“George Clinton said, ‘You just can’t play guitar like that until your heart has been shattered to smithereens and you have lost all hope’”: Flea looks back on his life-changing jam with Parliament-Funkadelic guitar hero Eddie Hazel

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/flea-jam-with-eddie-hazel

“Chuck Schuldiner called me. The next thing I knew we’d rented a rehearsal room in Miami. I would just burn a joint and play”: Steve DiGiorgio’s life with Death – and why he wouldn’t trade Testament for Megadeth

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/steve-di-giorgio-testament-megadeth

“50 years since you last played that”: Watch the moment Paul McCartney was first reunited with his long-lost Höfner bass – half a century after it was stolen

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/the-moment-paul-mccartney-was-reunited-with-his-hofner-bass

#Bassists hold a special kind of gravity, an unseen, if not underappreciated role as the quiet force of the band. They hold the #music upright while everything dances above it.” #BusterWilliams #jazz #jazzsky #music #MusicSky open.substack.com/pub/activeli...

Gravity and Grace: The Spiritu...
Gravity and Grace: The Spiritual Sound of Buster Williams

The bassist turned the instrument into a vessel for clarity on 'Pinnacle' and beyond.

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“After hearing the finished track, I thought, ‘Wow, I never knew how busy playing one note could sound’”: The story behind the deceptive bassline on a politically charged ’70s anthem that was later covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/george-porter-jr-favorite-meters-bassline

“It was heartbreaking. I remember the day I saw that album and those erroneous credits for the first time. It was like a punch in the solar plexus”: Bob Daisley on not receiving credit for playing on Ozzy Osbourne's Diary of a Madman

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/bob-daisley-on-not-receiving-credit-for-ozzy-osbourne-diary-of-a-madman

“I don’t think that bassline is playable by anyone else”: How Stevie Wonder recorded one of the funkiest basslines in existence

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/stevie-wonder-nate-watts-boogie-on-reggae-woman

“I got acrylic nails, because my mom told me that’s what Dolly Parton did. It allows me to play in a flamenco style”: Ashley Reeve leads the low-end for everyone from Cher to Filter – and her right-hand tone is her most important asset

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/ashley-reeve-shares-her-right-hand-tone-tips

“The phone rang. It was Paul McCartney. That’s when I knew we’d found it”: We meet the man who reunited Paul McCartney with his long-lost Beatles bass

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/bassists/how-nick-wass-helped-reunite-paul-mccartney-with-his-missing-beatle-bass