Frank Bello: 5 bass players who influenced me By Joel McIver published 14 November 22 Anthrax bassist Frank Bello on Geezer Butler, Steve Harris, Paul McCartney and more
The truth behind Lee Sklar's custom 'producer's switch' By Nick Wells published 10 November 22 A living legend of the bass guitar, Lee Sklar makes a strong case for his non-functioning toggle switch
Watch Yves Carbonne play Teen Town on a custom 2-string bass By Nick Wells last updated 10 November 22 Yup: TWO-string. French sensation Yves Carbonne demonstrates the mastery of multi-string basses that's wowed the likes of Marcus Miller and Michael Manring
10 household items you can use as guitar accessories By Sam Roche published 10 November 22 You can rack up a hefty tab buying capos, strap locks and slides – or you can save your money with a little ingenuity and some objects around the home
Kings X leader Dug Pinnick: “My ADD meant that practising was useless...” By Joel McIver published 9 November 22 The golden-voiced 12-string bass master discusses unlikely brass influences, his eternal search for tone and how ADD impacted his bass playing
Metal bassist and YouTube hero Kello Gonzalez: “How I went from zero to 75k subscribers...” By Joel McIver last updated 9 November 22 Mexico’s Kello Gonzalez reveals his “Holy Trinity” of bass players and how to get his monstrous tone
A year before he joined Metallica, Cliff Burton was in a college band with Faith No More’s Jim Martin – watch them jam For Whom the Bell Tolls at a battle of the bands By Michael Astley-Brown last updated 9 November 22 In 1981, the two childhood friends embraced improvisatory psychedelic chaos as Agents of Misfortune – and their epic jam sessions gave birth to several future classics along the way
Michael Anthony: Why Live At Leeds is one of the best live albums of all time By Nick Wells published 8 November 22 Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony pays tribute to John Entwistle and The Who's Live at Leeds
MonoNeon: “I’m still not over Prince’s death – I was still getting to know him” By Joel McIver published 7 November 22 We talk to MonoNeon, touted by Flea as the ‘greatest f**king electric bass player’, about his funk roots, playing with Prince and his new Fender 5-string Jazz Bass
Myles and Layne Ulrich on the epic signal-splitting rigs behind Taipei Houston's fuzz-heavy debut – and why their dad didn't give them any lessons growing up By Amit Sharma published 4 November 22 The dedication to their craft may have been inspired by Metallica, but as the Ulrich brothers explain, Lars wanted them to pave their own way. And with the release of their scuzzy debut album, Once Bit Never Bored, the strategy sure paid off
Jasper Høiby: 5 perfect jazz basslines you should hear By Nick Wells last updated 3 November 22 The Danish double bassist on what you can learn from John Coltrane, Jimmy Garrison and the Middle Eastern sounds of Avishai Cohen
Gail Ann Dorsey: “David Bowie asked me to sing Under Pressure – I was terrified!" By Nick Wells published 3 November 22 Gail Ann Dorsey on the genius of David Bowie, her fears following Freddie Mercury and her moment in the spotlight on Bowie's Reality Tour
Jimmy Haslip: How Jimi Hendrix changed my life By Nick Wells published 2 November 22 Jazz-fusion bass player Jimmy Haslip on why one of his biggest dreams was to jam with Hendrix
The 10 James Jamerson basslines every bass player has to hear By Nick Wells published 1 November 22 10 career-defining basslines from Motown's hit-maker James Jamerson
How Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan recorded a bass classic with Sweet Child O’ Mine By Joel McIver published 28 October 22 McKagan reveals how a trip to Guitar Center and the search for a sound to complement Izzy and Slash helped him find his Appetite for Destruction bass tone
Best bass guitars 2023: long and short-scale bass options for beginners to pros By Jonathan Horsley published 27 October 22 Our pick of the world’s finest low-end monsters, with the best bass guitars from Fender, EBMM, Yamaha and more…
Sleep’s Al Cisneros: “For my lifespan, I’ll be playing Rickenbackers. When I hear the sound of Rush’s Permanent Waves, there’s nothing else like that’” By Joel McIver published 26 October 22 The OM and Sleep bassist on gathering his solo singles into a collection, Sinai Dub Box, flow states and the universal groove, and which bass is so heavy he needs pain relief to play it...
Robert DeLeo on how his vintage guitar collection inspired his first-ever solo album and the songwriting secrets behind Stone Temple Pilots' Core By Amit Sharma last updated 25 October 22 The principal songwriter behind some of STP's biggest hits details the magic of old gear and why he never changes his acoustic guitar strings
Fabrizio Grossi has worked with everyone from George Clinton to Billy F.Gibbons, Steve Vai to Ice-T. But in the event of an unlikely effects-based apocalypse, which pedals would he save from the flames? By Robin Davey published 24 October 22 Fabrizio Grossi: "I always use pedals. Why leave all the fun to guitar players?" It's Pedalpocalypse, part 5.
Nashville session ace Dave Roe: “The night I played bass with Jaco Pastorius on drums” By Joel McIver published 24 October 22 Dave Roe on how a lie got him the gig with Johnny Cash, plus the genius of Marshall Grant and John Paul Jones
