitioning from standup bass, longevity, and the benevolence of rock's favorite bass player, Rush's Geddy Lee

Mike Watt

Mike Watt on his best (and worst) bass albums

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The Minutemen and Firehose bass legend on the poison of genre and the story behind the most significant releases in his catalog

Wolfgang Van Halen

Wolfgang Van Halen on his bass journey

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It's not about the solos, or the virtuoso playing, says Van Halen – it's all about the songwriting

Tony Levin

Tony Levin on his best bass albums

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The bass player for David Bowie, Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel and more revisits his back catalog

Angeline Saris

Angeline Saris walks through her favorite bass tunes, talks heroes and details the gear behind her funk fusion sound

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The former Zepparella bassist is happy playing in all kinds of styles, and as she explains to Bass Player, it all started on a cruise ship aged 16

Charles Berthoud

Charles Berthoud: "I don’t want my music to only appeal to people who play bass"

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The viral YouTube virtuoso discusses music-first bass videos and social media power

April Kae

April Kae: “Bringing my bass playing to social media has challenged me, and I feel like I’m growing“

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The influencer, model, activist, and highly trained bass player is out to change the world. Here, she explains how she's going to do it

Darrell Freeman

Darrell Freeman: “Playing simpler makes the whole thing feel good – people feel the music better when there’s less going on“

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The Real Free explains why it's cool to sweat the bass technique but the song is always what makes people move

Blu DeTiger

Blu DeTiger: "I would bring my bass to my DJ sets and improvise over disco, house and funk records. People would go crazy"

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The New York bassist, songwriter and DJ’s profile has gone stratospheric. We get the lowdown on her story so far

Billy Sherwood

Billy Sherwood on his best (and worst) bass albums

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The Yes bassist and prog legend takes a critical view of his discography and shares some tone tips and memories along the way

Davie504

Davie504: "Slap bass is still the best for making videos on YouTube, because it's very easy to hear, on any kind of speaker"

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The internet's biggest low-end sensation on his remarkable bass journey so far – and what that '504' really means…

Tony Hall

Tony Hall's best (and worst) bass albums

By Bass Player Staff

The funk-fusion legend reviews his stellar discography

Richard Turner

Blackberry Smoke's Richard Turner: “I love loopers, delays, envelope filters, but I’ve never taken them on tour. I don’t want to dilute anything when I play live“

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The southern-rockers' low end architect talks influences, falling in love with the bass and digging deep into Carol Kaye's bass guitar wisdom

Avishai Cohen

Avishai Cohen: “The bass is my closest musical partner. I’ve explored and developed my own way of playing and performing with it over the years”

By Bass Player Staff

With his new album, Two Roses, the Israeli upright bassist achieves a career high. We meet the master...

Jon Button

The Who bassist Jon Button talks stepping into the shoes of John Entwistle and Pino Palladino

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The touring bass player for the British rock legends – not to mention Sheryl Crow and Shakira – on the evolution of his playing and his onstage rig

Jeremy Pritchard

Everything Everything's Jeremy Pritchard: "I really enjoy the limitations of the bass. It’s forced me to be creative with the basic building blocks of music"

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Pritchard talks pedalboards, bass heroes and why he's happy to look "a bit silly" with a short-scale Fender Mustang

Fernando Saunders

Fernando Saunders on Lou Reed, playing the White House and hitting Harlem jazz clubs with the Czech political elite

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Ahead of the release of his upcoming album We Are People, the prolific bass session legend and solo artist shares a slew of stories from his remarkable career

Adeline

Adeline: “For me, bass is about finding a good groove that people may not even notice – a good groove that I want to keep playing forever“

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The bassist and producer discusses the low notes behind her phenomenal creativity

Issy Ferris

Issy Ferris: “Playing bass gives me a power and character on stage that I hadn’t experienced before, and has made me a better performer and writer“

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Ferris & Sylvester kick out a full-band sound with just two members. Here, bassist Ferris explains how she does it

John Goldsby

John Goldsby: “It’s expected nowadays that you know how to play Brazilian music, or funk, or hip-hop, or metal. A lot of younger bass players can do it all“

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Goldsby is back with three EPs from his eponymous trio, a much-needed perspective on the future of bass, and a definitive answer to the question, ‘Is jazz dead?’

Shez Raja

Shez Raja: “The harmony in Indian music is super-simple – where it gets mind-bogglingly, face-meltingly interesting is the rhythm and the melody“

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The mighty Indojazzfunk bassist returns with his most ambitious album yet, Tales From the Punjab. We meet the maestro...

Chris Beattie

Hatebreed‘s Chris Beattie: ”No matter what you do in life, but especially as a bass player, you’ve got to keep learning”

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Beattie checks in to talk about his journey on bass, the melodicism underpinning Hatebreed's pit-starting sound, and explains why he's loving the bass after some time off

Jon Hoare

Trapped in Purgatory's Jon Hoare: “I don’t go for expensive gear. If I can make it from the car to the rehearsal room in one trip, then it’s mission accomplished”

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The bassist talks gear, influences, high school bands and Trapped in Purgatory's thrashy debut album, Damned Nation

Lee Rocker

Lee Rocker: ”Elvis was like Batman or Superman when I was a little kid – even before I was aware of his music. It’s so raw”

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The Stray Cats’ rockabilly legend talks writing an album on an Airstream trailer, the energy of the old stuff and why there are still plenty of note choices to discover after all these years

Brian Marshall

Alter Bridge‘s Brian Marshall: “Bass is a different skill set and a different mindset. I think we’re just born that way“

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Marshall checks in to share some advice for bass players and reminds us that “we're unicorns“