When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. BASS EXPO 2014: For the most part the bass guitar is not a solo instrument, but players like ...
Three minutes and 44 seconds into Paul Simon’s You Can Call Me Al is a two-bar bass guitar solo that has confounded as many bassists as it has inspired. “That was my idea,” said Bakithi Kumalo of the ...
Musician-and-inventor Paul Tutmarc of Seattle, Washington, developed the first modern fretted electric bass guitar in 1936. And it just so happens another Seattle native, Guns N' Roses very own Duff ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Mike Lawrie/Getty Images With their killer hooks, hip vocal harmonies, and genre-hopping ...
To Mike Hall, the bass guitar is not simply a background instrument; it’s a tool of creative expression. Inspired by bass-playing virtuosos such as Red Hot Chili Peppers Flea, Metallica’s late/great ...
We’ve already offered our choices for the 15 Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time, so we’re shifting an octave lower celebrate the metal bassists who refuse to stick to root notes. Check out our picks ...
A friend of mine posted this video the other day, and I feel compelled to share it with you, if only to purge the image from my mind. The video features Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony, performing a ...
Artists Derek Trucks says Tedeschi Trucks Band have completed new album and have been sneaking in some of the tracks live Artists “My mind’s the most cosmic place I could ever visit. All I have to do ...