The wildest bass solo you’ve never heard? Robert Sledge cranked the fuzz for this Ben Folds Five classic
Over the course of a stop–start 17-year-long association, the group from Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Folds on piano and ...
Created by the Ibanez Custom Shop in L.A., Thundercat’s double-neck bass guitar has a 6-string on top and an 8-string on the bottom
Created by Ibanez’s L.A. Custom Shop in 2012, Thundercat’s main axe is a highly customized Ibanez Artcore 6-string. It’s a ...
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“It was embarrassing”: Metallica’s …And Justice For All pushed bass players “to the back” in the 1990s, claims thrash legend
Death man Steve Di Giorgio claims Metallica’s bass-free classic forced the instrument into the background for years afterwards ...
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Seven things guitar players do wrong — according to professional bassists and drummers
So you think your bandmates are happy with your contribution as guitarist? That you’re doing a great job and everything is peachy? Well, I conducted an expansive investigation to find out just ...
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“I Got Sticky Fingers”: The Botched Solo That Relegated Paul McCartney to Bass in the Beatles
Bass players often find themselves at the butt-end of tongue-in-cheek jokes about “those who can’t play guitar, play bass,” and as it turns out, not even Beatles bassist Paul McCartney was ...