Watch Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan and Nirvana's Krist Novoselic perform ‘Sweet Child O' Mine’ By Nick Wells published 13 October 22 That time Duff and Novoselic buried the feud between their bands with an instrumental rendition of the Appetite for Destruction anthem
Les Claypool: the 5 basslines that changed my life By Joel McIver published 12 October 22 "Chris Squire was an early hero to me": Primus bass hero Les Claypool on the five tracks that helped shape his bass career
Level 42’s Mark King: the man with the 3 million dollar thumb By Nick Wells published 12 October 22 “I was slapping the bass so hard that I completely split my thumb!”
The missing Beatles bass and the one track that Paul McCartney refused to play on By Nick Wells published 12 October 22 Abbey Road was at No.1 this week in 1969. We take a look back at a seminal moment for the fab four
Bootsy Collins: “James Brown said, “Son, just slow down and give me The One” By Nick Wells published 11 October 22 Bootsy Collins looks back on his time with James Brown’s backing band and the search for the ultimate funk formula
"Without Tina Weymouth, Talking Heads would have been just another band": a celebration of Remain in Light By Scott Rowley published 8 October 22 Released on 8 October 1980, Talking Heads’ Remain in Light is a paranoid funky masterpiece, thanks in no small part to Tina Weymouth’s sinuous basslines
Marcus Miller on the stories behind 5 of his iconic recordings By Nick Wells published 6 October 22 The prolific sideman and solo artist takes us behind the writing and recording of some of his standout tracks
Watch Nathan East play a virtuosic Sir Duke... while having a conversation with Stevie Wonder By Nick Wells published 5 October 22 What happens when a first-call LA session bassist plays a Stevie Wonder classic for a conference crowd only for Stevie himself to show up?
The ‘Led Zeppelin III’ bass line that wasn't played by John Paul Jones By Nick Wells published 5 October 22 Led Zeppelin III was the album where John Paul Jones proved himself to be much more than just a bassist. He was so busy, in fact, he left one bass part to Jimmy Page…
Is this the best known bassline of all time? By Nick Wells, Joel McIver published 4 October 22 How Michael Jackson influenced Queen's biggest selling single
Billy Sheehan began his career with Talas. Over 40 years on, he returned for a new album tinged with tragedy By Stuart Clayton published 4 October 22 "They photocopied my P-bass!" Billy Sheehan on "The Wife" and the tragedy and triumph of the new Talas album, 1985
Jack Bruce: “Jimi Hendrix regarded the guitar as an extension of himself. But in an instrumental sense, I would argue that Eric Clapton was probably better” By Joel McIver last updated 3 October 22 In this classic 2003 interview, the pioneering bass guitarist and rock legend talks Cream, explains why Clapton was better than Hendrix and confesses his love for gangsta rap
Shinedown’s Eric Bass looks back at the band's top five bass albums By Bass Player Staff published 3 October 22 On the eve of Shinedown’s Planet Zero Tour, Eric Bass revisits five of the band’s classic LPs
Joela Bassista: “The best advice I’ve ever gotten about bass was to stay in the pocket. Groove and feel are so important to every song” By Bass Player Staff published 28 September 22 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
Hear Cliff Burton blend sweeping, Eddie Van Halen-esque hammer-ons with Hendrixian distorted runs in his final show with Metallica By Joe Bosso published 27 September 22 The fateful show took place at the Solnahallen in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 26, 1986, and shows the incredible live form Metallica were in after Master of Puppets
The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine: “When I was asked if I could play the bass, I didn’t even hesitate. I thought, ‘How hard can it be?’” By Joel McIver published 26 September 22 Valentine reveals high times and low points in her memoir, All I Ever Wanted – a deep dive into abuse, addiction, and redemption, as well as blazing a trail for a generation of bass players
Flea played bass on the Mars Volta’s best album – but you probably never noticed By Michael Astley-Brown last updated 23 September 22 A radically different bass rig meant the Red Hot Chili Peppers funkateer’s contributions might have flown under your radar
Obscura's Jeroen Paul Thesseling on his 5 best bass albums By Bass Player Staff published 23 September 22 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
Watch Jaco Pastorius go from funk to fuzz in one of his most groundbreaking bass solos By Nick Wells published 21 September 22 The self-proclaimed (and undisputed) “greatest bass player in the world” went full tilt in this unmissable performance
Why so many all-time bass greats flocked to the Ampeg B-15 Portaflex By Dan Veall published 21 September 22 James Jamerson, Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn and John Paul Jones all counted themselves fans of this classic tube-driven bass amp
