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Joey Vera

Armored Saint's Joey Vera: ”I heard Kiss’s Alive! and that was about it for me. I just wanted to play an instrument”

By Bass Player Staff

The Californian metal stalwarts' bassist talks influences, playing styles, and how rescuing a P-Bass from under John Bush's bed got him started

Eva Kess

Eva Kess: "The sound of bass comes from the left hand. The right hand is important as well, but it’s how you press the strings that forms the tone"

By Bass Player Staff

Upright bassist Kess brings a wide range of influences into her music. We hear how a chance meeting launched her bass journey

Mike Rutherford

Mike Rutherford: ”I covered a lot of ground with the double-neck and bass pedals – they gave the band an extra sound”

By Mike Brooks

The Genesis and Mike + The Mechanics icon on pulling double shifts on a single instrument and finding inspiration on the pedalboard

Paul Chambers and Miles Davis

Paul Chambers: the double bass great's best (and worst) albums

By Bass Player Staff

Highlights from the jazz legend's catalog ranked and rated – Kind of Blue is number one, but what else makes the cut?

Gene Simmons

Gene Simmons: “We are the hardest-working band in show business, but we do have an awful lot of fun. I have more fun than the Pope!“

By Jason Hunt

With Kiss’s final world tour on hold, the Demon takes time out to partner up with Gibson on a new line of bass guitars, G2

Bergantino Audio Systems

Bass speaker cones explained

By Dan Veall

Everything you need to know about the different speakers found in bass amps

Dave Smith and Snow Owl

The bass guitar summit: Dave Swift meets Juan ‘Snow Owl’ Garcia-Herreros

By Bass Player Staff

Jools Holland's in-house bassist Swift and the Grammy-nominated Snow Owl talk career paths, Jaco and gear

Nate Mendel

Foo Fighters' Nate Mendel: “After all these years, I've realized that notes are so much fatter with fingerstyle“

By Joel McIver

The Foo Fighters bassist checks in to talk Medicine At Midnight, chasing overdriven tones and his newfound appreciation of fingerstyle bass

Cat Popper

Cat Popper: “Writing is complicated for me, because voices in my head tell me I should sound more like someone else”

By Bass Player Staff

Having earned her stripes playing bass with a laundry list of heavy hitters, Popper goes solo with new single, Maybe It's All Right

Bryan Beller

Bryan Beller on the search for the perfect bass and thinking visually when songwriting

By Bass Player Staff

The Aristocrats and Joe Satriani bass phenom unpacks his epic pedalboard, and explains the importance of video in music today

Danny Sapko

Meet Bassist of the Year 2020, Danny Sapko

By Bass Player Staff

Technically adventurous, musically astute and your favorite bassist of 2020, Sapko walks through his bass approach

Mark Egan

Fusion legend Mark Egan talks creative chemistry, custom basses and the spirit of improvisation on new album Electric Blue

By Bass Player Staff

With Danny Gottlieb, Egan has crafted another album of musical surprises and virtuoso performances

Trevor Dunn

Trevor Dunn: “It’s in my personality to sit back and groove with the drummer – I took to bass immediately“

By Joel McIver

With his groundbreaking work with Mr. Bungle, John Zorn and Tomahawk, Dunn is a bassist like no other

Thundercat

Thundercat: “Not every instrument carries the weight to be able to morph and change in the way that bass does“

By Joel McIver

Want to learn the secrets of the universe? Then you’d better join us as we sit down with Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner

Phil Lesh

How Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh’s Alembic ‘Mission Control’ pioneered the concept of the boutique bass

By Joel McIver and Jason Scheuner

We chronicle the history of the legendary instrument also known as ‘Osiris’, ‘The Osage’ and ‘The Omega’

Gallien-Krueger Fusion

Tube vs solid-state bass amps: what you need to know

By Dan Veall

Breaking down the difference between lightweight solid-state designs and sought-after tube-driven heads

Jimmy Haslip

Jimmy Haslip: “I know I don’t play the instrument correctly! I've just tried to find my own way of expressing myself“

By Bass Player Staff

He got lessons from Jaco Pastorius and toured with Allan Holdsworth – now Haslip continues to push the frontiers of bass guitar with album reissues, sessions and a playing style like no other

Jon Lawhon

Black Stone Cherry's Jon Lawhon: "As a bass player, it’s your job to be the foundation – if you mess up, the whole band will come off the tracks"

By Bass Player Staff

Bass tips and music business advice from the hard-rockin' BSC bassist

8 of the best basses for metal 2021: plus everything you need to find the metal bass for you

8 of the best basses for metal 2021: plus everything you need to find the metal bass for you

By Chris Corfield

Need a bass capable of going heavy? We’ve picked out the best bass guitars for metal, including models from Rickenbacker, Warwick, Schecter and Ibanez

Ron Carter

Ron Carter: “Miles Davis was great. He never told me what not to play. We’d never talk about changes or tempo“

By Joel McIver

The jazz legend reflects on a life spent in pursuit of double bass excellence and explains why the best is yet to come